Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Alessio has a very creative idea for saving the beach club. Tonino is skeptical, but gradually warms to the idea.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Alessio invites everyone he knows to the party at the Serenella beach club, and asks Martina to invite her friends, too, but she's not thrilled about that...
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Alessio and Martina, while working on the renovations of the beach club, start fooling around and making faces at each other. They're clearly having fun until Alessio goes one step further...
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The party is on. Dancing, flirtation, watermelon contests... Alessio can't find Martina, but when he finally does, he's speechless...
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
As luck would have it, the town councilman, for whom the whole party was created, isn't coming. Alessio and Martina have some time to themselves...
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tonino locks himself in with Saverio, holding him hostage, and threatening Saverio's father, the councilman.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The police take Tonino back to the beach club where Martina and Corinne are taking down the beach umbrellas. The season's over. Alessio is watching and thinking.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Finally, the long awaited ending to the film. Enjoy! The song, "California," is by Gianna Nannini.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In honor of Mother's Day, celebrated in May in Italy, here's a classic Italian song, Mamma, performed by Luciano Pavarotti.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This is the famous aria for tenor from Puccini's Turandot, sung here by the legendary Luciano Pavarotti. Nessun is short for nessuno (no one) and dorma is the third person subjunctive of the verb dormire (to sleep) used as an imperative for the herald to proclaim that no one in the city may sleep.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Singer-songwriter Luciano Ligabue sings a love song, Viva (Alive), dedicated to the woman who at that time was his wife. The song is from his 1995 album "Buon Compleanno Elvis" (Happy Birthday Elvis).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The 2016 opening ceremony of Salerno's Luci d'Artista, which in the captions is literally translated as Artists' Lights, but which is billed by the city as Salerno Christmas Lights. The ceremony mostly takes place in the Villa Comunale, Salerno's public garden.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Jovanotti's message couldn't be clearer in this video of "Penso Positivo" (I think positive).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Jovanotti sings about an eternal Saturday night, where people dance and have fun. When you think it's over, it starts up again... What he's really trying to say is open to interpretation.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lorenzo Baglioni, a Tuscan pop star, sings a tune on il congiuntivo (the subjunctive). He remarks that the subjunctive is particularly useful for lovers. Note that the Italian subjunctive, out of context, can have various different solutions in English, and sometimes doesn't correspond at all.
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