Italian for Beginners: Lesson 3 - Dare i numeri!

Hello everyone, ciao a tutti, com'estate cari amici. Here we are, once again, about to enjoy a new installment of our play. So, did you make some time to learn by heart the words on our flesh card? Did you study the lesson available on our website? Today, among the other things, we will be dealing with Italian indefinite articles. Did you fill out the grammar quizzes? Yes, excellent, ottimo. This means we are all set. Today, Connor seems a little stressed out. Last night, as he will tell Silvia, his grandparents had a rather noisy fight. No big deal, actually. Looks like Grandma Carmela burned her famous macaroni in smoked sauce. A big disappointment to Grandpa Giovanni, apparently. But I don't want to disclose too much and spoil all the fun. What I will tell you, bro, is that Silvia, to cheer poor Connor up, will take him on an imaginary stroll around Rome. Well, that sounds appealing, doesn't it? Let's join! Buongiorno, Connor, how are you? Melho Silvia, grazie. Melho than when. Better than yesterday? Cosa è successo ieri, yesterday. Mai nonno Giovanni? Lui non sta bene? Lui sta benissimo, but he had a fight with Nonna Carmela. E come sta adesso, Nonna Carmela? After the fight, molto male. Now, sta meglio. Tell me about the fight, the litigio. Well, it was a cosa strana Silvia. Nonno Giovanni always says that Nonna Carmela's pasta è "the best in the world". And Yeri, she decided to experiment with the new recipe. She called it maccheroni con salsa fume. Maccheroni with smoked sauce? Was it buona? Nonno, always makes buone pasta. No, I bet she does. I bet she's brava qualca. Sì, but Yeri, I don't know what happened. What do you mean? The pasta was completely burnt. Come, you say that in italiano? Pasta bruciata. E nonno Giovanni made such a scene. He was saying mamma mia Carmela, che disastro. E Nonna Carmela was saying non capisco Giovanni. Do they speak italiano to each other? They do when they find and their voices get really loud. Vocce alta. I never raise my voice Silvia. Sei un ragazzo tranquillo. Io sono molto tranquillo e calmo. Tu sei calma Silvia? Sì, mostro di tempo, ma che non it pasta bruciata, either. I think that italiani sono tutto calmo. È la passione o del lingua italiana. Maybe, ma nonno Giovanni got really carried away by molta passione, Yeri. Poor nonna Carmela. How far away? He said time to see a therapist Carmela. The psychologist? Veramente? Because of the pasta? Veramente Silvia. Io sto male when I think about it. Sono sicura that they will come down soon. È giuste piccolo screzio. I hope so. All of a sudden they switched to this weird dialect italiano which I don't understand and thought to myself. Non capisco un accè. Bravo, Connor. I can tell that you've been studying a lot. Grazie Silvia. I actually did. Bene, sono molto contenta. E' n'hi fine se be out nonno Giovanni? Sì. When I asked him whether this pasta incident happened before, he said to me, eh Connor, è una lunga storia. Do you know what that means? Sì. It's a long story. Esatto. Non Giovanni used an expression that fits in perfectly with today's lezione di grammatica italiana. Veramente? Sì. Un bellissimo esempio. Le start our lezione and you'll see. Oggi, we will talk about the articholi indeterminativi. As you know, the articholi indeterminativi in English are A or N. Sì. È lezione di grammatica italiana. Una lezione di grammatica italiana. The articholi indeterminativi precede singular nouns and have three forms in italiano. To choose the correct form of the articholo indeterminativo, you will have to look at the "genere" of the noun that the article precedes, which can be maschile o femminile. You will also need to consider the initial letter of the parola in question. Triforme, "genere", "a national letter". Prima di una consonante, if the noun è maschile, you will use "un". If the noun è femminile, you will use "una". Would you like to try? Un giorno, una donna. Molto bene, my turn. Un treno e un billietto. Una bicicletta e una ruota. This will be very helpful in Italia. The treno o the bicicletta. Both, that's another dream of mine. Un sogno ad dream. Un sogno ballo. Un sogno bellissimo. Quale? I want to travel around Italia and see the places of La Dolcevita. Viaggiare in Italia nowadays è diverso from what it was like in the anni '50. But, è un sogno. Well, let's try to get back to "realtà" and continue to talk about the articoli indeterminativi. What do you say? Una realtà of grammatica. Bravo. If "una parola" begins with an "s" plus consonant with the letter "z" or the letter "ps", you will use "uno". When the noun è maschile e "una", when the noun è femminile. Una storia lunga e uno psicologo. Like the one non è carmella, we'll have to say. Well, this is una frase molto bella connor. E let's hope non è carmella, won't have to say uno psicologo. Una mica di non è carmella, says. Ah, sorry, to stop you there. Did I say something wrong? You said something that brings us back to our grammar topic. When a noun è femminile e begins with "una vowel", you will use "un". You drop the "a", the "una" and add the apostrofo, like "unizula". So, "una amica" becomes "una amica". Esatto. Un altro esempio con di "una ambasciata italiana in America". Una americana aroma. Well, that was the film "una americano aroma". I just got a bit creative. I like that. Creativity è