CBI 1:27 | Talking about your job in Italian

Pierustin pyöräilyvää teitä valmistavan ornotin vuonna 2013. Mielestäni parasta Shopify saan se, että voimme harjoittaa liiketoimintaa ilman teknistä osaamista. Voimme hallinoida yrityksen taustajaristelemien ja frontendia sekä myydä verkossa, vaivatta. Jos Shopify olisi pyöräilyvaruste, sollisimielestäni itse polkupyörä. Sillä asiat hoidetaan ja meidän liiketoiminta me hoituu Shopify'ssa. Aloita ilmainen kokeilu, Shopify piste komsi vustolla. Coffee Break Italian Season 1, Episode 27. Salvia tutti, Buon giorno eivän venuti a coffeebreak Italian eo sono markk. Ciao a tutti, sono Francesca. Buon giorno, sono Katie. We are back with another episode of Coffee Break Italian for you. Komistati, ragazzi oggi. Stoo bene, grazie. Francesca, komistai. Sii, anki jo grazie, Katie. Allora oggi parliamo di lavoro. Ah, lavoro. Lavoro, voraan viikki, Katie. Work. Work, indeed, lavoro. Lavoro, is the word for work, as I'm sure you know, and it's also a verb from the verb "lavorare" to work. So, lavoro, can mean either work as in the noun "work" or "i work". Lavoro, the verb. And we're going to be talking about our jobs today to help you learn to talk about your job, answering questions such as "che lavoro fai" or "dove lavori". And indeed we'll be going on to talk about more jobs next time when we're talking about "do you like your work?" and so on. But first of all, we need to learn some of the words and phrases to do with work. Allora siamo pronti. Siii, cominciamo. Let's begin by thinking a little more about that verb "lavorare". Lavoro, lavoro, kiri, can you tell us anything about this verb? It's an arre verb. It is indeed an arre verb, and do you think it's a regular verb? Yes. Good guess. It is indeed a regular arre verb, which means it can use the same patterns that we've learned already for other arre verbs. Therefore we can say "I work, you work, you work, she works, we work and so on". In fact, let's give our listeners that challenge just now. We'll say the English, and then Kiti, you can give our listeners some time and then come up with the word yourself. Ok? Va bene? Siii. Ok, allora, per cominciare. I work. Lavoro. Lavoro. Ok, then you work and that would be the informal form "you work". Lavori. Bene, lavori. And then he or she works. Lavora. Siii. Lavoro. And note that one can also be used for "you formal", so lai. Lavoro. And we'll be coming back to that in a little while. What about "we work"? Lavoriamo. Bene, lavoriamo. And you work, you plural. Lavorate. Siii. Lavorate. And finally they work. Lavorano. Bravoissima. Lavorano. And note the stress there on that final one. Lavorano. They work. Where the stress changes so well done, we have conjugated the verb "lavorare". Lavoro. Lavori. Lavoriamo. Lavorate. Lavorano. We can now talk about who works where. But when we are thinking about working, there's also another word we need to learn. And that's because sometimes we use a different verb for talking about where we work, or indeed what we do for a living. And that verb is "to do". Francesca, comissi di c'et "to do" in italiano. Fare. Fare. Now the crucial thing that we've got to remember about "fare" is that unfortunately, although it ends in "are", it's not quite a regular verb. No. This time that means there's a different set of patterns. Some of the patterns are very similar to what we would expect with regular verbs that we've come across before. But with "fare", it works a little differently, and it's maybe a good idea just to think of this as some vocabulary for now. If you don't want to learn the full conjugation of "fare", the most important one to begin with is the first person singular form. Of course, "I do". So Francesca, comissi di c'et "I do" in italiano. Fattio. Fattio. So "I do" "fattio". Fattio. Fattio. And if we want to ask a friend, "What do you do?" as in "What work do you do?" Then we're going to use the second person singular, which is. Fai. You do. Let's hear it again. Fai. Fai. So you hear the "I" ending that we recognize with lavori or parli or anything like that. But in this case, it's coming straight after the "A" of fa-fai. So "Fai". Fai. Fai. And what about the "He", "She", or indeed the "You" polite form? Faa. Faa. So that's just fa-f-e. So we've got Fattio. Fai. Fattio. Fai. Faa. Fattio. Fai. Faa. Should we go on and do the rest of this, Katie? Why not? Why not? Come here now. So let's try the "we do". Facciamo. You could have guessed that, Katie, couldn't you? Hmm. I'm sure I could have fattiamo. Fattiamo, yeah. Going from Fattio in the "i" form, it becomes Fattiamo in the "we" form. Again, it's got an "yamo" ending, Fattiamo. But it's a little different. It's a little irregular. So Fattiamo, "we do". Sì, Fattiamo. Fattiamo. And then things change slightly for the "You" plural form. Yeah, it's actually regular Fatté. And then finally the third person plural form, the "they" form. How do we say "they do"? Fanno. Fanno. So we now are able to conjugate the