103: 5 Italian TV shows we can’t stop watching
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Joy of Languages
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🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Dive into the best of Italian TV with this must-watch list of five shows. And binge-watch your way to better Italian!
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Today's Italian words:
una serie = a series
un drama = a drama
un documentario = a documentary
una commedia = a comedy
la RAI = the Italian national broadcasting service
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| 0:00.0 | Learning Italian can feel a bit tedious sometimes, so if you're bored with verbs and vocabulary lists, |
| 0:06.6 | why not try Italian TV shows? There are some amazing series that can help you improve your Italian |
| 0:12.3 | in a fun and relaxed way. In these episodes, we've selected our top Italian TV shows that we can't |
| 0:18.8 | stop watching. We'll explain why we like them, whether they're hard or easy, the kind of Italian they can |
| 0:25.6 | teach you and where you can watch them. |
| 0:40.4 | Ciao to all and welcome. |
| 0:44.4 | Hi everyone and welcome to learn Italian with joy of languages. |
| 0:50.4 | Not everyone knows this, but watching TV is actually one of our favorite ways to learn a foreign language. |
| 0:56.7 | It's a lot more fun than memorizing verbs and it merces you in conversations and culture in a way that other learning methods cannot. Watching Italian TV shows is also excellent |
| 1:03.7 | listening practice. You can train yourself to understand native speakers, improve your pronunciation |
| 1:09.2 | and pick up little natural sounding expressions. |
| 1:13.5 | Yes, I basically learn English by watching Netflix. Yeah. So when I first met, Matteo, I was amazed |
| 1:21.0 | and continued to be amazed by how vast his vocabulary is. The other day he used salty to describe someone getting annoyed or upset. |
| 1:30.5 | Yes, I love watching Lesere TV TV series. I pick up a lot of words from them. It's a fun way |
| 1:39.8 | to learn how native speakers talk. So today we thought we'd share our five favorite Italian TV shows, |
| 1:47.5 | and hopefully you'll find something you like and be inspired to start watching. |
| 1:52.0 | Let's get started. |
| 1:53.3 | Cominciamo. |
| 1:54.8 | We start with a drama. |
| 1:57.2 | A drama. |
| 1:57.7 | So sometimes Italians will use this word from English, a drama, but they can say |
| 2:05.0 | a drama. And this one that we really liked is called Il Processo or the trial in English. |
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