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Long associated with the theater and film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, for whom she first worked in , she is generally considered the most prominent German actress of the New German Cinema. Her father, a timber merchant by Plot A woman has a number of male lovers so, during a holiday in Dubrovnik, she puts them together, with a stratagem, in her villa, in a sort of reverse harem. She was having difficulties in her career in Hollywood and was offered the role when she met the director at the Venice Film Festival.
Baker says the film was meant to be a comedy but the director "lost his courage at the last minute Love in the City Italian: The anthology consists of the following episodes: Retrieved 28 April Don't Touch the White Woman! Buffalo Bill Cody Michel Piccoli portrays a charlatan media impresario.
Ugo Tognazzi gives a fictional portrayal of Mitch Bouyer one of Custer's Native American scouts, who runs a business selling Native artifacts made in sweatshops by white women. Alain Cuny plays Sitting Bull who must defend his people when their apartment building homes are destroyed by the Union Cavalry. The film climaxes with the Battle of the Little Bighorn held in a large construction excavation where Les Halles market once was. The list of the Italian films to be saved Italian: References "The Seed of Man".
Retrieved 21 August External links Il seme dell'uomo on IMDb La carne is a Italian drama film directed by Marco Ferreri. It was entered into the Cannes Film Festival. L'udienza is a Italian-French drama film directed by Marco Ferreri. It was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival.
Retrieved 18 March External links L'udienza on IMDb Diary of a Maniac Italian: Diario di un vizio is a Italian drama film directed by Marco Ferreri. It was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival. The House of Smiles Italian: La casa del sorriso is a Italian film directed by Marco Ferreri. It depicts a romance between an old man and an old woman inside a care home. Fulvio Falzarano is an Italian actor.
Career Fulvio Falzarano has worked in various companies in major Italian theaters. In he gained fame with the role of Mario in the film Benvenuti al Sud and he interpreted the same character in in the film Benvenuti al Nord. Alessandro "Dado", Principe Ruspoli 9 December — 11 January was an occasional actor and a playboy and eccentric aristocrat, the 9th Principe di Cerveteri, 9th Marchese di Riano and 14th Conte di Vignanello.
Dado descends from a brother of Cardinal Bartolomeo Ruspoli. Dado was born in Rome in His mother and father's first wife Claudia dei Conti Matarazzo, who died when he was 9, was heiress to one of the largest fortunes in Brazil. His father Francesco Ruspoli, 8th Prince of Cerveteri, later a poet, fought in both world wars. Dado became known for his extravagant lifestyle in the s and 60s. El Pisito is a Spanish comedy film directed by Marco Ferreri.
It was co-written by famous Spanish screenwriter Rafael Azcona, who collaborated with Ferreri throughout his career. The film was a huge flop when it was released in Spain, but nowadays is a cult classic. The film had troubles with Spanish censorship. In the film, Marco Ferreri and Carlos Saura appear in cameos. The film entered the competition at the 41st Venice International Film Festival. Dizionario del cinema italiano.
El Cochecito is a Spanish black comedy film directed by Marco Ferreri. The film is based on Rafael Azcona's novel and Azcona co-wrote the script with Ferreri. The film had troubles with Spanish censorship, that forced to change and cut the original ending. Retrieved 11 July Kiss the Other Sheik Italian: He is visited by the beautiful Corsican woman Liza, who has an affair with him. Retrieved 14 February Chiedo asilo is a Italian comedy film directed by Marco Ferreri. Retrieved 15 August The Ape Woman Italian: La donna scimmia, French: In the film was selected to enter the list of the Italian films to be saved.
He tries to sell her to a man who insists on her virginity, but she is a little reluctant. After tasting success in Paris, she dies during childbirth. Focaccia recovers her mummy from the museum of natural history and exhibits it in Naples. He was of Algerian descent. Ferreri may refer to: Bye Bye Monkey Italian: As this was a French-Italian co-production, French and Italian dubbed versions were made for their respective countries' theatrical releases.
Plot Dark surreal view of a New York that is mostly empty of humans and populated only by rats and a few eccentrics. Lafayette is a young French electrician living on his own in a basement who works for the odd owner of a waxwork museum and also for a feminist theatre group. When the women decide to improvise a piece about rape, the attractive Angelica volunteers to rape Lafayette.
Beside the sea, Lafayette finds an abandoned baby chimpanzee which he adopts. Angelica, who enjoyed the rape, moves Joe Swanberg born August 31, is an American independent film director, producer, writer, and actor. Known for micro-budget films which make extensive use of improvisation, Swanberg is considered a major figure in the mumblecore film movement. Career In , Swanberg directed his first feature film, Kissing on the Mouth, for a modest budget. Gerwig and Swanberg collaborated on the director's next two features: The Conjugal Bed Italian: L'ape regina is a Italian comedy film directed by Marco Ferreri.
She discovers that the husband is a rough and domineering man, but full of weaknesses, as his wife, not at all calls and weakened by that behavior, behaves in a whimsical tone with very demanding. Then the husband decides to get rid of. L'uomo dei cinque palloni and also known as The Man with the Balloons is a Italian comedy film directed by Marco Ferreri. Retrieved 22 March Franca Bettoia or Bettoja; born 14 May is an Italian actress. Life and career Born in Rome, she made her first film appearance in Un palco all'opera , by Siro Marcellini.
