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Marika spiega - I cinque sensi - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

The five senses. We know what they are in English, but let's learn them in Italian. First, though, Marika will talk about the noun senso (sense), itself, which has some meanings beyond its cognate "sense."

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Caption 66 [it]: Spero tanto che questa lezione ti sia servita
Caption 66 [en]: I really hope that this lesson was useful to you

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - 4) Proposizioni subordinate concessive - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Daniela explains further about constructing explicit subordinate clauses and gives some examples to clarify.

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Caption 30 [it]: "Per bravo che tu sia,
Caption 30 [en]: "As skillful as you are,

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 18

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Pugliese

Domenico gets a big chance to sing for a celebrity, but it doesn't go the way he imagines. Palmieri keeps coming up with ideas for him, however.

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Caption 65 [it]: È un peccato che sia arrivato in ritardo all'aeroporto,
Caption 65 [en]: It's a shame that you got to the airport late,

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Pubblicità - Gli extraterrestri

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Study a foreign language with Yabla.

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Caption 10 [it]: per imparare una nuova lingua, ovunque tu sia.
Caption 10 [en]: for learning a new language, wherever you are.

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 23

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The Taviani brothers reveal some tricks used during the filming of The Night of San Lorenzo and tell us how they managed to combine a particular sequence of the film with the cornerstone of Greek literature, The Iliad.

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Caption 2 [it]: Allora sia', si, tornano a un, un regista...
Caption 2 [en]: So we, we, they go back to a, a director...

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Sposami - EP 2 - Part 30

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Ugo and Nora get home after a busy day at the skating rink. Nora needs help getting up the stairs and Ugo is there to help her. A moment of harmony. Who knows if they will manage to find something to argue about just the same?

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Caption 34 [it]: che non ci sia più motivo di dirlo... -Me l'hai detto comunque a scoppio ritardato,
Caption 34 [en]: that there is no longer a reason to say it... -You, however, told me after the fact,

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - 4) Proposizioni subordinate concessive - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Italian has an amazingly long list of conjunctions or locutions that mean "although," "despite," and similar words. Daniela explains what a concession subordinate clause is and gives us several examples.

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Caption 13 [it]: "Benché sia maggio,
Caption 13 [en]: "Even though it's May,

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Un Figlio a tutti i costi - film - Part 22

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

On the way home from the party, Anna and Orazio can't help but start arguing again. They each accuse the other of wanting someone else.

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Caption 66 [it]: E guera [romanesco: guerra] sia!
Caption 66 [en]: And war it is!

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - 3) Proposizioni subordinate finali - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Don't be scared off by fancy names of clauses and parts of speech. Daniela is just showing us different ways of saying the same thing, but sometimes one way is clearer than the other, especially when the subject changes from main to subordinate clause.

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Caption 42 [it]: collocate sia prima che dopo la proposizione principale o reggente.
Caption 42 [en]: placed either before or after the principal or main clause.

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Provaci ancora prof! - S1E4 - La mia compagna di banco - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Gaetano and Camilla continue to look at the photos he took at the funeral. They discuss motives. At school, Camilla has a conversation with Alina's father about the baby.

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Caption 31 [it]: Io spero che non è [sic: sia] stato
Caption 31 [en]: I hope it wasn't

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - 2) Proposizioni subordinate causali - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Daniela talks about explicit and implicit causal subordinate clauses.

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Caption 5 [it]: non perché non ne sia capace,
Caption 5 [en]: not because he is incapable of it,

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 19

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Music plays an essential role in the films of the Taviani brothers. It's like having another actor. Composer Nicola Piovani knows something about this having worked with them on some of their movies. He also composed the soundtrack for the movie La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful) with Roberto Benigni.

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Caption 35 [it]: 'sto [sic: questo] racconto che colore ha, non so che cosa sia.
Caption 35 [en]: what the color of this story is, I don't know what it is.

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Provaci ancora prof! - S1E4 - La mia compagna di banco - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The family goes to the flea market. Camilla mentions the case, but Renzo isn't interested. Later she talks about motives with Gaetano.

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Caption 69 [it]: Be', ma questo non credo che sia stato un problema per lui,
Caption 69 [en]: Well, but I don't think that would have been a problem for him,

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Corso di italiano con Daniela - 1) Proposizioni subordinate temporali

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Another kind of subordinate clause is the temporal subordinate. One way we introduce it is with conjunctions having to do with time, such as "while," "when," and "as long as." There are other ways to form a temporal subordinate clause, and Daniela explains them.

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Caption 16 [it]: La proposizione può essere sia esplicita che implicita.
Caption 16 [en]: The clause can be either explicit or implicit.

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 17

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The Taviani brothers, at around eighty years of age, feel like they have gone back to their more reckless early days, with Caesar Must Die.

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Caption 4 [it]: sia per dare forza, insomma, a quello che, che, che accade,
Caption 4 [en]: both to give strength, basically, to what, what, what is happening,

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