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Il Commissario Manara - S2EP3 - Delitto tra le lenzuola - Part 10

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Little by little some of the suspects are being eliminated, but the situation is far from clear.

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Caption 5 [it]: Be', ma perché non lo hai arrestato?
Caption 5 [en]: Well, but why didn't you arrest him?

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L'Eredità -Quiz TV - La sfida dei sei. Puntata 1 - Part 10

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Laura joins Carlo in questioning the contestants about animal traits in this elimination round.

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Caption 21 [it]: Hanno molti modi di comunicare ai loro simili lo stato d'animo.
Caption 21 [en]: They have many ways of communicating their state of mind to their kin.

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Concetto di "bisogno" - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

Daniela continues her lesson on necessity or need, providing examples with an impersonal subject. In English the impersonal can be expressed with "one" in the third person: "one needs," or by using the passive voice:"Something needs to be done." And in informal speech, we might use "you" or "we.": "you need to..."

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Caption 38 [it]: Lo stesso vale se uso un verbo all'infinito.
Caption 38 [en]: The same is true for a verb in the infinitive.

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La Ladra - EP. 2 - Viva le spose - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

After all that planning, it's time to act. The girls are incredulous at Eva's professional know-how.

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Caption 5 [it]: Ma perché, lo sai usare?
Caption 5 [en]: But why? Do you know how to use one?

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Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 11

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

This segment opens with a sort of poem, demonstrating how kids growing up in fascist Italy were expected to behave. Minority groups had a pretty hard time, too.

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Caption 25 [it]: perché lo scolaro vi si sente oggetto delle paterne cure di un regime.
Caption 25 [en]: so that the student feels looked after in a fatherly way by the regime.

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Il Commissario Manara - S2EP3 - Delitto tra le lenzuola - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Officers Barbagallo and Buttafuoco get some good evidence, but Manara doesn't quite appreciate their guessing-game humor. He goes to question the new suspect.

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Caption 5 [it]: Magari mi sbaglio, non lo so.
Caption 5 [en]: Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know.

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Adriano - Negozio di Antichità Sgroi

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Adriano visits a Palermo antique dealer, Massimo Sgroi, who also exhibits the work of contemporary artists. Sgroi invites Yabla friends to submit work.

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Caption 49 [it]: e non c'è più l'artigiano che lo sappia fare.
Caption 49 [en]: and the the artisan who would know how to do it no longer exists.

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La Ladra - EP. 2 - Viva le spose - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Because of her concerns about Dante, Eva ends up being a bit hard on her son.

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Caption 1 [it]: Lo zucchero non è.
Caption 1 [en]: It's not the sugar.

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Itinerari Della Bellezza - Basilicata - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The segment features Acerenza and its 11th century cathedral, which was built over pagan and Early Christian constructions.

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Caption 17 [it]: attraggono lo sguardo
Caption 17 [en]: attract one's gaze,

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Il Commissario Manara - S2EP3 - Delitto tra le lenzuola - Part 8

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Luca Manara and Marta Rivera are both curious about each other. But Marta has better luck. Manara and Toscani go to see the victim's husband, who learns some things about his wife he hadn't been aware of.

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Caption 26 [it]: Sì, sì, me lo dicevano anche a Napoli.
Caption 26 [en]: Yes, yes, they told me that in Naples, too.

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L'Eredità -Quiz TV - La sfida dei sei. Puntata 1 - Part 9

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

The contestants face another round robin of questions, this time regarding four specific years. It's a great chance to practice those long, one-word numbers Italians use.

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Caption 34 [it]: Claudio, il Milan di Gullit e Van Basten si aggiudica lo scudetto.
Caption 34 [en]: Claudio, the Milan soccer team of Gullit and Van Basten win the championship.

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La Ladra - EP. 2 - Viva le spose - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Eva visits an old friend, and then goes to the market with Dante for fish. She's certainly more at ease with one than with the other.

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Caption 10 [it]: Pane tostato, lo sbricioli ancora nel latte?
Caption 10 [en]: Toasted bread. Do you still crumble it in milk?

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Il Commissario Manara - S2EP3 - Delitto tra le lenzuola - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Lara isn't around, but her presence is felt by everyone, in different ways. And they all want to know how Luca is feeling about it, but he's a closed book and just focuses on the case.

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Caption 18 [it]: Eh, lo so.
Caption 18 [en]: Yeah, I know.

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Erica - si presenta

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

A young university student tells us about her interests as a kid, how her ideas changed as she grew up, and what her dream is.

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Caption 5 [it]: Mi piaceva molto mettere lo smalto e truccare le persone.
Caption 5 [en]: I loved to wear nail polish and to put make up on people.

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Marika spiega - Gli avverbi di modo

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

It may come as a relief to see that Italian adverbs of manner are similar to English ones. But when Marika starts giving us some [very useful] idiomatic adverbial phrases using adjectives, it's slightly more complicated.

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Caption 13 [it]: se me lo offri".
Caption 13 [en]: if you offer me some."

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