CBI 1-13 | Visiting an Italian restaurant

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We're back with another episode of Coffee Break Italian for you. We hope that you've been enjoying our episode so far, and indeed that you've been learning a lot. Today we're talking a little more about ill-chivo. Can you remember what that means? Katie, what does ill-chivo mean? It's food. It is indeed food. So we're going back to our restaurant, and we're going to be learning a little more about how to deal with particular situations which may occur when you're visiting a restaurant. Okay, in today's program we are going to be looking particularly at a type of verb. It might sound as if this is going to be a very grammatical lesson. Absolutely not. We're going to be looking at verbs in the form that you would find them in the dictionary. Now the special word for this is the infinitive form, the infinitive form, because in a sense it has infinite possibilities. It's a verb that could be referring to any particular person. It could be referring to i, u, he, she, yet, we, you, they. Or it could be referring to any time in the past, in the present, in the future, or any other combination thereof. So the infinitive form is the form that we find in the dictionary. If you looked up the verb, for example, to eat, then in the dictionary we would find manjare. Well, let's try saying that after Francesca manjare manjare. So to eat is manjare. Now we've already come across another few words that end in that are ending. Can you think of one, for example, the word to speak? parlare. Of course, so parlare, manjare. We've also seen a word that's used to mean to help. Katie, can you remember how you say, can you help me? I think it was me po ayutare. Good. So ayutare, manjare, parlare. All of these words are the infinitive forms of the verbs and that's translated by to do something, to eat, to speak, to help. And you'll notice that they all end in are. Now, that's one type of verb in Italian. There are other ones, but we'll not worry about them just now. Let's focus on are manjare, parlare, ayutare. Now, in Coffee Break Italian, it's all about trying to build the language from the pieces that we already know. It's like a jigsaw puzzle. We take pieces that we already know and combine them with other things. So we know the word for can I or I can. Katie, can you remember what that word is? I can. Mm, posso? Posso. So how would you say can I eat a pizza? Posso manjare una pizza? Perfecto. So this is the whole thing about learning a language. It's important that you can combine words that you know separately into sentences that you've never said before. It's not a sentence that you're learning off by heart, but you can build the sentence by putting the words together that you already know. Now, we're going to use this manjare in a different construction now. And that is mi piacce. Try saying that. Mi piacce. Mi piacce. And mi piacce means "I like", so I could say "I like" to eat a pizza. Mi piacce manjare una pizza. Mi piacce manjare un gelato. Katie, what do you like eating? Mi piacce manjare un panino. Perfecto, un panino di che. Formaggio e pomodoro. So we can use mi piacce plus an infinitive. So I could also say mi piacce parlare italiano. I like to speak Italian. Mi piacce plus any of these infinitives. Maybe that's a challenge for you this week. Why not find out what you like doing? Look up the word in the dictionary and you get that infinitive form. So if you like playing or if you like singing, you could say mi piacce plus the infinitive that you find in the dictionary. Mark, you've just said singing. So if you say "I like singing" is that the same as "I like to sing" in Italian. Exactly. It actually works the same way as it would work in other romance languages, in French and in Spanish and in Portuguese and so on. I like to sing is the same as "I like singing". So mi piacce and this one we'll give you is cantare. Mi piacce cantare. Mi piacce cantare. So Francesca had said that she liked eating ice cream. How do you just say "I like ice cream" in general? Well, you've got two for the price of one here because mi piacce can be used both with a verb in the infinitive form or a noun. So you could say mi piacce mangiare il gelato. I like eating ice cream. But you can also just say "I like ice cream". Mi piacce il gelato. Mi piacce il gelato. Okay, now in this situation remember that you need to see the word for the mi piacce il gelato. Mi piacce il gelato. Mi piacce la pasta. Mi piacce la pasta. La