CBI 1:24 | Spelling in Italian and an introduction to verbs

Coffee Break Italian Season 1 Episode 24 Buongiorno a tutti e benvenuti a Coffee Break Italian Io sono Mark Ciao a tutti sono Francesca, buongiorno sono Katie Anberbike si è motor nati, con un altro episodio per te per te con i teori Italian. Come state? Io sto molto bene, grazie. Ok, ti come stai? Un raffredore. Ah, poverina. Ai un raffredore. Allora ti fa male la gola? Un po' sì. E ti fa male la testa? Anche si. O che disastro. Disastro. Oggi ho raffredo. E oggi we're going to be looking at verbs. So undoubtedly you'll be feeling much much better. Great. La testa di medication, su verbi. S'avversa, absolutely. Ok, well, è il tempo di fare con il listen. E' una cosa che vi pensiamo per se è il primo episodio di Coffee Break Italian che ti ho mai sentito, ci vediamo che ti puoi farle e vi sentiamo tutti i 23 episodi. Ok, let's begin today's lesson. Come inciamo? Sì. Ok, now before we get on to those verbs, we need to do a little bit of review from last time. Last time we were visiting the pharmacy or the doctor and we need to do some review of the words and phrases we learned then. We've already heard some of these words and phrases in our introduction, as Katie was explaining her, her was this week, but let's do some little bit of revision just now with those phrases. So, first of all, I'll give you some time to think about it and then we'll ask Katie. Can you tell me how you would say, "I have a sore stomach." Katie, can you remind us how you would say, "I have a sore stomach." O mal di stomaco? Bene, sì, o mal di stomaco? No, you could also say, "Mi famale lo stomaco." Remember, "lo stomaco." "Mi famale lo stomaco," literally, "My stomach hurts me," or "O mal di stomaco, I have a sore stomach." I wonder if we can add in something here. For example, we could say, "I have a sore stomach, I can't eat." How do we say, "I cannot do something?" Non posso? Non posso. So, do you remember the word for "to eat"? We have done this a couple of times to eat is. Mangiare? Mangiare. So, how would we say, "I can't eat Francesca?" Non posso mangiare. Non posso mangiare. Okay, so put that all together and say, "I have a sore stomach, I cannot eat." Mi famale lo stomaco, non posso mangiare. Si, bene, mi famale lo stomaco, non posso mangiare. Let's use that same construction and try it with another phrase. Let's think about, "I have a sore throat." "I cannot. " Well, "I cannot speak." "I have a sore throat." "I cannot speak." Mi famale la gola, non posso parlare. Bravissima. Mi famale la gola, non posso parlare. "Something else that you might not be able to do if you have a sore throat, something that Kiri loves doing, is singing." Now, you know how to say to sing in Italian? Cantare. So, how would you say, "I have a sore throat?" Choose the other one this time, okay? So, "I have a sore throat, I cannot sing." O mal di gola, non posso cantare. What a shame. Oh, che beccato. That's a nice phrase, che beccato, which means what a shame, what a pity. And the whole phrase there that Kiri said was. O mal di gola, non posso cantare. Okay, try this one, Kiti. This is slightly different in that we've not done this one, but you're going to use your knowledge of other languages here. And hopefully our listeners will be able to do the same. I'd like you to say, "I have a cold, I cannot breathe." See if you can work this one out. Oh, un raffredore. Non posso respirare. La nostra Kiti è fantastica. È stato respirare, per respirare, per esempio. Ma, per esempio, ho un rispirti in angliettore, un problema, e in questo caso, è usando respirare, in questo caso, in realtà è una rispirtia in Italia, in modo che è un rispirti iniziato. In i diri, in i diri, in i diri, in i diri, la nostra scusa, io ho visto un'unità università che ho fatto. Per te non in i U.K. è un quistio. E' una questione molto fricciata e una delle questione è una delle qualità che è link di la lata di l'olation. E' un linguistico e l'olationo è stato fominato. E' un linguistico. E' un linguistico in Italia, per essere un questione di università. È un'unico correcto che ho in il prognello, ma è molto happy. È molto happy. E' una rispirtia di rispirtia, ma è una rispirtia di rispirtia di sferba. Se non so, per me, magari hai una rispirtia di sferba. Non ho mai trattato il mio video, ma ho mai trattato il mio video. E ho nemmeno una rispirtia di sferba. E' un linguistico che ho in il prognello, ma ho nemmeno una rispirtia di sferba. E' un linguistico in Italia. E' un linguistico che ho in il prognello, ma ho mai trattato il mio video. e per esempio, e io is스럽amente di quale è la più più蓋ante e mañana si klari e provê se questo per uno via di chCl]? come me'--- Ho réussiesse anche il èbelo havesse "dormare"? Almost quasi è nell'ormire S dehere S dehere sul mio néheet 'dormi' S dehere è un per excavato il perinqueno dei miei ameti e non si può avremmi il pronunciazione di l'efficio "father" "Keti, can we hear "father"? Padre Francesca, let's hear "padre" ok, è un grande "d" in qui e giusto di "dormire" "padre" se hai mai fatto spanici di non fare spanici di "d" in fluenza di Italian è non "padre" ma "padre" "padre" ok "padre" quindi, adesso, uno more time, io ho rinventato il "keti" "myo padre" "am altischiena" non può dormire sì, è perfetto, "keti" bravissima, ok, so "he cannot sleep, he has backache" "what about a tricky one here" "because the ones we've been doing so far are too easy, I think" "what