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Ligabue - Tu sei lei

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Ligabue wrote the love song Tu sei lei (You're Her) for his wife. The video was filmed largely along the Tiber in Rome.

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Caption 13 [it]: Dopo tanti anni e un giorno
Caption 13 [en]: After many years and a day

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Ti racconto una fiaba - La sirenetta - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

"The Little Mermaid" concludes with a happy ending if you're a 19th century poet, as Andersen was. The vocabulary review focuses on verbs in the passato remoto.

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Caption 47 [it]: Poi, venne il giorno in cui
Caption 47 [en]: Then, the day came on which

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP8 - Morte di un buttero - Part 16

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Tuscan

Episode 8 comes to a close as Sergio shows up with all the paperwork ready for the job "swap." All Luca has to do is sign!

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Caption 24 [it]: No, Sergio, è il primo giorno che ho un po' di respiro,
Caption 24 [en]: No, Sergio, it's the first day I've had a bit of a breather,

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Dixiland - Sole dormiglione

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Dixieland is left in the dark because Mister Sun has overslept. It's up to Dixi to go and wake him up. The vocabulary review features third person verbs in the passato remoto tense.

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Caption 35 [it]: È giorno!
Caption 35 [en]: "It's daytime!"

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Ti racconto una fiaba - La sirenetta - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" is translated as "La sirenetta" in Italian. The Italian term sirena covers both mermaids (part fish) and sirens (part bird).

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Caption 16 [it]: Tutto il giorno,
Caption 16 [en]: All day

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP8 - Morte di un buttero - Part 14

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Tuscan

For some strange reason, Luca isn't so eager to sign the forms Sergio procures for him. Lara's aunt arrives with some important news.

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Caption 20 [it]: proprio il giorno prima dell'omicidio.
Caption 20 [en]: right on the day before the murder.

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Ti racconto una fiaba - Il brutto anatroccolo - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

The Ugly Duckling realizes that he isn't so ugly after all.

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Caption 41 [it]: Il giorno seguente,
Caption 41 [en]: The following day,

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Vasco Rossi - Un senso

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Vasco Rossi in his hit song Un senso sings about the meaning of life. He's accompanied by an orchestra in Reggio Emilia's Teatro Municipale.

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Caption 23 [it]: Domani un altro giorno
Caption 23 [en]: Tomorrow another day

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La luna di traverso (the moon on its side) is a way of saying "bad mood." Dixi got up on the wrong side of the bed, but being a magical little elephant, he has the actual sidelong moon on his hands. What to do?

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Caption 4 [it]: Uffa, che peccato avere la Luna di traverso in un giorno d'estate.
Caption 4 [en]: Drat, what a shame to have the Moon awry on a summer's day.

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Dixiland - La magia di Tribo

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Dixi needs to tinkle and Tribo works some fun magic to give Dixi the space and time he needs.

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Caption 2 [it]: Quel giorno, sul pratone,
Caption 2 [en]: That day, on the big field

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Ti racconto una fiaba - Il brutto anatroccolo - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale, "The Ugly Duckling", is presented in Italian. These fairy tales are so familiar that they allow us to fully concentrate on the words and spare us the worry of not understanding what's happening in the story.

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Caption 39 [it]: Il giorno seguente,
Caption 39 [en]: The following day,

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Ti racconto una fiaba - Il gatto con gli stivali - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

"Puss in Boots" underscores what we all know—cats have everything figured out.

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Caption 1 [it]: Un giorno, il gatto sentì che il re,
Caption 1 [en]: One day, the cat heard that the king

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP8 - Morte di un buttero - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Tuscan

Belleggia is a tough nut to crack in the interrogation room, and Toscani has a rough time. As usual, Caterina is friendly with people involved in the murder, this time making friends with the widow of the victim.

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Caption 46 [it]: e il primo è del giorno dell'omicidio,
Caption 46 [en]: and the first one is from the day of the homicide,

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Francesco De Gregori - La donna cannone

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Roman

Francesco De Gregori's inspiration for La donna cannone [The Cannonball Lady] came from a newspaper article about a circus performer who quit the circus for love.

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Caption 2 [it]: Tra le stelle un giorno
Caption 2 [en]: Among the stars one day

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Marika spiega - Il salone

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

Marika gives us a tour of her living room, where the family is entertained, and where she has lunch and dinner parties for guests.

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Caption 40 [it]: e se un giorno vorrete venire a pranzo da me,
Caption 40 [en]: and if one day you would like to come for lunch at my place,

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