Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The Martini family is getting in the car to leave for their new home in Poggio Fiorito, a residential area outside of Rome. There are some last minute items to pack as well.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Ferocious bull terriers force Manara and Rubino into a refrigerated meat truck.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Capocotta is the name of the Latium beach where Francesca is spending the last day of summer. This stretch of shore became a nature preserve in the '80s at the behest of President Sandro Pertini.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Anna and Marika give examples of the past tense of the verb to be.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Adriano and his girlfriend Vladi demonstrate Jive dancing, a dance that in Italy goes by the name "Boogie Woogie".
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Grandpa, Lele and his three kids arrive at their new house. Everyone is excited about it--everyone, that is, except Maria who would have preferred to have stayed in Rome near her friends.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
While they're huddled together in the meat truck, Commissioner Manara tries to wheedle out of Lara the reason she's still angry at him from police academy days.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Violetta writes a letter of farewell to Alfredo. He is miserable, but hears of a party where he is sure to see her. But there, things go from bad to worse. Alfredo ends up having to live abroad, and Violetta's illness gets much worse. Will they ever be able to embrace each other again?
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Rossellini's 1949 movie Stromboli put the Aeolian island on the cultural map forever.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Pre-war and wartime cooking, when fuel for cooking was in short supply, made raw recipes come to the fore.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The move has been difficult and Lele’s parents come by, unwillingly, to lend a hand.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Charles Ferrant's body has been discovered by a fisherman. The Count is still missing, and Lara's aunt wants a word with Malvina, the Count's housekeeper.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Federico Fellini discusses Marcello Mastroianni's role as "everyman" in La Dolce Vita. He encourages viewers to see Mastroianni's "passions, hopes, fears and cowardice, and anguish and sleaziness" as similar to their own.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Marika and Anna go over the future and conditional tenses for the verb essere (to be). The vocabulary review covers the future and the conditional conjugations for this verb.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lele isn't used to the commute and arrives late at the hospital, finding a room full of patients and an angry boss.
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