Ascolta bene! Italian Listening Practice
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Episodes
Cinema, che passione! Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Tre grandi classici del cinema italiano: quali sono? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Viva l'Italia! Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Com'è nata la Repubblica italiana? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
La pubblicità in Italia - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Marchi famosi e pubblicità in Italia: ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
La salute in Italia - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Come funziona il sistema sanitario italiano? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Gli italiani e la religione - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Gli italiani sono tutti cattolici? Qual è il rapporto degli italiani con la religione? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Come si vota in Italia - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Come funzionano le elezioni in Italia? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Il lavoro in Italia - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Che cosa vogliono gli italiani quando cercano un lavoro? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
La spesa degli italiani - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Oggi andiamo al supermercato! Come fanno la spesa gli italiani? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Animali misteriosi e leggendari - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Oggi ti descrivo in italiano quattro creature leggendarie: quali sono? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Un amore segreto - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Oggi ti racconto una storia d'amore... che cosa ti ricorda? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Sei superstizioso? - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Gli italiani sono superstiziosi? Quali sono le superstizioni più comuni in Italia? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Il ritorno dalle vacanze - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Perché siamo tristi quando rientriamo dalle vacanze? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Soldi: un tabù in Italia - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
In Italia non si parla di soldi: perché, e qual è il rapporto degli italiani con il denaro? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
L'edicola e i giornali - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Preferisci i giornali di carta o digitali? Che cos'è un'edicola? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Indovina il Paese! - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
In Europa ci sono due Paesi con molte cose in comune. Di quali Paesi sto parlando? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Indovina la città! - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Oggi descriverò due città con molte cose in comune: quali sono? C'è anche un dialogo. Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Indovina il film! - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Oggi descriverò tre film italiani o con un attore italiano: di quali film sto parlando? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Indovina il romanzo! - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Quattro porte, quattro mondi fantastici. Di che romanzi sto parlando? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Turisti al ristorante - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Cosa fare e non fare al ristorante in Italia. Eating out in Italy: do's and don'ts for tourists in Italy. Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
San Marco a Venezia - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Visitiamo insieme una delle chiese più famose al mondo, la Basilica di San Marco a Venezia. Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Modi di dire mitici - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Italian idioms from Ancient Greece: li conosci tutti? Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Il vino - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Il vino italiano: un'eccellenza da bere in compagnia. Let's talk about Italian wine culture, in Italian with questions.Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Luciano Pavarotti - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
A tu per tu con il Maestro: uno dei più grandi tenori della storia, che ha portato l'opera anche negli stadi. Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Il caffè - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Ci prendiamo un caffè? Scopriamo la storia di un altro simbolo dello stile di vita italiano. Ascolta e rispondi alle domande!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
La Vespa - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
La Vespa - un simbolo dell'Italia e della dolce vita. Ascolta e rispondi alle mie domande.Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
La Nutella - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Nutella: una storia italiana. Origini e particolarità della merenda più amata dagli italiani. Listen and answer my questions!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
Grandi navi a Venezia - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Ascolta e rispondi! Parliamo delle grandi navi da crociera che dal 2021 non possono più passare davanti a piazza San Marco a Venezia.Download the free transcript and get additional listening content on Patreon.
Samantha Cristoforetti - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Ascolta e rispondi! Parliamo di Astrosamantha, la prima astronauta donna europea a diventare comandante della ISS nel 2022.Download the free transcript and get additional listening content on Patreon.
La pizzeria di Sophia Loren - Intermediate Italian Listening Practice
Ascolta e rispondi: parliamo di una pizzeria molto speciale aperta nel 2021.Download the free transcript and get additional listening content on Patreon.
A2 Italian Listening Practice - La festa di compleanno
Oggi è il compleanno di Sandra. Quanti anni compie? E tu, quando compi gli anni? Hai passato gli "anta"? Ascolta e rispondi!Download the transcript & additional listening content from Patreon.
