CBI 1-20 | Buying train tickets and Review

Coffee Break Italian Season 1 Episode 20 Good morning everyone, welcome to Coffee Break Italian Eos on a Mark Hello everyone, it's Francesca, it's the end of Katie And we are here with the 20th lesson of our course Now this is us arriving at the halfway point, the midway point of our first season And we hope that like us, you've been enjoying this and you have learned lots and lots of Italian You're already putting into use, Alora, come start it! Oh, Francesca, come start it! It's very very good, thank you! Ah, yes, it's very very good today, thank you! We're delighted to be bringing you another episode This episode we're going to be focusing on a little more about public transport And then, taking a look back at some of the words and phrases that we've learned over the past 20 lessons Alora, siamo pronti! Si prontissimi! Initiamo! Okay, last time we were looking at travel and transport and looking at Taking buses and trains and so on Now one of the things that we didn't talk about at all was actually buying the ticket We know how to see which platform the trains are leaving from when the trains are leaving But we don't actually know the word for "ticket" A ticket is? Un bilietto! Un bilietto! So Katie, can you work out how you would say "where?" Can I buy a ticket? Dove posso comprare un bilietto? Let's add to this and let's involve a little more elaborate Italian And see if you can work out how you would say "can you tell me please where can I buy a ticket?" Or "where I can buy a ticket?" Mi potrebbe dire dove posso comprare un bilietto per favore? Fantastic! Katie, mi potrebbe dire dove posso comprare un bilietto per favore? As you know, I'm a bit of a perfectionist So just one thing that you said "mi potrebbe dire" which is "could you tell me?" I think I'd ask for it. "Did you say can?" "What should be?" Mi può dire, sorry. That's okay, so mi può dire, mi potrebbe dire, of course these would both get you the same information In return, mi potrebbe dire or mi può dire? Mi potrebbe dire dove posso comprare un bilietto? Where can I buy a ticket? Francesca! In una stazione italiana, dovesi compranoi bilietti? Where do you buy tickets? It depends, it depends. You can get tickets from a machine, you can get tickets from the news agent, you can get tickets on board, for example if you take a bus. Okay, so let's think about maybe one of those first of all, it would be the machine. What would the machine be? Una macchinetta? So in response to the question, where can I buy a ticket? You may be told you can buy a ticket at the machine. Può comprare i bilietti alla macchinetta. So they're Francesca's talking about i bilietti, the tickets. Or perhaps you may be told you can buy your tickets at the ticket office. Può comprare i bilietti in bilieteria. Okay, we are now in the bilieteria. You may want to use the macchinetta, but if you really want to practice your retaliation, then it's probably better to go to the bilieteria. I'd ask for, for example, a return ticket to Florence. Now a return ticket or round trip ticket to Florence would be? So literally that is a ticket of going and coming back, out the way and back in the way to Florence. So let's put that into a whole sentence I would like to buy a return ticket or a round trip ticket to Florence. Vorei comprare un bilietto di andata eritorno per Firenze. Now the next sentence or the next question that you may hear is for how many people. And we know the word for how many already. Francesca, come and say this. Quanti? Quanti per quanti for how many? Or per quante persone. Listen to the difference here. Per quanti for how many? But per quante persone. For how many people? Listen again. Per quanti. Per quante persone. Per quanti. Per quante persone. Okay, so you may want to say for two adults at a child. Per due adulti e un bambino. Okay, let's put all of this together. I would like to buy a return ticket to Florence for two adults and one child. See if you can work that out. Katie, can you work out? Okay, no Francesca, there are other ways of seeing this, of course. Yes, for example, if it's free of you traveling, you could say "Vorei tre billetti" using the plural of billetto and then you can specify "Vorei tre billetti due adulti e un bambino". Perfecto. Now, we've so far been talking about billetti di andata e retorno, tickets from going and coming back. We might want to buy just a single ticket, a one-way ticket and that would be? E un billetto di sola andata, or you could just simply say "un billetto", which automatically means a one-way ticket. Okay, so if you're looking for a one-way ticket to Bolzano, then you would be seeing? Un billetto di sola andata