CBI 1:22 | Talking about aches and pains in Italian

Coffee Break Italian Season 1 Episode 22 Ciao a tutti, io sono Mark Ciao, sono Francesca, buongiorno, sono Kati And we are back with another episode of Coffee Break Italian for you Come state, Francesca, come stai? Io sto benissimo, grazie tu, Mark Anche io sto bene, grazie Sisto bene, grazie We are all very well and very pleased to be back here with another episode of Coffee Break Italian for you Last time we were talking about the weather So, Kati, ho una domanda per te Si Che tempo fa oggi? Fa freddo Fa freddo? Si Come sempre, in Scozia Si Non piove Benissimo, so we can make a negative form of piuve by gestating a non in front, non piuve, so it's not raining Is it a unusual? It's quite unusual for a not-veerening, c'è il sole? Un po', sì Ah, c'è un po' di sole Ok, so you can see there's a little sun, c'è un po' di sole C'è un po' di sole Perfetto Francesca mi ha detto che stavi parlando con la tua amica Stavato in Giovanna T'eretto che fa bel tempo in Italia, non è vero? Si, fa bel tempo c'è il sole, fa caldo Si ti fortunati in Italia, no? Si, fortunatissimi Parfetto di Francesca si è in Scotland, però è un coldo da nevoz in Italy In Italy, di che c'è il quale era in Italy? O di che c'è Francesca? Tu vanno a se che c'è? Caldo? Bello? C'è il sole? È molto importante Ok, oggi we're going to move on and do something a little bit different because one of the things that you'll encounter when you're traveling in Italy is that certain things might happen, certain things that you may have to deal with in Italian and one of these is when things don't go quite so well, health-wise you might have a sore head, you might have stomachache, you might have a sore back and you'll need to perhaps visit a pharmacy to get some help with that So we're going to be looking at this topic over this lesson and the next lesson and we're starting today by learning some parts of the body Allora siamo pronti Si, cominciamo Ok, let's begin by looking at some parts of the body Parts of the body where we may have things sore For example, the head, come and see the head in Italian Si dice la testa Listen again La testa La testa So the head is la testa, how would we say "ah head"? Ghi ti? Una testa? Una testa, certo! Una testa, la testa, obviously, a feminine word Let's look at a masculine word for a different part of the body and that would be lo stomaco, the stomach Lo stomaco Lo stomaco Now you'll have noticed that that's a lo word because it starts with ST, lo stomaco A stomach, if we were using the indefinite article would be Una stomaco Good, una stomaco because it starts with ST and out of curiosity, can you just testing your understanding of this grammar point? How would we say "stomachs", the stomachs, the plural form? Yuli stomache? Si, yuli stomache, or yuku dosa say "li stomache", etc. I trick you word it, we'll not go into that when it lets us say that we're unlikely to be talking about multiple stomachs Unless we're talking about camels or cows, I believe camels and cows have multiple stomachs Ok? Va bene, andiamo avanti Ok? Another word for another part of the body that we could be talking about here when we're talking about pains and so on would be gola, the word for throat Gola, gola I think we've heard that before, I think you had a sore throat one time mark I did indeed have a sore throat one time when we were recording Coffee Break Italian Can you remember how to say? I have a sore throat because that's actually what we're just about to come on to I have a sore throat or I have throat ache? Um, oh, mal di gola Almost, almost is very close Si, oh mal di gola, not mal, but mal So mal, it becomes mal for this expression, oh mal di, and then whatever it is, that is sore Not only when you're talking about something that's kind of recognised as a thing that you get sore like headache, throat ache, stomach ache, back ache and so on So, try saying I have a sore throat or I have throat ache Oh mal di gola Molto bene, oh mal di gola Ok, now let's now try saying I have a headache Francesca, can you tell us what I have a headache would be? Oh mal di testa Oh mal di testa So testa is head Oh mal di testa, I have bad of head or mal di testa And we've also learned stomach, so how would we say stomach ache? I have belly ache Can you work out one out? Oh mal di stomaco? Perfecto, e molto fattile, non è vero? Si So oh mal di, plus whatever it is that's hurting And again, this is where we're talking about specific things that tend to be sore like headaches, throat aches What about back ache? We mentioned back ache already How do you say back? Sqena So it's a feminine word? Si, lasqena Lasqena So Katie, how would you say I have back ache? Oh mal di schena? Perfecto, oh mal di schena, oh mal di gola, oh mal di testa What about I have ear ache? Ear is orecchio, oh mal di orecchio So let's break down ears a little because that's quite complicated Ears in the plural form is Orecchio So that's le orecchio, the ears, what is one ear and ear? Mmm, it's l'orecchio, it's a masculine noun So it's masculine in the singular And feminine in the plural, yes So the plural form would be Le orecchio So how would we say I have ear ache? Katie Oh mal di orecchio? Yeah, oh mal di orecchio Si, perfecto Francesca, how would you say I have to say? Well in Italian we would really say I have teeth ache, we would use the