{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6a9f1ab2f8f4d42589e8e93b/6ad19e2639599f7c5655c900?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"UK plans higher bank taxes | Beginner Italian Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News","description":"<p>Today's story: John Healey is preparing higher taxes for banks. You will hear it in Italian first, then line by line with the English beside it.</p><p>Today's headline in Italian: John Healey prepara tasse più alte per le banche</p><p>(00:00) Welcome and today's headline</p><p>(00:35) More stories today</p><p>(01:41) Today's headline, slowly</p><p>(02:30) Bank profits</p><p>(03:09) Wanting something</p><p>(04:03) Money each year</p><p>(04:52) The story again</p><p>The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:</p><p>https://linguawire.com/class/italian/a1/2026-10-16</p><p>TODAY'S ITALIAN TEXT</p><p>John Healey prepara tasse più alte per le banche</p><p>John Healey prepara un aumento della tassa speciale sui profitti delle banche.</p><p>Il bilancio è previsto per il 28 ottobre.</p><p>Il governo vuole ridurre il deficit.</p><p>Una possibilità è aumentare la tassa dal 3 per cento all'8 per cento.</p><p>Questa misura può portare più di 2 miliardi di sterline all'anno.</p><p>ALSO ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGE</p><p>KDE compie 30 anni e presenta Plasma 6.8: addio alle nuove sessioni X11</p><p>Musk dona più di 150 milioni di dollari e aiuta Paxton in Texas</p><p>Il leader del Myanmar riceve il sostegno della Malesia</p><p>WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES</p><p>- vocabulary (profitti)</p><p>- vocabulary (previsto)</p><p>- verb (volere)</p><p>- numbers (dal 3 per cento all'8 per cento)</p><p>- vocabulary (all'anno)</p><p>New to Italian? Every class starts from the beginning, so today is a fine place to start.</p><p>Not sure this is your level? Our free Italian level check shows what level you are overall and across 8 sub-skills:</p><p>https://linguawire.com/assessment</p><p>Grammar explained in plain English:</p><p>https://linguawire.com/guide</p><p>If today's class helped, please follow the show. It is the single best thing that helps other Italian learners find us.</p><p>Note: LINGUAWIRE classes use AI support for translation and multi-language recording, with native-speaker scripting and supervision.</p>","author_name":"LinguaWire"}