1: Why Italian is easier than you think

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🗓️ 10 December 2016

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Did you know that around 30% of English words are similar to Italian words? By pronouncing them in an Italian way(hand gestures optional) they will help you a lot when you start speaking Italian.

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Today's Italian words
Possibile = possible
Impossibile = impossible
Terribile = terrible
Esatto = Exactly
Corretto = correct
Perfetto = perfect
Responsabile = responsable
Animale = animal
Originale = original
Attenzione = attention
Conversazione = conversation
Simile = similar
Vocabolario = vocabulary

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0:00.0	Did you know that around 30% of English words are similar to Italian words?
0:04.9	By pronouncing them in an Italian way, hand gestures optional,
0:08.8	they'll help you a lot when you start speaking Italian.
0:12.1	Five Minutes Italian, episode one. Ciao,
0:27.1	and benvenunty a five minute Italian.
0:30.5	Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minute Italian.
0:34.1	I'm Katie and this is Matteo.
0:35.9	Ciao Matteo.
0:36.6	Ciao, all.
0:43.3	We are a half English, halfian team and we're here to help you learn Italian. So we'll start by telling you a little bit about us.
0:46.3	I'm originally from England, but I've been living in Italy since 2008 when I did a year abroad in a little town in the northeast of Italy called Ferrara.
0:56.6	And I like living in Italy so much that I decided to move here permanently.
1:01.2	So in 2010 I moved to Milan, where I met my other, some might say better half, Matteo.
1:08.7	Hi everyone, I'm Matteo. I'm originally from Naples.
1:12.6	That's for all the sunshine and beaches are, isn't it?
1:14.6	Yes, and the pizza. The pizza, don't forget the pizza.
1:17.6	Never forget the pizza. That's very important.
1:20.6	Yeah.
1:21.6	Okay, so let's get on with some Italian, shall we?
1:24.6	Cominchaum.
1:25.6	Cominchaum.
1:26.6	In today's episode, we're going to talk about why learning Italian is much easier than you think.
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