Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Sicilian
Cettina and Alex show us how they decorate their Christmas tree.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Sicilian
Cettina shows us how to make a very basic nativity scene.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Sicilian
Spring is here and Cettina is enjoying the outdoors. Flowers are starting to bloom, trees are getting leaves, and the sunshine is warm enough to go without a jacket.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
There are plenty of Italians living in Germany. Cettina from Sicily interviews Alfonso, also from Sicily, as it turns out. Here are some easy questions and answers for when you meet someone for the first time.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Here they are, acclaimed by both the public and jury at the 2011 Videofestival Live. The Champions win the first prize! With their artistic producer Marco Forni and their label Live Records and PA 74 Music they will participate in the selection session for Sanremo giovani 2012.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Champions is a young band from Ascoli. This group has been chosen to participate in the Festival di Sanremo in 2012.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Monica Bellucci, the beloved Italian actor, is Fabio Fazio's guest on the talk show Che tempo che fa. Fazio's questions focus on Bellucci's aspirations from her childhood forward.
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
In this part of the interview, Raffaella Carrà tells about how her grandmother helped her become the queen of Italian television.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Raffaella tells some anecdotes about some big stars she had encountered during her career. She also gives us some details about a famous "telephone number" song, and the famous dance number, "Tuca tuca" that created a bit of scandal in the early seventies.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Fabio Fazio gives Raffaella Carrà a great sendoff, replete with majorettes and a legendary marching band from a Milan district.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A new comedy from RAI television. What you need to know about the title Chi m'a visto (Who has seen me/who saw me) is that it makes every Italian think of the TV show Chi l'ha visto (who has seen him/her) about finding missing persons. Is there a connection?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Martino (guitarist for the famous Italian singer Lorenzo Jovanotti) is having a rough time making his way in the pop music world and coming out of the shadows. Playing well isn't enough, and he isn't getting any help from the lighting crew or his own manager.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Martino was left at the train station, but he has to take the bus back to his hometown where he meets up with his friend. A song about wandering plays as he travels: "Vagabondo", sung by Nicola di Bari.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
At the bar, Martino sees some old townsmen who tease him and tell him he should get a real job. One of the old guys mentions Fred Bongusto, an Italian singer known for a song "A Rotunda on the Sea". Martino and Peppino go off in a three-wheeled Ape (bee), a light commercial vehicle common all over Italy. Peppino cites Roberto Bolle, a famous Italian dancer, and Men and Women, a TV show for dating.
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