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Ti racconto una fiaba - La Bella e la Bestia - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Kindness triumphs over looks in this tale of love. The Beast does, however, turn into a handsome Prince. Practice some passato remoto verbs in the vocabulary review!

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Caption 42 [it]: Quando arrivò il giorno concordato e Belle doveva tornare al castello,
Caption 42 [en]: When the agreed upon day arrived and Beauty was to return to the castle,

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Ti racconto una fiaba - La Bella e la Bestia - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Beauty and the Beast is a French 18th century fairy tale. It was written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Her tale, which is as long as a novel, has been adapted numerous times. This nice retelling of the tale is more dependent on the Walt Disney Company.

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Caption 9 [it]: Un giorno, il mercante si mise in cammino verso la città,
Caption 9 [en]: One day, the merchant set off towards the city,

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP9 - Morte in paradiso - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Luca, as usual, has a run-in with his boss about the case, and then has a run-in with the bank director whose answers are anything but helpful.

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Caption 10 [it]: Mi serve qualche giorno in più per le indagini.
Caption 10 [en]: I need a few more days for the investigation.

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP9 - Morte in paradiso - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Lara and Luca are trying to get more information about Bianciardi and about the girl who suffers from memory loss. On a romantic level, Lara isn't making things easy for Luca! It is interesting to notice that in Italian, the terms "Dottore" (abbr. Dott.) and Dottoressa (abbr. Dott.ssa) can also be used for people who have undergraduate degrees or no degree at all. They are used as a formal and obsequious title. It is difficult to find an equivalent in English and many people simplify the title by using Ms./Mrs./Miss. or using no term at all.

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Caption 18 [it]: Quindi l'ha visto il giorno dell'omicidio?
Caption 18 [en]: So you saw him the day of the murder?

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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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Dixiland - Luna di traverso

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

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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