Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Taking care of Saverio has fallen to his zio (uncle), Alessio's mean boss. After being treated badly for the umpteenth time, Alessio decides to grab his backpack...
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
While sitting in the park, Francesca teaches Daniela how to play Briscola one of the most famous and popular Italian card games. You can learn, too!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In this segment, cooking is seen as an art form, starting with a white plate as the artist's canvas...
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Ciccio gets a talking to from Lele, and there's a barbecue in the back yard with Lele's in-laws. They're somehow very impressed with the foreign housekeeper's homemade Neapolitan pizza!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Although Commissario Manara's has resolved the case, his unorthodox methods are unacceptable to his superior, who threatens to have him transferred to the hinterlands of Sardinia.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
What are the rules for the masculine plural articles? Daniela explains them to her class, and to us!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Alessio hasn't given up trying to get to Obuda, but although he manages to find a train station and a train, things aren't so simple.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Francesca is showing Daniela how to play Briscola. Fulvio joins in to describe the atmosphere of a real game of Briscola between two experts. Who do you think will win? Daniela or Francesca?
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Lucano
Antonio introduces us to the authentic Neapolitan pizza. He's right there in a famous pizzeria called Escopocodisera [Esco poco di sera] (I rarely go out at night), where Peppe, the pizzaiolo (pizza maker), demonstrates his art, step by step. Buon appetito!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
In the end, Lara decides that Luca Manara isn't such a bad commissioner after all. She might even tell him that to his face... sooner or later.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela explains how easy it is to form the plurals of feminine nouns, even if you don't know their meaning.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
It's time for spring cleaning. Marika shows us how, and more importantly, she gives us the names of the tools we'll need.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Sicilian
How do three buddies, who happen to be oxen, get eaten by a lion? Adriano tells the tale, complete with the lesson to be learned. Have you guessed? It's one of Aesop's Fables.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Sicilian
Adriano shares with us the story of the fox and the cicada. Apart from the usefulness of the story itself, there's a good selection of verbs in tenses we don't use every day, but which are used in storytelling.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Because they are difficult to reach--lying off the main sea routes--the islands of Filicudi and Alicudi have maintained their natural beauty.
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