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L'arte della cucina - La Prima Identitá - Part 4

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Gualtiero Marchesi has been described as growing up in a pot. While training under the eye of his mother, he began to specialize in tavola calda e fredda (hot and cold food service) which, usually connected with a bar, offers quality ready-to-eat dishes. La Cucina Italiana (Italian Cooking) is a periodical that's been on newsstands since 1929. Paola Ricas, who was an editor there, shares a special moment in its history.

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Caption 6 [it]: nel giornale del millenovecentottantuno e ho scoperto, perché non lo sapevo neanch'io,
Caption 6 [en]: for the journal of nineteen eighty-one and I discovered, because I hadn't known it either,

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Marika spiega - I verbi riflessivi e reciproci

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

Marika introduces us to an area where Italian and English have some important differences: reflexive and reciprocal verbs. For extra help, see: Reflections on the Reflexive and Ci Gets Around: Part 1

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Caption 7 [it]: o che lo riguarda personalmente.
Caption 7 [en]: or which regards him or her personally.

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L'arte della cucina - L'Epoca delle Piccole Rivoluzioni - Part 10

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Although Marchesi earned his first Michelin star quite early in the game, he never lost his enthusiasm for creating new dishes, for experimenting.

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Caption 36 [it]: una delle sue invenzioni, come il raviolo aperto lo mangiavo, ma
Caption 36 [en]: one of his inventions, such as the open raviolo, I would eat it, but

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP6 - Reazione a Catena - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

At police headquarters, a suspect gets questioned, but Manara isn't totally convinced. When conversation between Luca and Lara starts getting personal, Toscani walks in...

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Caption 1 [it]: Come ve lo devo dire?
Caption 1 [en]: How should I put it to you?

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Marika spiega - Expo 2015 - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Marika shares her impressions and her bubbling enthusiasm for the Expo 2015 held in Milan until the October thirty-first of this year. We hope you get the chance to go!

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Caption 5 [it]: Lo so, ho una pronuncia orribile.
Caption 5 [en]: I know, I have horrible pronunciation.

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Tiziano Ferro - Rosso relativo

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

"Rosso Relativo" ("Relative Red") is one of Tiziano Ferro's greatest hits, and is the title song from his 2002 album. He uses an interesting series of verbs in the imperfetto, a tense that doesn't always match up with one tense in English. It's all relative!

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Caption 33 [it]: Solo lo schermo e tu
Caption 33 [en]: Just the screen and you

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Aggettivi Possessivi - Part 4

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

Daniela continues to address the very sticky subject of possessive adjectives, and explains some very important rules. Little by little, you'll get it.

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Caption 43 [it]: non metto l'articolo lo, non lo posso fare, perché?
Caption 43 [en]: I don't put the article, "lo," I can't do it, why?

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Marika spiega - La formazione degli aggettivi

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

Marika explains how to form adjectives from nouns, by using various suffixes.

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Caption 3 [it]: Non lo sai?
Caption 3 [en]: Don't you know?

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Nicola Agliastro - Poliziotto

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

An actual police officer tells us what it means to him to be one. He talks about the daily problems policemen have to deal with, not just the ones we see on TV.

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Caption 4 [it]: Lo adoro, per me è una passione.
Caption 4 [en]: I love it. I have a passion for it.

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP6 - Reazione a Catena - Part 6

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

There are irregularities in this case, and as both Manara and Rubino know, that's where you look!

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Caption 76 [it]: Lo conosceva bene?
Caption 76 [en]: Did you know him well?

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L'arte della cucina - La Prima Identitá - Part 2

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Gualtiero Marchesi talks about the hotel/restaurant his parents opened in Milan. He describes what it was like back in the Fifties.

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Caption 27 [it]: Lo deve fare perché non sia soltanto un cucitore di cibi.
Caption 27 [en]: He has to do it in order not to merely be an assembler of foods.

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Aggettivi Possessivi - Part 3

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

After having covered the possessive adjectives in the masculine and feminine singular, Daniela goes on to explain how the masculine plural works.

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Caption 5 [it]: Allora, l' a', l'aggettivo possessivo di base è lo stesso.
Caption 5 [en]: So, the... the basic possessive adjective is the same.

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Marika spiega - La formazione dei contrari

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

To form the opposite of a word in Italian, there are different kinds of prefixes. Marika explains how they work.

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Caption 3 [it]: No? Te lo ricordo io!
Caption 3 [en]: No? I'll remind you!

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Ti racconto una fiaba - Cenerentola - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

In fairy tales, good triumphs over evil in the end. This one's no exception.

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Caption 15 [it]: Cenerentola perse di vista lo scorrere del tempo.
Caption 15 [en]: Cinderella completely lost track of the time.

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Aggettivi Possessivi - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

Daniela continues with the possessive adjective, and gives examples of the masculine and feminine singular. Remember that, unlike English, Italian puts an article before the possessive adjective.

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Caption 27 [it]: Lo stesso sistema vale per il femminile singolare, che adesso guardiamo.
Caption 27 [en]: The same system goes for the feminine singular, which we'll look at now.

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