She appeared as a nun in Apocalisse sul fiume giallo The Dam on the Yellow River, , an anti-Communist propaganda film which portrays the victory of Mao Zedong's People's Liberation Army as seen through the eyes of an American journalist Georges Marchal reporting from the side of the nationalists.
In , Bettoia co-starred with Vincent Price in Luigi Kuveiller 3 October - 10 January was an Italian cinematographer, best known for his collaboration with Elio Petri. After having achieved the best results Life and career Placido was born at Ascoli Satriano, into a poor family from Rionero in Vulture, Basilicata; he is a descendant of the known brigand Carmine Crocco.
He made his debut as an actor in the play Midsummer Night's Dream in His first success came with the role of soldier Paolo Passeri in Marcia trionfale , directed by Bellocchio , for which he won a David di Donatello. Two years later he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor awa Giancarlo Santi born 7 October is an Italian director and screenwriter. He was chosen by Leone to direct Duck, You Sucker! He finally debuted as director in , with the spaghetti western Storm Rider.
Dizionario del western all'italiana. Born in Bergamo, Donadoni started his career on stage in the late s, working among others with Luca Ronconi and Gabriele Lavia. A style icon and "It Girl" of the s and s, Pallenberg was credited as the muse of the Rolling Stones: The family was separated because of World War II, and she did not see her father until she was three years old. Her father later sent her to a boarding school in Germany so that she would learn the language.
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Nouns that are abbreviations, such as zoo, bici, radio rah-dee-oh and cinema chee-neh-mah cinema, movie-house are invariable. They are always singular. Also, Italian indefinite articles agree in gender. And the one you choose also has to take into account the first letter of the noun that it precedes. Table shows you the indefinite articles plus some examples. Getting Started Did you make a special note of the letters that the nouns begin with? So the rules for indefinite articles go something like this: Italian is one of those languages that require a definite article before the noun in most cases.
The same goes for the following noun: Table shows a list of articles that you should try to commit to memory. Italian definite articles agree in number and gender with the nouns they precede. Just like with the indefinite articles, the letter that heads the noun also determines what article to use. Can you identify a pattern?
Jumping Into the Basics of Italian Here are two examples: Note how the article does not appear in the translation, but is necessary in Italian: Gli amici vengono a cena lyee ah-mee-chee vehn-goh-noh ah cheh-nah Friends are coming for dinner. Mi piacciono le lasagne! Adjectives The gender feature of nouns extends to other grammatical categories, including pronouns and adjectives. First, I take a look at the adjectives.
An adjective is a word that describes a noun — whether a person, a thing, or whatever — with a quality or characteristic. You can read more about these in Chapters 3, 8 and There are two types of adjectives in Italian: The first type has four endings, and the second type has two. The first type matches in both number and gender with the noun it is modifying, and, therefore, ends in o, a, i, e, as follows with the adjective italiano ee-tahlee-ah-noh Italian: The second type only agrees in number and not gender , and ends in e in the singular and i in the plural.
The adjective grande grahn-deh big is one of those adjectives. These adjectives are valid for both feminine and masculine nouns. In the plural of both genders, change the -e to an -i — for example, grandi grahn-dee big. Other adjectives that only agree in number include francese frahn-cheh-zeh French and verde vehr-deh green. In most cases, the adjective follows the noun. Nevertheless, there are some 25 26 Part I: Getting Started adjectives which can stand before the noun, such as bello behl-loh beautiful , buono bwoh-noh good , and cattivo kaht-tee-voh bad.
When you talk about Jim, for example, you can replace his name with he. You often use pronouns to avoid repetition. Presently, the most important ones for you are the subject pronouns, which refer to I, you, he, she, it, we, or they. Every verb form refers to one of these pronouns, as the following section points out.
Table lists the subject pronouns. Table Subject Pronouns Pronoun Pronunciation Translation io ee-oh I tu tooh you lui looh-ee he lei ley she noi noi we voi voi you loro loh-roh they Italians often drop subject pronouns because the verb ending shows what the subject is. Use a personal pronoun only for contrast, for emphasis, or when the pronoun stands alone. Tu tifi per il Milan, ma io per la Juventus. Vieni anche tu alla festa? Formal and informal You probably already know that many foreign languages contain both formal and informal ways of addressing people.
In Italian, you need to respect this important characteristic. Use the informal pronoun tu tooh you with good friends, young people, children, and your family members. When you become more familiar with someone, you may change from formal to informal. According to custom, the elder person initiates the use of tu. Getting Started Tu requires the verb form of the second person singular — for example, tu sei tooh sey you are. The following examples show the forms of you: Hi, how are you? Speaking here to a group of people. Verbs There seems to be an infinite number of verbs in Italian.
