Lazzaro felice

Film NightItalian
Written By Sean Price

Tonight’s film comes from Italy!

Lazzaro felice (2018)

Whether you’re learning Italian or just looking for something to watch, Lazzaro felice is worth watching.

The film is inspired by true events. Profiting from the isolation of her estate in central Italy, the Marquise Alfonsina De Luna didn’t inform her peasants about the abolition of sharecropping, exploiting their labour until 1982.

If you’re learning Italian, the following article is a brief explanation of the film’s origins :

Lazzaro felice, la realtà oltre la favola : il tragico fatto di cronaca che ha ispirato il film

The following video shows footage of what life was like for Italian contadini e operai (peasants and workers) in southern Italy during the 1950s and 1960s :

Basilicata - Puglia 1957-1962 - Documentario ‘contadini e operai’

If you’re unsure when and how to use subtitles, advice can be found here :

How to Use Subtitles to Learn a Language

If you’re interested in learning Italian, there’s a How to Learn Languages guide (eBook), and if you prefer the video format, How to Learn Italian is also available as an online course :

How to Learn Italian - eBook

How to Learn Italian - Course

Take care, and enjoy the process!

Sean Price

This article was written by Sean Price, the Founder of How to Learn Languages.

When he's not teaching English as a foreign language, he creates eBooks and Courses that make learning languages affordable and enjoyable for anyone.

He learnt French in 2018 during a study abroad year at the Sorbonne, before completing a degree in History at the University of Leeds with First Class Honours in the summer of the following year.

During his final year, he taught himself Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan, as part of dissertation research into fascism in Europe during the 1930s.

Although he says ‘learnt’ and ‘taught himself’ in the past tense, he also says one of the joys of learning a language is that there’s always more to learn.

More recently, he's been teaching himself German, Mandarin Chinese, and Russian.

Since moving to Vietnam to teach English in 2022, he's been enjoying learning Vietnamese. In less than one and a half years learning Vietnamese, he was able to achieve Level 5 (the highest being Level 6) of the official Vietnamese proficiency exam of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities at the National University, Hanoi (Trường Đại học Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn - Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội).

If you'd like to learn a language, all you need is an internet connection and a How to Learn Languages eBook or Course.

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