CBI 1:23 | Visiting the doctor’s or pharmacy in Italian

Coffee Break Italian Season 1 Episode 23 Buongiorno a tutti benvenuti a coffee break Italian, e os una mark. Ciao a tutti, os una francesca. Ciao, it's Katie. We are back with another episode of Coffee Break Italian for you. And as we said last time, we are going to be helping you deal with unfortunate situations that sometimes occur when you're traveling on vacation. That is, when something's not going quite well or when you're not feeling too good and you have to perhaps visit the doctor or the pharmacy. Of course, last time we learned lots of useful phrases for talking about things that are sore. For example, Katie, can you remember how you would say I have a sore head? Um, omalditesta. Very good or there's another way you can also say that? Mi vamale la testa. Perfecto. So this time we're going to be adding to that and learning a few more phrases. Francesca, come and stay today. So molto bene, grazie tu, Marc. Sto bene, ma mi fa un po male lo stomaco. Ti fa male lo stomaco. Oh, mangiato troppo. I mangiato le lasagne. Exacto, si troppo le lasagne. Katie, come and stay too. So non postanca, e mi fa male la bocca. Ti fa male la bocca. Si. Ai parlato troppo. Have you said I spoke into much? I have just spoken too much. Okay, we're getting a little silly here so I think we should get straight into our lesson. Siamo pronti. Prontissimi. Sì. Cominciamo. To begin with, I'd like to revisit something from an earlier lesson because we may need to find out where the pharmacy or the chemists is. Katie, can you remember how you see the word for the pharmacy or the chemists? Farmatia. La farmatia, yeah. And if you're a Spanish learner, you need to remember that it's farmatia. Well, no, see, anymore in case people get confused, la farmatia. Now, how would we ask where is the pharmacy or where does the chemist? Dove la farmatia. Dove la farmatia, esatto. Can you think on another way that you could ask perhaps is there a chemist nearby? I think that would be, c'è una farmatia qui vicino. Molto bene, c'è una farmatia qui vicino. So two options there, where is the chemist? Dove la farmatia. And is there a chemist, a pharmacy nearby? C'è una farmatia qui vicino. Perfecto. Now, we, me, want to start off our visit to the pharmacy by saying, "I'm not feeling very well". Francesca, can you tell us how you would say, "I'm not feeling very well"? No mi sento molto bene. Listen again to Francesca. So, literally, "I am not feeling myself very well". Non mi sento molto bene. "I'm not feeling very well". I cry, "Si, non mi sento bene. I'm not feeling well". Ahà, or mi sento male. Esatto, mi sento male. "I'm feeling bad", literally. So, three possibilities, "I'm feeling bad". Mi sento male. Mi sento male. "I'm not feeling well". No mi sento bene. Non mi sento bene. Or, if you want to be a little less dramatic, "I'm not feeling very well". Okay, let's imagine the situation then. We've found the pharmacy. We've hobbled along the street to the pharmacy and managed to reach it. And now we need to explain our symptoms. To do that, we're going to be using a word that we looked at last time. That word is "to have". Katie, can you remember how to say the word "to have" in Italian? Averi? Averi. Now, we're not going to say "to have a cold". We're going to say "I have a cold". And we now know how to say "I have a cold". Indeed, we can say "Everyone who has a cold", we can talk about all the different people who happen to have a cold or a fever or a blister or whatever it happens to be. So, how would we say first of all, "I have"? O? O. Okay. Then how would you say "you have" in the informal form? I. I. And then what about "he or she has"? A. Mm-hmm. So far, we've got "O, I, A". O, I, A. O, I, A. And can you remember how you would say "have you" or "you have" when we're talking about "plate speech"? It's the same. I think it's just "a". Ah, is that so. O, I, A. And that, A, counts for "he, she, it" or "you formal". And then what about "we have" if you've all got blisters together after doing lots of hillwalking? Lovely. I think it's "abiamo". "Abiamo", and then perhaps you might want to be using the word "do you have" or "you all" in this chemist, the people that work here, do you have anything for a blister? Avete? Avete, good. And what about "we have"? A no. A no. So those final three parts of our verb "abbiamo", "avete", "anno". "Abiamo", "avete", "anno". And of course we're leaving some space for all our listeners to repeat after Francesca. Let's see the whole verb one more time. This is the verb "a vere" to have. We'll go through all six parts. Francesca will say the Italian will leave you some space and then Katie can