These truly are the glue to bind the different parts of speech together. Getting a good handle on them gives you a solid basis from which to build your sentences, communicate, and be understood! Regular verbs follow a certain pattern in their conjugation: They behave the same way as other verbs in the same category. On the other hand, you cannot predict irregular verbs in this way — they behave a bit like individualists. Regular verbs You can divide Italian verbs into three categories, according to their ending in the infinitive form.
They are, -are, as in parlare pahr-lah-reh to speak ; -ere, as in vivere vee-veh-reh to live ; and -ire, as in partire pahr-tee-reh to leave. Verbs in these categories can be regular as well as irregular. Notice the subject pronouns that go with the verbs: We place them here to remind you which verb form you need. These translate in the present tense as, for example: Jumping Into the Basics of Italian on the context.
I translate the first person of all of the verbs that follow: The following shows you the conjugation of three regular verbs: In some cases — for example, some -ire verbs — you insert the letters -isc- between the root and the ending in all persons except the noi and voi , as in this example of capire kah-pee-reh to understand: Irregular verbs Two important verbs, which you often use as auxiliary verbs, are irregular — avere ah-veh-reh to have and essere ehs-seh-reh to be. Scusi, ho una domanda. No ma lei parla italiano! Non posso trovare il mio albergo. Ha una piantina di Firenze?
You can attach a direct object pronoun to ecco if you like: You frequently hear this expression in a hotel: Ecco la sua chiave ehk-koh lah sooh-ah kyah-veh Here is your key , and in a bar: Ecco i due cappuccini!
Idiomatic uses of avere Even though the verb avere means to have, it is frequently used in circumstances when we would use the verb to be in English such as to be hungry, to be thirsty, to be hot, to be cold, to be a certain age. In Italian, these terms literally mean to have hunger, to have thirst, to have heat, to have years. Table lists some common idiomatic expressions with avere. Table Idiomatic Uses of Avere Expression Pronunciation Translation avere fame ah-veh-reh fah-meh to be hungry avere sete ah-veh-reh seh-teh to be thirsty avere caldo ah-veh-reh kahl-doh to be hot avere freddo ah-veh-reh frehd-doh to be cold avere sonno ah-veh-reh sohn-noh to be sleepy avere voglia di ah-veh-reh vohl-yah dee to feel like, have a craving for avere bisogno di ah-veh-reh bee-zoh-nyoh dee to need avere torto ah-veh-reh tohr-toh to be wrong avere ragione ah-veh-reh rah-joh-neh to be right avere anni ah-veh-reh ahn-nee to be a certain age Other common irregular verbs are andare ahn-dah-reh to go , venire veh-nee-reh to come , dire dee-reh to say or tell , fare fah-reh to do or make , dare dah-reh to give , and uscire ooh-shee-reh to go out: Ciao Giacomo, sono Fabio.
Studio molto in questi giorni. Si, e ho ancora pagine da leggere. Getting Started Ma ho bisogno di fare una pausa, di uscire. Se fa bello, andiamo a mangiare in collina. Vedo cosa dice Daniela e ti richiamo fra mezz-ora. Jumping Into the Basics of Italian Having to, wanting to, being able to Three modal verbs — dovere doh-veh-reh to have to, must, to need to, ought to , volere voh-leh-reh to want , potere poh-teh-reh to be able to, can — are kind of like helping verbs. You conjugate them and then the verb that follows is the infinitive.
Devo fare la spesa. Posso andare a bere? Getting Started Presenting the Simple Tenses: These three tenses past, present, and future are not high grammar — just basic stuff. You find more on these tenses in Chapter 12 future and Chapter 10 present perfect. Ho una nuova bici rossa! Mi piacciono i miei nuovi insenganti. Quanti anni ha la tua nuova insegnante di matematica? Jumping Into the Basics of Italian Cristina: Vuoi fare un giro in centro?
Si ma dobbiamo metterci il casco. Pizza or ice cream? Just find and circle the words from the list! See Appendix D for the answer key. Getting Started Chapter 3 Buongiorno! Have you ever counted the number of times you say hello in a single day? You probably say it more often than you realize. When you interact with people, you usually begin with a greeting — and that greeting can have an impact on the first impression you give. This chapter explains how to say hello and good-bye as well as how to supplement a greeting with some basic small talk. Looking at Common Greetings and Good-byes Italians like to have social contact and meet new people.
At the same time, they tend to be very respectful and polite. To give you a good start in greeting people in Italian, we want to familiarize you with the most common greetings and good-byes, followed by examples. Salve is a relic from Latin. Good day formal, bwohn johr-noh see-nyoh-rah brooh-nee Good morning, Mrs. Buongiorno is the most formal greeting. You frequently hear it when you leave an Italian shop. You use buonasera after 2 p. Just mind the time of day! Use only when parting for the night and going to bed Buonanotte ragazzi! The difference is that you use buona serata, according to Italian custom, after 2 p.
With children or among young people you use the informal tu. You also use the informal with members of your family, friends, and, as already mentioned, with children. In Italian, however, this is not the case; you respond with an answer. Following are common ways to reply to particular greetings. Formal greeting and reply Greeting: Buongiorno signora, come sta? Benissimo, grazie, e Lei? Informal greeting and reply Greeting: Ciao, Roberto, come stai? Bene, grazie, e tu? Another typical, rather informal, greeting and reply Greeting: Specifying your reuniting Sometimes, you want to say more than just good-bye and specify your next meeting.
