CBI 1-21 | Talking about the weather in Italian

Coffee Break Italian Season 1 Episode 21 Buongiorno a tutti e benvenuti a Coffee Break Italian, io sono Mark Ciao, sono Katie, è un bel piacchio Ciao a tutti e io sono Francesca, bentornati Ah, una buona frase a parte del tempo con bentornati Cosa vuol dire Francesca bentornati? Eh, vuol dire, "Welcome back" "Welcome back" e invece, è un'interesse di una cosa interessante che hai bisogno di parlare con voi che hai detto Se hai detto di un po' di personi, vuol dire? "Ben tornato" Se hai detto di un po' di personi? "Ben tornata" Se hai detto di un po' di personi? "Ben tornate" E se hai detto di un po' di personi, sono un'interesse di un po' di personi, vuol dire? "Ben tornati" E' un po' di personi, vuol dire? Ben tornati, "Welcome back" Ho hoping che hai avuto una brilhenta sempre, che hai detto di un po' di personi che hai detto di un po' di personi, e invece, per essere una materia che abbiamo fatto di averla di averlo, rispettiamo di salire una volta, per una cosa è una 20 lezione di finire la Season 1 Se hai detto di questo e il mismo spesso di l'interno in il futuro, e è non il spesso di l'interno, poi non ci sono capito di cosa ci sono attydendo, ma quando abbiamo fatto questo, quando abbiamo fatto questo, asi sono attentivi del spesso di l'interno e Francesca è in Italia, la spesso di l'interno? 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Siamo pronti? Sì, cominciamo. Ok, tu answer Katie's question, Katie had asked how we say what time is it? Francesca, how do we say what time is it in Italian? We can either say che ora è o che or è sono? Let's listen to both of those versions, again, they both mean exactly the same thing and are completely interchangeable. So listen again to the first option. and the second option. So literally we have here what our is it or what ours are they? Yes. Ok, ora è o che or è sono? So to answer the question, we can use the many phrases that we learned in lesson 19. For example, it's four o clock. Katie, can you remember how you would say it's four o clock? Sono le quattro. Sono le quattro. What about it's half past two? Sono le due e mezzo. Sono le due e mezzo or? E le due e mezza. We've got two options there. Sono le due e mezzo or sono le due e mezza. What about it's 153? Katie? è Luna e 53? Bravissima, Katie, ricorda tutto. She remembers everything. Eluna e 53. It's 153. Si. Perfetto. So, ok, now you know how to say what time is it and we've got two options for that. Ke ora è o che or è sono? Let's now move on to the main topic for today and as Francesca said earlier, that is il tempo, which is the weather. Il tempo. No, when I was on my way up to the studio in Glasgow this morning, I was driving up and it was an absolutely beautiful morning. In fact, down in Erser, by the coast, c'è il sole. What do you think that might mean? C'è il sole. Katie, can you work out literally what it would mean? Well, c'è is, there is, I think. Exactly, c'è un ristorante, qui vi c'è no? Is there or there is a restaurant in the vicinity? Exactly, and il sole, I'm guessing, is it sunny? So, there is the sun. There is the sun, yes, exactly. So, il sole is the sun. C'è il sole means there is the sun. So, when we want to say it's sunny, we can say. C'è il sole. C'è il sole. And you can run the words together, just like Francesca did there. C'è il sole. C'è il sole. OK, so literally, there is the sun. And we can use this expression in different ways when we're talking about weather. We could say, there is the sun, c'è il sole. But on my arrival in Glasgow this morning, I discovered that it was thick, pea soup fog everywhere. So, there is fog, would be. C'è la nebia. Listen again to that. C'è la nebia. C'è la nebia. So, I could say, a er dove abito, c'è il sole. Ma a Glasgow dove lavoro c'è la nebia. Sí. OK, let's put this into the context of an Italian weather forecast. And imagine that in Brescia it's foggy, but in Vicenza it's sunny. OK. OK, so let's hear this. A Brescia c'è la nebia, ma a Vicenza c'è il sole. OK, kitty, so that's Brescia and Vicenza. Can you give us the weather forecast for Brescia and Vicenza? I can try. Perfetto. C'è il sole. C'è la nebia. Francesca, there's another weather forecast that we can give using that same expression. Sí, c'è il vento. Ah, no. Kitty, I'm sure with your mastery of other languages you can work out exactly what c'è il vento means. I'm going to go for its windy. It's windy. Literally, there is wind. So let's try seeing these three expressions one more time. It's sunny. C'è il sole. C'è il sole. It's foggy. C'è la nebia. C'è la nebia. C'è la nebia. C'è la nebia. And it's windy. C'è il vento. C'è il vento. C'è il vento. In each case, we can run those words together. C'è il vento. C'è il sole. C'è la nebia. And in each case, we can run those words together. C'è il vento. C'è il sole. C'è la nebia. And also it's worth pointing out that you might hear these phrases sometimes without the definite article. So you might hear for its foggy. C'è nebia. Or its windy. C'è vento. Or it's sunny. C'è sole. So, and different we of expressing yourself when you're talking about weather. Now, we don't always use cè for weather because we also have other