Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Being a waiter in this unique restaurant is a special experience, from putting on the uniform to serving all kinds of customers.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The owner, Silvia, recounts that during the restaurant's first year, the New York Times discovered the place and that's when she realized it was the first of its kind in the entire world. She also tells the story of how the chef, Davide, was hired.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The pastry chef of the restaurant "In Galera" tells us about how important his role makes him feel. What he likes most is preparing cakes and cookies for family visits.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Silvia talks about how she finds candidates for the restaurant kitchen from the central kitchen, which prepares the meals for the inmates. The restaurant workers are impacted positively because it means they have a real job, with a paycheck, including social security, which can look good on a resume.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Silvia and Chef Davide are discussing a reservation, and she maintains that Davide should be more flexible regarding the changes communicated by the customer. Silvia also talks about what "alternative measures" are all about.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
"An inmate is not a walking crime". This is how Silvia emphasizes that the inmates are people with everyday lives and their personal stories, and deserve some respect. It is healthy for people on the outside to become familiar with what prison is and can be.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Davide tells how he lives in semi-freedom, allowing him to spend half the year at home. However, this comes with obligations that must be respected. Davide has learned to see the world from a different perspective and this has taught him a lot.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Said talks about how working gives a person dignity. He feels changed and reiterates that one always returns to one's roots, to the person they were before ending up in prison. No one was born a thief.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Two inmates from the Bollate prison who work in the kitchen share their perspectives about the outside and how to become reintegrated in society. Both agree that it's not easy but that inmates are people, too.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Dario is a player of Ultimate frisbee. He talks about this hobby in the video. He's on the beach, where a tournament is taking place, and he teaches us the easy rules of this fun and exciting game.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Aline talks to us from the beach at Bibione, a town near Venice. She's playing in an ultimate Frisbee tournament, which she also helped organize.
Difficulty:
Newbie
Italy
Learn 10 words having to do with the Easter season and springtime.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Caravaggio is a TV mini-series based on the life of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It opens in 1577 when the painter was 5 years old. The plague had just hit and people who were still alive were burning their household possessions.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Some years have passed, and Michele's widowed mother has had some difficult decisions to make regarding her children. One of these is to send 12-year-old Michele to Milan to be an apprentice at the workshop of the well-known artist, Simone Peterzano. Michele has no desire to leave home and family.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Michele has a rough time of it in Master Simone's workshop. It's clear, however, that he has talent. A Knight of Malta comes into the workshop to have a look.
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