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Francesco De Gregori - La donna cannone

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Roman

Francesco De Gregori's inspiration for La donna cannone [The Cannonball Lady] came from a newspaper article about a circus performer who quit the circus for love.

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Caption 36 [it]: Tutti chiusero gli occhi
Caption 36 [en]: Everyone shut their eyes

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Dixiland - Cometa caduta

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The Dixieland airborne emergency squad rescues a comet and Dixi receives a wonderful ride through the sky as thanks.

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Caption 13 [it]: Dixi alzò gli occhi, guardò in cielo,
Caption 13 [en]: Dixi raised his eyes, and looked into the sky,

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Lucio Dalla - Anna e Marco

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

In this song from 1979, Lucio Dalla sings of two young people who wish they could change their lives for the better.

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Caption 6 [it]: Se chiude gli occhi lei lo sa
Caption 6 [en]: If she closes her eyes, she knows

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L'arte della cucina - L'Epoca delle Piccole Rivoluzioni - Part 16

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy Milanese

Marchesi shows us a delicious dessert made from leftover panettone. Panettone is an Italian fruitcake from the Lombardy region that is traditionally served during the Christmas season. Cinepanettoni are comic movies served up during the holidays.

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Caption 7 [it]: Non è molto alto, ma c'ha degli occhi bellissimi, per esempio,
Caption 7 [en]: He's not very tall, but he has very beautiful eyes, for example,

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Dixiland - Buio mangiabiscotti

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Dixi gets himself in another pickle, but Tribo comes to the rescue with a very simple solution to the problem of retrieving breakfast biscuits from the dark basement pantry.

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Caption 24 [it]: Si coprì gli occhi,
Caption 24 [en]: He covered his eyes,

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Corso base di snowboard - Snowboard

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The Italian Alps are a pretty spectacular spot to learn the basics of snowboarding. Matteo and his two very capable students show us the ropes.

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Caption 52 [it]: e venire a guardare me negli occhi, d'accordo?
Caption 52 [en]: and come and look me in the eye, all right?

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Telecom Italia Mobile - Quando mamma chiama...Garibaldi risponde!

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

In this ad, heroic Giuseppe Garibaldi is stereotyped as a mammone (mama's boy), still under the thumb of his mammina (dear mother), stereotypical overprotective Italian mother.

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Caption 29 [it]: Oh, non ti credo. Guardami negli occhi! -A te!
Caption 29 [en]: Oh, I don't believe you. Look me in the eye! -You!

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Napoli - La magia del Natale a San Gregorio Armeno

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Neapolitan

The Naples Christmas market from up close. It's a rowdy scene, and there's a lot going on all at once. The famous horn shaped talisman called the cornetto is taken quite seriously as well as other instruments for keeping away the malocchio (evil eye). For more information about the cornetto, and the three r's referred to in the video, see this article in Italian.

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Caption 34 [it]: c'abbiamo gli occhi addosso. -Oggi sembra strano che uno... siamo...
Caption 34 [en]: we have eyes upon us. -These days it seems strange someone... we're

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Nek - Fatti avanti amore

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Nek sings a simple song about how people are made to love one another, despite everything. The song came in second at the Sanremo Festival.

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Caption 23 [it]: Abbiamo occhi
Caption 23 [en]: We have eyes

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP6 - Reazione a Catena - Part 14

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

At the beach party there's a chain reaction (as the title of this episode implies), but this time no dead bodies are involved.

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Caption 41 [it]: Guarda che quelli che baciano con gli occhi aperti
Caption 41 [en]: Look, the ones who kiss with their eyes open

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Laura Pausini - Non ho mai smesso

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Laura presents her single Non ho mai smesso (I never stopped) in the middle of the Piazza Duomo (Cathedral Square) in Milan.

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Caption 26 [it]: C'è chi si aspetta ad occhi aperti e non si perde più
Caption 26 [en]: There are those who wait with their eyes open and no longer get lost

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP6 - Reazione a Catena - Part 8

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

It may not come as a surprise that Toscani, after hours of ruining his eyes looking at the footage, does indeed find something strange. Unwittingly, and indirectly, he also saves the life of the Cine Service owner.

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Caption 20 [it]: C'ho rimesso l'occhi [sic: gli occhi], ma almeno a qualcosa è servito.
Caption 20 [en]: I've ruined my eyes, but at least it was useful for something.

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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 18 [it]: Di notte si dileguava dagli occhi di
Caption 18 [en]: In the night, it vanished from the eyes of

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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 4 [it]: e si guardarono profondamente negli occhi.
Caption 4 [en]: and they looked deeply into each other's eyes.

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Ti racconto una fiaba - Il Principe Ranocchio - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Many of us know how this story ends. That's why it will be easy to understand. And there are still plenty of verbs to learn in the passato remoto!

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Caption 26 [it]: Ma quando la principessa aprì gli occhi il mattino seguente,
Caption 26 [en]: But when the princess opened her eyes the following morning,

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