about my eyes are sore?" "I cannot see" no, "I cannot see" "I cannot see" "to see is" "vedere" "so try saying my eyes are sore" or "my eyes hurt me" "I cannot see" "keti" "mi fanno male gli occhi?" "non posso vedere" sì, eccezionale "mi fanno male gli occhi?" "non posso vedere" "very well done, that is a really tricky one" "first of all we've got to remember the plural verb "mi fanno male" "because there's more than one eye that's sore" "and then we also need to remember that complicated plural of "locchio" "li occhi" "li occhi" "so mi fanno male gli occhi" "my eyes are sore" "and non posso vedere" ok, now we've done quite a lot of review because it's been really useful to go through some of those words and we've also been introducing you to some new verbs we've had to speak I'm not able to speak how would we say that? "non posso" "parlare" "parlare" ok, we've also had "I am not able to sleep" "non posso" "dormire" "mhm" and then just our final one there "I am not able to see" "I cannot see" "non posso vedere" ok, so you've noticed that there are three different endings of those verbs "parlare" Vedeere and Dormire. So an Italian verbs can end in Are, Are, Are, or Are. And each one of those verbs has what's called a different conjugation. They form the patterns in a slightly different way, but they're very regular. You can recognize those patterns pretty much most verbs. And what we're going to do now is look at one of those regular verbs. We'll take parlare and we'll conjugate it just like we did with Averee learning the six different parts of the verb. So let's take parlare. First of all, we look at the part for I speak. Parlo. Parlo. Okay, so we have already said I speak a little Italian. How do we say that? Parlo un po di italiano. Molto bene. So I speak as parlo. Now what about you speak the informal form? Parli. Let's think into Francesca. Parli. Parli. Okay, so I speak parlo. You speak parli. A different ending there at the end. So how would we say you speak French, for example? Keri? Parli, Francesca. Bene. Parli, Francesca. So you speak French. No, parlo, parli, the first two parts. We need to look at the third part and that's the part that we use for "he" or "she" or "indeed" you in the formal form. So how would you say, for example, "he" speaks. Parla. Listen again to Francesca. Parla. Parla. And Francesca, how would we say "she speaks?" Parla. And what about you polite speak? Parla. So it's the same each time. You may be wondering how we know who's who we're talking about. Well, we can do that in a couple of ways. First of all, the context very often tells us, or we can name the person who's speaking "Keri Parla" or "Polite di Taliano". There are words for "I, you, she, it" and so on in Italian, but let's not worry about them for just now because we don't need them. The verbs stand for themselves. So let's say he speaks German. Can you remember the word for German? He speaks German, "Keri". I can help "Keri". Okay, go for it Francesca. Please, very generous today. Te desco. Ah yes, Parla te desco. So he speaks German, Parla te desco. And "she speaks German". Parla te desco. Exactly. So Parla is the third person singular to give it its proper form. The first person is "I", the second person is "you", informal. And then the third person we're talking. And the third person, that means we're talking about "he, she, it" and indeed the polite form of "you". Okay, Parla, Parla, Parla. We need to learn the plural forms too. Francesca, how do we say "we speak"? Parliamo. Parliamo. I love this. This is my favorite. Parliamo. It just says so. "We speak Italian. Parliamo Italian". And one of the nicest things about that part of the verb is it can also be used to mean "let's do something". So let's speak Italian. It's like when we say "cominciamo". Is that so? Let's begin. So let's begin. Cominciamo. Let's speak Italian. Parliamo italiano. Let's eat. Eat. Manjamo. Okay, so we can use that "jamo" ending. Parliamo, manjamo, cominciamo. To talk about "we do something" or "let's do something", both possibilities. Now, let's think about the "you plural". Francesca, how would we say "you plural speak", "you all speak". Parlate. Listen again, Francesca. Parlate. Kedi. Parlate. Okay, so you all speak English. Parlate English. Parlate English. Okay, and then the last form, our third person plural, the second person plural was "parlate", you all speak, and then the third person plural is "they speak". Parla no. Now, listen carefully to this one because the stress changes. Parla no. So they speak "parla no". Okay, let's put those three plural forms together. We speak. Parliamo. Parliamo. You speak, plural. Parlate. Parlate. And they speak. Parla no. So we've now conjugated a full verb, a present tense, array verb, that's regular. And that's a very special thing because it means we can apply those same patterns to other verbs and you can now start to talk about things that you want to talk about, like for example, they all eat pasta. I wonder if you can work that one out. Using those same endings, we've had Parla no, they speak. So how would we say "they eat pasta"? Kedi. Manjano pasta? Sí, bene. Manjano pasta. Or, for example, we may also want to say "you singular sing a song". A song is una canzone. So how would you say "you sing a song"? Kedi. Canti una canzone? Okay, canti una canzone. So we're applying those same rules with different verbs. They all eat our endings for the singular forms and then they llamo a te. No. The last one. The last one's a little tricky to talk about just the ending because it changes the rhythm of the verb. Parlo parli parla, pagliamo parlate parla no. Sí, perfecto, molto bene. 