A2 Italian Listening Practice: l'estate in Italia
Estate e vacanze in Italia: did you visit Italy during the summer? Listen to three new dialogues.Get the transcript and additional listening content from Patreon.
A2 Italian Listening Practice: il Carnevale di Venezia
Il Carnevale di Venezia - Let's go to Venice Carnival together!Get the transcript and additional listening content from Patreon.
A2 Italian Listening Practice: tu o Lei?
Tu o Lei? Informal & formal conversational Italian. Learn when to use the polite form in Italian.Get the transcript and additional listening content from Patreon.
A2 Italian Listening Practice - 5 indovinelli
Listen carefully: can you guess what I am describing in Italian?Get the transcript and additional listening content from Patreon.
A2 Italian Listening Practice: Indovina la regione
Three dialogues about three Italian regions: can you guess what they are?Transcript and additional listening content available on Patreon.
A2 Italian Listening Practice: Passato, presente, futuro
Passato, presente, futuro: three dialogues about Artificial Intelligence, electric vehicles, and Italian-Americans.Transcript and additional listening content available on Patreon.
A2 Italian Listening Practice: Il giro del mondo
Il giro del mondo: travel around the world with me and guess all the places we are going to.Transcript and additional listening content available on Patreon.
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 15
Lavoro e vacanza: three new dialogues about work and holiday, with a touch of humour.Get the transcript & translation and additional listening content from Patreon.
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 14
Sì, viaggiare! Aereo, treno o traghetto? In this episode we talk about traveling and means of transport.Get the transcript & translation and additional listening content on Patreon.
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 13
Piccoli problemi quotidiani! Let's learn how to talk about little everyday issues, like a delayed train, a problem with a hotel room, or a steep restaurant bill.Get the transcript & translation and additional listening content from Patreon.
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 12
In these three new dialogues, our characters discuss Italian films and TV shows. Can you understand what they are talking about? Have you seen any of these series?Get the transcript & translation and additional listening content from Patreon.
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 11
Three new dialogues in Italian for you: today we introduce pronominal verbs like fregarsene, farcela, prendersela, and we learn their conjugation. Listen and answer the questions.Get the transcript & translation and additional listening content from Patreon.
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 10
Four new dialogues in authentic conversational Italian for you. Today's special topic is comparatives and superlatives. Listen and answer the questions.Get the transcript & translation and additional listening content from Patreon.
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 9
A tavola! The subject of this easy listening practice is food! Listen and answer the questions.Get the transcript & translation and additional listening content from Patreon.
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 8
In questo episodio, Leonardo, Viola, Sandra e Michele parlano della loro casa. Let's talk about houses! Listen and answer my questions in Italian.Get the transcript & translation and additional listening content from our Patreon page.
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 7
Oggi prendiamo il treno e andiamo a Venezia! Listen to 5 dialogues; this time my questions are all in Italian. Pause the podcast and answer out loud!Get the transcript & translation and additional content on Patreon.
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 6
È arrivata l'estate! Summer, heat, holidays, reservations... Listen to the dialogues and answer the questions.You can download the transcript with translation and additional content from Patreon.
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 5
These new dialogues include words & expressions from previous episodes: weather, restaurant bookings, family, pharmacy, holidays, food and coffee... can you remember them all? Listen and answer the questions!Download the transcript with translation and additional content from Patreon.
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 4
Qual è la ricetta della pizza Margherita? Chi va a fare la spesa? Cosa mangiamo oggi? This episode is all about food, cooking, and grocery shopping. Listen carefully and answer the questions.Get the transcript & translation from Patreon; there is also additional listening content.
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 3
Listen to ads from Italian TV: we use the same vocabulary in our dialogues. Listen and answer the questions!Download the transcript with translation and additional content from Patreon.