per Bolzano. Or you can just say "un billetto per Bolzano". Perfecto. Katie, can you try saying "I would like to buy a single ticket to Bolzano". Vorei comprare un billetto di sola andata per Bolzano. Okay, now one thing that we would like to mention here is that when you're traveling in Italian trains and indeed in many other parts of Europe, you will find that you often have to validate your ticket. You need to stamp your ticket in a little machine on the platform. It's very often orange, is it orange in Italy? Yeah, I think that's now changed them and they're green, but you can still find orange or yellow old machines. And this is basically putting the date and the time on your ticket. Yes. So when a ticket inspector checks your ticket, it is indeed a correct ticket and you have the right to use that ticket. Yes. So you may want to ask a question, do I have to validate the ticket? Yes, I have to validate the bill. I have to validate the bill. And of course, that way you'll make sure that you don't incur a sometimes rather hefty fine if you end up traveling without a validated ticket. A multa. Salata. You don't want a multa. Okay, so that's a little bit of inside information there. You're possible train travels in Italy. Unfortunately, before we leave the topic of train travel, there is one other word that we do have to talk about when we're talking about train travel in Italy. And that's a low word. It's a word that begins with an S and another consonant. And I think Francesca from her face knows exactly which word I'm talking about. From experience, lo shoppero. Strike. Let's look at my desk before a low shop, but. A low shop, but. So, today, shop, but that's what you don't want to hear when you're traveling by train in Italy. Very often. Together with the other word, il ritardo. The delay. I'll read it later which you may indeed either. Here are C in a train station in Italy. - It happens. (laughing) - I think it's time to leave this topic of trains and travel and transport and so on, because it's time now to look a little backwards at all the things that we've covered in a coffee-break Italian so far. And to do that, we're going to use a bit of a conversation, a conversation that we've planned, however, I am going to be feeding Katie some things that she is going to be saying and translating into Italian as we go along. So the conversation is going to be between Katie and Francesca and I'll be giving Katie the instructions as to what she's going to say. And of course, this will also give you a chance to think up these phrases in Italian and come up with them and join in the conversation. So this situation is that Katie is arriving at a hotel in Italy. Okay, Katie, say Pronta. - Si. - Francesca, Pronta. - Si, si, si. - Okay, andiamo. - So Katie, first of all, I would like you to say, hello, I don't have a reservation. Do you have any free room? So we'll give you some time to think about this and then it's over to you. - Buongiorno. Non ho una prenotazione, avete camerae libere. - Si, certo. Cuanto tempo rimanete qui. Okay, now Francesca has used rimanete so we know that Katie is with her friend. So Katie, can you say that you're going to be staying for three nights. You'd like two single rooms and ideally with a balcony. We'll give everyone some time to think. - Okay, so Katie, what Francesca asked for? - She wants my credit card and she wants to see my passport as well. - Exactly. You can then in turn see, here is the passport and here's the credit card. Let's give everyone some time to think. - Ecco il passporto. Ecco la carta di credito. - Perfetto. Allora, ecco le chiavi. Sono le camerae 97 e 98. Il ristorante è di fronte alla chensore. Buona permanenza. - Okay, so there's quite a lot of information there. First of all, Francesca said ecco le chiavi. Here are the keys. And she mentioned the room numbers. Katie, did you pick up the room numbers? - I think she said 97 and 98. - Francesca, give you one other bit of information. Let's listen again. - What does that mean Katie? - The restaurant is opposite the lift. And finally, Francesca being the receptionist, wished you a nice stay. - Buona permanenza. Grazie. - Vas, I was just gonna say so. You should never say thank you. Okay, we're going to take a short break there and we'll be back in just a moment. (upbeat music) Here at Coffee Break Italian, we want to help you turn your downtime into due time. We'll be doing a bit of practice. Join us on Facebook three times a week and put your Italian to work with our language challenges and cultural insights, as they say, practice makes perfect. Or in italiano, la pratica rende perfetti. Head over to facebook.com/coffeebreakitalian. A presto