L'appartamento di Lisa a Roma

Lisa's Apartment in Rome

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Language: Italian

Level: A1

Number of words: 450

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Lisa, a twenty-year-old law student at Sapienza University, lives in a small third-floor apartment in Rome's Trastevere district. Her modest home in a yellow building with green shutters has a temperamental elevator, no air conditioning, and noisy pipes - but also a terrace overlooking terracotta rooftops where she drinks morning espresso. Between university classes, she learns Italian cooking from her neighbor Signora Maria, shares expenses with roommate Anna, and has fallen in love with the neighborhood's stone streets, church bells, and Sunday quiet. Soon she'll graduate and return home, but this quirky Roman apartment has become her cherished second home

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