verbs that we can use in particular. There's a very common verb that you know well and that is the verb fare. So we can combine fare with other things and say for example, it's warm. Faccaldo. Faccaldo. So literally, it makes heat. Faccaldo. Faccaldo. Or it's cold. Fafreddo. Fafreddo. So it's warm. Fafaccaldo. It's cold. Fafreddo. And we can also say it's nice weather using that same fare verb. Fabello. Fabello. And that word bello literally means beautiful. So it makes beautiful. Obviously we're talking really about the tempo. Fabel tempo. It's beautiful weather. Or just fa bello. Fabello. Fabel tempo. Francesca, what's the opposite of its beautiful weather? Bruto. Bruto. That's an ugly word to describe ugly. So we can see it's not nice weather. Fabruto. Fabruto. Or. Fabruto tempo. Fabrutto tempo. Ok, so for more weather items, it's nice weather, it's beautiful weather. Fabello. Fabello. It's not nice weather. Fabrutto. Fabrutto. It's cold. Fabredo. Fabredo. And it's hot. Faccaldo. Faccaldo. Of course, we can change how hot it is by using words like "very". Molto. Or "quite". Abastanza. That's a tricky one. Abastanza. So let's try saying it's very hot, kitty. Fa molto caldo. Fa molto caldo. And can you try saying it's quite cold. Fa abbastanza preto. Brava. Fa abbastanza preto. Fa abbastanza preto. Ciò stuocce di abbastanza. Abastanza. Ok, abbastanza. Abastanza. Ok, ho uso a member to be good on that. Abastanza. Abastanza. Fa abbastanza preto. Fa abbastanza preto. Fa abbastanza preto. Perfetto. Ok, kitty, can you remember how you say it's sunny? Cè il sole. Esatto. So, we've got cè for sunny, windy and foggy. And then we use fa for hot, cold, nice and not nice weather. All right, so far? So far, so good. Excellent. There are probably a few other types of weather. And perhaps two other types of weather in particular that we're very used to here in Scotland. So, I'm just going to ask, I need to know how to say it snowing. It's snowing? Ok, snowing is a lovely word. Do you like it? I love that word, yeah. Nevika. Nevika. I just think it sounds like snow falling. Nevika. Ok, yeah, ok, yeah. The snow doesn't fall like that in Scotland. No, it doesn't really. So, we've got it snowing. Nevika. Nevika. And the other Scottish word. It's raining. Piove. Piove. Ok, so let's try those two words again. It's snowing. Nevika. Nevika. And it's raining. Piove. Piove. Excellent. So, am I right in thinking that those are verbs themselves rather than it's snowing or it's raining? Exactly. In fact, Piove comes from the verb. Piove. Turin. So, it's got its own verb. Alright, Piove. Meaning, Turin. So, we get Piove. And likewise, Nevika comes from. Nevika. The verb to snow. So, Nevika. Meaning, it snows. Or, it's snowing. Coming from the verb Nevika. It's to snow. However, with nice weather, bad weather, hot weather, cold weather. Sun, fog and wind. We use the other expressions. Either "che" for sun, fog and wind. Or "fa" for all the nice weather, bad weather, warm weather or cold weather. Tutto bene? Si. Ok, 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. If you'd like to make faster progress with your Italian, don't forget that you can use the premium version of this course, which features video versions of the lessons, comprehensive lesson notes and bonus listening materials. Allora, cosa spetti? What are you waiting for? If you'd like to take your Italian to the next level, go to coffeebreakitalianplus.com. Ok, let's get on with the lesson. I think it's time to put Katie and our listeners to the test here. Let's see if we can do some weather forecasts again. Let's see if we can see in Rome its warm and sunny. Yes, somewhere hot. We'll give our listeners some time to think about it. Katie, I've got a question for you. We've not actually looked at the question yet. But the question is, "Què tempo fa a Roma?" Excellent. Ok, let's try number two. We'll go up to Bresanone, up in the Austrian border, almost, and in Bresanone, it's snowing and it's windy. Ok, Katie? Ah, Bresanone? No, no, no, no, Nevika, and there's the wind. Perfect. Bresanone, Nevika, and there's the wind. I'm sure if it's snowing, then it will be Fredo. Fredo, Fredo. I'm so used to saying that here. I just had to get that in. Francesca, you used a new word there. Fredissimo. Fredissimo, very cold. And you can also use the same kind of expression with hot. Si, caldissimo. So that's when you take an adjective and you add theissimo ending and it makes it extra hot or extra cold. It's a Fredissimo, and Nevika, Bresanone, today. Ok, let's try one more. Let's try in Ventimilia. It's foggy, but it's quite warm. So in Ventimilia, it's foggy, but it's quite warm. Katie? I've been there. It wasn't foggy when I was there. In Ventimilia, there's the snow and it's quite cold. What's it perfect? You said in Ventimilia it's foggy and quite warm, which was very good. You could have a good calm, but I had actually said but quite warm. So let's try the whole thing in Ventimilia. It's foggy, but quite warm. In Ventimilia, there's the snow, but it's not quite warm. Perfect. Very good. In Ventimilia, there's the snow, but it's quite cold. Ok, brilliant. Listen again to the question. What's the weather like? If you're