allora. (upbeat music) - Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Okay, so that's the first part of the conversation. Later that evening, you and your friend are having dinner in the restaurant. So this very hardworking receptionist is now the waitress. - Okay, this is scheduled for me. - Absolutely. - So let's begin this next part of the conversation. - Buonasera. - Okay, Katie, you can say good evening obviously, but then I'd like you to try and say, can one eat here. We know the different parts of that sentence. So how would you say can one eat here? - Buonasera. Si può mangiare qui? Si, certo. Okay, so you can say very good. Then you might want to ask for a table for two. Si, prego, ecco il menù. - So prego meaning come this way and Francesca's giving you the menu, but as a menu in Italian, and unfortunately your friend doesn't read Italian. - So you might want to ask, do you have one in English? - I'll need to recommend this podcast here then. - Absolutely. - So do you have one in English? Let's give our listener some time to think. Okay, do you have one in English, or is there one in English? Might be an easier way of working this out? No, mi dispiace. - She really will need to listen to coffee break, listen to coffee break Italian, your friend. Just going back to that, If you couldn't work that one out, you could say, do you have a menu in English? How would you say that, kiddie? - Perfecto. Okay, so there's no menu in English. We'll have to make do, you'll have to be doing the translation. So let's go on, you've sat down at your table, you had a look at the menu and it's time to order. So Francesca, which is Francesca this time? (laughing) - What's the brandet? - Now, you can't quite decide, so you are going to ask the question, can you recommend something to me? And let's say you like mushrooms and chicken, and we'll see what Francesca suggests. So can you recommend something for me? I like mushrooms and chicken. - I never thought I would hear that come out of Francesca's mouth, but. (laughing) - Okay, so let's just go back there, "Po consigliar mi qualcosa?" Can you recommend something for me? That's good. Does another way of saying that, of course? "Mi po consigliare," or "Po consigliar mi." And then your part where you said, "I like mushrooms and chicken," was perfect. "Mi piacciono, i fongi e il pollo." I like mushrooms and chicken. So Francesca has recommended that, delightfully tell you in this, she loves so much pizza with chicken. - What have I done? (laughing) - So you decide then that that's okay, Katie. You say you'll have the pizza and your friend will have a mushroom risotto. - Okay, to drink, you would like, let me see, a bottle of sparkling water and perhaps a bottle of red wine to share between the two of you. - Okay, now while Francesca the waitresses often fits your drinks, it's probably not something that you would need for the mineral water or indeed the wine, but can you remember what the word is for a straw? - Oh, na canucha, that's right. You'll not be needing a canucha. So, okay, oh, here comes Francesca back with your drinks. - Okay, ecco laqua, ecco el vino rosso. - Okay, so you can say thank you. - Grazie. - And you also might want to ask for a little bread. You know the word for a little. - Un po. - Now, a little of something is un po di and the word for bread, we've not covered specifically, but we have also mentioned banino, which is a little bread rule, and the word for bread is pane. So, a little bread would be. - Un po di pane. - Okay, so you can ask for, could I have a little bread please? - Okay, so while Francesca goes off to, she's probably going off to make the meal, because she's probably also the cook in this. - Of course, I'm multitasking. - Let's talk a little, because you've got someone at the next table who starts talking to you, and this person who is a gentleman, and he is asking you and your friend where you're from, so he would say, "Didovesiete, what could you say to this gentleman?" - Si amo di Glasgow in Scotia. - Molto bene, and then he goes on and asks you, "What are you doing here? Cos' ha fatte qui?" You might want to say, "We are on holiday. We are on vacation. Can you remember how to say that?" - Si amo in vacanza. - And then the gentleman complements you on your Italian. - Thanks a lot, you're getting interested in that. - You get back to the kitchen. - Okay, sorry. - So he says, "Parla Molto bene, l'italiano." - Thank you. - Okay, I think it's time for the meal to arrive, yeah? - Yes, please. - Just in time. So Francesca arrives with the meal. - Ecco la pizza per lei, e il risotto per lei. - Buon appetito. - Grazie. - Now, Kate, you have a problem. You do not have a