Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Jacopo's life is further turned upside down when he tries to escape to the only refuge he knows: his parents' house.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Jacopo has given up on everything. Sara is having more success than she banked on.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Jacopo is not as alone as he thought. And you'll never guess who he meets up with!
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Jacopo has a real time crunch on his hands, especially once he hears of a wedding taking place at that very moment.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
We're finally at the end of our film. Enjoy!
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
In this video provided from PA 74 Music, Stefania Bianconi, a successful young artist, sings “Prendimi l’anima” (Take My Soul) as a finalist at the Modena Videofestival 2009.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
TIM is Italy's state controlled mobile phone service. In this madcap ad, we're taken back to the time of Garibaldi, where the great unifier of Italy complains to his mother about her laundry skills. In order to avoid parolacce (dirty words), Garibaldi resorts to a euphemism, which even when translated won't make sense to many of us. What he means in caption 8 is "Like hell."
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Tiromancino is a famous pop band from Rome, and this is a song from their self-titled album. Federico Zampaglione, the lead singer, vocalizes about remorse and how it’s best avoided.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
The song “L’inquietudine di esistere” [The anxiety of existing] is a new song by the group Tiromancino. The lyrics were written by Fabrizio Tarducci and Federico Zampaglione. Zampaglione also wrote the music.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Tiziano Crudeli is a journalist and a talking head. He's a big supporter of his beloved Milan team, and he often announces the games on television. In this video, in fact, we see him as a wild fan of the club.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
With its soft-toned accompaniment and gentle lyrics, "Il regalo più grande" ("The Greatest Gift") sung by Tiziano Ferro, creates a special mood. It was released as a single in 2009 and in that year became fifth on the list of best-selling songs.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
"Rosso Relativo" ("Relative Red") is one of Tiziano Ferro's greatest hits, and is the title song from his 2002 album. He uses an interesting series of verbs in the imperfetto, a tense that doesn't always match up with one tense in English. It's all relative!
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
In Italy, Easter is the time for special, traditional desserts, which, apart from being delicious, were conceived to represent symbols of life and rebirth.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Easter Monday is, traditionally, "picnic day" all over Italy. It's affectionately called Pasquetta (little Easter). This video is from RAI 1, one of the principal TV stations in Italy. At this particular picnic, "primordial" cooking is the protagonist.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Life is Beautiful is the 1997 dramatic comedy, directed by and starring Roberto Benigni. It received three Oscars. The film takes place in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Guido (Benigni) in order to protect his son, pretends that the Jewish deportation and the war are just a game, with the final prize: a tank.
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