Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
At the office, Orazio gets a visit from the police commissioner who gives him a rough time and leaves Orazio more confused than ever.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The Taviani brothers reveal some tricks used during the filming of The Night of San Lorenzo and tell us how they managed to combine a particular sequence of the film with the cornerstone of Greek literature, The Iliad.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Domenico isn't very adept at keeping his emotions, including jealousy, in check, and at the dinner party, he allows them to get the better of him. But there are all kinds of people at that party, and they aren't all against him.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Ugo and Nora get home after a busy day at the skating rink. Nora needs help getting up the stairs and Ugo is there to help her. A moment of harmony. Who knows if they will manage to find something to argue about just the same?
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Poor Renzo. He was so happy to have bought a piece of artwork at a bargain and now he might have to give it back. At school, the principal comes into the classroom, so Alina's little secret is at risk.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Italian has an amazingly long list of conjunctions or locutions that mean "although," "despite," and similar words. Daniela explains what a concession subordinate clause is and gives us several examples.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
On the way home from the party, Anna and Orazio can't help but start arguing again. They each accuse the other of wanting someone else.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The Taviani brothers were adolescents during World War II, and talk about how tense it was growing up with the Germans and fascists so close by. A woman at a bar gives them directions to find one of the locations for filming The Night of the Shooting Stars.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Domenico keeps telling his story, fast-forwarding a bit, and focuses on when he got a new place to live with his friends helping him, and meeting up with Franca again.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Danilo and Cecilia give a stunning performance during the wedding ceremony, and it doesn't go unnoticed by John Gregorian, who is present. Melody is enthusiastic about the dress Dino designed for the bride, but Iside whisks him away...
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Gaetano is giving Camilla a bit more attention than she feels comfortable with. At home, Renzo is still cleaning the Man Ray sculpture when Camilla walks in.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Don't be scared off by fancy names of clauses and parts of speech. Daniela is just showing us different ways of saying the same thing, but sometimes one way is clearer than the other, especially when the subject changes from main to subordinate clause.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
We all know how to add and subtract, but talking about it in Italian is another thing. Marika helps us make sense of it and talks about the fractions and percentages we often find in the news and surveys.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Orazio picks up the package at home, where there is a surprise visitor waiting for him. Bottiglia, who is spying on Orazio, assumes the package is another pig's foot, and assumes Orazio is bound for the cemetery again and attempts to follow him.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
We learn about the ideas behind the movies, Father and Master and The Night of the Shooting Stars, and how music played a major role in both movies.
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