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La Ladra - EP. 10 - Un ignobile ricatto - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Eva is cooking up a storm, but it's also time to help Alba. Lorenzo has a bad night.

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Caption 38 [it]: Ho visto la luce accesa. -Ah, già.
Caption 38 [en]: I saw the light on. -Ah, I see.

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Sposami - EP 1 - Part 23

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Nora and Ugo succeeded in planning a perfect wedding for Francesco and Matisse. They seem to be a great team even when they work separately.

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Caption 42 [it]: Tu invece come hai fatto a convincere Luce e gli altri?
Caption 42 [en]: And how did you convince Luce and the others?

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Annalisa - Vento sulla luna (feat. Rkomi) (Official Video)

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

This single, Vento sulla Luna (Wind on the Moon) provides plenty of expressions and modi di dire (ways of saying things) to boost your vocabulary. It was written and is performed by Italian singer-songwriter Annalisa in collaboration with Rkomi.

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Caption 20 [it]: Sotto i lampioni con la luce fioca
Caption 20 [en]: Under the dimly lit streetlights

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Sposami - EP 1 - Part 16

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The guests arrive, but who knew there would be so many? It turns out that Matì's family is rather extended as well as colorful. And it becomes clear that the families have very little in common.

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Caption 4 [it]: Grazie. -Vi presento mia madre, Luce.
Caption 4 [en]: Thank you. -I'd like to introduce my mother, Luce.

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Sei mai stata sulla Luna? - film - Part 21

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Guia couldn't have imagined what was in store for her after a ride with Renzo. While they work, they tell each other about their respective love lives.

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Caption 42 [it]: e la luce è così intensa che sembra di stare sulla luna.
Caption 42 [en]: and the light is so bright that it feels like you are on the moon.

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Luciano Pavarotti - "Nessun dorma" Turandot

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

This is the famous aria for tenor from Puccini's Turandot, sung here by the legendary Luciano Pavarotti. Nessun is short for nessuno (no one) and dorma is the third person subjunctive of the verb dormire (to sleep) used as an imperative for the herald to proclaim that no one in the city may sleep.

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Caption 13 [it]: Quando la luce splenderà
Caption 13 [en]: When the light will shine

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Sei mai stata sulla Luna? - film - Part 19

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Felice lives up to his word and brings Mara an ice cream cone, but there's a glitch... Carola, trying to get some work done in the farmhouse, meets Dino, who offers her a "glass of wine."

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Caption 16 [it]: Anche la luce è temporizzata?
Caption 16 [en]: Is the light on a timer, too?

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Il Commissario Manara - S2EP10 -La verità nascosta - Part 14

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

We're at the end of this episode, where the famous fresco has been restored. Truth, symbolized in the fresco, is the buzzword of the moment but in ordinary life, it often remains hidden.

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Caption 7 [it]: che è stato riportato alla luce solo recentemente
Caption 7 [en]: which was brought to light only recently

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Meraviglie - EP. 4 - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alberto Angela points out how realistic Giotto's frescoes are compared to earlier ones. He also mentions the important fact that Saint Francis composed one of the first poems in the vernacular

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Caption 46 [it]: lo qual è iorno, et allumini noi per lui [che è la luce del giorno, tu ci illumini tramite lui].
Caption 46 [en]: who is the light of day and you enlighten us through him.

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Meraviglie - EP. 4 - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

What did Saint Francis look like? There are clues in a fresco in the lower basilica of the church dedicated to him in Assisi.

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Caption 36 [it]: doveva apparire alla luce delle centinaia di lampade a olio
Caption 36 [en]: must have appeared with the light of hundreds of oil lamps

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Provaci ancora prof! - S1E2 - Un amore pericoloso - Part 14

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Bettina and Gaetano are supposed to go to the movies together, but Camilla shows up and Gaetano chooses work over fun. At school, everyone is rejoicing at the news that Mazzeo is on leave of absence.

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Caption 50 [it]: Be', professor Mazzeo mi ha guardato con strana luce negli occhi
Caption 50 [en]: Well, Professor Mazzeo looked at me with a strange look in his eyes

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Mina - Luna diamante

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Ferzan Özpetek directed this video of images from his movie La Dea Fortuna, for which the song "Luna Diamante" (diamond moon) is part of the soundtrack. The song was written by Ivano Fossati and sung by Mina.

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Caption 29 [it]: So, so che anche in piena luce
Caption 29 [en]: I know, I know that even in broad daylight

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Simone Cristicchi - Ti regalerò una rosa

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The poignant text of this song was inspired by the singer-songwriter's experience as a volunteer in a mental institution in Rome and meant to create awareness of the reality of mental illness. It is sung from the point of view of someone who had been deemed insane and shut into a manicomio (insane asylum) for most of his life.

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Caption 20 [it]: Nella poca luce che trafigge i vetri opachi
Caption 20 [en]: In the dim light that pierces the opaque windows

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Meraviglie - EP. 3 - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We look at Leonardo's Last Supper from close up — the details, the symbolism — but also from the refectory floor, seeing how Leonardo's genius made the fresco part of the room itself.

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Caption 79 [it]: la luce che si vedeva qui in questa sala, su questa parete,
Caption 79 [en]: the light that you could see here in this room on this wall,

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Il Commissario Manara - S2EP9 - L'amica ritrovata - Part 14

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Marta and Luca manage to figure out what happened, and Luca tells the story to his boss, Casadio. Manara gets out of the office with the excuse of a physical therapy session.

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Caption 2 [it]: E poi, dopo cena, tornammo con le torce per farci luce.
Caption 2 [en]: And then, after dinner, we went back with our flashlights to light the way.

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