pasta being, of course, pasta. For instance, mi piacce la pasta. Mi piacce la pizza. Mi piacce la musica. What would that be? I like music. Yeah, mi piacce il cinema. The cinema, I like cinema. And so on. So we can use it with a noun mi piacce plus a noun. However, there is a caveat here. Something that we need to take on word. And that is so far we've talked about mi piacce plus a singular noun. Mi piacce la pizza. La pasta. In cinema la musica. But now what happens if we want to say "I like mushrooms", for example? Katie's favorite thing. In this case, we change mi piacce to a slightly different form. And that is? It's mi piacce no. Listen again. Mi piacce no. So how would we say "I like mushrooms"? Mi piacce no i fungi. Katie, I know that's difficult to say when you don't like them, but can you try saying that? Can I say non mi piacce no i fungi? Perfect! You can indeed say "Mi piacce" or non mi piacce. And for plural things, mi piacce no or non mi piacce no. Non mi piacce no i fungi. Good. OK, so we've got mi piacce and mi piacce no. And we're translating these as "I like". But I am sure that our listeners are already thinking, there's something strange here. Why is it mi piacce and mi piacce no? Why does it change when it's a plural thing? Well, this is because mi piacce doesn't actually mean "I like". It means something more like "To me pleases". To me pleases the pizza. Mi piacce la pizza. To me pleases the music. Mi piacce la musica. But when the thing that we like is plural, Then we. have to change the verb, and it comes from mi piace, with a singular thing, to mi piace ono, with a plural thing. So for example, mi piace ono, i fongi. I like mushrooms, or really, to me, please the mushrooms. The mushrooms please me. Mi piace ono, i fongi. OK, let's try putting this into practice with some of the other foods that we've learned, and we'll introduce some new ones too. How would we say, "I like cheese"? Let's think about this a little. I like cheese, or cheese pleases me, to me pleases cheese. Goodie. Mi piace il formaggio. Bravissima che ti mi piace il formaggio. OK, so that's I like cheese, or cheese pleases me, or to me pleases cheese. Let's try, I like ham. Mi piace il prosciutto. OK, almost. Remember to bounce on that T. OK, much better. OK, T. Perfecto. What about I like olives? Le olives. So I like olives. Mi piace ono, le olives. Good, excellent. We're going to change this a little, because I think it's time for us to learn how to say, "do you like something?" In this case, we would change it to te piace. Do you like a singular thing? Or ti piace ono, or a plural thing. So now I can ask you, Katie. Ti piace ono i fungi. No, non mi piace ono i fungi. Francesca, do you like ti piace oni fungi? And yes, mi piace oni fungi, moltissimo. OK, allora Katie ti piace il polo. I'm going to use my Spanish here and take a guess that is chicken. Well done, yes, it doesn't eat chicken, just watch your pronunciation, because of course, in Spanish, it's pronounced like we're differently, but it's written exactly the same. Il polo. Il polo. Ti piace il polo? Yes, mi piace il polo. How will we see that? I really like chicken in this case, Francesca. You could say, mi piace molto il polo. So putting in molto after mi piace. Katie ti piace il polo? Yes, mi piace molto il polo. Ti piacciono leolive? Yes, mi piacciono leolive. Katie, one more question. How would you ask Francesca? Do you like courgettes or zucchini? Francesca? Ti piacciono i tsukini. Katie, are you sure about i tsukini? Oh, oh, it should be li tsukini. So ti piacciono li tsukini. Aha, see mi piacciono tantissimo. Francesca, I really adore zucchini or courgettes. Fantastic. OK, we've covered a lot in this lesson so far using this construction mi piace and mi piacciono and the question ti piace and ti piacciono. We've not really covered much more in terms of vocabulary and different situations. So let's take this on a little now and we're going to use another infinitive to begin with and that other infinitive is when we've come across already. It's avere. Avere means Katie? To have? Yes. So we're going to talk about avere. Famé. Now Katie, I want you to use your French here. If I were to say, oh, famé, translate that literally as to what you might think it means. Something to do with food. Yeah. So it would be I have hunger? Absolutely. In French, of course, is she hungry? But here we're seeing an Italian or famé. I have hunger. Famé is hunger. And of course, it's a way of seeing I'm hungry or famé. Now, let's twist it around. How