Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Do you know all the expressions associated with hair? Marika explains some and gives us plenty of examples. Keep in mind that in Italian, i capelli is the plural, and hair is countable.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Giuliano Montaldo received a great many proposals for movies. But he remained amazed to encounter so many people who loved the cinema as much as he did.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Alberto notices that Paolo is absent from class. After some discussion with the students, the whole class transfers outside to go and find him.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The formal, ceremonious aspect of the Nobel Prize awards was not what Rita Levi-Montalcini was used to, but she used that recognition to her advantage. Winning the Nobel Prize wasn't necessarily the high point in her career.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Moscati discovers what Aniello died of and feels profoundly aggrieved and powerless. He seems to have doubts about his role as a doctor.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
At the health center, Lele has to deal with an angry Mr. Corati who has come looking for his wife. Back home, Lele gives Annuccia her bath, wondering why Maria doesn't talk to him like she used to. Alice, who is there too, tries to explain it to him.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla is trying to get Viola and Vittorio to meet up, so she looks for his phone number in Viola's diary. She finds a likely address and decides to go there in person.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Aragona scour the city to find a glass globe like the one that killed the notary's wife.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This episode begins with a flashback to when Luigi first notices blood in his urine. At the hospital, the priest is getting ready for his operation.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Italian, like English, uses body parts in lots of expressions. Marika gives us some examples of expressions using the word capello or its plural capelli. Let's keep in mind that in English "hair" isn't usually countable, but in Italian it is!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The first screening of the Gold Rimmed Glasses was a success. Even Bassani, who had written the novel the film was based upon, had good things to say. Inti and her mother comment on the relationship between Vera and Giuliano.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Mr. Bedon asks the pupils for the dates of historical events but the only one who knows the answers is Giulia. Bedon thinks he can treat his pupils as he likes, but not everyone sits by quietly.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Because of the racial laws in Italy during the period of Fascism, many Jews left the country, including Rita Levi Montalcini. In Italy she wasn't allowed to work or publish papers, but somehow, she found a way to keep going.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Moscati can't find Aniello in the hospital and discovers he had run off. Moscati goes out looking for him.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Maria's grandparents have found a gift for her, but Libero hasn't yet. At the health center, someone told Giorgi that Laura hadn't gone to the police about the battered woman.
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