La bella estate

Reading from 1950 Premio Strega award winner Cesare Pavese’s Beautiful Summer. Credits: “È troppo tardi” by Walter Colì, 1949; “Voglio vivere così” by Giovanni D’Anzi and Tito Manlio, 1941; “Quando

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Il punto – Connettivi 1

Grammar point about words that join other words in a sentence; that is, they provide a junction between words. – Credits: “Ma perché?” by Carlo Marrale, Piero Cassano and Aldo

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La parola – Sdraio

Vocabulary pill about sitting or lying down, especially out of doors. – Credits: “Mercoledì” by Luca Carboni, 1995; “Sapore di sale” by Gino Paoli, 1963; “Sulla sdraio” by Manfredi Agnello

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Oggigiorno – Gli alpini

Celebrating the constitution of the Alpine National Association, the Italian mountain corps that have turned to civil protection assistance over a hundred years. – Credits : “Ernani” (Prelude and Chorus

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La canzone – Luglio

About a song named after the seventh month of the year, also a tremendous hit of 1968. Credits: “Luglio” by Riccardo Del Turco and Giancarlo Bigazzi (1968) – “Le petit

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Il punto – Numeri cardinali

Grammar point about the natural numbers. Credits: “Da uno a dieci” (unknown)

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La parola – Razza

Vocabulary pill about one of the major groups which humans can be divided into. Credits : “Dimmi dimmi” by Lucio Dalla, Gianni Morandi and Mauro Malavasi – 1988

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Il punto – Bene, buono, bravo, bello

Grammar point about the use of good, as an adverb and as an adjective. Credits : “Bene” by Gemitaiz, 2015 – “Va bene, va bene così” by Vasco Rossi, Roberto

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Aperitivo

Vocabulary pill stimulating the appetite, and a desire for more foods and drinks. Credits : “Ma che bontà” by Enrico Riccardi (1977) performed by Mina.

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Anche Clementine parla italiano

Listening to Clementine, 2017 Multimedia Migrant Diaries -DiMMI- award winner, an African-born Italian who has made her way through continents and languages. – Credits : Babylon – Disco Ultralounge by

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