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Marika spiega - Il verbo venire - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika focuses on the verb venire [to come], providing lots of useful examples of how it is used, and also contrasting it with the verb andare [to go].

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Caption 60 [it]: Dico: "Mi dispiace, non posso venire a cena da voi".
Caption 60 [en]: I say, "I'm sorry, I can't come to dinner at your place."

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Provaci ancora prof! - S1E1 - Il regalo di Babbo Natale - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Camilla had a hard time of it after seeing what she saw the night before. And she had a hard time in class, too, with students who hadn't studied.

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Caption 33 [it]: Ah. Be', mi dispiace, siediti pure. -Grazie.
Caption 33 [en]: Oh. OK, I'm sorry. Go ahead and sit down. -Thank you.

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La Tempesta - film - Part 17

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Paolo is surrounded by challenges: Manuela's family, to start with, and then the difficult decisions to make regarding the future of the factory.

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Caption 59 [it]: E mi dispiace, ma un algoritmo è un algoritmo.
Caption 59 [en]: Hey, I'm sorry but an algorithm is an algorithm.

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Marika spiega - I verbi intransitivi

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika's lesson is on intransitive verb and how to recognize them. She has some interesting things to say on southern Italian speech and the influence of Spanish.

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Caption 54 [it]: Mi dispiace poi lasciarti così.
Caption 54 [en]: I'm sorry to leave you like this, then.

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La Tempesta - film - Part 16

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Manuela and Paolo are trying to get ready for getting approval for adoption from Social Services. They get to know each other better in the process, and Natoli shows his true colors, too.

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Caption 17 [it]: Che tristezza, mi dispiace.
Caption 17 [en]: How sad, I'm sorry.

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PsicoVip - Il circo - Ep 18

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Minivip gets real close to saving a circus lady but is hindered by trained circus fleas.

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Caption 70 [it]: Oh, mi dispiace.
Caption 70 [en]: Oh, I'm sorry.

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP12 - Le verità nascoste - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

On this last day of Luca's service, everyone is working hard to get to the core of the case. Lara is trying to pretend things are normal.

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Caption 23 [it]: Lara, mi dispiace, lo so, avrei dovuto dirtelo in disparte... e...
Caption 23 [en]: Lara, I'm sorry, I know, I should have told you separately... and...

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Marika spiega - La particella NE - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika discusses the particle "ne" and provides examples of how it is used as a partitive pronoun (some, none) among other uses.

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Caption 21 [it]: "No, mi dispiace, non ne conosco nessuna".
Caption 21 [en]: "No, I'm sorry, I don't know of any."

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP11 - Beato tra le donne - Part 6

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

We're all curious to see what Ginevra and Lara have to say to each other when they meet. Meanwhile, Marco Rovetti is nowhere to be found.

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Caption 63 [it]: Mi dispiace.
Caption 63 [en]: I feel bad.

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP11 - Beato tra le donne - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Lara and Luca question the people close to Spada, but they are no closer to having a lead. And they don't get much closer to talking over their personal troubles, either.

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Caption 5 [it]: Signora, mi dispiace, però Suo marito potrebbe essere stato ucciso.
Caption 5 [en]: I'm sorry, ma'am, but your husband might have been killed.

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Marika spiega - La particella CI - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika's lesson concentrates on how the pronouns: mi [me], ti [you], vi [you, plural] are used in conjunction with the particle "ci."

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Caption 19 [it]: No, mi dispiace, non ce l'ho [sic], o non ce li ho.
Caption 19 [en]: No, I'm sorry. I don't have them, or I don't have them.

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Stai lontana da me - Rai Cinema - Part 15

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Jacopo is not as alone as he thought. And you'll never guess who he meets up with!

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Caption 60 [it]: Questa è l'ultima volta che ti chiamo, mi dispiace.
Caption 60 [en]: This is the last time I am calling you, I'm sorry.

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Verbo + Verbo all'infinito + preposizione DI - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Daniela covers the verbs: ricordare (to remember), dimenticare (to forget), decidere (to decide), and dubitare (to doubt), showing how the preposition "di" is placed between conjugated and infinitive verbs.

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Caption 33 [it]: mi dispiace, dubito di arrivare in tempo.
Caption 33 [en]: "I'm sorry, I doubt I'll arrive in time.

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Stai lontana da me - Rai Cinema - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The architects go to present the church project for Verona to the committee of clergymen. To get the most out of this segment, see this Wikipedia entry about Pandoro.

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Caption 61 [it]: Non ho parole. -Sara, mi dispiace. -Lei non c'entra niente.
Caption 61 [en]: I'm speechless. -Sara, I'm sorry. -You have nothing to do with it.

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Verbo + Verbo all'infinito - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

In this first of three segments on the infinitive, Daniela covers conjugated verbs followed directly by verbs in the infinitive, without the use of prepositions.

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Caption 60 [it]: E io dico: no, mi dispiace,
Caption 60 [en]: And I say, "No, I'm sorry.

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