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Marika spiega - Gli avverbi - Avverbi di luogo

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika begins a five-part series on the five different types of adverbs in Italian. Location adverbs, which would be termed more “prepositions” in English, are the focus of this segment. In Italian, the difference between adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions is often blurry.

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Caption 61 [it]: Io ti saluto e ti auguro una giornata meravigliosa.
Caption 61 [en]: I'll say goodbye and hope you have a great day.

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Provaci ancora prof! - S1E1 - Il regalo di Babbo Natale - Part 21

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Camilla is taking risks to figure out who killed Nicola. But Commissioner Berardi shows up in time to whisk her away. He's none too happy about her interfering, but in the end, she gives him a hand by identifying some suspects.

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Caption 16 [it]: Oggi è una giornata fiacca. Che ve [romanesco: vi] serve?
Caption 16 [en]: Today's a lazy day. What do you need?

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Il Commissario Manara - S2EP2 - L'addio di Lara - Part 6

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.

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Caption 6 [it]: Senti, è stata una giornata molto pesante.
Caption 6 [en]: Listen, it's been a really rough day.

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Italiano commerciale - Cominciare un nuovo lavoro - Part 2

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.

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Caption 53 [it]: Ti auguro una buona giornata.
Caption 53 [en]: I wish you a great day.

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Marika spiega - I pronomi combinati - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Marika wraps up her lessons on combined pronouns in which ci acts as a stand in for places.

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Caption 77 [it]: Io ti auguro una giornata meravigliosa
Caption 77 [en]: I wish you a great day

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Marika spiega - I pronomi combinati - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Marika, in response to Yabla user requests, begins her 3-part lesson on those pesky little words (Me plus lo, la, li, le, and ne, together with Ti plus lo, la, li, le, and ne), otherwise known as combined pronouns or double pronouns.

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Caption 97 [it]: Ti auguro una bellissima giornata e a presto.
Caption 97 [en]: I hope you have a great day and see you soon.

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Arianna e Marika - Il lavoro di doppiatrice

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Marika interviews Arianna Manetti, the professional voice-over artist and dubber who narrates the fairy tales featured on Yabla.

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Caption 42 [it]: Bene, io e Arianna vi salutiamo e vi auguriamo una giornata meravigliosa
Caption 42 [en]: Great. Arianna and I say goodbye and hope you have a wonderful day,

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Marika spiega - Il verbo mancare

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika features the verb mancare [to miss] and provides numerous expressions using the verb.

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Caption 43 [it]: Immagina adesso di aver avuto una giornata proprio pesante,
Caption 43 [en]: Now imagine having had a really hard day,

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 15

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The documentary comes to a close with an interview regarding a prison cell used during the Inquisition. The cell bears the graffiti of its inmates. Pitrè had laboriously uncovered the graffiti, but it was only rediscovered in the 1970s by the writer Leonardo Sciascia and the interviewee in this segment, Giuseppe Quatriglio, who used Pitrè's writing to find it.

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Caption 44 [it]: dopo una giornata trascorsa tra le sue visite, l'Università,
Caption 44 [en]: after a day engaged in appointments, the University,

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Marika spiega - I verbi venire e andare - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika continues with her lesson on the crucial verbs, andare [to go] and venire [to come], and provides many useful examples.

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Caption 55 [it]: Io ti auguro una giornata meravigliosa
Caption 55 [en]: I wish you a marvelous day

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Marika spiega - Il verbo venire - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika continues her lesson on the all-important verb venire [to come], providing many useful examples of its use.

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Caption 57 [it]: Io ti auguro una giornata meravigliosa
Caption 57 [en]: I wish you a marvelous day

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Professioni e mestieri - Rivenditore per parrucchieri - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Antonella talks about her relationship with the people who come into the shop, especially older women who still care about being beautiful, and who are beautiful, inside and out.

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Caption 18 [it]: è già una giornata migliore anche per me.
Caption 18 [en]: it's already a better day for me.

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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 60 [it]: Io ti auguro una bellissima giornata,
Caption 60 [en]: I wish you a great day,

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Marika spiega - I verbi transitivi

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika's lesson is on transitive verbs, or verbs that take direct objects, known as complemento oggetto in Italian.

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Caption 68 [it]: Io ti auguro una giornata fantastica, meravigliosa
Caption 68 [en]: I wish you a fantastic, marvelous day,

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Marika spiega - I verbi cavare e togliere

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika focuses on the verbs cavare and togliere, both of which mean to remove. She also provides some expressions for both verbs.

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Caption 71 [it]: Io ti auguro una giornata meravigliosa
Caption 71 [en]: I hope you have a great day

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