whole of Fare. Let's do this after Francesca. Okay, Fattio. I'm wondering if Fanno and Fanno are the same as the words we were using to talk about when we had a sore something. Sure. It's a good question, Katie. And it's actually the same verb. So like when we say "mi fa male la testa", what we are saying literally is "my head does bad to me". I know it's not good English, but it's just the literal translation. So if we use it in the plural, "i piedi mi fa no male". Okay, thank you. So a very useful word. Fare to do, but it also has a secondary meaning in Italian. It also means to make. But we're not going to talk too much about that just now because we're going to concentrate on using Fare or Fattio Fai, Fattio Fai, Fattio as "I do you do he does, she does" and so on for the time being. Okay. Let's then think of a question and Katie we're going to put you on the spot here. We want to see if you can work it. How you would ask the question, "What job do you do?" Okay. "Qué lavoro fai". Bravissima. "Qué lavoro fai". So "il lavoro" is the job or the work, "Qué", we already know "Qué" as a question word, "Qué lavoro", and then "fai" you do. And of course, if you're thinking in English, "What job do you do?" We don't need to translate the "do you do" because it's just the second person singular of the verb, "fai". "Qué lavoro fai". What job do you do? And that's obviously how we would ask that in an informal way. How would we ask it in a formal way? Katie, can you work that one out? "Qué lavoro fai". "Qué lavoro fai". So asking someone in a more polite way, in a formal way, "What job do you do?" or "What work do you do?" "Qué lavoro fai". Let's now think about how we would answer that question. "Qué lavoro fai" or "Qué lavoro fai". To answer the question, we're going to use the "ai form of fare" "fattio", "ai do". And the way we do this in Italian is say, "fattio". and then say the name of the job. So for example, if I were talking about being a teacher, I would say "facho". Linsegnante, linsegnante, so "insegnante" is the word for a teacher, the generic word for a teacher, but "linsegnante" is the teacher. "Facho" I do "linsegnante" the teacher. So I'm a teacher, "facho" linsegnante. Let's try repeating this. So I am a teacher. "Facho linsegnante" "Facho linsegnante" "And what about I am a nurse?" "Facho l'infermiere" "So that would be a male nurse, l'infermiere" "Facho l'infermiere" "And if you were a female nurse, you would say" "Facho l'infermiera" "Facho l'infermiera" Okay, let's stick with a medical profession and we will say "I am a doctor" So obviously that's the male one again "Facho il doatore" and a female doctor would be "La doctoressa, faccio la doctoressa" "Facho la doctoressa" Okay, what about if you were a waiter? So again the male form "Facho il cameriere" and a female form "I am a waitress" "Facho la cameriera" What about if you were a businessperson, an entrepreneur? "Facho l'imprenditore" "Facho l'imprenditrice" Okay, we're going to take a short break there and we'll be back in just a moment I'm learning Italian, but I can't even learn another language, 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, let's practice this a little. We're going to begin by asking the question, what job do you do? And then we'll put Katie on the spot and ask her to respond saying that she is one of many occupations. Let's begin then. What level of "fai" Katie? Let's pretend that you are a teacher. "Facho l'insegnante" Very well, yes, "facho l'insegnante" Perfecto, "facho la camariera" And finally what about if you were an entrepreneur? "Facho l'imprenditrice" Bravo, this is really hard to pronounce. "Facho l'imprenditrice" Could you also use the word "I am" "sono" and say "sono l'insegnante"? You can use verb to be and very often in Italian we talk about our professions using verb estere. I could say "sono insegnante" but it's very important that you don't use the definite article when you talk about your profession. So you can say "sono insegnante" or "sono un insegnante" with the indefinite article but do not say "sono l'insegnante" Okay, so when you use "facho" you use "lin insegnante" See the definite article. Okay, so we have three options there. The first one with "facho". So "facho l'insegnante" that time with the definite article "facho l'insegnante" or two options with "sono". "sono insegnante" "sono un insegnante" So thinking about the exact literal translation here "facho l'insegnante" literally "ai due" "l'insegnante" the teacher Or "sono insegnante" "ai am teacher" or "sono un insegnante" "ai am a teacher" three options. Don't mix them. Make sure you get the right one. "sono insegnante" "sono un insegnante" or "facho l'insegnante" Perfecto. Okay, the fact is we've probably not covered all of our listeners' jobs And the other fact is it's probably going to be impossible to cover every possible job that our listeners may have. But what is very useful is if you're not quite sure of exactly what kind of job you do in