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La Tempesta - film - Part 17

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Paolo is surrounded by challenges: Manuela's family, to start with, and then the difficult decisions to make regarding the future of the factory.

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Caption 7 [it]: Be', ma... perché parlare di morte in un giorno così lieto?
Caption 7 [en]: Well... but why talk about death on such a joyous day?

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP12 - Le verità nascoste - Part 13

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

A beach party concludes this episode, and season. Love is in the air!

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Caption 4 [it]: perché non ce ne andiamo in un posto carino tu e io stasera?
Caption 4 [en]: "Why don't we go, just the two of us, to a nice place this evening?"

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Umberto Eco - Proust e l'identità europea

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

What does it mean to be a European? Is the variety of languages in Europe an obstacle to actual unification? Umberto Eco explores these questions and offers some interesting insight.

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Caption 43 [it]: Forse, forse perché è stato detto numerose volte,
Caption 43 [en]: Perhaps, perhaps because it has been said numerous times,

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Professioni e mestieri - Rivenditore per parrucchieri - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Yabla takes us to a shop specialized in beauty products. There's plenty of new vocabulary here!

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Caption 8 [it]: con enorme piacere, perché comunque è familiare.
Caption 8 [en]: with great pleasure because in any case, it belongs to the family.

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Marika spiega - I verbi intransitivi

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika's lesson is on intransitive verb and how to recognize them. She has some interesting things to say on southern Italian speech and the influence of Spanish.

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Caption 31 [it]: perché è un verbo intransitivo.
Caption 31 [en]: because it is an intransitive verb.

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP12 - Le verità nascoste - Part 12

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Emotions are running high in this segment and we're hoping that Lara gets found, and that she's alive.

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Caption 25 [it]: E perché mai?
Caption 25 [en]: And why ever?

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Provaci ancora prof! - S1E1 - Il regalo di Babbo Natale - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

At police headquarters things are nice and quiet. But not for long! The officers meet up with Camilla and Sammy at the apartment.

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Caption 18 [it]: Scusi, perché insiste?
Caption 18 [en]: Excuse me, why keep it up?

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Il condizionale - Part 7

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Daniela continues with the conditional, showing how it's used to express a desire, provide advice, or express possibility.

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Caption 34 [it]: Uso il condizionale, perché se uso il presente
Caption 34 [en]: I use the conditional because if I use the present,

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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 6 [it]: perché non sopporto di calpestare le righe.
Caption 6 [en]: because I can't stand walking on lines (cracks?).

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I Love Roma - guida della città - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Rome's many bridges are the focus of this video, including the Ponte Rotto, which dates back to ancient Rome. Only part of the Ponte Rotto is still standing and this is why it is called rotto or broken. Rivers are masculine in Italian, and ancient Roman statues portray River Gods as recumbent elderly men with long beards.

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Caption 43 [it]: così ribattezzato perché nasce proprio al Sud del vero ponte Sublicio romano.
Caption 43 [en]: so renamed because its source is to the south of the true Roman Ponte Sublicio.

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La Tempesta - film - Part 16

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Manuela and Paolo are trying to get ready for getting approval for adoption from Social Services. They get to know each other better in the process, and Natoli shows his true colors, too.

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Caption 18 [it]: No, e perché? Il sesso è come lo stretching:
Caption 18 [en]: No, and why? Sex is like stretching.

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Marika spiega - I verbi transitivi

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Marika's lesson is on transitive verbs, or verbs that take direct objects, known as complemento oggetto in Italian.

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Caption 5 [it]: perché ci aiuta ad esprimerci in maniera corretta
Caption 5 [en]: because it helps us express ourselves in the correct way

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP12 - Le verità nascoste - Part 10

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

We get a taste of what life is like at police headquarters without Luca. We also see that Lara learned some bad habits from Luca, going off on her own on a hunch.

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Caption 13 [it]: Perché è questo che volevi fare, no?
Caption 13 [en]: Because that's what you wanted to do, right?

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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 14 [it]: E allora perché tutti i miei compagni si sono messi a ridere?
Caption 14 [en]: And so why did all my classmates start laughing?

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Giuseppe Pitrè received his degree in medicine in 1865. His patients, among Palermo's poorest, provided him with a wealth of ethnographic material.

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Caption 7 [it]: perché non tutti si [sono] disposti a scendere nei bassifondi della società.
Caption 7 [en]: because not everyone was willing to descend into the slums of society.

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