Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Confindustria is the main trade association for Italy's manufacturing and service sectors. This inspirational video was produced for its annual meeting, and Italian luminaries from Marco Polo to Renzo Piano are invoked to tell the story of Italian innovation.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla's husband and daughter watch the video recording of the missed game on TV while Camilla decides what to do the next day (with the help of her dog), and enlists her husband's help.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We can see that the battle against using "Lei," the common, formal, second-person form of address, was taken very seriously by the fascists. In fact they went too far when it came to a popular women's magazine called "Lei" (she, her).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tamara, with Tania's help, continues with the decoration of a gift bag. The glue and glitter technique can also be used on handbags or t-shirts.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla goes to the police station to identify the two thugs who had attacked her, and who sold the drugs to Marta. She also confronts Marta who has been brought in for questioning, and who is wondering who on earth Camilla is, and what she wants from her.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Mussolini continues to get rid of any traces of foreign words, and even mounts an exhibit against the use of the common formal second person singular address "Lei" (you) in favor of "Voi." See this lesson about "Voi" to get some background.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla is taking risks to figure out who killed Nicola. But Commissioner Berardi shows up in time to whisk her away. He's none too happy about her interfering, but in the end, she gives him a hand by identifying some suspects.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna has been made the head of a new marketing team. Too bad the woman reporting to her let things go sideways.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tamara shows us how to use a simple stencil to turn a plain paper bag into a gift package.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla gets her husband to help with the case by invoking her dead father and concocting a story about playing Lotto.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A great deal of effort went into purging foreign words from the Italian language under the fascist regime. Newspapers, magazines, and book publishers were at the forefront of the effort and were tasked with finding Italian replacements for foreign words and expressions. Many fascist-era terms have fallen by the wayside, but some succeeded and are still in use today. As an example, the word manifesto [poster] was successfully introduced to replace the French term affiche.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Commissioner Berardi shows up at the gallery opening, and Camilla exchanges a few words with him. This doesn't go unnoticed by the gallery owner, who is very curious. Meanwhile, Camilla's husband has a bizarre conversation with the artist.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna starts work at Phones and More. Her first task is to call a list of publications to find out about ad space. When she gives her email address, she uses the word chiocciola [snail] for the @ sign. Koreans also say "snail shell" when they see an @ sign, while the Dutch see a monkey's tail, and the Norwegians see a pig's tail.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This evening Camilla's mother will take care of Livia, who is complaining about the dog again. Camilla and her husband go to the opening of an art gallery, where they have a hard time finding the appropriate words when meeting the artist.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marika wraps up her lessons on combined pronouns in which ci acts as a stand in for places.
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