150: How to say hot in Italian (and avoid an awkward mistake!)

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

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Italian summers are hot, hot, hot! Learn how to say “it’s hot” in Italian and pick up some everyday local–sounding phrases to talk about the summer weather.

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Today's Italian words:
Fa caldo = It’s hot (lit. it does hot)
Fa molto caldo = It’s really hot (lit. it does really hot)
Fa caldissimo = It’s extremely hot (use –issimo!)
Che caldo = It’s so hot (lit. what hot/heat)
Mamma mia! = Goodness!
Ho caldo = I’m hot (lit. I have hot)
Si muore di caldo = We’re dying from the heat (lit. one dies of heat, figurative)
Quanti gradi ci sono? = How many degrees are there?
Ci sono 40 gradi = It’s 40 degrees (lit. there are 40 degrees)
Centigradi = Centigrade

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0:00.0	If there's one thing Italians talk about a lot this time of year, it's the heat.
0:04.9	Yes, it's usually way too hot or occasionally not as hot as we expected, so we always have
0:12.9	something to say about it.
0:14.9	This means that knowing how to talk about the heat will give you the perfect opener for
0:19.0	your everyday conversations in Italy.
0:21.7	In this episode, you learn some very natural sounding phrases to talk about the weather in summer.
0:29.4	And importantly, how to avoid saying something rude by accident.
0:34.3	Music by accident.
0:52.6	Ciao all, and welcome to learn Italian with joy of languages.
0:55.6	And today we're talking about the most popular small talk topic in Italy over the summer, the heat. But first, you may or may not know that
1:03.2	we have a YouTube channel with mini Joy of Languages Italian lessons. If you haven't subscribed yet,
1:14.7	could you do us a favor and click the link in the description? This will be great for your Italian as you'll see more of our mini video
1:20.3	lessons on your YouTube feed and you'll really help our project grow so that we can keep making
1:25.9	free lessons for you. Grazie mele.
1:29.1	So it's summer, estate, estate in Italy.
1:35.9	And nearly all of our conversations start with a little exchange about the heat.
1:42.0	Yeah, so even though we're not in Italy this month, we've been keeping in touch with our
1:45.8	teachers on WhatsApp.
1:47.8	And from these messages, you can hear lots of natural, native-sounding ways to talk about
1:52.0	the heat.
1:52.9	So we thought we could listen to them today.
1:55.7	Keep in mind that these come from natural conversations, so they'll be a bit fast, but we'll break them down after.
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