The following expressions are common and also can be used as good-byes on their own: You can combine Ci vediamo withother phrases.
Using body language In Italy, people who are familiar with each other, such as family and friends, commonly hug and kiss on both cheeks. Another common physical greeting is the more formal handshake. Whether to use first or last names as well as formal and informal registers are important considerations. In a job situation, you usually use last names, whereas at private functions, people are more likely to tell you their first names. Usually, the older person proposes making the switch to the informal form.
Introducing yourself We want to familiarize you with an important reflexive verb, chiamarsi kyahmahr-see to call oneself , which you use to introduce yourself and to ask others for their names. Here is the present tense of this important verb: Nice to meet you! Getting Started Incidentally, as in English, you can also introduce yourself simply by saying your name: They introduce themselves to each other. Piacere, sono Paola Pertini. Mi chiamo Carlo Melis, piacere. Molto lieto, Silvio Foschi. Children and young people forego ceremony and introduce themselves more casually, though still politely — something like this: E io sono Giulia, piacere.
The following example offers a very informal introduction, used only in a very casual situation, such as on the beach or at a club: Scusa, ma non sei la sorella di Gianni? Gioco a calcio con Gianni. Ciao, io sono Patrizia. No, not at all. Sto aspettando due amici. Introducing other people Sometimes you not only have to introduce yourself, but also introduce someone to your friends or to other people. The following vocabulary may be helpful in making introductions.
Ti presento mia moglie, Teresa. Le presento mia suocera, Mary. Ponti introduces a new colleague to one of her co-workers. Note the abbreviation for signora. Signora Bruni, Le presento il signor Rossi. Here Teresa bumps into her old friend Marinella. Both are married now and introduce their husbands. Ciao, Teresa, come stai? Sono contenta di vederti! Marinella, ti presento mio marito Giancarlo.
Getting Acquainted Introducing yourself is the first step in getting to know someone. If you get a good feeling about the person and want to speak more, a conversation usually follows the introduction. This section tells you about the different topics you might talk about to get to know each other. Finding out whether someone speaks Italian Of course you will want to practice your Italian as soon as you get to Italy. You have an opportunity to try out your newly acquired smattering of Italian.
Because Carmen is not Italian, although she lives in Italy, Ilaria is curious to know how many languages she speaks. Italian, Spanish, and German. Talking about where you come from You know how interesting meeting people from other countries and nationalities can be. Two common questions are useful to remember: Where are you coming from; in this instance, where are you from? Informal The answers are, respectively: Now you can play with these phrases.
You can insert the names of continents, countries, cities, or places. Il signor Dadina is a curious person: If you want to talk about provenance, the adjectives denoting nationalities come in handy. Because they are strangers, their exchange is in the formal form. In English, you must put the pronoun I, you, he, she, we, and so on in front of the verb. You may have noticed that this is not the case in Italian. Because the verb form is different for each pronoun, you can easily leave out the pronoun — you understand who is meant from the verb ending and from the context.
Use adjectives ending in -o singular and -i plural to refer to males, and adjectives ending in -a singular and -e plural to refer to females. Adjectives that end in -e in the singular refer to both males and females and end in the plural with -i. Some adjectives indicating nationality end with -e: This form is both feminine and masculine. Table gives some examples. Sweden In other cases, nationalities have feminine, masculine, plural feminine, and plural masculine forms, and end in a, o, e, i, as Table shows.
The same is true for all countries. The following examples give you more practice with this construction. If you travel to Italy and make new friends, you may be asked these informal questions: When you want to invite someone to dinner, you can use the following phrases: This usually means that the person asking is going to be treating. To accept an invitation, you can use the following expressions: Following are expressions you can use to decline an invitation: Ci vediamo per cena questa sera?
Fill in the blanks in the Italian, using the following phrases. Very well, thank you, and you? The pleasure is mine. You can see how numbers are used throughout this book, for example in Chapters 7 and Counting Numbers Every language follows a certain scheme to formulate higher numbers. The same is true for higher numbers — like trecentoventidue treh-chehn-toh-vehn-tee-dooh-eh three hundred and twenty-two and duemilatrecentoventidue dooh-eh-mee-lah-treh-chehn-toh-vehn-tee-dooh-eh two thousand three hundred and twenty-two. One thing merits some further explanation: When two vowels meet this happens frequently with uno [ooh-noh] [one] and otto [oht-toh] [eight] you eliminate the first vowel as in vent i uno vehn-tooh-noh twenty-one and quarant a otto kwah-rahn-toht-toh forty-eight.
So far so good. Getting Started Every rule has exceptions, and there are some irregular numbers, which you simply have to memorize. The numbers from 11 to 19 follow their own rules: In Italian you cannot express a decade in just one word — you use a phrase. One other thing to keep in mind is that the plural of mille meel-leh one thousand is mila mee-lah , as in duemila dooh-eh-mee-lah two thousand. Table gives you enough numbers so that you can form the ones on your own not included here.
