Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna has a meeting with her boss, Luca, to talk about the increase in printing costs and Marika's role in the issue.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The police are armed, in position, and ready to move. Their mark shows up, and the money is on the table. Then things get dicey.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
A song about cats that helps Italian school children remember that 6 x 7 = 42.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
This beautiful church is worth a stop on the way from Pisa to the seaside. Arianna shares her discovery of it. The ceramic bowls that decorate the church are technically known as “bacini ceramici” in Italian, which could be translated as “ceramic basins.” Art historians who write in English, however, also use the term “bacini” for these tin-glazed works.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Francescopaolo and Matteo have reached the part of the game known as the “duel.” They go head-to-head on an array of topics, including a cartoon series and Dante's favorite thing to eat.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Eva finds some interesting items in a drawer, which allows for a mother-to-son talk. Lola is not a willing partner in the escapade, owing to her problems with Ciccio.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Everyone is a bit tense for one reason or another. Marta and Luca discuss Miss Vasto, Sardi is having a rough time in her last days of pregnancy, and consequently so is Toscani. But the team is ready to move in on a suspect.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
St. Luke, Giulia Farnese, Leonardo Di Caprio, and Lionel Messi are among the subjects touched on in this segment.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Eva and Dante have an interesting conversation in the kitchen. He even makes a reference to the other, more famous Dante. Eva then meets with her friends to further plan the hit.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marika's goof-up and an increase in printing costs make Arianna's job all the harder. Fortunately, she and Adriano may be able to work something out.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
There's lots going on at police headquarters. Even Caterina shows up at just the right moment.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
This post-WWII song tells of a romance between a duckling and a poppy. It is a children's ditty with lots of word play but also has political undertones.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Arianna shows us around the Cathedral Square, where the bell tower, better known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa, is located.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Caterina, Francescopaolo, and Matteo are at the “bivio” [fork in the road] stage of the game and have a fifty-fifty chance of selecting the right answer. What makes it fun but hard is that many words have double or triple meanings.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Eva discovers, in person, how the medium's seances work. Lorenzo's surprise is not what he expected, and Eva gets a nice surprise, too.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
The big question is: Why did Mineo spend so much money on deep diving equipment he couldn't afford?
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Today's big question revolves around TV personalities and how they got their start in the business. Caterina gets the jolt, like a gong, on that line of questioning. Later, Ilaria draws a blank on Giacomo Leopardi's poem, “The Lonely Sparrow.”
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Eva and Gina go to see the medium to check out the situation. In the meantime, Lorenzo gets his "new" motor scooter and another nice surprise.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela explains three situations in which the remote past may be used and gives us examples of each situation. But don't worry, this tense is not mandatory and Daniela suggests the passato prossimo (present perfect) as a valid alternative. Note: The passato prossimo is constructed like the English present perfect tense (with a helping verb and past participle), but is used more like the English past simple.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Laura Pausini, in concert, sings a song about the wrenching difficulties of a long-distance relationship. The music and lyrics were written by Biagio Antonacci.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Thanks to Rosmini, Manara gets rid of his symptoms, but not the problem itself. Toscani is under a lot of pressure from his very pregnant wife.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Anna and Marika are hard at work with their mortar and pestle, making some delicious pesto. As they work, they give us some extra information about their new tool.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The contestants are having major problems with historical chronology, and Carlo Conti is frankly a bit shocked.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
After meeting up with Samantha, the girls are determined to help in the best way they know how. While discussing things, they get a surprise visit from the Commissioner.
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