Restructuring and layoffs planned | Beginner Italian Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News

Today's story: Nike announces a restructuring and new layoffs. You will hear it in Italian first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in Italian: Nike annuncia una ristrutturazione e nuovi licenziamenti
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:33) Three more stories today
(01:35) Today's headline, slowly
(02:25) Announcing news
(02:57) Prices going down
(03:43) A large fall
(04:26) Today's grammar point
(04:59) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
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TODAY'S ITALIAN TEXT
Nike annuncia una ristrutturazione e nuovi licenziamenti
Giovedì Nike annuncia una ristrutturazione con licenziamenti dal 2027.
Dopo l'annuncio, le azioni Nike scendono di circa il 3%.
Nel primo trimestre dell'anno fiscale, i ricavi sono di 11,21 miliardi di dollari.
In Cina, i ricavi scendono del 26%.
Il piano Pace è un piano per risparmiare circa 2,5 miliardi di dollari entro il 2031.
ALSO ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGE
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Manchester City prepara il ricorso dopo il verdetto della commissione indipendente
Burnham cambia posizione su Manchester City
WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- verb (annunciare)
- vocabulary (scendono)
- vocabulary (ricavi)
- pronunciation (Cina)
- vocabulary (risparmiare)
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