Table Italian Numbers Pronunciation Number From 1 to 30 zero dzeh-roh 0 uno ooh-noh 1 due dooh-eh 2 tre treh 3 quattro kwaht-troh 4 cinque cheen-kweh 5 sei sey 6 sette seht-teh 7 otto oht-toh 8 nove noh-veh 9 dieci dyeh-chee 10 undici oohn-dee-chee 11 dodici doh-dee-chee 12 tredici treh-dee-chee 13 quattordici kwaht-tohr-dee-chee 14 Chapter 4: Getting Started Table continued Italian Pronunciation Number mille meel-leh 1, duemila dooh-eh-mee-lah 2, un milione oohn mee-lyoh-neh 1,, due milioni dooh-eh mee-lyoh-nee 2,, un miliardo oohn mee-lyahr-doh 1,,, Higher numbers Common usage for numbers that denote the centuries are: Manzoni wrote in the s.
The Renaissance was in the 15th and 16th centuries — literally, s and s. Times of Day and Days of the Week Arranging your social life — whether you want to go to a performance or invite someone to a party — requires knowing the days of the week and times of the day. Table gives you the days of the week and the abbreviations for them. Getting Your Numbers and Time Straight Here are terms for today, tomorrow, day after tomorrow, and yesterday: You can do an online search for the title of the song, and sing along with it.
This is a fun way to practice your pronunciation!! Now the teacher is talking to her colleagues. Quando parti per le vacanze? Table Months Italian Pronunciation Translation gennaio gehn-nahy-oh January febbraio fehb-brahy-oh February marzo mahr-tsoh March aprile ah-pree-leh April maggio mahj-joh May giugno jooh-nyoh June luglio looh-lyoh July agosto ah-gohs-toh August settembre seht-tehm-breh September ottobre oht-toh-breh October novembre noh-vehm-breh November dicembre dee-chehm-breh December Here is a useful rhyme that most Italians learn some version of. This might help you to remember and pronounce some of the months and numbers.
You can listen and repeat as much as you want! Trenta giorni ha novembre con aprile, giugno e settembre. Tutti gli altri ne han trentuno.
Getting Your Numbers and Time Straight trehn-tah johr-nee ah noh-vehm-breh kohn ah-pree-leh jooh-nyoh eh sehttehm-breh. Dee vehn-toht-toh cheh neh ooh-noh. Tooht-tee lyee ahl-tree neh ahn trehn-tooh-noh. Thirty days have November, April, June, and September. With 28 there is but one. All the rest have thirty-one. Making dates To ask for the date you say: This is also the same way to ask for the day. Or Quanti ne abbiamo oggi? Here is an important difference between saying the date in English and in Italian. The word order is reversed in Italian. To say the date you use this order: To ask when something is occurring, just use the word quando qwahn-doh when.
Quando parti per la Sicilia? Or to ask when someone was born: I gave the past participle a feminine ending nata. Getting Started Telling time When you write the time in Italian, you go from 1. Asking for the time You can ask for the time in two interchangeable ways: Another way of asking politely for the time follows: If the hour is singular, you answer with the singular verb: If the time is plural i. Did you notice the use of military time in the previous example? In Italy, the hour clock is used all the time, from movie times to plane and train schedules. You can also add on when necessary some specifics, such as the examples that follow: Frequently we ask what time something begins.
A che ora inizia la partita? Using the hour clock All schedules and posted time in Italy use a hour clock, from trains and planes, to movies to concerts. The word for clock and watch is orologio oh-roh-loh-joh. So from midnight to Here are some options: And the same system goes for shop and museum hours, buses, and movie and theater times. Inizia alle 10 di sera. It starts at A proposito, che ore sono adesso? Sono le due e mezzo in punto. Because the weather is such an important topic, you must be armed with the necessary vocabulary. In this section, we talk about the quattro stagioni kwaht-troh stah-joh-nee four seasons.
Getting Your Numbers and Time Straight Weather wise Italy is a fortunate country, at least as far as weather is concerned. During at least three of the four seasons, it has a mild climate and gets a lot of sun. The summers are for the most part warm — sometimes too hot. The winters can be very cold, but snow is rare, except for primarily in the mountains of north and central Italy, but as far south as Calabria. Summer in the cities is generally terribly hot, so most Italians take their vacation in August and flee to cooler places: As a matter of fact, in August, it is hard to find actual residents in the big cities.
The only people you find there are likely to be tourists and those Italians who have to work. The fact that both the famous concertos by Antonio Vivaldi ahn-toh-nee-oh vee-vahl-dee and an oh-so-good pizza are named Quattro stagioni is no accident. Both are subdivided into four parts, and each part refers to one season.
Roe, seatmates on a plane, are talking about the weather. E piove molto, no? Non fa mai freddo? An expression that shows a difference between cultures is: Una rondine non fa primavera ooh-nah-rohn-dee-neh nohn fah pree-mah-veh-rah One swallow does not a summer make. Note the difference; in English, the expression refers to summer; in Italian it refers to spring. This difference may be due to the fact that the birds come earlier in Italy and later to other countries.
