10: How to make new sentences in Italian

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🗓️ 12 March 2017

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To speak Italian, you'll need to combine what you already know - no matter how little - to say new things. In today's lesson, we'll show you how.

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Today's Italian words
Auguri = congratulations
Vorrei una birra = I'd like a beer
Pagare = to pay
Vorrei pagare = I'd like to pay
Vorrei mangiare = I'd like to eat
Vorrei mangiare qualcosa = I'd like to eat something
Voglio = I want
Voglio mangiare qualcosa = I want to eat something
Mangiamo = we eat
Mangiamo? = shall we eat?
Mangiamo qualcosa? = Shall we eat something?
OK = OK (remember to pronounce it with an Italian accent!)
Va bene = OK (literally: it goes well)
Parliamo = we speak
Parliamo? = shall we speak?
Parliamo italiano? = shall we speak Italian?
Un po' = a bit
Parliamo un po' di Italiano? = Shall we speak a bit of Italian?
Vorrei parlare italiano = I'd like to speak Italian
Vorrei parlare un po' di italiano = I'd like to speak a bit of Italian.

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0:00.0	If you want to speak Italian, one of the most important skills you can learn is how to combine what you already know, no matter how little, to make new sentences.
0:10.0	Let's learn how in 5 Minutes Italian, episode 10. Augurie! Agouri!
0:26.6	Grazie!
0:28.6	Aguori means congratulations in Italian.
0:32.6	But why did you say auguri?
0:34.6	Because today is a little milestone for five minute Italian.
0:39.3	It's our tenth lesson.
0:41.3	And as we've been studying Italian together for ten lessons now, today is the perfect day for a little review.
0:49.3	We're going to go over what we've learned so far and learn how to make lots of useful sentences by combining what we already know.
0:57.9	Last week, we learnt how to ask the things politely.
1:01.6	Can you remember how to say I'd like?
1:05.3	Vorei.
1:07.4	Vorray.
1:10.5	Vorray. And we know that a beer is a beer. So how would we say I'd like a beer.
1:19.6	Vorei.
1:24.6	And to pay is Pagare, one of those Aere verbs, Pagare.
1:32.3	So how would you say I'd like to pay?
1:38.3	Vorei Pagare.
1:41.3	Vorei Pagare. Vorei Pagare.
1:46.0	I
1:47.0	Worei
1:48.0	Pagare.
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