Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Neapolitan
There are celebrations for Toni in Scampia, but unfortunately, not everyone is sharing in the joy.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Neapolitan
When all seems lost, it's time to get up off the mat and fight back.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Neapolitan
There's an arrest, which is something positive, but there's sadness surrounding Leda.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Neapolitan
Toni and Enzo are ready to leave for Sydney. If Toni doesn't win, will people remember him?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Neapolitan
Will the azzurro Toni (azzurro, literally the blue, is a nickname for several Italian national sport teams) get his gold medal? Will Leda let herself be helped? At this point, we can only hope.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Neapolitan
See how things work out for Enzo, Toni, Leda, Felice, and the people of Scampia. Here's the true story. Let us know if you would like a transcription and/or translation.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Tuscan
Natale tends his vegetable garden and tries to save his strawberry plants from the neighbor's chickens.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Tuscan
Natale is proud of his fava beans, which he plans to harvest in time for the holiday family gathering on May first. Other featured produce includes artichokes and wild asparagus.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A young man is departing by train and says goodbye to his two parents in different ways. In another scene, a little girl is going to school very reluctantly and her brother has to practically drag her there.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We meet a few of the musicians attending the conservatory and the orchestra conductor, who is no-nonsense and stern.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Matteo makes his way to his uncle's apartment. Never mind that his uncle was supposed to come to the station to get him... They agree that there is no point in worrying Matteo's father with the truth.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Matteo arrives late for class and is told, to sit next to Sara who begins asking him questions. It turns out she is almost blind. After the lesson, Matteo meets some of his classmates.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A teacher reads a passage from one of Shakespeare's sonnets and asks the class to interpret it. Matteo speaks up. Here is the original English: "Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none."
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Matteo is having a violin lesson when Marioni passes by in the hall and hears him. Matteo's lesson ends early and he is about to learn more about the orchestra conductor everyone thinks of as il bastardo (the bastard).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marioni puts Matteo to the test, asking him to play first violin in the Brahms symphony, together with the entire orchestra. Later, Domenico tells him about someone who had crumbled under Marioni's harsh treatment.
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