CBI 1-06 | More about family, counting and phone numbers in Italian

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Okay, so let's see, I'm a little tired. I would say sono un po stanco. Francesca? Sono un po stanca. Sono un po stanca. Perfecto. Now, Francesca also said something else. She said. Katie, can you work it with that means? I'm not too sure. But did the middle word sound like "to" in French, so mean "to"? "To" or "to much", yeah? So "to much" "tropo". And then "lavoro" doesn't really sound like the French counterpart. It sounds more like the English counterpart, Labour. Oh, so was she saying "I have too much work"? Exactly. Oh, "tropo" "lavoro". Try saying it. Francesca? So "I have too much work". Now, today's lesson hopefully won't be too much for you. Today's lesson is all about numbers. We're going to be learning to count an Italian. I'd also to use the plural forms of some words. I think that means we're ready to begin. So "siete per'anti"? Sì. Cominciamo. As usual, we're going to start with a little bit of review from last time. Last time we were talking about family members. So I wonder if you can remember some things. Katie, we're going to test you here. Can you remember how you would say "my mother"? And we'll give our listeners some time to think this through to "my mother"? Katie? Mi amadre. Venissimo. What about my brother? Mi fratello. Mi fratello. Okay, I remember to bounce on that "el". Mi fratello. Mi fratello. Perfecto. Okay. What about this? This is my sister. Questa è mia sorella. Okay, and try to bounce again on the "el" sound of sorella. Sorella. Sorella. Okay, good. So this is my sister. And what about this is my father. Questo è mio padre. Venissimo. Now we also learned last time how to see "he is cold" or "she is cold". Can you remember how to say that? Katie, how would you say "he is cold"? Steve. It was the same as the formal question, wasn't it? So "si chiama Steve". Esatto. "si chiama Steve". So "si chiama" means "he is cold" or "she is cold" or indeed "you are cold" in the formal form. Can you remember how to say "I am cold". My name is. Mi chiamo. Mi chiamo. And what's the question? What are you called in the informal form? Como ti chiama. Now are you sure about that? Como. No, com'e. I think maybe your Spanish is a Chinese speaker. So com'e ti chiama. Com'e ti chiama. And the formal form as well. Es com'e si chiama. Com'e si chiama. Excellent. So we've got those com'e ti chiama. Come si chiama. And mi chiamo for the different parts of "I am cold". You are cold and he or she is cold. Okay, it's time now to move on to some new content. And today we're going to be looking at some numbers. Now for the numbers we're going to start by just going through them individually. I'll see the English, Francesca. We'll see the number in Italian. We'll leave you some time to repeat. And then it's over to Katie. Okay, so let's begin with the number one. 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10. Excellent. Now I'd like to focus on three of these numbers in particular. And it's back to that whole double consonant sound again. What's the number for 4, Francesca? 4, 7, 7, 8, 8. So you can hear that each time, Francesca is saying the first part and almost stopping the breath coming out our mouth and then letting it go for the second part. So listen to the word for 8. 8. And we're going to slow this down as slow as we can. So try saying 8 really slowly, Francesca. 8. So you can actually hear that there's silence between the 8, the first part of the word and the second part of the word. So that's how you do this bounce. Let's try the numbers from 1 to 10 again. This time we'll group them together. So 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. 4, 5, 6. 9, 10. I always think that when we're learning numbers it really helps because there's almost a rhythm to these numbers. So perhaps we should repeat these numbers along with some music. Let's go. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. 4, 5, 6. 4, 5, 6. 7, 8, 9. 7, 8, 9. And then we'll do it again. Sorry, I should have maybe told you the words to this little line before hand. Might as come in handy. Yeah, and it "epoi". "epoi". And then. Okay, "epoi". "Che anche". "Che anche". We've seen "Che" in the expression non "Che male". So there's "Che". and Anke we've also seen as an Ankeo, also me, me too. So there's also Epoi, Cianke, Dieci, and then there's also ten. Okay. Epoi Cianke, Dieci. Epoi Cianke, Dieci. Perfecto. Now you're ready to do the whole song again. Yay! 