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Mar 2023
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Barbara Bassi
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Italian Stories In Italian is the podcast for those who want to get to know Italy beyond "pizza, pasta, and mandolin." Each episode explores a different aspect of Italian culture, especially curiosities and contradictions that you might not be familiar with.

Barbara is the founder of an online school for learning Italian and every month will publish an episodewith the trascripts and a glossary available for free on her blog: https://onlineitalianclasses.com/category/blog/

Soundtrack music by Marco Distefano.

Transcriptions: https://onlineitalianclasses.com/blog
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Try an online Italian class: https://onlineitalianclasses.com/product/1-online-italian-lesson-trial/
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