Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Anna has made the decision to call in a "professional" to help her have a child. Orazio isn't thrilled.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
If you don't check your meters and tell the electric and gas companies how much you have consumed, they make an estimate. Sometimes this means you get a nasty surprise at the end of the year, when they work things out, and figure out how much you owe in order to square accounts. This is called il conguaglio.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The dinner party is going nicely, and everyone is enjoying the very special fried sage. Max and Eva are concentrated on the job at hand, for the most part.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Renzo is pretty mad at Camilla and says so. But somehow, Livietta is OK with that.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Nora and Ugo talk to Aunt Clo via Skype. Nora tries to convince Cecilia to make up with Danilo.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Domenico begins recounting his second (and best) year at the Experimental Center in Rome. One reason it was his best year is that he met a very special person.
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Orazio is not happy about the presence of Nettuno Tritone. In contrast, Anna is thrilled and charmed, hanging on Tritone's every word. The police are watching from across the street, but not seeing much action.
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
After removing Adelaide's diamond from her neck, Eva and Max say goodbye. Who is going to get the better of the other?
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Breakfast time for Renzo and Camilla. How long will Renzo stay mad at Camilla?
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Ugo tries to be helpful to Nora but she isn't having any of it. Perhaps she goes too far. Later, at the office, Nora has a hard time trying to manage things.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Domenico happens to get a glimpse of Vittorio De Sica himself and chases him down to ask him for a part.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
Marika talks about going to the movies in Italy. Don't worry. Italians like popcorn, too.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Nanni Moretti tells about how he got to see Caesar Must Die before it was released. The composer, Giuliano Taviani talks about how he became interested in writing music for film, and how budget limits actually inspired him in writing the music for this movie.
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