plural So the word for teeth is identity, do you want to try Katie? Oh mal di denti Ok, just watch your male, it's not male, it's small Ah, yeah mal, oh mal di denti, bravissima, oh mal di denti Oh mal di denti, so let's think about the word denti Identi are the teeth, what's a tooth? Un denti And the tooth Il denti So denti is the singular form, il denti, un denti And then the plural form becomes I denti So that's a pattern that we've seen many times I in the singular, moving to I in the plural So just to be clear, that's the letter I, so it sounds A And it moves to I, the letter I, which sounds E, just to complicate things But I'm sure if you're looking at our notes, this will all make perfect sense Ok, so different things, different parts of the body, where we may have some kind of ache And you'll notice that so far we've been looking particularly at place parts of the body Which really are involved in toothache, backache, headache, e-rake and so on That's all very well, but sometimes there are other parts of the body, which are sore And we need to know how to say that too So for example, what's the word for the arm, Francesca? Il braccio Listen again to that word? Il braccio Il braccio No, Francesca can you see I have arm ache, oh mal di braccio E-no, not really It sounds a bit strange, doesn't it? Yes What do we say? My arm is sore You can say, mi fa male il braccio Let's think about this and translate it literally Mi fa male il braccio So, to me makes bad the arm Yes, sounds a little strange The literal translation If you think of it that way, to me makes bad the arm then we can use that seam construction and use it for other words too. So mi famale il braccio, my arm is sore or to me makes bad the arm. Let's hear get you saying that. And it is Mali this time not by me. It's Mali get good point. Mi famale il braccio. Molto bene, mi famale il braccio. So let's change it to perhaps the leg. What's the leg? La gamba. La gamba. Katie using the same construction as we've looked at earlier. To me makes bad the leg. How would you say that your leg is sore? Mi famale la gamba. Molto bene, si, mi famale la gamba. Let's add another one in and we could talk about the nose. Il naso. Il naso. So Katie how would you say my nose is sore? Mi famale il naso. Benissimo. Mi famale il naso. Okay, let's learn some more words here. We could talk about help me Francesca some other words. Il piede. Il piede, certo. Il piede, Katie, I'm sure you can guess what il piede would be. The fit. Yes. So how would you say I've got a sore foot? Mi famale il piede. Il piede. Mi famale il piede. Mi famale il piede. So you could go to a pharmacy and say mi famale il piede. My foot is sore. You could add in something else here. You could say mi famale il piede. Non posso caminare. What do you think that might mean? I have a sore foot. I can't walk. Well, guess yes. You can't walk caminare. Probably say more to the Spanish word. Yes. Helped me out there. So non posso caminare. I can not walk. You've recognized. Non posso, which is something we've seen before. Mi famale il piede. Non posso caminare. What about my famale? La bocca. Katie, can you remember what la bocca is? We've seen this freeze or this word before, once before, when we were talking about in bocca lupo. Oh, in mouth of the will. So my famale la bocca. I have a sore mouth. My mouth sore. Non posso parlare. I can't speak. Although if you're saying non posso parlare, I think there's something wrong. So mi famale la bocca. Mi famale la bocca. Non posso parlare. So something else that you may have sore that would mean that you couldn't speak could be your throat. You already know how to say I have a sore throat. Oh, mal di golla. Si, perfetto. Can you also say mi famale la golla? Of course, you can as well as you can say mi famale la testa, mi famale lo stomaco, or mi famale la skina. So the mi famale can be used with all the different parts of the body, whereas the oh mal di is more specific. That's just the ones that are more like headache, earache, toothache and so on. So oh mal di golla. Non posso parlare. Or mi famale la golla. Non posso parlare. So those two work there with golla. 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. Woi fare un po di pratica. 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. Oh, in italiano la pratica rende perfetti. Head over to facebook.com/coffeebreakitalian. A presto allora. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Now let's come back a little to il piede, mi famale il piede. What does that mean? I have a sore foot. I have a sore foot or my foot is hurting, my foot is sore. Remember in English we have certain phrases that we use and we're not trying to translate those individual phrases into Italian. What we're trying to do is speak about that concept in Italian. So if you have a pain in your foot, you can say mi famale il piede, my foot is sore. But what about if both your feet are sore? Il piede is the word for the foot. Francesca, what is the feet? I piede. So the a ending becomes an e ending. The piede becomes piede. I piede the feet. And something also happens to the verb because as you're aware, mi famale il piede, the fa is a verb and the subject of that verb is il piede. So we have to change that verb if the subject becomes plural in this case, il piede. Francesca, come say it, dice "my feet are sore". Mi fanno male il piede. Listen