Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
After you have filled your shopping cart, it's time to go to the checkout counter. Marika describes the different registers and the various ways to pay.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Annalena continues her conversation with Piperno in his favorite restaurant. They look at some photos from his past while they wait for their meal to be served.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Pasolini talks about the gates to the city of Orte. They may be simple, and built by unnamed men, but that doesn't mean they don't have value to protect. He moves on to talk about Sabaudia, a city built by the fascist regime, on reclaimed marshland, roughly halfway between Rome and Naples.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Despite the late hour, Vincenzo suggests going to see their friend Michele before they all go off to different destinations.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Having read about Mattioli's death, Camilla rushes to Berardi's office, where he is checking some documents with Torre. She participates and comes across an interesting piece of information.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma interviews De Nardis who tells a good story, not that Matarazzo and Imma are totally convinced, however. And then they go to the bar and find out a bit more about their suspect.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Laura and Lojacono go to Laura's house and she begins cooking dinner. At his hotel, Aragona has a chance to see Irene, the new housemaid, in the dining room and can't take his eyes off her. Francesco brings Giorgia breakfast in bed. It's una graffa (a kind of doughnut).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
To make pasta, only 2 ingredients are strictly necessary: semola (durum wheat flour) and water. But atmospheric conditions make all the difference.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Visiting a supermarket in a foreign country is such an interesting window into the living habits of a populace. For example, you may be surprised to discover how huge the bottled water section is in just about any Italian supermarket. Discover the other sections with Marika.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Alessandro explains some things about the characters in his books and tells a story about when he won the Strega award. The Strega Award is the most important Italian literary award. It gets its name from one of its creators, the owner of the company producing Strega, a brand of an amaro (after-dinner, digestive bitters).
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Pasolini explains the difficulty of framing a city through the lens, only for it to be ruined by modern buildings that seem to have nothing to do with the form of the city itself. He wants anonymous, simple poetry to be preserved just like the works of Dante and Petrarca.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
The group has to figure out the final accounts for the apartment, including some very expensive phone bills they wonder about. Later, they talk about the future and where they think they will end up.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Renzo comes home late after a meeting and finds Camilla on the couch deep in thought. She lets him know she has been connecting the dots between the postcard and the merengue instructor. She goes off to bed but finds a surprise on the way.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma stops by to see her mother, who has been opening all the drawers, creating more work for Nikolaus, her caregiver. Imma and Matarazzo make the trip, on narrow mountain roads, to Ginosa, where De Nardis lives. He invites them in.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
At the hotel where Aragona stays, he tries to find out who the new housekeeping person is. Down at the police station, there is news concerning the prostitute Varricchio says he spent time with the night of the murder.
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