repeat. So here we go. O. O. I. I. A. A. Aviamo. Avete. Avete. Anno. Anno. And in our little rhyme "o, ai, ha". Aviamo, avete, anno. O. I. Aviamo, avete, anno. O. I. Aviamo, avete, anno. We got Katie singing again, excellent. Let's think about some of the kind of things that we might have if we're talking about our symptoms. We could begin with something that sounds similar to the English and that is a fever or the fever. I have the fever. O. I. I. Avete. Avete. Avete. So o la febre, I have the fever, meaning that you have a temperature, that your temperature is raised. O la febre. O la febre. One other kind of symptoms might we have. Francesca, can you tell us how you would say "I have the cold"? O. Il raffredore. O. Il raffredore. Okay, o il raffredore, I have the cold. Now, I realize that in different parts of the world we may describe our symptoms differently. So, I hope that you all understand what we're meaning by "I have the cold". Basically, your nose is running, your maybe coughing, you're not feeling too good. You're not feeling too good. What about a cough? I have the cough. I have a cough. O. La tose. O. La tose. Can you say "Oh, una tose"? No, you wouldn't need an adjective. Oh, una brutta tose. For example, I have a bad cough. So I have a bad cough. O. Una brutta tose. Or just "Oh, la tose". O. La tose. Okay, maybe one other thing we mentioned earlier that you might have if you're describing some symptoms. And that might be "I have a blister". Oh, I like that word in Italian. O. Una veschica. O. Una veschica. Okay, o. Una veschica. Sí. It's maybe a nice word, but it's not a nice thing to have. No, it's terrible, but it sounds nice. Veschica. Veschica. Okay, so "O. Una veschica". Now, if we explain our symptoms in this way, we might need to ask, "Do you have something for", for example, a blister or the cold or the fever and so on. So I wonder if our listeners can work out how you would say, "Do you have something for", let's take the fever. "Do you have something for the fever?" We've covered all of these words at different times in our course, but let's see if we can put them together when we really need them. Let's go through each of these words one by one, Katie. Can you help us? How would you, first of all, say, "Do you have"? I'm not quite sure which one to use here. Do you want me to be formal? Or am I speaking to more than one person? I suppose you have to work out what situation you're in. Maybe there is more than one person behind the counter, in which case you're referring to all the people who work here. Do you have, or perhaps you're just being polite to one person? Let's go with the plural one. Do you have? - A vete. - Of course. Now, you've pointed out very rightly that a vete means do you have. It means you have, but in English we put a do in front of it to make a question. Any Italian, we don't need any kind of do. We just say a vete using the plural verb form. So a vete, that's the first part. What about something? - Qual cosa? - Perfetto, sí. Qual cosa. We, I think they're not what we were talking about. - Seven years, I think. - Seven years, yeah. Can you recommend me something or something like that? - Yeah, può conciliar mi qualcosa. - Esatto, su qualcosa, something. A vete qualcosa, and then how would you say for the fever? - Per la febre? - Penissimo. Let's hear the whole phrase. - A vete qualcosa per la febre? - Or what about, do you have something for the cold? Katie, try to work that one out. - A vete qualcosa per il raffredore? - Bravissima, Katie. A vete qualcosa per il raffredore? - Molto bene. What about, do you have something for a cough? Or for a terrible cough? Can you remember how French is? - Tato si, una brutta tose. - So do you have something for a terrible cough? - Si dai is a, this time. - Si, come in, oh. - Ok. - A qualcosa per una brutta tose? Si, giusto. A qualcosa per una brutta tose? - Perfetto. And one final one then, do you have something for a blister? - A qualcosa per una vesica? Ok, just watch your emphasis. Vesica, vesica. Ok. Perfetto. Now what are the kind of things that we might be given for a una vesica, per esempio? - Icerotti. - Icerotti, I like that word. That's one of my favorite Italian words. Icerotti, I had to go and findcerotti one morning in Rome a couple of months ago when I was there with my family, my son had cut his knee and we needed to go and findcerotti. - Did you find them? - We found them, yes. They were very expensive, I have to say. - Oh, you got to be careful. Socerotti are plaster, sticking plaster, or I guess they're called different things in different parts of the world, band aids, perhaps in the states. But anyway, you know what they are and indeed if