would we say are you hungry or do you have hunger? Have you hunger? I, famé. Exactly. So we just use the same words that we use when we were talking about brothers and sisters and sons and daughters. Oh, famé. I have hunger. I'm hungry. I, famé. You have hunger or you're hungry in an informal form. And if we've learned I'm hungry or I have hunger, we also need to learn to be thirsty. It's like I have a thirst. So, oh, seete. Oh, seete. So if it's oh, seete. For I have thirst or I'm thirsty, how would we ask the question? Are you thirsty? I, seete. I, seete. Are you thirsty? Do you have thirst? So, I'm hungry is. Oh, famé. Oh, famé. Are you hungry in formal? I, famé. I, famé. I'm thirsty. Oh, seete. Oh, seete. And are you thirsty? I, seete. I, seete. And then the really confusing one because we're translating to be with the word for to have to be hungry. Of course, that's really to have hunger. Avere famé. And to have thirst or to be thirsty. Avere seete. Avere seete is to be thirsty. The word seete is at the same as the number seven. It's very similar, but number seven is double t, seete. And seete meaning thirst is single t. So when you say thirst, you can have a very long A, seete. While when you say number seven, seete, you need to be very short on your A to allow a very long t sound, seete. Does it help? Yes, thank you. Excellent explanation. Thank you, Francesca. Okay, so it's a good reason to make sure you're pronouncing those double consonants well, seete, as opposed to seete. Okay, we're going to take a short break there, and we'll be back in just a moment. Interrompiamo questa trasmissione per una comunicazione importante. 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Sono vegetariano, fra man, sono vegetarianna, fra woman. Now, think carefully about this, because we don't say "I am a" vegetarian. We say "I am vegetarian", which of course we can see in English too. But it's almost like a profession in that sense. Sono professore, "I am a teacher", sono vegetariano, "I am a vegetarian". Sono catolico, io non sei sono un catolico in su, when it's vegetarianism, when it's any kind of thing that you are that's an inherent part of you, then you don't need to use the word for "a" in there. Sono vegetariano. Katie, what would you say? Sono vegetarianna. Okay, now there also might be the case when you say, "I don't eat something in particular", for example, "I don't eat meat". And then we're going to use that word manjare to eat. But this time not manjare, because that's of course the "to eat" part. We're going to change it to "I eat". How do we say "I eat"? Io mangio. Okay, so we can say "io mangio", if we want to stress the "I eat", "I eat this", but you don't eat that, but we can equally just say "I eat", dropping the "io". Mangio. Mangio. So, if we want to say "I don't eat meat", for example, "non mangio carne", non mangio carne. Or perhaps you don't eat fish. Non mangio pesce. Non mangio pesce. Or pork. I don't eat pork. Non mangio maiale. Non mangio maiale. Or perhaps you don't eat seafood. Non mangio frutti di mare. No, perhaps if you have an allergy to something, you would want to take that a stage for that, and you say "I can't eat seafood", for example, "I can't eat seafood". We know how to say "I can do something". What's that word? Posso. So "I can eat", "poso mangiare", "I can eat seafood", "poso mangiare frutti di mare". So how would you say "I can't eat seafood"? Non posso mangiare frutti di mare. Perfecto. And once again, we can see that we can build the language by adding in each of these parts that we already know. So you could say "I can't eat something, I can't eat fish". Non posso mangiare pesce. I can't eat meat. Non posso mangiare carne. Francesca, could we say "non posso mangiare la carne"? Yes, you can say either "non posso mangiare carne" or "non posso mangiare la carne". So we could also say, for example, "non posso mangiare i frutti di mare". Yes. Perfecto. But there may also be the situation where we are allergic to something. In that case, we say "I am allergic to whatever it is". Sono allergic a, for a man, where "a" is the preposition for "to", or sono allergic a, for a woman. Okay, let's combine this with something that we might be allergic to seafood. The word for "the seafood" is. I frutti di mare, I frutti di mare. So if Francesca wanted to say "I am allergic to the seafood", listen carefully to how she would say this. Sono allergic a, I frutti di mare. So that word there in the middle, sono allergic a, I frutti di mare. That is the