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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Il congiuntivo - Part 3

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Daniela homes in on the present subjunctive of the auxiliary verb essere [to be].

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Caption 23 [it]: devo usare il congiuntivo presente. Perché?
Caption 23 [en]: I have to use the present subjunctive. Why?

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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 5 [it]: perché lui non ha guidato mai una macchina.
Caption 5 [en]: because he had never driven a car.

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La Tempesta - film - Part 21

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Paolo clearly cares more about Natoli than his car, Manuela thinks Paolo is like the other bosses, and Natoli is becoming resigned to going back to his country. It's a mess.

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Caption 41 [it]: Perché un'operaia sa che se dipinge dieci ceramiche in più al mese,
Caption 41 [en]: Because a worker knows that if she is painting ten more pieces of pottery a month,

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Il Commissario Manara - S2EP1 - Matrimonio con delitto - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Toscani, Lara, and Luca are working on the case, but Toscani is clearly distracted. Luca tries to get some information from Gabriele's rival.

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Caption 22 [it]: No, no, aspetta, ti spiego, perché Sardi m'ha detto [che]
Caption 22 [en]: No, wait. I'll explain it to to you, because Sardi told me

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Il Commissario Manara - S2EP1 - Matrimonio con delitto - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Ada provides Luca with some welcome company, food, and gossip. Ginevra communicates the cause of death, while Luca and Lara toss around a couple of different possible hypotheses surrounding the motorcyclist.

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Caption 3 [it]: Perché avete preso questa decisione?
Caption 3 [en]: Why did you make this decision?

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Antonella - La mia storia - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Antonella describes her many assignments at the cosmetics company where she worked for twenty-two years, before the company downsized.

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Caption 3 [it]: perché, caratterialmente, non riesco ad andare a chiedere i soldi
Caption 3 [en]: because, by character, I'm not able to go and ask for money

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PsicoVip - La lavatrice - Ep 23

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Minivip gets taken for a plumber and is challenged by a broken washing machine.

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Caption 6 [it]: Perché, tiene un topo sulla Sua scrivania?
Caption 6 [en]: Why, do you keep a mouse on your desk?

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Marika spiega - I verbi venire e andare - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika continues with her lesson on the crucial verbs, andare [to go] and venire [to come], and provides many useful examples.

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Caption 17 [it]: Perché è partito da Roma ed è arrivato qui a Bologna.
Caption 17 [en]: Because it left from Rome and it arrived here in Bologna.

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Villa Medici - L'arca della bellezza - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

A tour of Villa Medici's reception and private rooms. Ferdinando de' Medici hired the architect and sculptor Bartolomeo Ammannati to expand the villa, as well as other renowned Florentines artists to create fresco cycles exalting his life. We catch a glimpse of his frescoed south-facing apartment, which would have been used in the colder months, while the north-side suite was for warmer periods.

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Caption 14 [it]: perché Ferdinando non divenne papa, come desiderava,
Caption 14 [en]: because Ferdinando did not become the pope, as he had wished,

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Provaci ancora prof! - S1E1 - Il regalo di Babbo Natale - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The centerpiece of this segment is dinner. Pasta. In Italian, spaghetti is the plural of spaghetto (a strand of spaghetti), and Italians like their pasta al dente which literally means "to the tooth." In other words, it should be cooked just enough to be bitten, therefore firm, not hard, but by all means not soft.

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Caption 6 [it]: Non viene. -Perché?
Caption 6 [en]: She's not coming. -Why not?

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 14

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

A Palermo doctor discusses the Integration of immigrants in Sicily and highlights the successes in healthcare. Medical assistance is provided for all immigrants, whether lawful or not.

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Caption 11 [it]: In sanità siamo riusciti a favorire l'integrazione, perché [la] sanità è un bel mezzo,
Caption 11 [en]: We've succeeded in promoting integration in healthcare, because health is a good means,

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Antonella - La mia storia - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Antonella talks about her work history, at first in the family business, and later for an American corporation in the cosmetics industry.

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Caption 31 [it]: E in questi dieci anni, però, la mia curiosità, perché sono peggio di una scimmia,
Caption 31 [en]: And in these ten years, however, my curiosity, because I'm worse than a monkey,

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PsicoVip - Il topo - Ep 22

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Minivip is called in by a lady in distress over a mouse. He also masters the doctor's line on eighty euros.

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Caption 32 [it]: Pe', perché non va Lei?
Caption 32 [en]: Wh'... why... why don't you go?

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 13

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

A Palermo doctor is interviewed about his practice and the African and Southeast Asian immigrant patients that he treats.

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Caption 9 [it]: Perché? -Perché non trova [sic: trovo].
Caption 9 [en]: Why? -Because I can't find.

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Francesco Gabbani - Tra Le Granite E Le Granate

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

There are too many plays on words in this song to describe here, but one stands out in particular: e state (and you stay) and estate (summer). The song pokes fun at Italians on vacation, all the while being very Italian itself. Yabla Italian wishes you a great summer. Buona estate!

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Caption 39 [it]: Perché al ritorno sembri nuova
Caption 39 [en]: So that upon our return, it will be just like new

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