Italian, then you can always see where you work. In response, perhaps, to the question "dove lavori". Where do you work? Listen again. "dove lavori". In that case, you might want to see for example, "ai work in a restaurant". Kitty, you can see that? "lavoro in un ristorante". Perfecto. Or perhaps you work in an office. "lavoro in un ufficina". Nearly there, "oficina" is a workshop in Italian, an office is "uficio". I think your Spanish was perhaps. Yes. existubence in Italy. So an office again would be. "uficio". So I work in an office. "lavoro in un ufficio". "in un ufficio". Perfecto. Or perhaps you work in a post office kitty. "lavoro in un ufficio postale". Yes, it's good. Or perhaps if you are. the chief surgeon in charge of anesthetics, you don't know how to see that in Italian, so you could say "I work in a hospital". "brava, lavoro in un ufficina". Or perhaps you're a mortgage advisor. You don't know how to say that, so you could say "I work in a bank". "lavoro in una banca". Yes, very good. Okay, you get the idea. We can always say "where we work". If we're not quite sure of the actual occupation in Italian, we can explain "I work in a and explain where you work". Now, you might also want to explain which company you work for, for example. You could say "I work for a large company". "lavoro per una grande azienda". Listen to that again, it's quite tricky. And the alternative would be to work for a small company. So I work for a small company. "lavoro per una picola azienda". I've always loved the word picola. "picolino". So a little company, picola or picola here, because we're talking about azienda. Don't worry about that. Just now we'll be coming back to talking more about descriptions in a future lesson when we're talking about big and small and so on. For now, let's concentrate on large and small companies. "que si chiama" that is called, so you could be saying "I work for a large company". "cald" such and such. I don't know. "que si chiama beneton". "si possiamo dirla". "si non lavoro per benetonio". "neanche io". So we don't work for a beneton or any other companies, but we're just using it as a linguistic example for the moment. So I work for a large company called, that would be in Italian. "lavoro per una grande azienda" that is called, "radio lingua". "una grande azienda". So I work for a large company called, whatever the company is called, or I work for a small company called, "lavoro per una picola azienda" that is called, "radio lingua". "a questa emelio". So that's the truth this time. I work for a small company called "radio lingua". "radio lingua", of course. Okay, so Katie can we just repeat those two? I work for a large company called "Lavoro per una grande agenda que se llama radio lingua" Perfecto and what about I work for a small company? I'm a miss me I'll make it really long what to? "Lavoro per una picola agenda que se llama radio lingua" Very good Okay, we're going to continue talking about jobs or perhaps one particular job in the Café Cultural for this lesson so it's over to Francesca now One job we haven't taught yet is policemen, policiotto and today our Café Cultural is about inspector Montalbano or in Italian, commissario Montalbano. Salvo Montalbano is a fictional character created by Andrea Camilleri. The short stories and novels were so popular that Montalbano even has its own television show which began in 1999, mille novecenton noveandanove and is still in production today. In 2012 Nel du Emilio Eddodici, an English subtitled version of the series was shown on British television and episodes of the show have also appeared in the United States, in Australia, in France and in Spain. Montalbano by nature is a rough man who takes his work very seriously. The stories are set in the imaginary town of Vigata in Sicilia and Montalbano is representative of the island charm. One of my favorite episodes is the year-and-chini di Montalbano or in English Montalbano's croquettes. I'll tell you a little bit about the plot. While the end of the year is approaching, inspector Montalbano would rather celebrate in the small town of Vigata, eating arancini, at his cleaners, Adelina, instead of going to Paris with his girlfriend. At the same time, a couple is murdered in mysterious circumstances but apparently Pasquale, Adelina's son is involved with it. Le aventure di Montalbano are hugely popular in Italy, so if you are interested in Italian culture, you should try to read some of the books or watch an episode of the show in Italian, obviously. Benissimo, grazie Francesca! Pregue! Ok, that is about as much as we've got time for on this week's episode of Coffee Break Italian. [Music] [Music] So you're answering the question "che lavoro fai" or "dove lavori" and we'll be delighted to read your responses. All right, this time it's all for today, thank you very much and see you! Well, thank you all, bye, see you soon! [Music] [Music] This is the production of the RadioLingua Network. Find out more at radialingua.com