Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna has been made the head of a new marketing team. Too bad the woman reporting to her let things go sideways.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tamara shows us how to use a simple stencil to turn a plain paper bag into a gift package.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Sara, an attractive girl from the province of Perugia, is up next. In the pairing game, she has to determine whether a traditional dish is cooked or raw.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla gets her husband to help with the case by invoking her dead father and concocting a story about playing Lotto.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The case is discussed at the dinner table among Lara, Luca and Aunt Caterina. As usual, Caterina knows a lot about the people involved. She also gives Lara some advice.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Sicilian
Adriano enjoys an espresso in Palermo with his friends. He also shares some interesting statistics about Italian coffee consumption.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela talks about a special case scenario in which a verb in the infinitive may replace the subjunctive form in the subordinate clause. Learning this rule can make using certain verbs easier. She goes on to talk about impersonal forms of verbs where we need the subjunctive. This scenario is quite different from English, so we need to pay close attention.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A great deal of effort went into purging foreign words from the Italian language under the fascist regime. Newspapers, magazines, and book publishers were at the forefront of the effort and were tasked with finding Italian replacements for foreign words and expressions. Many fascist-era terms have fallen by the wayside, but some succeeded and are still in use today. As an example, the word manifesto [poster] was successfully introduced to replace the French term affiche.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Commissioner Berardi shows up at the gallery opening, and Camilla exchanges a few words with him. This doesn't go unnoticed by the gallery owner, who is very curious. Meanwhile, Camilla's husband has a bizarre conversation with the artist.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lara has a hard time resisting Luca's charms. Sardi and Toscani don't seem to be on the same wavelength. But somehow, they are getting closer to having some interesting information, if not concrete evidence.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Here we go with a new series with Anna and Marika. Each video will feature an oral quiz — just like in actual Italian schools — about a region of Italy. A separate cooking video will feature a recipe from that region. We start in the "heel of the boot": Puglia.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Francescopaolo, the contestant, is presented with a long list of Italian winners of either a Nobel Prize or an Academy Award Oscar, and has to choose which prize they were awarded.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna starts work at Phones and More. Her first task is to call a list of publications to find out about ad space. When she gives her email address, she uses the word chiocciola [snail] for the @ sign. Koreans also say "snail shell" when they see an @ sign, while the Dutch see a monkey's tail, and the Norwegians see a pig's tail.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This evening Camilla's mother will take care of Livia, who is complaining about the dog again. Camilla and her husband go to the opening of an art gallery, where they have a hard time finding the appropriate words when meeting the artist.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lara is doing some thinking, and confides in Sardi. Meanwhile, there is a definite lead in the case about the burglarized villas.
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