1,228 films and series set here, 251 with their speech described.
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Six titles are set in more than one town here and appear under each pill they belong to, so the pills above total 1,234 against Everywhere's 1,228.
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The Garbatella setting puts a thick Roman colouring on almost every character — romanesco lexicon, truncated verbs and Roman discourse tags — but the grammar underneath stays standard and the show was written for a national primetime audience, so lines are followable rather than lost.
Big-household scenes run on interruption and cross-talk, with several family members talking over each other at brisk Roman speed.
Stated languages: dialetto romanesco, inglese, italiano
The family and the courtyard neighbours speak popular Roman throughout — romanesco lexicon, clipped and reduced verb forms, local negation and vocative habits — not merely a Roman accent on standard Italian, so a learner trained on standard forms loses whole lines in the domestic scenes.
Family rows and neighbour exchanges run fast with frequent interruption and people talking over each other, in the shouted-over-shoulder rhythm of a crowded household.
Everyone speaks standard Italian; the regional layer is accent plus a handful of southern expressions from the grandfather and the housekeeper, with light Roman colouring around the Poggio Fiorito setting.
Normal conversational speed with some crowding in the crowded-kitchen scenes, but delivery stays clear and articulated as broad family television requires.
Prime-time Rai family fiction written in clean standard Italian throughout; a few characters carry a central or Roman accent and the odd colloquial regionalism, but nothing that changes the grammar or blocks a line.
Normal Italian conversational speed, deliberately clear for a broad prime-time audience, with overlap mainly in the comic group scenes rather than as a style.
Set among Roman teenagers and their families, the speech is standard Italian carried on a light Roman accent with only occasional local colouring in the casual exchanges; nothing is spoken as dialect.
Normal conversational pace with some overlap in the school-corridor and family-argument scenes, but no sustained cross-talk as a style.
Speech is standard Italian throughout, coloured by Roman accent and a little Roman phrasing from the workshop staff, plus a few characters with other regional inflections, but no shift out of standard Italian.
The communal workroom and table scenes are built on several women speaking at once, cutting across each other at brisk Roman conversational speed.
The Giancaldo villagers speak Italian bent hard toward Sicilian — local lexicon, interjections and intonation — but the grammar stays broadly standard and the plot-carrying exchanges between Totò and Alfredo remain followable; only some crowd and market lines tip further.
Normal conversational speed in the two-handers, with bursts of overlapping shouting in the cinema audience and piazza scenes.
The boys and their families speak standard Italian throughout with a Roman accent and a light dusting of romanesco colouring in the schoolyard exchanges, no shift out of standard Italian.
Normal Roman conversational speed, with some overlap when the group of boys or the families talk over each other, but scenes are mostly turn-by-turn.
Set in a Rome police station and broadcast for a national primetime audience, so the speech is standard Italian carried on Roman accents, with only occasional romanesco colouring from suspects, informants and neighbourhood characters.
Normal conversational pace with some overlap when the squad room gets busy or an interrogation heats up, but television-clear delivery designed to be followed at home.
Set in Palermo and acted largely by Sicilian performers, but the speech is standard Italian with Sicilian accent and only occasional local colour from minor characters; no shift out of standard Italian.
Normal conversational pace with clean, deliberately intelligible primetime delivery and little genuine cross-talk; one lead's non-native accent is slower still.
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93 of the 236 described here are in Romanesco. Start with Un medico in famiglia and leave those until last.
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