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Il Commissario Manara - S2EP4 - Miss Maremma - Part 14

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Manara wraps things up, and he does it with kindness. But later, he gets an unexpected visit.

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Caption 47 [it]: Io e te bisogna ricomincia' [toscano: dobbiamo ricominciare] tutto daccapo.
Caption 47 [en]: You and I, we need to start over from the beginning.

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L'Eredità -Quiz TV - La sfida dei sei. Puntata 2 - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Carlo presents Tiziana with a list of animals and she has to decide whether they have hooves or not. Caterina, a freelance art professional from the Veneto, enters the game.

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Caption 149 [it]: E be', è ovvio, -È normale. -bisogna sapere con chi esci,
Caption 149 [en]: Oh well, it's clear... -It's normal. -she needs to know who you're going out with,

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L'Eredità -Quiz TV - La sfida dei sei. Puntata 2 - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Carlo presents Matteo with a list of countries and asks him whether they're situated in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

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Caption 2 [it]: Ah, ecco. -Bisogna avere un certo...
Caption 2 [en]: Ah, got it. -You need to have a certain...

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La Ladra - EP. 3 - L'oro dello squalo - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The girls get to work. They manage to get into the market, but things don't go exactly as planned.

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Caption 28 [it]: Ragazze, bisogna guardare sotto i polipi.
Caption 28 [en]: Girls, we need to look under the octopus.

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L'Italia a tavola - Il frico friulano - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Anna and Marika prepare the deliciously rich potato and cheese crisp that was a specialty of Friuli woodsmen.

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Caption 47 [it]: Ecco, bisogna continuare così, giusto? Per tutta la...
Caption 47 [en]: There, we need to continue like so, right? For all the...

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La Ladra - EP. 3 - L'oro dello squalo - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Eva goes to see her dear mentor Augusto to get some advice. Back at the restaurant, there seems to be peace in the kitchen as the cooks pull out all the stops to prepare a romantic dinner for Lola and Cicci.

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Caption 35 [it]: Il bello dell'età è che tocca sbrigasse [romanesco: bisogna sbrigarsi]. -Giusto.
Caption 35 [en]: The great thing about age is that you have to hurry. -Right.

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La Ladra - EP. 3 - L'oro dello squalo - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

"David" starts taking on "Goliath." It's not going to be easy, especially since their first plan goes south, and they have to go right to plan B.

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Caption 57 [it]: Bisogna assolutamente passare al piano B.
Caption 57 [en]: We have to absolutely go on to plan B.

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Il Commissario Manara - S2EP4 - Miss Maremma - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Toscani has some news about who was on the jury. All the contestants in the Miss Maremma contest come to police headquarters for questioning.

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Caption 29 [it]: Per fare i testimoni bisogna aver visto qualcosa.
Caption 29 [en]: To be a witness, one must have seen something.

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La Ladra - EP. 2 - Viva le spose - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Thanks to the girls' hard work, the bride and her father are happy on the wedding day. Dad learns an important lesson.

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Caption 29 [it]: Che questa storia mi ha fatto capire che non bisogna tenere le cose per sé.
Caption 29 [en]: That this thing made me understand that you shouldn't keep things inside.

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Concetto di "bisogno" - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

Daniela continues her lesson on necessity or need, providing examples with an impersonal subject. In English the impersonal can be expressed with "one" in the third person: "one needs," or by using the passive voice:"Something needs to be done." And in informal speech, we might use "you" or "we.": "you need to..."

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Caption 5 [it]: è "bisogna" più infinito.
Caption 5 [en]: is "one needs" plus an infinitive.

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Martina - si presenta

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Nineteen-year-old Martina tells us about herself. Her dreams have changed over the years, and she now has some concrete, long-term, and clearcut goals.

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Caption 9 [it]: bisogna superare un test d'ammissione molto difficile.
Caption 9 [en]: you have to pass a very difficult entrance exam.

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Itinerari Della Bellezza - Basilicata - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The segment features Acerenza and its 11th century cathedral, which was built over pagan and Early Christian constructions.

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Caption 19 [it]: bisogna lasciare fuori il peccato, il male.
Caption 19 [en]: one needs to leave sin and evil outside.

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Erica - si presenta

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

A young university student tells us about her interests as a kid, how her ideas changed as she grew up, and what her dream is.

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Caption 26 [it]: bisogna essere laureati in genetica.
Caption 26 [en]: you have to have a degree in genetics.

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Marika spiega - Gli avverbi di modo

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

It may come as a relief to see that Italian adverbs of manner are similar to English ones. But when Marika starts giving us some [very useful] idiomatic adverbial phrases using adjectives, it's slightly more complicated.

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Caption 20 [it]: "La vita bisogna prenderla filosoficamente".
Caption 20 [en]: "You have to take life philosophically."

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L'Italia a tavola - Pasta alla Norma - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika completes the recipe for "pasta alla Norma," and serves it up. It's evident that Anna thinks it's real good, too. In fact, she describes it as troppo buono (too good), a typical colloquial way to say "very, very good."

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Caption 29 [it]: Per finire, bisogna grattugiare la ricotta salata
Caption 29 [en]: To complete it, you have to grate the salted ricotta

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