you've got a vesica, then you definitely need un cerotto, or maybe even more cerotti, defense. - Okay, we're going to take a short break there and we'll be back in just a moment. - You're learning Italian, right? - Ma, voy a imparare anche un altre lingua, did you know that you can also learn French, Spanish, German and Chinese with coffee break? Or if you'd like a quick espresso shot of another language, you can try one of our 26 one-minute language courses from Arabic to Zulu. For all your language learning needs, go to coffeebreaklanguages.com. - Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Okay, there are a few other things that we could learn, different words for different things that we may have, that we need to explain to a pharmacist or indeed a doctor. First of all, an infection, this is a nice easy word. - Un infezione. - Listen again. - Un infezione. - Katie, how would you say my sister has an infection? - Mi asorella a un infezione. - Benissimo. Mi asorella a un infezione, my sister has an infection. Now, what about something else that happens quite often when we are traveling, particularly in a hot country? What about a bite or a sting? - Miopadre a una puntura. - Okay, so Katie, can you say my father has a bite? - Si, molto bene. Miopadre a una puntura. - Okay, so miopadre a una puntura. So we have una puntura, un infezione, interesting because una puntura is the, in definite article they are una because it's a feminine word. Then we've got infezione, which takes un un apostrophe. It's a feminine word that begins with a vowel, un infezione. Now, there's another thing that sometimes happens and that's an uno word. And I'm thinking of the word for rash. What's a rash, Francesca? - Si uno sforgo. - I think that word sounds like a rash. You can just imagine uno sforgo. - Sssss. - That's nice. - Uno sforgo. So Katie, how would you say my friend has a rash and think carefully about the word for friend and how you say my friend? You can make it a male friend or a female friend, whatever you want. - Mi amica a uno sforgo. - Chelente la mi amica or il mio amico a uno sforgo. In this case, we use the definite article before the possessive adjective, il mio amico or la mi amica. Perfecto. Okay. I think we need to take a little break from all these illness symptoms because it's not very pleasant talking about all of this. There's lots more to learn. We also need to understand what the pharmacist or the doctor says to us in return. But before we do that, let's come back to Francesca for another cafe c'est c'est ce week, Francesca, you are talking about a film. - A film, okay. - One of the things that I like to do if I'm not feeling very well, sento mi sento molto bene, is set on the sofa with a big blanket and watch a good film, un bel film. Although you may have just started learning Italian, watching films or television series in a foreign language can be a great way to learn. Of course you can use the subtitles, isso tutitoli, to help you. One of the most well-known Italian films is probably La Dolce Vita, but today I'm going to tell you a little about one of my favorite films, uno dei mie film preferiti. A film of my students and I like very much, it's Shirley Pane e Tullipani, an English, bread and tulips. This is the story of Rosalba, a housewife accidentally forgotten at the service station by her bus tour. To get home she decides to hitchhike, but lived after lived she ends up in colorful Venice a Venetia, where a few eccentric characters will brighten up her life. Have you ever seen any Italian films or do you know any famous Italian actors? Post a comment on our Facebook page to tell us what you know about Italian cinema. Ah, i cinema italiano mi piace molto. Ti piace, sì? Moltissimo. C'è un film che mi piace molto, che si chiama Minevaganti conosci. Ah, lo conosco, sì, in English forse Luscan? Luscan, is that, eh, eh, eh, bellissimo. E anche qualcosa che mi piace molto del cinema italiano e la musica dei film. Sì, le colonne sonore. Exato, soprattutto di cinema paradiso. Ah, sì, è come vende. Ma, non ho visto questo film di cui hai parlato pane e tulipani? No, no, no, lo conosci. Non lo conosco. Allora, devi assolutamente guardare pane e tulipani. Ah, that's a very interesting phrase that Francesca just said. She says, "Devi assolutamente guardare pane e tulipani." She says, "You have to absolutely watch this film. Sevi guardare, you have to do something." Now, we've come across phrases like this before. We're using a verb followed by the infinitive. And this is exactly what we're talking about. what we're going to go on and talk about. Bravo Francesca! Grazie, grazie. So let's think about some of the advice or some of the