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 2
Enrich your vocabulary and improve your listening skills with our targeted Italian listening practice! Today we have TV ads in Italian - our dialogues use the same words and expressions. Try to answer the questions and listen again.Get the transcript & translation of this episode from Patreon from just $1. There's also additional content for our patrons.
Italian Listening Practice for Beginners 1
Enrich your vocabulary and improve your listening skills with our targeted Italian listening practice! Listen carefully and try to answer the questions, then listen again and check your answers. The last dialogue is taken from an Italian film: can you understand it?Get the transcript & translation of this episode from Patreon for just $1.
Italian Listening Practice for Total Beginners
Learning Italian from scratch? Listen to 50 easy sentences grouped by subject or sound. We begin with introductions, then we move on to words with the sound C. Then we listen to the days of the week and words with the sound G. Finally, we listen to sentences using the verb AVERE, to have.The transcript & English translation of this podcast is FREE! There's also additional content on our Pa
Viva Verdi! Musica e storia a Parma
Giuseppe Verdi: the most beloved opera composer of all times. This year the Verdi Festival in Parma opens with a special production of Un ballo in maschera by Sir Graham Vick.
The full episode is available to our top-tier patrons on Patreon.
Italiani si diventa - Lo ius soli
Marcell Jacobs just became the world's fastest man at the Tokyo Olympics. Despite his name, he is 100% Italian. Today we listen to his voice and we talk about the debate on ius soli and the citizenship acquisition process in Italy.
Verso l'infinito e oltre con AstroSamantha
Let's listen to Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti as she describes her experience of flying to space, living on the space station, and coming back to normal life.
This is an abridged version of the full episode available to our patrons on Patreon, with transcript, translation, and glossary.
Venice is a fish... and we caught her!
Venezia è un pesce - Venice is a fish. It's also an upside-down forest, perched on top of wooden piles. Let's discover this amazing city from a different perspective by reading a few excerpts from Tiziano Scarpa's imaginative guide to Venice.
Non ci capiamo! Italian accents & dialects
So, do we all understand each other easily throughout Italy? In this episode we discuss Italian accents & dialects (or better, languages!), and we hear a few sentences in Sardinian, Neapolitan, and Florentine - from the most difficult language to the one that's most similar to standard Italian. Can you understand everything they say?
This is an abridged version of the complete episode availabl
Il docile idioma - Italian as the language of music
Concerto, opera, soprano, pianoforte... all over the world, people use Italian words when talking about music, and the influence of Italian is particularly strong when it comes to opera. In this brief introduction we discover some of these Italian terms, from aria to fiasco.
On our YouTube channel and on our Website you will find several videos and other content on music and opera.
This is an abri
My Brilliant Friend - Italian as a way out and up
Elena Ferrante's L'amica geniale is written in perfect Italian, but her characters speak the Neapolitan dialect most of the time. Here we discuss what Italian and dialect mean for them and their future.
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L'italiano medio: la tragicomica epopea del ragionier Ugo Fantozzi
Our exploration of Italianness continues with an iconic character of the 1970s: Paolo Villaggio's Fantozzi. Not just comedy, but also social criticism.
This is a substantial excerpt of the full audio that is available to our most generous patrons, accompanied by transcript, a glossary and links. Have a look at our Patreon page if you'd like to join our circle!
Capire gli italiani - Understanding Italians
What does it mean to be Italian? Let's find out together. Today we’d like to read with you two passages from the beginning of Beppe Severgnini’s book La testa degli italiani, where he tries to get inside the head of Italians, and to explain it to non-Italians.
Consigliato
Altre/Storie americane
Altri Orienti
Amare parole
Amedeo Balbi | Cosa sappiamo dell'universo
AMO, NON HAI CAPITO
ANSA Daily
AREA 52
Augmented Humanity – La tecnologia con le persone al centro
Automazione Fiscale - il Podcast
BAZAR ATOMICO
Beginner Italian Podcast | Italiano per principianti con Teacher Stefano
Black Box - La scatola nera della finanza