on vacation in Italy or any other Italian speaking area in Switzerland or in other countries, then you might want to know what the weather is like today. So you could say, "Kitempuffa oggi, you get up out of your hotel bed, you open the windows, infaufалgi, e then you'll know what the weather is like, and what events and what things you'll be able to do on that day. But you might also be thinking what is the weather going to be like tomorrow or what's the weather like? Tomorrow just a straightforward present tense question. "Que tempo fa" "domani?" "domani" è a word that we've come across before, it means tomorrow. And you might be wondering why are we using a present tense when we're talking about tomorrow, because tomorrow is obviously in the future. Well, the fact is that in Italian we can use the present tense when we're talking about the future in this sense. So, for example, I can say "Oggi fa freddo ma domani fa caldo". "Si". So today it's cold, but tomorrow it's sunny. And this is really because we've mentioned the word "domani", we know that we're talking about tomorrow, and therefore we can say "domani fa caldo" or "domani piuove, domani nevica" and so on. Tutto bene? Sí. Oltimo. No, it's time to return to our café cultureale, our cultural, coffee spot, where we are going to be talking this week, somewhere where it's very, very often warm fa caldo, quasi totillten, bonas. Ok, so today I'm going to talk to you about L'Isola più grande d'Italia, the largest island in Italy. Any ideas what it might be? Sí, la Sicilia, Sicily, it's situated right at the bottom of the boot of the mainland, on the west near the toe. The reason a bridge non c'è un ponte, to connect the island to the rest of Italy, so if you want to visit Sicily, you would need to fly or get a ferry. Se volete visitare la Sicilia, dove hai fatto? prendere un aereo o un traghetto. In fact, even the train, il treno, drives on to the ferry, il traghetto, and then continues its journey when the boat has arrived at the island. Before the un'unificazione di Italy in mille o torcento se Sant'uno. Diciamo che la 1861, il country was made up of many independent states, e so many Sicilian people like that they are not connected to the mainland, because they want to protect their heritage. Sometimes they even go so far as to say that first they are Sicilian and then Italian. Sicily is of course the home of the highest active volcano in Europe, il Monte Etna, Mount Etna, and as well as the largest volcano, il terzo di l'Italia ha il largest opera house in the Hall of Italy. Il Teatro Massimo è fond in Palermo di Ilands Capital, il capoluogo dell'Isola. Ok, that's all and I look forward to telling you more information about Italy the next time. Grazie Francesca, as we've been learning to talk about the different types of weather in Italian, can we also learn about the seasons of the year? Absolutely, we need to know how to say that in summer it's warm and sunny, in winter it's cold and it snows, at least it doesn't this part of the world, I know that in other parts of the world it's not quite like that, but let's learn the seasons of the year. So first of all let's look at spring. La primavera. La primavera. Must be familiar to you, Katie. Yes, it's very similar to the Spanish, which would be. Primera. Primera. So la primavera, it means the first greenness literally in a sense. Yes, yeah. La primavera. What about summer? L'estate. And just to be clear that's east, T-A-T-E, so it's el apostrophe. L'estate. L'estate. What about autumn or fall? Lautunno. It's very similar to the English, autunno, autumn, lautunno, and winter. L'inverno. L'inverno. So that's winter. And to say in the winter or in the summer we just say. In. So in the winter, in winter, fafreddo e nevica. And we are going to turn it over to you because what we like you to do is tell us what the weather's like in your part of the world. You can say oggi fafreddo, today it's cold, or you can tell us a little more, for example, in inverno fafreddo e nevica, or in estate piuove. Whatever happens to be, we look forward to reading your responses. But that's where we're going to leave it for this episode. So we hope that it was worth the wait that you've enjoyed this episode of Coffee Break Italian and that you can now talk about the weather. Let's face it, when you're talking about the weather is always a great talking point. So that will give you more opportunities to talk to locals when you're traveling in an Italian speaking place. Now this episode contains lots of useful information. If you'd like a written version of all this, also to be able to access our video version and get access to the bonus episode, the bonus audio episode, you can head over to coffeebreakitalianplus.com and find out more there. We've put some new videos on YouTube, so just search for coffee breakitalian on YouTube and you'll find our videos and you can also find us obviously on the website where you can share all your thoughts on coffee breakitalian. As Mark's already said, why don't you let us know what the weather's like in your part of the world on our Facebook page at facebook.com/coffeebreakitalian. 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