Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Anna, and her very charming baby, show us an Italian modular transport system and some fun developmental toys.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
"One Step Away from Me" was written by Fabio Ilacqua and arranged by Adriano Celentano and Celso Valli. Celentano and Mina sing about two lovers trapped between reason and emotion.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
This segment focuses on an actor who retells and acts out stories from Sicily's past, speaking in Sicilian dialect. He uses the Pitrè Museum as a source for material. The museum houses a manuscript with over 4,000 Sicilian proverbs, just one of the many volumes of Sicilian ethnographic material.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Daniela works on present conditional tense verbs that end in are. She uses the verbs parlare [to speak] and mangiare [to eat] as examples in this form that best translates to would in English.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Manara makes an important and unexpected announcement to his colleagues, but gets interrupted by some disturbing news about the town psychic.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The segment shows us some interiors in Coppedè's dream-inspired complex.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Psicovip dreams of aliens from a planet called Pallara, where they have a thing for shoes. You could call it a fetish.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Gliene is the double object pronoun that Marika focuses on in this segment.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Natoli starts listening to Paolo, but there is room for interpretation... Paolo hears some important news.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
This episode has been full of equivoci (misunderstandings, mix-ups), and this final segment is no exception. But we haven't seen the last of Manara!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Pitrè's life was marked by a sort of travelling storyteller tradition in his family. In those days, a cuntastorie (storyteller) would go around to all the piazzas and tell stories, and people would pay to hear them.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The series on Umbria ends with amazing landscape shots of Castelluccio, including fields of poppies, cornflowers, and lentil flowers. Castelluccio's lentils are justly renowned.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this first segment on the conditional mood, Daniela shows us how to conjugate -are verbs, focusing on parlare [to speak].
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Two important mysteries get solved in this episode.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Rome's Coppedè Quarter is the focus of the segment. Its eclectic style is difficult to characterize, but the narrator talks of the liberty style, which stems from the Liberty department store in London. In English, we know this style by the French term, Art Nouveau.
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