molto useful for these esercizi. The article "uno" in italiano is also used to refer to the numero "one". e follows the same rules as the article in the terminativo. "I would like uno shot of espresso." "Here we go, bravo! "I recently read that in Italia people drink in media "tré espresso a day." "Une espresso usually keeps me awake the whole day." "Well, the ideal numero è due al giorno." "Quanti café americani do you drink al giorno connor?" "Usually due." "Ice café americano is equivalent to due café espresso. "So you basically drink 4 espresso al giorno." "I didn't know that." "Un caffè americano contains the same amount of caffeine "as due espresso. "With the addition of some aqua." "No wonder why at night I have trouble sleeping." "Quattro espresso al giorno sono molti." Connor, during our prima lezione di grammatica, we conjugated the verbo "essere." "Exatto." "Today we'll practice some more with the verbo "essere per tradurre due espressioni "of the lingua inglese." "There is e there are." "In italiano, we say cè e ci sono." "Cè e ci sono." "Molto bene." "Can you give me un esempio?" "Certo, here we go." "Ci sono molte chiese in Italia." "Cè una mica americana, who lives in Roma." "Keep going?" "Cè un park next to my casa, where cè un lake." "In the lake ci sono tre ducks." "Benissimo, let's experiment now with the same expression in the negative form." "Non cè e non ci sono." "Non cè un park next to my casa, non cè un lake, non ci sono tre ducks." "Let's make a virtual viaggio a Roma." "A Roma cè?" "A Roma cè de Colosseo." "A Roma ci sono molte vespe." "A Roma cè Castell Sant'Angelo." "A Roma cè de most romantica cosa in the world." "Ah sì?" "Sì, a Roma cè una fonte." "You meant una fontana?" "Sì, a Roma cè fontana di trevi." "I want to wait in it." "Cè, un problema." "Which problema?" "You can't wait into the fontana di trevi." "But the movie film c'è Anita Eggberg in the fontana di trevi." "Why can't I do the same thing?" "Because that was a film connor." "But you are more than welcome to throw a coin in the fontana and exprimere un desiderio to come back to Roma." " Ci sono molte monete in the fontana di trevi." "It's filled with coins." "Silvia, I do not understand "ci" in this expression." "Cè una ragione grammaticale." "Let's say that è una ragione un po complicata." "Now we'll just practice cè and ci sono, without worrying too much about the grammatica, ok?" "Ok." "We Italians have another parola per tradurre there is, e there are." "E, the parola, ecco." "Which is used to point out the existence of something in view." "E, invariabile, e, can be used with parole singolari o plurali." "Cè una parola nuova, e. " "How do you say "conclicata?" "Non è complicata." "Let me give you an esempio." "Siamo a Roma." "I'm strolling around the city on a sunny day and suddenly, ecco." "I see the fume, tevere, shining in the distance, e castell Sant'Angelo." "Ecco un bellissimo dream." "Ci sono molti sogni, ma ecco una bella realtà, Roma." "Cè Roma, e ci sono i sogni." "I think you're making progress, Connor." [Musica] "Facciamo due chiacchiere, about the expressions with numbers." "I'm sorry?" "Fare due chiacchiere, means let's chat a bit." "Why do we?" "That's because of the briscola." "Do you know the rules of the Italian card game named briscola?" "Non lo giovanni, e cio luciano, e his son, ma cio, play that game all the time." "They talk in a voce alta. "They once had un litigio so loud that I thought the casa would collapse." "Hi, can't imagine!" "In this briscola game, due di picche, e i lowest point card, it really counts for nothing." "Hence, due è synonymous for a very small quantity." "Right, I remember non lo giovanni, saying, il due di picche, mi ha dato, "which I figured something was wrong." "Ah, con orsì, completamente wrong, dare il due di picche, "which could be translated literally as "to give the two of spades, "has also another meaning, by the way. "It is an informal expression that means "to not accept somebody's romantic advances." "Veramente?" "Sì, è un'espressione molto comune in Italia." "Well, I hope I won't experience that." " Ci sono molte espressioni idiomatiche italiane con i numeri, did you know that?" "No, I didn't, but I always wondered why you say "grazie mille." "Well, grazie mille" means "thank you very much, or thanks a lot. "It raises back to "un fatto storico." "As you may know, Giuseppe Garibaldi began the process of Italian unificazione "by London in Marsala, Sicili, "lundici maggio mille ottocento sessanta." "Mille ottocento sessanta." Along with him went a small exercito of mille-womini, a thousand men. "As soon as they got ashore," he said, "grazie mille." Hence, the current expression "grazie mille." "E molto interessante, no?" "Justo." "Grazie mille, Sylvia." "Fa, how do you say to share a bit?" "Facciamo due chiacchiere." "Facciamo due chiacchiere, against whom?" "Sì, pa, senza dare i numeri." "Un'altra espressione italiana?" "Exatamente." "I can almost see the tibarri vero shimmering in the afternoon light." "Glorious!" "Well, better yet in a. " We've come to the end of the third installment of our show, so don't forget, get ready for Act 4 by studying the grammar lesson. On our website, you'll find a variety of learning tools, specifically designed to help you test your knowledge of the Italian language. 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