again. Okay, so mi fanno is what you use when it's a plural part of the body. For example, we also remember the word for ear. The ear would be lorecchio. And we also heard what the ears were. Le orecchio. Le orecchio. So Katie, how would you say my ears are sore. Molto bene mi fanno male le orecchio. Can I just ask? Is fanno the way that changes for the plural? Is that similar to mi piaccio? Mi piacciono? Yes, it's the same logic behind it. If it's something singular, it's fa. If it's something plural, it's fanno. Same as piaccio in piacciono. And we're actually going to see this pattern in greater detail because we're just going to be going on to talk about the conjugation of a verb. And that fanno and piacciono is what's called the third person plural of the verb. It's the form for they. If you're talking about your feet, then the pronoun you would use is they. They are sore. My feet are sore. Or my ears are sore or whatever. So we'll see that in just a moment. Let's think about o mal di again. O mal di gola. I have the throttake. I have a sore throat. If I'm saying I have a sore throat, I'm using o. Katie, you already know how to say you have. You have a brother, for example. How would you say you have? I. I. So that's the informal form of you have. So Katie, how would you say you have a headache? I mal di testa. See, I mal di testa or a question. Do you have a headache? I mal di testa. No, no, no mal di testa. Okay, so I the you form. Now let's think about the he or she form because let's face it, you may be going to a pharmacy or a doctor and perhaps you're the Italian speaker, but your friend or your your family member has a headache. So to say he or she has a headache, we say. Ah mal di testa. Ah mal di testa. So it's o mal di testa. I have a headache. I mal di testa. You have a headache and ah mal di testa. He or she has a headache. Is that ah the same as the formal form that we learned in the restaurant? Exactly, yes. So I think we learned something like abizone di una forqueta. Do you need a fork or something like that? Ah, H a is spelled and that exactly means he has she has or you have in the formal form. Oh, I, ah. Let's go on because there's something else that we want to do. We've talked about singular forms. We now need to talk about plural forms. So the plural forms are we have and that would be abiamo. So if we have been listening to loud music all night, we could say we have a headache. Abiamo mal di testa. Abiamo mal di testa. Abiamo. So we have abiamo. And then the you plural form is something that we've heard before. It's avete. Avete. Okay, take a can you remember the context that we've heard that one in? I think we asked avete camere libere. Do you have any free rooms? So we're asking multiple people. Do you have in the case of in a hotel we're asking all the people who work in the hotel. Do you have free rooms? Avete. So do you have an headache, asking lots of people would be Katie. Avete mal di testa. Okay, after listening to all that music. So, oh, ay, a, abiamo, avete, and then there's one more form and that is the plural "the form", okay? So it's the third person plural and it's going to sound a little like something we spoke about earlier in this episode. Francesca, how do you see "they have"? Anno. Anno. Katie, do you see what I'm referring to here? It sounds like. Fanno. Fanno, okay. So, "fanno, "they do". Literally, "they do bad to me". Mi "fanno" male i piedi. And here, "annno", "h-a", "double-no", is "they have". So, if you're talking about your children, "annno mal di testa", "they have a headache". Anno mal di testa. Let's try sing the whole verb together. I'll see the English, Francesca. You can see the Italian, link it. You can repeat it to the Italian after Francesca. I have. Oh. Oh. You have? I. I. He or she has? Yes, or you have formal? A. A. We have? Abiamo. Abiamo. You plural have? Avete. Avete. And they have. Anno. Anno. Now, these six parts of the verb are the "wein", which we learn all verbs in Italian. It's like we would learn six forms of a verb in French or Spanish or in many other languages. So it's hopefully something that you're familiar with. If not, it doesn't matter. I'll just imagine these six parts as giving you the clues to how to speak about anyone having something or doing something or wanting something or loving something or speaking something or whatever it is. And we're going to be learning some more verbs in the next lesson. So stay tuned for that. We'll go through the whole verb one more time and we'll do it in the little rhythm that we always do verbs in. So I have you have? He has. O. I. A. O. I. A. We have. You plural have. They have. Abiamo avete anno. Abiamo avete anno. Abiamo avete anno. Oh. I. A. Abiamo avete anno. Oh. I. I. I. I. Abiamo avete anno. O. I. A. Abiamo avete anno. We're going to get kitty singing again. I can just tell. Next time we will have some more verbs for you and we'll be talking a little more about the kind of things that may go wrong, the kind of medical things that you might need to have help with when you are traveling in Italy. So, that's it for today. I think so too. I'm tired. Yes, I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. No, I'm fine. All right. I can't wait for more verbs next time. We hope that you've enjoyed this episode of Coffee Break Italian. 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