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. 4, 5, 6. 4, 5, 6. 7, 8, 9. 7, 8, 9. Epoi Cianke, Dieci. Epoi Cianke, Dieci. Perfecto. And now I never need to sing that again. You never know. There might be a review later. Great. Okay. I have a question. Okay. So if I wanted to give my phone number in Italian, how do you say zero? Very good question, good question. Zero in Italian is very straightforward. It's zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. It's like a DZ sound at the beginning. Zero. Zero. Perfecto. Okay. Now since you mentioned phone numbers, perhaps this would be a good opportunity to pry into some of these numbers so our listeners might want to grab a pen and paper. We have three Italian made up phone numbers and these are going to be the first two from Italian into English and then the last one from English into Italian. So Katie, we'd like you to identify these numbers and translate them into English and of course our listeners can do the same. So let's begin with numero o no. Okay. Let's hear that one one more time. Zero, two, three, four, nine, two, six, seven, eight. Okay Katie, can you give us this one back in English? Okay. Okay. Brava Katie. Okay. numero duee. Zero, quattro, zero, cinque, uno, seisette, zero, tre. Let's listen again to this one. Okay Katie, can you give us this one back? I think it was zero, four, zero, five, one, six, seven, zero, three. Bravissima. Okay. Three is a little different, this one is going from English into Italian, so Katie, I'd like you to say zero, three, two, eight, eight, six, four, seven, nine in Italian. I'll repeat that again, zero, three, two, eight, eight, six, four, seven, nine. Okay. Zero, tre, two, eight, eight, six, quattro, seven, nine. Fantastico. Perfecto. Okay. We can do lots more number practice in what I would like all our listeners to do this week is wherever you are, as you're walking around the town, any number you see, try saying that to yourself in Italian or say it out loud if you like, you may get some strange looks, but nonetheless you'll be practicing your Italian. Okay. We're going to take a short break there and we'll be back in just a moment. Here at Coffee Break Italian, we want to help you turn your downtime into due time. 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Let's try putting some of these numbers into practice this time, talking about members of our family, because we've already learned the words, for example, for brother or sister, son, daughter, and so on. So we can now learn how to say "I have two brothers". Before we get to that stage, we need to know how to say "I have", and in actual fact, we've already heard that expression, because at the beginning of the lesson, Francesca said "I have too much work". How did you see that Francesca? Otro polavoro. So the word for "I have" is. Oh. Listen again, and repeat this after Francesca. Oh. It's not too complicated. You should know, however, that it's written each "O". And of course, if you want to see how this word, and all words in "coffee brequetalien" are written, then head over to coffeebrequetalienplus.com. Anyway, back to "I have". "I have" is "O". So to say "I have a brother", can you work out how you would see that, Katie? "O uno fratello". That would make perfect sense, because we know "uno" is "one". However, when it comes to using the word for "a", we use a slightly different version of that word, and it's going to depend on whether the word is a masculine or feminine word. In this case, we're talking about fratello, so it's masculine, and therefore we need to say "O un fratello". "O un fratello", "I have" a brother, "O un fratello", "O un fratello", "No, we can therefore use the same expression with, for example, "I have a son". Can you work out what that would be, Katie? "O un figlio", perfect. When it comes to a daughter or a sister, then we're going to be changing the word for "a". In this case, we don't say "un" but "una". "Una". So, "I have a sister" or "una sorella". And "I have a daughter" or "una filia". Perfecto. So, "I have a" or "I have one", if you like, but we only use "uno" when we're counting, giving four numbers, for example, "uno due tre" and so on. When it's "a", it's "un" or "una". Well I've got two brothers, so would I say "O due fratello"? Well, you need to do something with "fratello" to make it