Listen to short passages and answer comprehension questions.
A young woman describes her morning routine.
5 questions
A shopper describes buying fruit and vegetables at the market.
Two friends talk about their plans for the weekend.
A friend recaps a birthday party from the weekend.
An excerpt from a job interview.
A person reflects on relocating to a new city for a job.
A short news report on an environmental study.
A radio segment on how AI tools are entering Italian classrooms.
An in-depth segment on circular-economy practices among Italian businesses.
A science podcast segment on memory consolidation and effective study habits.
An academic lecture excerpt analyzing rhetorical strategies in political speech.
A philosophy panel discussion on the ethical dilemmas raised by advanced AI systems.
A boy introduces the members of his family.
A girl tells the story of a day at the seaside with her friends, in the past tense.
A man describes how he discovered pottery and what it means to him.
A radio report presents survey data on remote work in Italy.
A news feature examines the debate on overtourism and entry fees in historic cities.
A lecture excerpt on the philosophical dilemmas of art restoration.
A customer asks the pharmacist for help with a sore throat.
A traveller buys a train ticket at the station.
A newcomer describes her first flat in Bologna.
A patient sees her family doctor about a cough.
A woman sends a parcel abroad and pays a bill at the post office.
A young man calls about a flat he saw advertised online.
A nurse from Brazil recounts renewing her residence permit.
A newly arrived worker opens a current account.
A station announcement and two commuters dealing with a train strike.
A newcomer asks a post office clerk for the residence permit kit.
A student goes to her fingerprint appointment at the immigration office.
A young man answers an ad for a waiter in a family-run trattoria.
On her first shift, a new waitress is shown around by a colleague.
A waiter takes the order of a couple, one of whom has an allergy.
A busy Saturday night between the dining room and the kitchen.
A waiter handles a cold dish and a spilled glass of wine.
A new worker goes through her first contract and payslip with a friend.
A young woman comes for a trial day as a kitchen porter in a busy restaurant.
On his first morning, a new kitchen porter is shown around by the kitchen assistant.
The chef explains the kitchen's hygiene rules to a new kitchen assistant.
Friday night service: the chef calls out the orders and the kitchen assistant keeps up.
A small accident near the end of the evening, then closing the kitchen safely.
A woman meets the daughter of an elderly man who is looking for a live-in carer.
On the phone to a friend, a carer describes an ordinary day with the man she looks after.
A carer speaks to the family doctor about the medicines of the man she looks after.
An elderly man falls in the night, and his carer calls the emergency number and then his daughter.
A few weeks later, the carer and the daughter talk about her father, the house and the days off.
A rider can't find the right door in a big apartment block and calls the customer.
A rider collects an order that isn't ready yet and calls the customer about the delay.
On a rainy evening, a customer doesn't answer, a sauce has spilled, and the address turns out to be wrong.
Before a rainy evening shift, an experienced rider gives a new colleague advice on riding safely.
A woman signs up at an employment agency for a warehouse job.
On her first morning, Grace gets her badge and a tour from the shift leader.
The shift leader shows Grace how to pick an order with the scanner and pack it for shipping.
A near miss with a forklift, and the rules the shift leader goes over afterwards.
In the busy weeks before Christmas, Grace talks to the shift leader about back pain and a shift she needs to swap.
A man applies for a job with a co-operative that cleans offices and hotels.
On his first morning, a colleague shows Petrov the cleaning trolley and how they clean an office.
In a hotel, the head housekeeper hands out the day's rooms and gives feedback on one cleaned the day before.
A colleague stops Petrov from mixing two products in a small bathroom.
A guest comes back while Mariam is cleaning his room, with a complaint and a broken hairdryer.
A new labourer meets the foreman on his first morning on a building site.
A bricklayer asks his new helper for tools and materials during the morning.
On a safety course, a trainer explains scaffolding, harnesses, signs and what to do after an accident.
A measurement was misheard, and a wrong delivery makes the morning on site harder.
Two builders talk about bad weather, lost hours and the summer timetable.
Two friends talk about a harvest job offer that sounds too easy.
A new worker learns how the day works during the grape harvest.
A worker shows a new colleague his tasks in a greenhouse where vegetables are grown.
On a hot July morning, a team leader reminds the workers about water, breaks, the sun and a sprayed field.
A farm worker finds fewer working days on his payslip than he worked, and asks how to put it right.