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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Verbi modali

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

Modal verbs in Italian are potere (to be able to) volere (to want to) and dovere (to have to). Daniela explains how they work!

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Caption 9 [it]: Sono chiamati verbi modali perché sono dei verbi che aiutano altri verbi.
Caption 9 [en]: They're called modal verbs because they're verbs that help other verbs.

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L'arte della cucina - La Prima Identitá - Part 8

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Marchesi had plenty of artist friends, and that meant late nights, while having a restaurant meant getting up at the crack of dawn to go to the market. How did he do it?

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Caption 4 [it]: perché a quei tempi gli artisti andavano ad alcool e quindi...
Caption 4 [en]: because in those times, artists were fueled by alcohol, and so...

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Marika spiega - I pronomi diretti

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

Marika gives us an overview on how to use direct object pronouns, which take the place of direct objects when the object has already been referred to. Here's an example of this in English: "Do you know the answer [direct object noun]?" "Yes I know it [direct object pronoun]."

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Caption 1 [it]: Perché mi stai guardando?
Caption 1 [en]: Why are you looking at me?

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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 1 [it]: Perché se tu attacchi con tre soldatini e l'altro si difende con tre,
Caption 1 [en]: Because if you attack with three little soldiers, and the other one defends himself with three,

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L'arte della cucina - L'Epoca delle Piccole Rivoluzioni - Part 13

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Marchesi talks about how important his travels in Europe and in Asia had been in enriching his menu, and confirming the path he was following.

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Caption 4 [it]: Se posso migliorare, perché non farlo?
Caption 4 [en]: If I can improve, why not do so?

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP7 - Sogni di Vetro - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Toscani obtains some precious information, but as usual, he's not so quick on the draw to know how important it is. His wife, Sardi, has gotten handy with the software to crack the cell phone. Lara and Luca will be going to two different and unusual places of entertainment in the evening: Luca to a country music motorcycle joint, and Lara to the circus.

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Caption 7 [it]: Tra l'altro hanno pure buttato i soldi perché avevano il permesso fino a domani.
Caption 7 [en]: Besides which, they even wasted their money because their permit was valid until tomorrow.

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Marika spiega - La forma impersonale

Difficulty: Newbie

Italy

The third person "impersonal" has mostly gone out of fashion in English, but in Italian it's used all the time. Although in English it's common to use "you" or the passive voice, we've used the impersonal "one" here, in order to understand better how it works.

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Caption 16 [it]: perché solitamente in estate fa più caldo
Caption 16 [en]: because usually in the summer it's hotter,

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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 10 [it]: Ca' le pesa nu poco 'a panza [perché gli pesa un po' la pancia]
Caption 10 [en]: Because his belly weighs him down a bit

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Marika spiega - La Parmigiana di melanzane - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

It's time to check the eggplant in the oven. And what about the slices that were a bit too sottili (thin)? Will they have burned? Note that English mostly uses eggplant as a collective noun (in the singular) but Italian, unless referring specifically to a single eggplant, uses the plural le melanzane when referring to eggplant in general, and to the slices themselves.

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Caption 8 [it]: perché ormai sono già passati dieci minuti,
Caption 8 [en]: because by now ten minutes have already passed,

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP7 - Sogni di Vetro - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

There's a meeting to report new information on the case, and Luca asks a very unusual favor of Lara. You won't want to miss the scene.

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Caption 31 [it]: voglio dire se c'è perché non si fa vedere?
Caption 31 [en]: I mean, if she exists, why doesn't she show herself?

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Aggettivi positivi e neutri - Part 3

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

To conclude this three-part lesson on positive and neutral adjectives, Daniela talks about neutral adjectives in the plural.

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Caption 14 [it]: perché è una materia molto difficile.
Caption 14 [en]: because it's a very difficult subject.

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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 12 [it]: Ti guardo e so perché
Caption 12 [en]: I look at you and I know why

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Marika spiega - La Parmigiana di melanzane - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Marika prepares the eggplant slices by baking them in the oven—a much lighter way of preparing the eggplant layers than the traditional frying method.

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Caption 3 [it]: è molto più pesante, perché prevede la frittura delle melanzane.
Caption 3 [en]: is much heavier because it calls for the frying of the eggplants.

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP7 - Sogni di Vetro - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Luca and Lara find Sally at the supermarket and question her. Ginevra explains the results of the autopsy to Luca, but there's still plenty of mystery surrounding this case.

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Caption 4 [it]: Perché mi chiedete questo?
Caption 4 [en]: Why are you asking me this?

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Aggettivi positivi e neutri - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy Neapolitan

Daniela continues explaining how to use adjectives in Italian. This time she focuses on so-called neutral adjectives.

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Caption 14 [it]: Voi potete dire: "Daniela, perché non è granda [sic]?"
Caption 14 [en]: You can say, "Daniela, why isn't it "granda?"

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