Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
Today, Pimpa learns about rhyming because she hears a word mispronounced. In the word nuvole (clouds), the accent should be on the U, but Mara the butterfly says "nuvòle" to make it rhyme with sole (sun).
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
Pimpa ends up going to the Amazon to visit some friends and make some new ones. The trip is long and not without its problems.
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
Pimpa goes to the beach with Olivia the duck. Olivia gets lost but is helped by the shrimp Onin.
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
Why is Armando wearing a pink suit? Pimpa does some research. She and Armando make up some words at the end of the episode.
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
Pimpa gets curious about a yellow spot in the daytime sky. She goes to find out, and who does she meet up with at the observatory? Somebody very reminiscent of the astrophysicist, Margarita Hack. Check out our documentary about her.
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy Neapolitan
Pino Daniele with his unmistakable, magical voice, performs his hit song "Quando" (When) from 1991. It's featured on the album Sott' o sole and was part of the soundtrack of Pensavo fosse amore... invece era un calesse (I thought it was love, but it was a barouche), a 1991 film directed by and starring Massimo Troisi. In this live performance, the audience sings along on the refrain, and so can you!
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
Dubbing has all sorts of uses, but certainly one of the most fascinating ones is making us believe an actor is speaking our language when we go to see a foreign film. Arianna takes us through the basic phases.
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
After dinner, the two couples meet a colleague of Renzo who is also the boyfriend of the Teatro Marcello victim's sister.
The next day, Gaetano and Torre speak again with the suspect, but Camilla is also listening.
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
The discovery of a brutally mutilated corpse opens a complex investigation as the victim is without identity and unrecognizable. While Camilla reflects talking to herself, she has a bizarre encounter.
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
Minivip, while out for a walk, thinks he could be dead after being hit by a lightening bolt, but the passersby, rather than lending him a hand, injure him further by insisting on testing his abilities.
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy Sicilian
How do you like your coffee? Find out how Cettina likes hers!
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
The great Lucio Dalla offers this song in support of a campaign aimed at raising sensitivity towards those with disabilities, looking at them without prejudice, as people with the same dignity and desire for happiness as everyone else. Learn more at www.pubblicitaprogresso.org
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
This clip is from the 2012 organ donating campaign by Pubblicità Progresso The music is from Tu che sei parte di me by Pacifico, featuring Christina Marocco. Visit: http://www.doniamo.org
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy Roman
Fat is Beautiful! No more fad diets! This captivating song by the Roman reggae group, Radici nel Cemento (Roots in Concrete) doesn't endorse obesity, but says that a woman with some meat ("ciccia") on her bones can be more appealing than a skinny one who is unhappy and obsessed with her weight.
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy Roman
This song of the Radici nel Cemento talks about the the main character's happy relationship with his bicycle. At the beginning, you're meant to think he's talking about a woman, given that the words are typically used to compliment a woman, but then in the refrain we discover that he's talking about his beloved bicycle.
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