Roe, airplane seatmates, are still talking about the weather. Molto calda e lunga. La mia stagione preferita. Da morire dah moh-ree-reh deadly is a typical expression used for emphasis in Italian. You can use it in all kinds of situations: Voice over the loudspeaker: Stiamo atterrando a Milano Malpensa.
You probably know that in Europe the Celsius scale is used to measure temperature. For example, if a millionaire wins the lottery, you may say piove sul bagnato to indicate your feeling that you should have won instead. Find the song online, listen to it, and sing along to practice your Italian!!
Getting Started Length and Distance Measures of length go up incrementally as follows. A typical response could be: This usually costs cinquanta centesimi cheen-qwahn-tah chehn-teh-zee-mee 50 cents. You will get your weight in chili kee-lee kilos , which you then have to multiply by 2. Similarly, if you decide you need to buy some very expensive dried funghi porcini foohn-gee pohr-chee-nee porcini mushrooms or tartufi tahr-tooh-fee truffles , you will ask for those by weight, in this case, grammi grahm-mee grams.
So, incrementally, measures of weight go as follows: Then there are the millilitro meel-lee-lee-troh milliliter and litro lee-troh liter with mezzo litro medz-zoh lee-troh half liter also thrown in here for those individual-serving water bottles. Here is a piece of her first dinner conversation with her new host family: They are getting to know each other. Is she glad she learned her numbers!
Sarah, quanti fratelli hai? Ho un fratello e due sorelle.
Mio fratello David ha dodici anni. Mia sorella Rebecca ne ha diciannove, e mia sorella Naomi ne ha My sister Rebecca is 19 and my sister Naomi is Quanto dista casa tua da New York? How far is your house from New York? O che bel cane! What kind of dog is he? Getting Started Host Mom: Words to Know a proposito ah proh-poh-zee-toh by the way anni ahn-nee years chilo kee-loh kilo compleanno kohm-pleh-ahn-noh birthday giorno johr-noh day mese meh-zeh month numero nooh-mehr-oh number pastore pahs-toh-reh shepherd quanti kwahn-tee how many quando kwahn-doh when quanto kwahn-toh how much Chapter 4: For a more challenging task, name the months that comprise each of the seasons.
Just as Italy leads the way in the fashion industry, so too does it enjoy a well-deserved reputation for its fine furnishings and interior spaces. This chapter walks you through some essential household chores like cleaning and setting the table, and supplies you with the vocabulary for some everyday utensils and appliances. I even give you a quick cooking lesson for some pasta later in the chapter.
Ordering Ordinals When giving and receiving directions to your home as well as when talking about the different floors of a building, you need a command of numeri ordinali nooh-meh-ree ohr-dee-nah-lee ordinal numbers. Because ordinal numbers are adjectives, they agree with the noun they describe. For example, you use the feminine forms when referring to via vee-ah or strada strahdah street , which are feminine nouns, and the masculine form when talking about a piano pyah-noh floor. Table includes the ordinal numbers in the singular masculine form followed by the singular feminine form.
These examples show you how to use ordinal numbers in sentences: Abitiamo al nono piano. All Italian buildings begin on the pianterreno pyahn-tehr-reh-noh or ground floor. So the first floor il primo piano eel pree-moh pyah-noh corresponds to a North American second floor, a second floor il secondo piano eel sehkohn-doh pyah-noh corresponds to a North American third floor, and so on. Casa dolce casa Home Sweet Home Types of Italian housing In Italy, there are different types of dwellings where people live, the most common being the appartamento ahp-pahr-tah-mehn-toh. An apartment is usually in a condominio kohn-doh-meen-ee-oh condominium building or an old refurbished palazzo pah-lats-soh.
A villa veel-lah is a free-standing house, usually in the country or by the sea. Some people opt to live in campagna een kahm-pahnyah the countryside. This is not the same as living in the suburbs in the United States. As a matter of fact, periferia peh-ree-fehr-ee-ah suburbs which are neither country nor city has a negative connotation in Italy.
Italians of all social strata live in apartment buildings in small towns and large cities rather than in single-family dwellings or in the suburbs. Houses can be rented as monolocali moh-noh-loh-kah-lee studio apartments , bilocali beeloh-kah-lee two-room apartments , or as an appartamento with a specified number of camere da letto kah-meh-reh dah leht-toh bedrooms. The size is given in square meters.
You can also find housing by searching online. You need to know if the casa is ammobiliata ah-moh-beel-yah-tah furnished , as most short-term rentals are. Italian in Action These words can help you specify your wishes concerning the number and types of rooms and as well as location and amenities.
The confusion comes from this: As in English, both i padroni di casa ee pah-droh-nee dee kah-sah landlords and gli inquilini lyee een-kwee-lee-nee tenants use the verb affittare ahf-feet-tah-reh to rent. To avoid misunderstandings, landlords sometimes say dare in affitto dah-reh een ahf-feet-toh and tenants use prendere in affitto prehn-deh-reh een ahf-feet-toh.