combination of "a" and "i". Sono allergic a, that's the "to", but then "i frutti di mare". But the "a" and the "i" combine to make one word "i". Ai, ai frutti di mare. I would say "sono allergic a, ai frutti di mare". Sono allergic a, ai frutti di mare. So when you have "a" and "i" coming together, then it becomes "i". There's another example of this with the word for milk products, daily products. I lati cini. Let's try singing that again. I lati cini. I lati cini. So Katie, can you work out how you would say "I am allergic to daily products"? Sono allergic a, ai lati cini. So "a" and "i" come together. Now we'll go through all of the different combinations of these prepositions and the different articles in another episode. But one other one that we might want to cover just now is with the word that literally means "dried fruit", but it can help to cover all the situations where you might be allergic to nuts or any kind of dried fruit in that sense. So you could say "I am allergic to the dried fruit". Francesca, what would you say? Sono allergic a, alla frutta secca. Listen again to the part that is "to the dried fruit". Alla frutta secca. So the "a" joins the "la" and you get an extra "l" in the air so you need to bounce the consonant, alla frutta secca, 3 bouncing consonants, alla frutta secca. Sounds nice, alla frutta secca, alla frutta secca. Perfecto. So "I am allergic to dried fruits". Sono allergic alla frutta secca. Perfecto. It's such a nice sounding phrase. Okay. It's almost time to finish this lesson, we've gone through quite a lot in this lesson, but we'd like to practice it and to practice it. In this week's bonus episode we have got a lovely conversation for you and this conversation takes place in a restaurant and it will give you lots of opportunities to practice all the language that we've covered in both this lesson and indeed in the previous lesson. But just before we finish this lesson there's time for one more cafe culturale with Francesca. Yes, all this talk of food has got me really hungry. So today I'm going to teach you a little more about Italian food, il cibo italiano. You probably already know quite a lot about Italian food and you have probably tried lasagne al forno and loads of different pastas, but did you know that in Italia, la pasta is often served as a first course. It's very common for Italians to have pasta con sugo pasta without tomato sauce to start. Then we have meat with potatoes and vegetables after. The first course in Italian is called il primo piatto. The second is il secondo piatto and for dessert, si dice il dolce. Did you know that there are approximately 350 different types of pasta? Let's go through some of them now. We have already spoken about lasagne and spaghetti and you probably know penne. Capelli d'Angelo literally means hair of an angel and this is very thin, long pieces of pasta which are similar to noodles. Farfalle is the type that looks a bit like a butterfly or a bow tie and it's often eaten con salmone, with salmon and there is also one called pastina which is sometimes star shaped. Il mio piatto preferito si chiama pasta la carbonara, delizioso. Well, if you are on Facebook, why not post a comment telling us what your favorite Italian dish is. That's all for today, buon appetito. I have to say that my favorite type of pasta is bucattini which is like a long, a thick spaghetti but with. a hole down in the middle because it's got a little hole all the way through and also pretty much for about 20 years of my life we had pastina in brodo every day oh i love it on a Sunday evening pastina in brodo little little pasta in broth so there we have it some more Italian food ideas for you so that's another episode of coffee breake Italian for you and if you're anything like me you will be quite hungry now at this so of fame before you do head off for something to eat perhaps you would consider leaving us a review on iTunes or on Stitcher wherever you listen to coffee breake Italian let us know what you think and of course by that by doing that you'll help other people who are learning Italian discover our show too and just as Francesco said why don't you let us know your favorite Italian dish on facebook at facebook.com forward slash coffee breake Italian and if you are on twitter don't forget we are at learn italian and tell us on twitter what you like eating you can hashtag CBI13 for coffee breake Italian lesson 13 and all but thank you very much and see you next time. 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