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Anna presenta - Attrezzature per un neonato

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Anna, and her very charming baby, show us an Italian modular transport system and some fun developmental toys.

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Caption 4 [it]: Si chiama palestrina proprio perché è una piccola palestra,
Caption 4 [en]: It's called a little gym, actually, because it's a little gym,

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MinaCelentano - Ad Un Passo da Te

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

"One Step Away from Me" was written by Fabio Ilacqua and arranged by Adriano Celentano and Celso Valli. Celentano and Mina sing about two lovers trapped between reason and emotion.

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Caption 6 [it]: Ma perché il cuore è poco intelligente
Caption 6 [en]: But why is the heart so unintelligent

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

This segment focuses on an actor who retells and acts out stories from Sicily's past, speaking in Sicilian dialect. He uses the Pitrè Museum as a source for material. The museum houses a manuscript with over 4,000 Sicilian proverbs, just one of the many volumes of Sicilian ethnographic material.

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Caption 9 [it]: è diventato un po' da nicchia, il "cunto" [sic: racconto], perché,
Caption 9 [en]: the story's become a bit of a niche thing, because

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Il condizionale - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Daniela works on present conditional tense verbs that end in are. She uses the verbs parlare [to speak] and mangiare [to eat] as examples in this form that best translates to would in English.

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Caption 14 [it]: Attenzione, perché con una "m" è futuro, non è condizionale.
Caption 14 [en]: Careful, because with one "m" it's the future, it isn't the conditional.

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I Love Roma - guida della città - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The segment shows us some interiors in Coppedè's dream-inspired complex.

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Caption 14 [it]: perché non portare il sogno nelle stanze della vita quotidiana?
Caption 14 [en]: why not bring the dream into the rooms of daily life?

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PsicoVip - I Visitatori - Ep 14

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Psicovip dreams of aliens from a planet called Pallara, where they have a thing for shoes. You could call it a fetish.

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Caption 55 [it]: Perché non ci ha detto subito che Lei segue solo esseri inutili?
Caption 55 [en]: Why didn't you tell us immediately that you treat only useless beings?

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La Tempesta - film - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Natoli starts listening to Paolo, but there is room for interpretation... Paolo hears some important news.

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Caption 13 [it]: O no? -Non è stata una rissa, perché li ha pestati con freddezza e di proposito.
Caption 13 [en]: Or not? -It wasn't a fight. He pounded them cold-heartedly and on purpose.

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP11 - Beato tra le donne - Part 12

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

This episode has been full of equivoci (misunderstandings, mix-ups), and this final segment is no exception. But we haven't seen the last of Manara!

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Caption 3 [it]: Zia, ti prego, eh! È meglio che non ci penso perché altrimenti...
Caption 3 [en]: Aunt, please, huh? It's better that I don't think about it because otherwise...

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Pitrè's life was marked by a sort of travelling storyteller tradition in his family. In those days, a cuntastorie (storyteller) would go around to all the piazzas and tell stories, and people would pay to hear them.

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Caption 26 [it]: perché... e non solo dell'occidente, per la verità anche dell'Asia,
Caption 26 [en]: because... and not only in the West, actually from Asia, too,

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PsicoVip - I Minivips - Ep 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Minivip is back on the couch, recounting an inadequacy dream to the shrink. He gets his portrait painted, the offer of a taste of a plastic banana, and an introduction to the shrink's brothers. All for €80.

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Caption 27 [it]: Nessuno ti prende in giro perché sei basso o imbranato.
Caption 27 [en]: No one makes fun of you because you're short or clumsy.

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La Tempesta - film - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Paolo finally gets to see the inside of the family business. It's tough for him to play at being the boss.

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Caption 41 [it]: Ah, perché l'ha progettato Lei?
Caption 41 [en]: Ah, because you designed it?

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP11 - Beato tra le donne - Part 10

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Some hidden truths are coming out in various sectors.

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Caption 10 [it]: Ma perché non me lo hai detto prima?
Caption 10 [en]: But why didn't you tell me that earlier?

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

In this segment, we see some swordfish harpoon fishing, and hear an old Sicilian legend about a boy named Nicola who could stay underwater for a very long time.

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Caption 37 [it]: Perché una volta, quando si inseguiva a remi questo pesce spada,
Caption 37 [en]: Because at one time, when they would chase these swordfish rowing,

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Stare + per + infinito

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Daniela's lessons involves the often paired words, sta per, followed by a verb in the infinitive, as in "it's about to rain."

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Caption 9 [it]: Perché se uso l'indicativo, per esempio, eh... "piove",
Caption 9 [en]: Because if I use the indicative [present simple], for example, uh... "piove" [it's raining],

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Anna presenta - Il mio parto

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Anna describes her delivery, from the first contractions to that magic moment when nothing else matters.

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Caption 14 [it]: perché avevo una pancia gigante e c'erano quaranta gradi,
Caption 14 [en]: because I had a gigantic belly and it was forty degrees [Celsius],

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