plural. And in this case, we don't say "fratello", we change the final word. If I tell you that one single strand of spaghetti is called "sbaguetto", and that spaghetti is the plural form of "spagueto". because, of course, in a bowl of spaghetti. We have lots of spaghetti tools, if you like. So, spaghetti becoming spaghetti. What do you think happens to fratelli? - It comes fratelli. - Fratelli, aha, so I have two brothers. - Oh, due fratelli. - Perfetto. Oh, due fratelli. No, you may be familiar with the word fratelli. It's very often seen on restaurants, for example. Fratelli, sinforiani, fratelli, marchetti, or whatever, but fratelli, it just means brothers. Un fratello, due fratelli. Francesca, hai un fratello? - Sí, ho un fratello. - E tu, Marc? - Anchio, ho un fratello. So, I'm asking Francesca, do you have a brother? I'm not saying, oh, but this time I'm saying, hai, hai un fratello? Sí, ho un fratello. E tu, Marc, hai un fratello? - Sí, anchio, ho un fratello. - Does the same thing happen with other words, like sorella? - Well, with feminine words, it's a little bit different. Think of, we'll go back to pasta. One of my favorite pasta that she says penne alla matriciana. Penne are the pasta quills. It really means a pen, una penna. But in this singular form is penna, and the plural is penne. So, what would happen with sorella? - It becomes sorelle. - So, sorelle. So, I have two sisters. - O due sorelle. - Perfetto. O due sorelle. And let's come back to daughters. Una filia. - Due filie. - E' excelente. Francesca, hai una sorella? - Sí, ho due sorelle. E tu, Marc, hai una sorella? - O una sorella. E tu, Katie, hai una sorella? - No. - So, how would you say "I don't have a sister"? Or "I have not a sister". We've already looked at the negation using a particular word that we can place before the verb. Think of "I am not from Milan. I am from Rome". So, how would you say "I have not" or "I don't have"? - Non ho una sorella. - Perfetto. Non ho una sorella. Or, you could say "I have not got sisters". "I don't have sisters". - Non ho sorelle. - Perfetto. Both of these work. - Marc, io ho una domanda per te. - Ok. - E tu hai figli? - Sí. O due figli. - Ok, bello. E come si chiamano? - Ah, una domanda interessante. Come si chiamano? Katie, can you work out what that would mean? - Well, Marc, you said "I have two sons". Two, yeah. So, was it what were they called? What are their names? Exactly. Come si chiamano. - Come si chiamano. - So chiamano is the "they" form. What are they called? Come si chiamano. - Come si chiamano. So, in response, I can say "si chiamano, Matthew" e "Youin". Now, we've used "fili" here to mean sons. What would daughters be? If it's una filia, then two daughters would be "doe filie". That's it. It's quite tricky to say "filiie". - Filie. - Filie. - Filie. O due filie. - O due filie. - So filie for sons and filie for daughters. And if you happen to have sons and daughters, then you can use "filie" too. So filie can mean either sons or it can mean children in a sort of generic form. O due filie, could mean I have two children. And then you would need to find out what their names are in order to know whether it's a son and a daughter or two sons. And to ask that question, what are their names? What would we say? - Come si chiamano. - Come si chiamano. - Excellent. Let's do a little review of this new language that we've covered today. As usual, I'll see the English, Francesca. You can see the Italian. We'll leave a space and then it's over to Katie. So to begin with, I have two sisters. - O due sorelle. - O due sorelle. - I have three sons. - O, tre fili. - O, tre fili. - I have five brothers. - O, cinque, fratelli. - What about this one? I have four brothers, three sisters and seven children. - Mamma mia, o, quattro fratelli, tre sorelle e sette fili. - O, quattro fratelli, tre sorelle e sette fili. - Perfetto, benissimo. And that is it for another lesson of Coffee Break Italian. Don't forget that you can head over to coffeebreakitalian.com to access these lessons and indeed if you want to find out more about our premium version, then head over to coffeebreakitalianplus.com. This week, we'd like to find out a little about your family's, so why not post a message on our website where you can tell us how many brothers, sisters, sons, daughters or children you have, head over to coffeebreakitalian.com to post your comment. 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