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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The Taviani brothers talk about how color and images can be more important than the story itself. There are clips from interviews with them when they were much younger, and the director of photography contributes some thoughts, as well. The movie featured in this segment is Good Morning, Babylon from 1987.

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Caption 69 [it]: è il fatto che tu oggi lo pensi.
Caption 69 [en]: it's the fact that today, you conceive of it.

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Parking is a problem in medieval hilltop towns and cities (especially those attractive to tourists), so one solution is to build an elevator to get from parking further down the hill, up to the center of town. But, you never know what you are going to find when excavating. In Assisi, they certainly hit the jackpot, right in the center of town: A roman domus.

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Caption 30 [it]: E poi delle colonne che lo separavano da un corridoio
Caption 30 [en]: And then some columns that separated it from a corridor

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Domenico asks his cousin for some money to go to Rome, and goes to see the town priest to see if he can get a ride. But there is an emergency, and his priorities have to shift.

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Caption 15 [it]: E me lo trovo, dai.
Caption 15 [en]: I'm going to find one, come on.

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Sposami - EP 2 - Part 16

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Ugo has no interest in learning to ice skate, and Nora is not a big help. Back at the villa, Melody brings Dino some coffee as he works, and he asks her for a favor.

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Caption 23 [it]: Tu lo sai perché non imparerai a pattinare?
Caption 23 [en]: You know why you won't learn to skate?

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Provaci ancora prof! - S1E4 - La mia compagna di banco - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Camilla goes to lunch at Virginia's house (quite a house) and they talk about Virginia's personal situation. Then there's a phone call.

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Caption 9 [it]: Me lo sono preso un po' anziano?
Caption 9 [en]: I got kind of an old one?

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La Ladra - EP. 12 - Come ai vecchi tempi - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Eva, pretending to be originally from Athens, meets up with Cusimano, and they agree on terms. Later, she makes a visit to the group home. At the restaurant, the girls try to think of a way to save the home, but come up empty.

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Caption 26 [it]: Se lo hai conosciuto, avrai capito il soggetto.
Caption 26 [en]: If you have met him, you will have figured the fellow out.

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COVID-19 - la storia di Giuditta e Marino

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika introduces a mini-series devoted to the story of a family that has decided to share their Covid-19 experience.

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Caption 7 [it]: lui lo prendeva e dopo dovevo disinfettare tutto.
Caption 7 [en]: he would take it, and afterwards, I had to disinfect everything.

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Un Figlio a tutti i costi - film - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Orazio had a bad night, and now he is having a bad day, from problems at the office to a strange visit to the doctor with Anna, to a postponed dinner date with a friend.

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Caption 13 [it]: Giulia, lo sai che cosa devi confermare?
Caption 13 [en]: Giulia, you know what you have to confirm?

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 8

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The directors talk about the important role the sea played in their films. Another element that played an important part was color, used to express feelings and situations.

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Caption 26 [it]: è il mare che lo può aiutare a risolvere, in qualche maniera,
Caption 26 [en]: it's the sea that can, in some way, help him to resolve

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We're in Assisi, where, during some excavations, a domus was discovered. It's clear it belonged to a wealthy family because of the richness of the wall and floor decorations, and might even have been the home of the poet Propertius.

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Caption 32 [it]: lo si capisce persino dai pavimenti.
Caption 32 [en]: You can tell this just from the floors.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Domenico tells his story to the audience, and to us, as he takes us back to when he was a youth. There was one movie theater in town, and he was always there.

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Caption 4 [it]: Eh, lo so, per me il mondo è meraviglioso,
Caption 4 [en]: Uh, I know, to me, the world is marvelous,

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Sposami - EP 2 - Part 15

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The stickers Nora placed all around the arena paid off, at least from her point of view. Ugo isn't so sure. There's a new job for them, but Ugo is conflicted because he still has something to tell Nora.

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Caption 43 [it]: Lo so, lo so.
Caption 43 [en]: I know. I know.

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Provaci ancora prof! - S1E4 - La mia compagna di banco - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Camilla is happy to see her old classmate and they make plans to get together, but Camilla forgets about a promise she had made to Renzo.

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Caption 5 [it]: Anch'io. -Non lo puoi sapere.
Caption 5 [en]: Me too. -You can't imagine it.

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La Ladra - EP. 12 - Come ai vecchi tempi - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Max explains some details of the heist he's planning, and Eva knows all the right questions to ask. Later, Eva discovers some curious "coincidences."

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Caption 6 [it]: Lo so per farti dispetto.
Caption 6 [en]: I know it to spite you.

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Lettera formale - Part 4

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Daniela gives us various examples of how to close a formal letter as well as the complimentary closing that precedes the signature. As you will see, these are quite different from the ones in English letters. We then recap the parts of a formal letter.

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Caption 5 [it]: o lo, o il corpo della lettera.
Caption 5 [en]: or the, or the body of the letter.

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