Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The tour draws to a close in Rome's rougher neighborhoods, those that were particularly fascinating to poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Yabla takes us to a shop specialized in beauty products. There's plenty of new vocabulary here!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
What does it mean to be a European? Is the variety of languages in Europe an obstacle to actual unification? Umberto Eco explores these questions and offers some interesting insight.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The Abruzzo Region, sometimes known as the Abruzzi with an i in older publications, is the area of interest for this six-segment video. This segment concentrates on the Piccolomini Castle in Marsica.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
At police headquarters things are nice and quiet. But not for long! The officers meet up with Camilla and Sammy at the apartment.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Rome's many bridges are the focus of this video, including the Ponte Rotto, which dates back to ancient Rome. Only part of the Ponte Rotto is still standing and this is why it is called rotto or broken. Rivers are masculine in Italian, and ancient Roman statues portray River Gods as recumbent elderly men with long beards.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Manuela and Paolo are trying to get ready for getting approval for adoption from Social Services. They get to know each other better in the process, and Natoli shows his true colors, too.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip tells his doctor of getting stuck in an elevator, a fear many of us share. It is surprising that Italy, about the size of Arizona, has as many elevators as the US.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla's normal family dinner with her husband and daughter gets interrupted by an unexpected guest.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We visit the cemetery where the English poets are buried, and learn about the relationship between the Tiber River and the city of Rome.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Paolo is feeling helpless and discouraged about everything, but Manuela won't give up as easily.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Minivip gets real close to saving a circus lady but is hindered by trained circus fleas.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla has become a heroine with her students, and she uses the moment to show her students how well she knows them. It does backfire a bit...
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The narrator reads some moving passages from the letters of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Giacomo Leopardi, the Italian poet and near contemporary to Keats and Shelley, also lived in Piazza di Spagna.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
All at once, Paolo has a whole lot on his plate. If he thought he already had problems, the worst is yet to come.
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