Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tamara uses a synthetic modeling clay in her shop to make necklaces, personalized plaques, and much more. She uses a special kind of glue for this material.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Now that Arianna has explained what dubbing is, she demonstrates the dubbing process itself, using a video from Yabla English.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marino meets Silvana and they start chatting by the sea. They discover that their professions are related (naturopathy and body-psychotherapy) and they enjoy sharing ways of looking at emotions and symbols.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Edo is an illusionist, and with Eleonora's assistance, he shows us some tricks with newspaper cuttings and a deck of cards, all with Mount Vesuvius as a backdrop.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Franco Calafatti shows us his marvelous shop filled with spices. He brings us into his world, his special relationship with the spices, from traveling the world in search of the plants, to the harvesting, to the sorting, to the crushing.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Erica, from a small city in Tuscany, talks about her great passion: archeology. She has been lucky enough to be able to combine this passion with another one — tourism – in her current job.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Erica welcomes us to the tourist office where she works. She tells us all about it.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Erica describes one of the workshops she does for kids. It's all about learning how prehistoric man made fire from materials found in nature. Stay tuned for a practical demonstration of this!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Erica studied English at school, but was lucky enough, during high school, to travel to a country where English was spoken every day. That's where she learned the most, by living and breathing it.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Even though the tomato is an immigrant in Italy, it has become synonymous with Italian cooking. The soil produced by Vesuvius and the mild climate of the area around Naples and Salerno have allowed the San Marzano tomato to become King.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Patrizia works as an agronomist collaborating with farmers who grow heirloom vegetables of the Campania tradition. She describes a couple of different kinds of tomatoes and what they're typically used for.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Watermelon is another product of this special terrain on the slopes of Vesuvius. In the north, this is called cocomero, but in the south, it's anguria. There are some sensational wines from Vesuvius, too.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This land is not only good for cultivating grapes for wine, but also the special piennolo tomatoes, that keep for several months.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Gragnano is a town near Naples known for its pasta production. There are many different shapes and types, but they all are a bit rough to the touch, because they go through a bronze cutter, rather than a Teflon one. That's why the pasta holds the sauce better. Of course, everyone living in Gragnano is an expert about pasta.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Coral has been made into jewelry in Torre del Greco since the fifteenth century. In that same century, a variety of grapes arrived from Catalunya, which over time has produced a wine with a unique personality.
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