{"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/6ad2fb937ce338e8cd089339?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"White House press secretary removed | Beginner Italian Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News","description":"<p>Today's story: Katie Zacharia was removed from her position as White House press secretary after five days. You will hear it in Italian first, then line by line with the English beside it.</p><p>Today's headline in Italian: Katie Zacharia rimossa dal posto di portavoce della Casa Bianca dopo cinque giorni</p><p>(00:00) Welcome and today's headline</p><p>(00:36) More stories today</p><p>(01:37) Today's headline, slowly</p><p>(02:32) A job position</p><p>(03:24) Speaking</p><p>(04:07) Waiting for an answer</p><p>(05:07) 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/a1/2026-10-17</p><p>TODAY'S ITALIAN TEXT</p><p>Katie Zacharia rimossa dal posto di portavoce della Casa Bianca dopo cinque giorni</p><p>Katie Zacharia è stata rimossa dal posto di portavoce della Casa Bianca dopo cinque giorni di lavoro.</p><p>Una settimana prima, il presidente Trump ha scelto Zacharia per sostituire Karoline Leavitt.</p><p>Martedì, Zacharia ha parlato per circa dieci minuti nella sua unica conferenza stampa.</p><p>Poi ha risposto alle domande di tre mezzi di informazione.</p><p>La Casa Bianca non ha ancora detto chi la sostituirà.</p><p>ALSO ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGE</p><p>I modelli di OpenAI violano due siti e prendono criptovalute</p><p>L’offensiva ucraina respinge le forze russe nel Donbass</p><p>Peter Rice guiderà i contenuti di Netflix</p><p>WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES</p><p>- vocabulary (rimossa)</p><p>- vocabulary (Una settimana prima)</p><p>- verb (parlare)</p><p>- vocabulary (tre)</p><p>- vocabulary (ancora)</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"}