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In giro per l'Italia - Pisa e dintorni - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy Tuscan

This beautiful church is worth a stop on the way from Pisa to the seaside. Arianna shares her discovery of it. The ceramic bowls that decorate the church are technically known as “bacini ceramici” in Italian, which could be translated as “ceramic basins.” Art historians who write in English, however, also use the term “bacini” for these tin-glazed works.

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Caption 44 [it]: Se illuminate dal sole, le scodelle riflettono infatti la luce.
Caption 44 [en]: If lit by the sun, the bowls reflect the light, as a matter of fact.

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Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 15

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The narrator goes over the vanishingly small number of expressions coined during Mussolini's time that are still in use today. The song that gives the series its name is provided in full.

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Caption 24 [it]: [Una produzione Istituto Luce Cinecittà]
Caption 24 [en]: [A production of the Istituto Luce Cinecittà]

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La Ladra - EP. 2 - Viva le spose - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The four friends are finally on the inside with all the beautiful dresses, and they get a bit distracted. A noise brings them back from their reveries.

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Caption 43 [it]: Andate a spegnere la luce, voi due.
Caption 43 [en]: Go and turn off the light, you two.

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Itinerari Della Bellezza - Basilicata - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The segment concentrates on the environs of Matera, its rugged beauty, and the sacred art and architecture that makes use of natural grottoes.

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Caption 3 [it]: custodisce il polittico di Giovanni Luce da Eboli,
Caption 3 [en]: houses the polyptych of Giovanni Luce da Eboli,

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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 21 [it]: Hanno nomi fantasiosi e cambiano forma a seconda della luce e dell'ombra:
Caption 21 [en]: They have imaginative names and they change form based on light and shade:

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Itinerari Della Bellezza - Basilicata - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Welcome to breathtakingly beautiful Basilicata with its mountains and sea, light and silence.

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Caption 5 [it]: È trasparente e immobile la luce di Maratea al mattino.
Caption 5 [en]: Maratea's morning light is transparent and still.

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Gian Filippo - Palazzo Speciale Raffadali - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

A visit to a sumptuous palace in Palermo which incorporates a variety of styles, from the Gothic to the Baroque.

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Caption 16 [it]: che ha riportato alla luce le splendide bifore,
Caption 16 [en]: that brought to light the splendid double arched windows,

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Marika spiega - Gli avverbi - Avverbi di luogo

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika begins a five-part series on the five different types of adverbs in Italian. Location adverbs, which would be termed more “prepositions” in English, are the focus of this segment. In Italian, the difference between adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions is often blurry.

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Caption 54 [it]: Credo di aver visto una luce laggiù.
Caption 54 [en]: I believe I saw a light down there.

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L'Italia a tavola - Interrogazione sulla Puglia

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Here we go with a new series with Anna and Marika. Each video will feature an oral quiz — just like in actual Italian schools — about a region of Italy. A separate cooking video will feature a recipe from that region. We start in the "heel of the boot": Puglia.

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Caption 41 [it]: "Giuà, appic la luce".
Caption 41 [en]: "Giuà, appic la luce."

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La Tempesta - film - Part 25

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Paolo, with the help of Natoli, of course, is able to save the situation, and the workers are truly grateful. He pays a visit to the cemetery to talk to his brother Aldo.

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Caption 5 [it]: Alla luce di tutti questi nuovi elementi, cari amici,
Caption 5 [en]: In light of all these new elements, dear friends,

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Itinerari Della Bellezza - Abruzzo - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The tour of the Abruzzo Region concludes with sights near l'Aquila, the region's capital.

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Caption 34 [it]: un fiume che torna alla luce all'esterno... per catturare lo sguardo
Caption 34 [en]: a river which comes back into sight outside... to capture one's gaze,

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 15

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The documentary comes to a close with an interview regarding a prison cell used during the Inquisition. The cell bears the graffiti of its inmates. Pitrè had laboriously uncovered the graffiti, but it was only rediscovered in the 1970s by the writer Leonardo Sciascia and the interviewee in this segment, Giuseppe Quatriglio, who used Pitrè's writing to find it.

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Caption 14 [it]: Naturalmente l'occhio si è dovuto abituare alla poca luce,
Caption 14 [en]: Naturally, the eyes had to become accustomed to the low light,

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Itinerari Della Bellezza - Abruzzo - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The Abruzzo Region, sometimes known as the Abruzzi with an i in older publications, is the area of interest for this six-segment video. This segment concentrates on the Piccolomini Castle in Marsica.

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Caption 5 [it]: È una luce bianca, fatta di lunghe onde di nuvole,
Caption 5 [en]: It is a white light, made up of long waves of clouds,

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PsicoVip - L'ascensore - Ep 19

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Minivip tells his doctor of getting stuck in an elevator, a fear many of us share. It is surprising that Italy, about the size of Arizona, has as many elevators as the US.

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Caption 38 [it]: Che non c'è luce e, e tra poco mancherà anche l'aria?
Caption 38 [en]: That there isn't any light and, and in a little while there won't be any air?

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Provaci ancora prof! - S1E1 - Il regalo di Babbo Natale - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Camilla's normal family dinner with her husband and daughter gets interrupted by an unexpected guest.

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Caption 40 [it]: Allora perché c'è la luce accesa?
Caption 40 [en]: So why is the light on?

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