Other useful verbs for these types of actions might include: Affittasi appartamento zona centro. Due stanze, balcone, garage. Tranquillo, in Via Treviso. No, ma costa sicuramente meno. Italian in Action When you see a newspaper ad that interests you, reacting immediately is always best — Chi prima arriva macina kee pree-mah ahr-ree-vah mahchee-nah First come first served.
You may want to know the following words when searching for an apartment and any other time you are considering making a purchase. Other questions you might want to ask include: How much is the rent? Riscaldamento e acqua sono compresi? No, sono nelle spese di condominio. Casa dolce casa Home Sweet Home Flaminia: Quando lo posso vedere? Table lists some of the more common questions, and some possible answers. It will be vacant in six months. Bisogna lasciare un deposito? Yes, we require a security deposit. Paghi molto per la casa? No, sono in affitto.
Ho fatto un mutuo. Italian in Action Sprucing up your apartment When you finally find an apartment, you probably want to furnish it beautifully. The following dialogues show you some Italians talking about their furniture. His friend Eugenia is asking him what he needs. Ho trovato un appartamento! Devo comprare dei mobili. I have to buy some furniture.
Ho due comodini e una cassettiera. E per il soggiorno? Mi mancano ancora il divano e un tavolino. I still need a couch and a coffee table. She reads an interesting ad: Vendesi vehn-deh-see For sale: She immediately calls the number on the ad. Of course, she needs answers to some questions: Sono in buono stato? Furnishing your new pad Table divides the different pieces of i mobili ee moh-bee-lee furniture and other items according to the rooms. Casa dolce casa Home Sweet Home Words to Know accanto ahk-kahn-toh next to davanti a dah-vahn-tee ah in front of dietro dee-eh-troh behind sopra soh-prah on top of sotto soht-toh under di lato dee lah-toh on its side dentro dehn-troh inside fuori fwoh-ree outside Housekeeping in style Italians do love their elettrodomestici eh-leht-troh-doh-mehs-tee-chee household appliances , and there are many sleek Italian brands for these things.
Dryers are very rare in Italy because of the enormous amount of electricity they consume, but many households now have dishwashers. Some essential elettrodomestici include: She asks him to set the table and sweep the floor in the sala da pranzo sah-lah dah prahn-zoh dining room before their guests arrive. Salvatore, per favore, passa la scopa prima che arrivino gli ospiti. Apparecchia il tavolo, caro. Metti la tovaglia con i limoni con i suoi tovaglioli. Quelli di Faenza, il piano e il fondo. Non dimenticare forchette, coltelli, e cucchiai per il brodetto.
Casa dolce casa Home Sweet Home Salvatore: Non importa, li ho qui nella lavastoviglie. I have them here in the dishwasher. Aggiungiamo anche i bicchieri da vino. Italian in Action Did you know that some of the most beautiful ceramics are produced all over Italy? Many are hand-painted works of art unto themselves. It might be hard to go into one of these towns and not buy some ceramics to bring back home. Cooking and cleaning If you love to cucinare kooh-chee-nah-reh cook you will certainly have fun buying your ingredients in an Italian market or supermarket. This is only part of the recipe, but enough to get you started on some important kitchen terminology.
Italian in Action Doing household chores Italians do like to keep a spic and span house. They are dividing the household shores, or faccende di casa fahch-chehndeh dee kah-za. Allora, come vogliamo dividere le faccende di casa? Facciamo a settimane alternate. Questa settimana io porto fuori la spazzatura e pulisco il bagno e la cucina. Identify the various rooms and items marked with a solid, numbered line with their Italian names. For extra credit, keep on naming as many items as you can! Chapter 6 Where Is the Colosseum?
If so, you realize how helpful it is when you know enough of the native language to be able to ask for directions. Knowing the language also enables you to understand the answer. In this chapter, we give you some helpful conversational tips that make it easier to find your way around. Italian in Action Then you can continue with your questions, something like the following: Eh kwee vee-chee-noh lah fohn-tahnah dee treh-vee Is the Fountain of Trevi nearby?
Some possible answers, and not in any particular order mix and match according to context! Take a right at via delle Muratte and then keep going for about meters. Mapping the quarters and following directions Four orientations you already know are the cardinal points of the compass: The four directions are especially helpful to know when you use a map. The following are i quattro punti cardinali ee kwaht-troh poohn-tee kahr-dee-nah-lee the four cardinal points: Some lovely city centers, such as the ones in Verona and Ravenna, are closed off to traffic, so you really need to go around by foot.
You need to know how to orient yourself in relation to people and buildings when following or giving directions. Italians also frequently use meters to describe distances on foot: Asking Directions More vocabulary you can use for giving and receiving directions: She asks the man standing near her how to get to the post office.
Shall I accompany you? Grazie, No Grazie, vado da sola. No thank you, I can go by myself.
La strada and la via are synonymous, but you always use via when the name is specified: Italian in Action I thought you might want to know the translation and pronunciation of a famous Italian proverb you may have heard: Tutte le strade portano a Roma. She has visited the city and walked a lot, and now she wants to go back to the train station.