instructions the pharmacist or the doctor may give us. We may be given pills. How do you say a pill in Italian Francesca? Well, there are various words to say, "Pel" as in English, I think, but one that will always work, I think is pastilla. So like a pastille, una pastilla. So the doctor or the pharmacist may say, "You have to take these pills." Listen to this expression. Deve prendere queste pastille. Listen again in paper, take your attention to the end of a number of words in there. So we've heard "devi guardare" this film, you have to watch this film and that's the informal version. And now we've heard "devi prendere queste pastille." You have to take these pills. Listen again one more time. So the word "prendere" means to take and we know una pastilla, a pill. So le pastille would be the pills, the plural form. And these pills is "queste pastille." So you have to take these pills one more time. What's something else that the pharmacist or the doctor might say, perhaps, if we have uno sfogo? Deve mettere questa crema. Okay, Katie, can you work out what that would mean? You need to put on the screen? Yes, so you need or you have to put on the screen. You must put on the screen or apply the screen. I suppose you could say "applicare queste crema." Yeah, "applicare" - "piutechnico." Okay, so "applicare" or "metere" - "metere" to put or to put on "prendere" to take. So "devi metere" - "questa crema" - "you have to put on the screen." Per los fogo, for the rash. Now there's also the chance that the doctor or the pharmacist may give us more instructions. For example, they may say three times per day. So the whole thing you must take these pills three times a day. Katie, if you were the doctor in the scenario, what would you say? Deve prendere queste pastilles three times a day. Okay, or what about before eating or after eating? Two phrases that are very common in this situation? Prima dei pastilles, literally before the meals. Listen again to that one. Prima dei pastilles. And after meals would be? Dopo i pastilles. So, Prima dei pastilles or Dopo i pastilles. So how would we say you have to take these pills three times a day before meals? Katie, are you up for that? You could get a job in an Italian chemist. What about you have to apply this cream or put on this cream four times a day after eating? Okay. There's a strange one there. Please don't take any of this as medical advice. Deve mettere questa crema quattro volte al giorno dopo i pastilles. Okay, now these are things that you have to do. Sometimes there are things that we must not do if there's a medical problem. So for example, we may be told you must not smoke. So here we're just putting none in front of deve. You have to do something. You need to do something. You must do something. Deve, and that's the formal form. And here we're changing it to non deve. Non deve fumare. You must not smoke. Or what about you must not drink alcohol while you're taking these pills. Non deve bere alcolici. Let's try seeing these two phrases again. You must not smoke. Non deve fumare. Non deve fumare. You must not drink alcohol. And one more thing, you must not be in the sun, perhaps if you have had a little too much sun. It could happen in Italy. Non deve stare al sole. Now obviously with all of these situations, we are not really expecting you to have to see the instructions that the pharmacist or the doctor may tell you, but it's useful if you can say these then you will definitely understand them if you hear them. That is about as much as we have time for in this episode of Coffee Break Italian. We'll definitely be covering some more symptoms, hand-in-deed remedies in our bonus episode, but we'll tell you more about that in just a moment. Okay, so to access that bonus episode and to find out lots more symptoms and indeed lots more remedies for different problems, then you can head over to CoffeeBreak Italian Plus dot com. There you'll find all our bonus materials both for this episode and indeed all our previous episodes. And you'll get access to the bonus listening materials, our video versions of each lesson, and of course the lesson notes, which will help you understand the words and phrases covered in each lesson more effectively and make faster progress. Don't forget that you can join us on Facebook to practice your Italian some more at facebook.com forward slash Coffee Break Italian. And if you are on Twitter, we are at Learn Italian. And of course both on Facebook and on Twitter, we'd much prefer to hear stories of your Italian cinema experiences rather than your medical problems. Absolutely. We'll be back again soon with more Coffee Break Italian, Grazie Molte. Hey, good morning to all of you. Ciao!