Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
In an attempt to kill himself, Mario jumps out of the window, ending up in the emergency room with a contusion. While Michele tries to break free from Iolde's advances, Riccardo calls to say that Menicucci has arrived.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Riccardo is trying to give the bribe to the person indicated by Michele but gets it wrong. Meanwhile, a school group arrives at the Nido asking for Eleonora.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Eleonora had forgotten that her teacher friend was going to bring her students on a field trip to the Nest. She has to go to work and asks Chiara for help in welcoming them. Meanwhile, the police arrive while Michele is on the phone.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Riccardo tries to approach and talk to Menicucci twice, even asking Michele for advice on how to do it, but he doesn't succeed. At the Nido, the visiting class doesn't seem very inclined to listen to the history of the place.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The school kids go around the Nest asking questions and exploring the place when they find the hole where the workers are digging. At that point, Eleonora asks her friend to take the kids away.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Michele is looking for a work of art to give as an important gift. Meanwhile, at the Nest, they continue to dig and are finally about to discover what lies beneath the slab.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Michele is negotiating with Nicoletta about the gift he wants to give to the Kazakh. Back at the Nest, he wants to make sure it gets delivered as soon as possible. Iolde is still very upset about the newspaper article.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy Ligurian Song
Lorenzo Jovanotti, famous Italian singer-songwriter, celebrates the 150th anniversary of Italy’s Unification, on March 17th, 2011. He delivers best wishes to all Italians, and sings "Fratelli d’Italia" [Brothers of Italy], the Italian national anthem, otherwise known as the "Inno di Mameli" [Hymn of Mameli].
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Måneskin is a band with four musicians who began playing together as students at the J.F. Kennedy High School in Rome. Their participation on X Factor brought about their phenomenal success. The band's name Måneskin means moonshine in Danish, and was a word that Victoria de Angelis, the bassist, knew from her Danish ancestry.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy Roman
Massimiliano is a musician, and together with his friend Stefano, and the mascot Cuba, he's trying to introduce the group to record labels. In addition to talking about his dream, he talks about Garbatella, the neighborhood where he was born, and which he wants never to leave.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
In World War I, Italians who up until then had spoken their regional dialects, found themselves fighting side by side against a common enemy. But Mussolini was interested in fighting the internal enemy.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The nineteen twenties ushered in sound in cinema. Italy's L.U.C.E. [L'Unione Cinematografica Educativa or Educational Film Union] was founded in 1924 and generated the fascist regime's cinematic propaganda.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Soon after the introduction of talkies, dubbing came about in the thirties. Dubbing was extremely popular in Italy and remains so today.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Schools in fascist Italy banned the study of dialects and moved to using standardized textbooks. The fascist hymn “Viva Adua nostra” refers to a battle won by the Kingdom of Italy in 1896 near Adwa, Ethiopia.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
This segment opens with a sort of poem, demonstrating how kids growing up in fascist Italy were expected to behave. Minority groups had a pretty hard time, too.
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