Burnham meets Merz for security talks | Beginner Italian Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News

Today's story: Burnham meets Merz in Berlin to discuss security. You will hear it in Italian first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in Italian: Burnham incontra Merz a Berlino per parlare di sicurezza
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:35) More stories today
(01:42) Today's headline, slowly
(02:32) Meeting people
(03:15) Threats and services
(04:06) Working together
(05:08) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
linguawire.com/class/italian/a1/2026-10-08
TODAY'S ITALIAN TEXT
Burnham incontra Merz a Berlino per parlare di sicurezza
Giovedì Andy Burnham incontra Friedrich Merz a Berlino.
È la prima visita ufficiale di Burnham in Germania.
I servizi di intelligence del Regno Unito e della Germania dicono che le minacce aumentano.
Burnham e Merz ratificano formalmente il Trattato di Kensington del 2025.
Il trattato prevede più collaborazione in scienza, tecnologia, difesa, sicurezza e crescita.
ALSO ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGE
Nuovi video mostrano l’attacco iraniano alla base americana in Kuwait
La Borsa di Londra chiede aiuti per fermare la fuga delle aziende
Sette nuove app vogliono imitare i programmi di Adobe
WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- verb (incontrare)
- vocabulary (prima)
- vocabulary (aumentano)
- vocabulary (Trattato)
- vocabulary (collaborazione)
New to Italian? Every class starts from the beginning, so today is a fine place to start.
Not sure this is your level? Our free Italian level check shows what level you are overall and across 8 sub-skills:
linguawire.com/assessment
Grammar explained in plain English:
linguawire.com/guide
If today's class helped, please follow the show. It is the single best thing that helps other Italian learners find us.
Note: LINGUAWIRE classes use AI support for translation and multi-language recording, with native-speaker scripting and supervision.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.