Prenda la prima a destra. Poi la terza a sinistra. Poi la seconda, no la prima. This list shows the informal verb form tu , the formal verb form Lei , the informal pl. Check out Chapter 2 for help on deciding to use formal or informal forms. Appendix A provides you with the conjugations of some regular and irregular verbs. Notice that the endings of these verbs vary, apparently without any consistent pattern. The easiest way about this is to simply believe us and memorize the verbs and their endings.
You may want to know how near or far you are from your destination. Some typical questions and responses are: Nohn sah-rahn-noh pyooh dee chehntoh-cheen-qwahn-tah meh-tree. Just a couple of steps away. They ask the woman at the front desk how to get there. Quanto dista la pizzeria Ai marmi? Italian in Action Woman: Would you please repeat a bit more slowly? You leave the hotel and turn right.
For those times, you need some useful polite expressions to ask the other person to repeat their directions. Quale strada devo prendere? What road should I take? After getting off the bus, he asks a girl for directions. Sto cercando via Torino. Oddio, ho sbagliato strada! Devi prendere il 20 verso il centro. She is at the Piazza Duomo and has to meet her roommate Oona at the Uffizi Gallery, but she is a little disoriented.
She asks a young street musician how to get there. Come posso arrivare alla Galleria degli Uffizi? Just go straight down Via dei Calzaiuoli until you get to the Piazza della Signoria. Look around when you get there. Quanti minuti ci vogliono a piedi? Italian in Action Amy Jo: Map of the historic district of Florence, Italy. Asking Directions Words to Know a destra ah dehs-trah to the right a sinistra ah see-nees-trah to the left stazione [f] stah-tsyoh-neh station aeroporto [m] ah-eh-roh-pohr-toh airport teatro [m] teh-ah-troh theater cinema [m] chee-neh-mah cinema chiesa [f] kyeh-zah church ospedale [m] ohs-peh-dah-leh hospital ponte m pohn-teh bridge Part II: The Duomo sits on what two piazzas?
The roads running alongside the Arno have what word in common in their names? This chapter invites you to take a closer look at some of the variations that make Italian food so famous. Eating, Italian Style Italians have three main meals: La merenda lah meh-rehn-dah is snack-time that most children enjoy daily. Drinking, Italian Style This section talks about many sorts of drink, starting, obviously, with good Italian coffee, but covering also water, tea, and some spirits.
American coffee but stronger — this type of coffee has become a new fashion. Very strong and concentrated espresso. Coffee substitute made from germinated, dried, and roasted barley. You can have it strong or light. Espresso with more water to make it less concentrated. And here are some tips to help you order your Italian coffee. Espresso with a bit of cognac or other liquor. Espresso with frothed milk. Espresso with plenty of milk. Espresso with a touch of milk. Hot milk with just a touch of espresso. A latte is precisely what it says — milk. Not many Italians anywhere in Italy drink tap water.
In estate ehs-tah-teh summer , you will seek ghiaccio gyahch-choh ice wherever you go because most bars will part with only one small piece. When you order a drink in Italy, you may need to specify how much you want, such as a whole bottle, a carafe, or just a glass. Use the following words: When do you pay for your drinks in an Italian coffee bar? Normally, you have your coffee or whatever first and pay afterward. In little Italian bars, where just one or two people work behind the bar, you simply tell the cashier what you had and pay then. In bigger bars, and especially in large cities with many tourists, you first pay at the register, get a sales slip called a scontrino skohn-tree-noh , and take that sales slip over to the barista.
Beverages with even more of a kick Italy is also famous for its vini vee-nee wines and other fermented beverages, like the popular after-dinner drinks limoncello lee-mohn-chehl-loh and grappa grahp-pah. Each region has its own many varieties of wine, so make certain you try some of the wines of the regions you visit. They are in Tuscany and have ordered pappa al pomodoro pahp-pah ahl poh-moh-dohroh a Tuscan bread soup and one bistecca alla fiorentina beestehk-kah ahl-lah fyohr-ehn-tee-nah a huge steak for two or more people. Ecco la lista dei vini. Che cosa ci consiglia?
Abbiamo un ottimo Chianti della casa. Si, Quello della casa? In Italy, the aperitivo ah-pehr-ah-tee-voh , or before-dinner drink, is usually taken at the bar, either standing or seated at a tavolino tah-voh-lee-noh small table. Campari and prosecco a dry sparkling wine are two major aperitivi, but you can also get alcoholfree aperitivi like un Crodino or un Sanbitter. The aperitivo is frequently served with a delectable assortment of free munchies. They are at a table outdoors.
Io prendo un Bitter Campari con una fetta di arancia. Per me un prosecco, grazie. No, mi dispiace, sono finite. You may prefer to get a birra beer-rah beer grande or piccola grahn-deh or peeh-koh-lah , either in a bottiglia boht-tee-lyah bottle or alla spina ahl-lah spee-nah draft beer. The Start and End of Dining Out One of the more enjoyable if potentially fattening ways to explore a new culture is to sample the native cuisine.
People interested in Italian cuisine are lucky — Italian-style restaurants are plentiful in North America.