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L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Gualtiero Marchesi talks about his experiences in Paris, learning from the chefs there. Actually, he already knew much of what was taught to him, because he'd had chefs in his family who were well-versed in both every day and fancy fare. He, on the other hand, was looking for something new and different.

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Caption 23 [it]: Bochis diceva che quella che veniva fatta passare per nouvelle cuisine non lo interessava
Caption 23 [en]: Bochis said that what passed as "nouvelle cuisine" didn't interest him

Warmup Workout

Alice - Per Elisa

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alice's winning entry in the 1981 Sanremo Music Festival, "Per Elisa, (for Elisa)" is performed live in concert in this video. You may even want to sing along with these clear, easy lyrics and catchy tune. The title refers to the name of a woman, but also to the famous piano piece by Beethoven, known as "Für Elise," whose theme can be discerned from time to time in the song.

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Caption 37 [it]: Ciao -Che classe! -Grazie per la tua musica, la classe e lo stile, grazie ancora.
Caption 37 [en]: Bye. -Such class! -Thank you for your music, your class and your style, thanks again.

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP4 - Le Lettere Di Leopardi - Part 12

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

In the eyes of Manara's boss, Giulia is the heroine, having recovered the letters, and Manara is a failure for having let the murderer escape from under his nose. Now Giulia's work is finished and she's just about ready to go back to Rome, but she still has some unfinished business... business she doesn't want Lara's help with.

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Caption 5 [it]: Se l'assassino del Fazi è ancora in circolazione, lo dobbiamo al Commissario, qui,
Caption 5 [en]: If Fazi's murderer is still at large, we owe it to the commissioner, here,

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L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Giovanni Ballarini talks about Paris being the capital of haute cuisine, and about the birth of bourgeois cuisine at the time of the French Revolution. Chef Mariasole Capodanno talks about her experiences, as a young girl, with real French cuisine and how even the presentation was so amazing. Neapolitan and Sicilian cooking came out of the work of chefs who had been employed during the reign of the Bourbons, especially in Naples and Sicily, where the chefs were called Monsù, or Monzù a corruption of the French, Monsieur.

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Caption 15 [it]: volevano mangiare bene come lo facevano i signori.
Caption 15 [en]: they wanted to eat as well as the aristocrats did.

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La Ladra - EP. 1 - Le cose cambiano - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

A man walks into the restaurant Il Frutto Proibito (Forbidden Fruit) sure that Eva will hire him as a cook, but before she can even think about it, she gets called away to take care of a situation with her son, Lorenzo...

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Caption 4 [it]: Sono lo chef che cercava.
Caption 4 [en]: I'm the chef you were looking for.

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Anna e Marika - La mozzarella di bufala - La produzione e i tagli - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Anna and Marika are planning a dinner, and start out by making a shopping list. They have some major decisions to make about the antipasti (appetizers)!

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Caption 46 [it]: Buona... -E lo sai che manco a farlo apposta,
Caption 46 [en]: Good... -And you know, not even to do it on purpose [by sheer coincidence],

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Linea Blu - Sicilia - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Linea Blu takes us to the magnificent town of Taormina, with its centuries of history and natural beauty.

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Caption 12 [it]: Questo scriveva lo scrittore francese Guy de Maupassant,
Caption 12 [en]: Thus wrote the French writer Guy de Maupassant,

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP4 - Le Lettere Di Leopardi - Part 11

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Luca and Giulia are finally alone, in a car, at night, in a typical spot for lovers. Hmm...

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Caption 25 [it]: chi voleva venderti quelle lettere. -Non lo so, lo giuro!
Caption 25 [en]: who wanted to sell you those letters. -I don't know. I swear it!

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Linea Blu - Sicilia - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Squali (sharks) come out at night when there's no moon. Linea Blu's divers go to film this special event off the coast of Sicily.

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Caption 10 [it]: Lo squalo esce per cacciare in mancanza di luna
Caption 10 [en]: The shark comes out to hunt when there's no moon

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Anna e Marika - Un negozio di scarpe - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Diego is very knowledgeable about his collection of women's shoes and handbags, all made in Tuscany, exclusively in genuine leather. He proposes models that are beautifully fashionable, but are at the same time comfortable enough to wear every day.

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Caption 16 [it]: quindi lo vediamo sui modelli bassi,
Caption 16 [en]: so we see this on the low-heeled models,

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Ma che ci faccio qui! - Un film di Francesco Amato - Part 19

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alessio and Martina, while working on the renovations of the beach club, start fooling around and making faces at each other. They're clearly having fun until Alessio goes one step further...

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Caption 11 [it]: Ma che sta combinando Tonino lo Befaro?
Caption 11 [en]: But what's Tonino lo Befaro up to?

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La Ladra - EP. 1 - Le cose cambiano - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

La ladra (The Thief) is a television series starring Veronica Pivetti, who plays Eva Marsiglia, a high level chef. But that's not all she does!

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Caption 12 [it]: Cambio vita, te lo giuro.
Caption 12 [en]: I'm changing my life, I swear.

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Anna e Marika - Fruttivendolo

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Anna and Marika sit on a park bench musing about how much they like real fruits and vegetables, and then they actually go to the market where a farmer tells them about typically Roman produce.

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Caption 10 [it]: non ha lo stesso sapore, sei d'accordo?
Caption 10 [en]: don't have the same flavor, do you agree?

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP4 - Le Lettere Di Leopardi - Part 10

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

After a fruitless search in the rain, Luca and Brigadiere head home, but all of a sudden the dog starts sniffing around a hunter's shack, and sure enough, Luca discovers Marcuccio hiding inside, but the big man is not talking. And if that weren't enough, Manara's boss continues to put pressure on him and his team to bring in the perpetrator.

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Caption 21 [it]: Signora, il medico lo sta aspettando per gli accertamenti.
Caption 21 [en]: Ma'am, the doctor is waiting for him for a check up.

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Piacere - Coniugazione

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

Daniela teaches us how to talk about liking something in each of the persons, using the verb piacere (to please, to be pleasing). Don't miss this very important lesson! And don't forget that spaghetti is the plural of spaghetto. Spago means string, so spaghetti are little strands of string! Italians will use the plural when talking about spaghetti.

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Caption 16 [it]: Adesso lo scrivo sopra perché non ho spazio, uh...
Caption 16 [en]: Now I'll write it above, because I have no room, ah...

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