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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 23

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The Taviani brothers reveal some tricks used during the filming of The Night of San Lorenzo and tell us how they managed to combine a particular sequence of the film with the cornerstone of Greek literature, The Iliad.

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Caption 64 [it]: "Guarda, se... levate quelle scene, perché è troppo...
Caption 64 [en]: "Look, if... take out those scenes, because it's too...

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 17

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Domenico isn't very adept at keeping his emotions, including jealousy, in check, and at the dinner party, he allows them to get the better of him. But there are all kinds of people at that party, and they aren't all against him.

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Caption 17 [it]: Perché uno di questi giorni non mi viene a trovare in radio?
Caption 17 [en]: Why don't you come and see me at the radio station one of these days?

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Sposami - EP 2 - Part 30

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Ugo and Nora get home after a busy day at the skating rink. Nora needs help getting up the stairs and Ugo is there to help her. A moment of harmony. Who knows if they will manage to find something to argue about just the same?

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Caption 25 [it]: Non t'ho detto niente perché ormai era passato,
Caption 25 [en]: I didn't say anything to you because at that point, it was over and done with,

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - 4) Proposizioni subordinate concessive - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Italian has an amazingly long list of conjunctions or locutions that mean "although," "despite," and similar words. Daniela explains what a concession subordinate clause is and gives us several examples.

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Caption 17 [it]: perché è introdotta dalla locuzione [sic: congiunzione] "benché".
Caption 17 [en]: because it's introduced by the conjunction "even though."

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Un Figlio a tutti i costi - film - Part 22

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

On the way home from the party, Anna and Orazio can't help but start arguing again. They each accuse the other of wanting someone else.

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Caption 16 [it]: perché in realtà sei tu a avere dei dubbi su di me?
Caption 16 [en]: because actually, you are the one having doubts about me?

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 22

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The Taviani brothers were adolescents during World War II, and talk about how tense it was growing up with the Germans and fascists so close by. A woman at a bar gives them directions to find one of the locations for filming The Night of the Shooting Stars.

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Caption 18 [it]: Allora io stavo scalzo, perché era [sic: faceva] caldissimo
Caption 18 [en]: So I was barefoot, because it was very hot

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 16

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Domenico keeps telling his story, fast-forwarding a bit, and focuses on when he got a new place to live with his friends helping him, and meeting up with Franca again.

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Caption 21 [it]: E tutto perché l'hanno preso in una particina ne "Il borghese gentiluomo" di Molière.
Caption 21 [en]: And all because they selected him for a small part in Molière's "The Bourgeois Gentleman."

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Provaci ancora prof! - S1E4 - La mia compagna di banco - Part 15

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Gaetano is giving Camilla a bit more attention than she feels comfortable with. At home, Renzo is still cleaning the Man Ray sculpture when Camilla walks in.

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Caption 35 [it]: Si è fatto tardi e... e io me ne torno a casa mia, perché...
Caption 35 [en]: It's gotten late and... and I'm going back home because...

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Un Figlio a tutti i costi - film - Part 21

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Orazio picks up the package at home, where there is a surprise visitor waiting for him. Bottiglia, who is spying on Orazio, assumes the package is another pig's foot, and assumes Orazio is bound for the cemetery again and attempts to follow him.

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Caption 3 [it]: Ma perché, è Capodanno, sovraindende' [napoletano: sovrintendente]?
Caption 3 [en]: But why, is it New Year's Eve, Sergeant?

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 21

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

We learn about the ideas behind the movies, Father and Master and The Night of the Shooting Stars, and how music played a major role in both movies.

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Caption 2 [it]: l'abbiamo fatto perché siamo rimasti suggestionati dal fatto
Caption 2 [en]: we did it because we were influenced by the fact

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 15

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Mimmo is discouraged about getting rejected at the radio station, and Riccardo gives him some criticism. Franca has a different opinion. The students get together to celebrate the end of their two-year program at the Experimental Center.

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Caption 2 [it]: Ma no, ma perché? A me è piaciuto.
Caption 2 [en]: But no, but why? I liked it.

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Provaci ancora prof! - S1E4 - La mia compagna di banco - Part 14

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Virginia admits to Camilla that she hadn't told the entire truth to the police commissioner and asks her for some help. Camilla goes to see Bettina at the gallery, and then to talk to Gaetano. Renzo is home polishing his flea market purchase.

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Caption 33 [it]: Esatto! Ma perché, interessava anche a te?
Caption 33 [en]: Exactly! Because you were interested in it, too?

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La Ladra - EP. 12 - Come ai vecchi tempi - Part 17

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Let's see if Eva manages to get to the boat before it leaves. The girls' latest caper has brought about some changes and decisions for all of them. And of course, the episode has to conclude at the restaurant with the police commissioner.

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Caption 44 [it]: Be', commissario, di noi si può fidare. Perché non ci racconta?
Caption 44 [en]: Well, Commissioner, you can trust us. Why not tell us?

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - 3) Proposizioni subordinate finali - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

There is a certain kind of subordinate clause, called a "clause of purpose," that basically answers the question, "to what end?" Italian has a number of conjunctions that can be translated as "so that," and they take the subjunctive in most cases. So this kind of subordinate clause can be tricky.

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Caption 7 [it]: La subordinata risponde alle domande "perché?",
Caption 7 [en]: The subordinate [clause] answers the questions: "Why?"

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Un Figlio a tutti i costi - film - Part 20

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

At the party, the conversation turns to kids, and having kids. Orazio decides it's a good time to make himself scarce.

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Caption 29 [it]: Bè, cos'ha Orazio? -Perché?
Caption 29 [en]: Well, what's wrong with Orazio? -Why?

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