fork. - Oh dear. - How would you say, "I. this is already silly today. We do apologize. We hope you're enjoying it as much as we are." - So how would you say, "I need a fork"? Let's give our listeners some time to think about it. - I need a fork. - I need is "O bisogno di una forqueta"? - Oh, bisogno di una forqueta. Perfecto. - Eh, sí, mi dispiace. Arrivo subito. - Right, so Francesca's off to get the fork. You eat your meal and it's about time to finish the meal, I think. Francesca, you come back and you'd like to find out if Katie and her friend enjoyed the meal. - And ora, comera. - We've not covered that before. What would it mean? - How? Was it? - Absolutely. It's straightforward enough. - Comera, comera, but you run it together. Comera. - Comera. - And so let's see, it was delicious. Thank you. - Delizioso, grazie. Bene, volete un café. - Okay Katie, you don't want a coffee, but you would like a tea with lemon and for your friend coffee. - Vorei un te con limone e per la mia amica un café. - Molto bene. - Okay, it's time to ask for the bill. - Il conto per favore. Sono 34 euro e 85. - Okay, so what trace was that? - 34 euros and 85 cents. - Okay, that's not bad going for that meal. - No, not too bad with a bottle of wine as well. - Absolutely. - I'm too good. - Very kind. Thank you Francesca. - Okay, let's continue. - You want to ask one more question before you finish here, before you leave the restaurant. It says still, relatively early in the evening and you'd like to know when the supermarket closes. So can you ask a polite way of seeing that when does the supermarket close? - So you now know when the supermarket closes. You might want to explain why you're asking this question, although the chances are Francesca quite possibly works in the supermarket too. - Yeah, I do my nice shift there, of course. Don't need to sleep. - So you can say, okay, I would like to buy a bottle of water. - Perfect. And that is where we're going to leave our conversation for today. Well done, Katie. Bravo. - Bravo. - I'll write quite a little bit about you. It's almost all for today, but we've got some information to share with you. First of all, I think we should all be giving Katie a pat at the back. You have obviously learned lots and lots since you started with Coffee Break Italian and we hope that all our listeners feel the same and that they've also made lots of progress. - Oh, thank you. I really enjoyed learning the Italian so far and I'm really looking forward to the next 20 lessons. Thank you both for teaching us. - Okay, it's the Mutual Appreciation Society. It's great. - The next few months are obviously Lestate this summer and things are going to be a little bit different over the summer because, well, there are lots of things going on here. We've all got some plans for the summer. Francesca, Tenevae. - Yes, I have to take a train for London and then an aeropermilano. So Francesca is heading back to Italy for the summer, which means that we'll be recording our next lessons of Coffee Break Italian after the summer and we'll be back with you with our normal lessons in the autumn or in the fall. However, that does not mean that there's going to be no Italian from now until then. First of all, you have 20 lessons that you can go back and listen to once more. That means that you can consolidate all the language in these lessons and build your vocabulary, build your understanding. If you are a premium member and you have access to all our bonus materials, there's lots of translation challenges in there which will help you to test your understanding of Italian and indeed test your ability to create Italian and to manipulate the language. In between times, before we get to our next set of lessons, we're also going to be releasing some new content, some content to help you keep your Italian ticking over in your head. And that will be in the form of some audio content, both in the members' feed and in our public feed too. So, stay tuned to coffeebreakitalian.com. Make sure you're still following us on Facebook and on Twitter and we'll put the details on there as soon as those materials are available. And if you continue to subscribe to the podcast, then those will reach you automatically as soon as they become available. All right. And that's all for today. And that's all for the first part of Coffee Break Italian Season 1. Yes, it's been fantastic. Thank you Mark. Thank you for being here. And thank you to our listeners. Exactly. We'll be back again soon with more Italian for you in the meantime. I need to go over those numbers again. See you later. Ciao. Buonne vacanse. This is the production of the RadioLingua Network. Find out more at www.radio-lingua.com