Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Arianna takes us around Florence. In this part, we walk from the main train station to the famous San Lorenzo market, where it's time to find some lunch.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Anna and Marika form the Calabrian ricotta balls and cook them in tomato sauce. The ricotta balls can also be fried and served without sauce.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Eva is pretty mad at Dante for being late. He comes bearing gifts, however. Eva's son also has a gift for his girlfriend.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Toscani has some news about who was on the jury. All the contestants in the Miss Maremma contest come to police headquarters for questioning.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
All the ingredients are ready, and Anna and Marika go to work, making the ricotta ball mixture. They share with us a common saying about prezzemolo (parsley).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Eva talks to her girlfriends about what she witnessed, and in the meantime, Dante has an unpleasant encounter in front of the restaurant. Ferruccio just happens to be sweeping up there.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela discusses how the imperfect is used to describe actions in the past that are happening contemporaneously.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
There's one contestant left, but the questions keep on coming.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The narrator goes over the vanishingly small number of expressions coined during Mussolini's time that are still in use today. The song that gives the series its name is provided in full.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
This new episode takes place in the world of beauty contests. Manara seems slightly distracted in both his dreamworld and the real world.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
How much is too much? Marika explains about quantity, and shares some common idioms about quantity and degree that can come in very handy.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Anna and Marika provide the list of necessary ingredients for this Calabrese specialty. This recipe calls for sheep's milk ricotta. When you go to buy ricotta in Italy, storekeepers will ask if you want cow, sheep, or goat ricotta. You can also specify a mix.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
There are problems in the kitchen: Eva is mad at Dante and doesn't trust him. There are problems in town to which Eva is a witness.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
After the war came TV. It changed everything, and provided a new way to unify the Italian language and teach people reading and writing.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Inspector Rivera is very much appreciated at Police Headquarters, and so is Manara, but for different reasons and by different people.
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