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. Wai, farum parli 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" or "in italiano", la pratica rende perfetti, head over to facebook.com/coffeebreakitalian. A presto allora. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Okay, now we've been looking at some really tricky stuff today looking at these verb conjugations and I think what we should do now is think ahead to next time when we're going to be looking at another tricky topic and that's the topic of speaking on the phone. It's something that all those learners find pretty difficult when you've got to speak on the phone in a foreign language. I don't like it at all. Indeed. So next time we'll be learning how to speak on the phone in Italian and very often something that you need to do when you're speaking on the phone perhaps for our reservation, whether it's for our restaurant or for a hotel, is give your name. Now, you know how to say "my name is", you can say. "Mi chiamo". And if you give your name, sometimes you would be asked this question. "Cormes is creve". "Catti, can you work out what that would mean?" "How do you spell it?" Exactly. Literally, how do you write it? "Cormes is creve". How is it written? How do you write it? And if you ask that question, there's one thing that you absolutely need to know and that is of course. Alphabet. Alphabet. La alfabet. In Italian. So let's go through it together. I'll see how we would say the letter in English. Francesca, you're going to say it in Italian and in any case you can repeat of course after a Francesca but let's begin with a a a b b b C C D D D E F F G G G H A K A K A little more tricky that one H again is A K A K I E E Then we have an interesting one because the letter G doesn't exist in Italian. No unless it's a foreign word you're using in Italian. If it were a foreign word how would we pronounce it? A J. Very foreign okay so let's go J. You can also hear "ilunga" literally. longer eye. Long eye. Okay, so ilonga or J. Let's go with J, just now. Va bene. J. J. Then we have another letter that doesn't exist in the Italian alphabet officially and that is q. kappa then L. L! M. N. N. N. O. tuning. Bi. Pi. Q. ku. R. R. S. S. T. U. V. V. But you can also hear V. V or V. V. Okay and what about W? You can hear V. Doppia or V. Doppia. Okay so in both cases it's Doppia at the end V. Doppia or V. Doppia. And actually you can also hear Doppia V or Doppia V. I think because of the. We like to confuse you. So let's go with what one would you use personally? Automatically I would say Vdoppia. Let's go with that then. Vdoppia. So we are at W. Let's go to X. Another letter that's not in the Italian alphabet really. X. X. And then Y. Again two options. ipsillon / y. / or i greca / / i greca / which means greek /i. OK. But again, why isn't really used in Italian words other than words of foreign origin? Yes. Like yogurt or yoga. And finally, one letter this definitely in the Italian alphabet, and that is Z or Z. Zeta. Zeta. OK. This knows that. Now, it means we can spell different words. And you know what's going to happen now. OK. People are going to put you to the test. Oh, dear. Before we do that, let's go through the alphabet in groups of several letters, just so that we can get into the rhythm of saying all the words. Here it goes. So, A-B-C-D-E-F-G. A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A-P-C-D-E-F-G. Each I-J-K-L. A-I-J-K-L. A-I-J-K-L. M-N-O-P-Q-R. M N O P Q R M N O P Q R! And lastly, STU V W X Y Z. S T U U V V W DOPIA X YZ. S T U V V V DOPIA X YZ. Wow! Well done. Let's try quickly before the end of this lesson, spelling some place names in Italy. Let's start with something nice and easy one. Yeah. Number one, then we'll go with Rome. How would we spell Rome in its Italian version, which of course is? Rome. Let's give our listeners a little bit of time. Chete, come and subscribe Rome. Yes, perfect. R O M A Roma. Okay, number two, what about Milan? And that is Milan. Chete. M E L A N O. Just so, yes. M E L A N O Milan. Okay, let's try number three. Let's go with Bresannonne. Oh! You love Bresannonne. You mentioned it all the time. It's a beautiful place. I do like it. Okay, so Bresannonne, Chete. Is it called one S or two? Got two S's. Bresannonne. And one N and then one N. Yep, that's the right one. B R E S S A A N O N E. Wow! Well done. One last one, Chete. Nice easy one to finish. And this is number four. I'd like you to spell somewhere where I know we have coffee break Italian listeners because one has contacted us recently to say hello and that they're enjoying listening to our lessons in the land of the midnight sun in Reykjavik. How do you spell that? Come and subscribe Reykjavik in Italian. No lo so. I'm fast, Chete. Okay, Chete, over to you. I'll get ready to go. R E I P C I L L K P A J A V E K P A. Wow! I just saw. Okay, confirm me. Well done, Chete. Okay, there are going to be more spelling challenges in our bonus episode this week. And there's also some more verbs in our bonus episode. We hope that you've enjoyed this slightly different episode, but for now we'll finish there. So that's it for this episode of coffee break Italian. 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