Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Raffaella Carrà, one of Italian television's most beloved entertainers, and known as the Queen of Italian TV, has died at the age of 78. Here she is in an interview with Fabio Fazio on Rai 3. Her blonde hair was her signature, as you will see when you watch the video. She was a legend. She sang, she danced, she hosted, and she interviewed. For many years, Italian families would watch her talk show Pronto Raffaella (Hello, Raffaella) at the noon hour, when school got out.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Dafne is out dancing, but her parents are there, too. The next morning she has a little argument with her mother.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Ugo calls the divorce lawyer. Nora shows her new potential client some wedding gowns, while discovering some details about the future bride and groom.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Ungaretti mentions 2 poets who attracted him as a youth: Mallarmé and Leopardi. He talks about the famous poem Alla primavera, o delle favole antiche by Leopardi but gets the title wrong. You can see the entire poem (in Italian) here.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
We look at the preposition a combined with different definite articles. This preposizione articolata is used, for example, in talking about the time: alle otto (at eight o'clock); about a manner or style: alla francese (French-style), al dente (not too cooked).
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
When they get to his hometown, there's one person Mimmo doesn't want to see and one person he does want to see. Later on, he talks to Franca about how frustrated he is about his career.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tommaso tells the whole story of what happened that fateful night. As usual, Camilla is way ahead of Gaetano in figuring things out.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Little Lele, all of a sudden, feels ill. Libero, knowing he had been distracted by talking to Fausto, goes into panic mode. Maria keeps her calm and calls the doctor at the health center to find out what to do.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
This crime story is set in the city of Matera in the Basilicata region, where Immacolata (Imma) Tataranni is the deputy prosecutor. She's on vacation at the beach when she finds something odd in the water.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Carolina Raspanti plays Dafne, a 35-year-old who has Down's syndrome and faces life with strength and a positive outlook.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Nora is surprised to discover who Cicci is, and she gets a few more surprises the same day. Ugo is happy with his purchases at the fabric shop, but Nora not so much... Iside has some advice for her.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Ungaretti talks about how he got his start. He frequented a café in Paris, where artists and poets would gather.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
After looking at simple prepositions, Marika talks about a special kind of preposition called una preposizione articolata. It just means that the preposition has a definite article attached to it. In this segment, she covers the ways the preposition di (of) combines with different articles to become a new complex preposition. For example, di + il = del.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
As Mimmo and Franca enjoy the beach and swimming in the clear water, he tells her about his childhood in the town they can see from where they are sitting.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla follows her instincts once again, without letting anyone know where she's going. Fa bene o fa male? (Is she doing the right thing or the wrong thing?) Let's find out.
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