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Francesca - Cavalli - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

While Francesca is getting ready to lead Stella to the round pen, we find out why horses don't like being looked at. We also discover that the horses at this stable go shoeless and without bits. And yes, Francesca does finally get on the horse!

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Caption 35 [it]: sia il bitless, che è una testiera senza imboccatura,
Caption 35 [en]: both the bitless, which is a bridle with no bit,

Warmup Workout

Linea Blu - Le Eolie - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

A guided exploration of seabed flora and fauna that live, against all odds, in a volcanic environment.

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Caption 1 [it]: Sia le ceneri che i lapilli piovvero dal cielo, oppure,
Caption 1 [en]: Both the ashes and the lava rained down from the sky, or rather,

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Anna e Marika - in La Gazza Ladra - Part 2

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Ninetta is in prison, condemned to death, and things are looking very bleak, indeed. Don't worry though; in the end, love and justice win out, and everyone except the magistrate lives happily ever after.

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Caption 31 [it]: Sembra che non ci sia più via d'uscita.
Caption 31 [en]: It looks like there won't be any way out.

Warmup Workout

Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 7

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Fellini is at Cannes for the festival and screening of La Dolce Vita. He tells of his ironic encounters with unusual characters, who complain about the oddity of Fellini's movie characters.

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Caption 36 [it]: non credo che la vita sia così".
Caption 36 [en]: I don't think life is like that."

Warmup Workout

Anna e Marika - Il verbo essere - Part 4

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Anna and Marika take us through the imperative, the subjunctive and the gerund forms of the verb, essere (to be). The subjunctive is used less and less in modern English, so it can be tricky to learn in Italian, but little by little even these forms will become part of your Italian language skills.

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Caption 7 [it]: Se è questo che vuoi, così sia.
Caption 7 [en]: If that is what you want, may it be so.

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Un medico in famiglia Stagione 1 - EP1 - Casa nuova - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Lele rearranges his schedule to go home and have lunch with his kids, but they're with the in-laws. Instead, he meets his new next door neighbor.

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Caption 33 [it]: Intanto questa baracca ha un responsabile e si dà il caso che sia io.
Caption 33 [en]: In any case this shack has a person in charge and it happens to be me.

Warmup Workout

Marika spiega - Pettegolezzi in ufficio con Anna

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Office gossip, the Italian way. Marika and Anna dish about the boss, the boss's nephew, the boss's nephew with the wife of the old boss, a temp--all while pretending to work.

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Caption 24 [it]: Eh, e, e pare che sia stato licenziato dal capo precedente,
Caption 24 [en]: Yeah, and, and they say that he was fired by the previous boss,

Warmup Workout

Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 6

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Federico Fellini discusses Marcello Mastroianni's role as "everyman" in La Dolce Vita. He encourages viewers to see Mastroianni's "passions, hopes, fears and cowardice, and anguish and sleaziness" as similar to their own.

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Caption 17 [it]: Io non credo affatto che sia un film terrificante.
Caption 17 [en]: By no means do I think that it's a terrifying film.

Warmup Workout

Il Commissario Manara - S1EP2 - Vendemmia tardiva - Part 10

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

While they're huddled together in the meat truck, Commissioner Manara tries to wheedle out of Lara the reason she's still angry at him from police academy days.

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Caption 52 [it]: Ma è chiaro, quello ha ucciso sia il barbone che il Conte.
Caption 52 [en]: But it's clear, that one killed both the hobo and the Count.

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Un medico in famiglia Stagione 1 - EP1 - Casa nuova - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Grandpa, Lele and his three kids arrive at their new house. Everyone is excited about it--everyone, that is, except Maria who would have preferred to have stayed in Rome near her friends.

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Caption 25 [it]: Beh, altro che casa mia per piccina che tu sia, bella grande!
Caption 25 [en]: Well, anything but "be it ever so humble, there's no place like home," nice and big!

Warmup Workout

Adriano - Jive

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Adriano and his girlfriend Vladi demonstrate Jive dancing, a dance that in Italy goes by the name "Boogie Woogie".

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Caption 36 [it]: Spero che questa video [sic] vi sia piaciuto,
Caption 36 [en]: I hope you liked this video,

Warmup Workout

Il Commissario Manara - S1EP2 - Vendemmia tardiva - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Ferocious bull terriers force Manara and Rubino into a refrigerated meat truck.

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Caption 60 [it]: Speriamo la prossima consegna di questo disgraziato sia qui vicino.
Caption 60 [en]: Let's hope the poor bastard's next delivery is near here.

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Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 5

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Fellini tells how La Dolce Vita scenes were filmed both on the Via Veneto and on a set reconstructing the famous street in Cinecittà. The director also discusses his being a Capricorn.

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Caption 6 [it]: sia romano che quello cosmopolita che si dona, appunto,
Caption 6 [en]: be it Roman or cosmopolitan, that offers itself,

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Il Commissario Manara - S1EP2 - Vendemmia tardiva - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

"We have a missing Count, a cellar full of blood, a mysterious Frenchman..." is how Commissioner Manara sums up the investigation to this point.

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Caption 42 [it]: Infatti manca la targa, sia davanti che dietro.
Caption 42 [en]: In fact, the license plate is missing, both in front and in back.

Warmup Workout

Francesca - sulla spiaggia - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

It's a late September day and Francesca takes advantage of the sun and warm temperatures to spend a day on the beach near Rome.

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Caption 3 [it]: Nonostante non sia ancora estate piena, anzi, direi proprio che l'estate sta finendo.
Caption 3 [en]: Although it isn't still mid summer, indeed, I'd really say that summer is ending.

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