19: How to order gelato in Italian
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🗓️ 5 June 2017
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Summary
Summer’s coming, and that can only mean one thing. Gelato time! Find out how to order an ice-cream in this week’s episode.
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Today's words
Gusti = flavours
Cioccolato = chocolate
Limone = lemon
Pistacchio = pistachio
Vaniglia = vanilla
Menta = mint
Melone = melon
Crema = custard
Fragola = strawberry
Nocciola = hazelnut
Ciliegia = cherry
Stracciatella = vanilla with chocolate bits
Il mio gusto preferito = my favourite flavour
Due palline = two scoops
Pagare = to pay
Pagare alla cassa = pay at the till
Un cono = a cone
Una coppetta = little paper cup
Lo scontrino = the receipt
il banco = the counter
un cono cioccolato e vaniglia = a cone with chocolate and vanilla
The "gelato al cioccolato" song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZSmbObUzZA
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Summer's coming and that can only mean one thing. |
| 0:03.0 | Gelato time! |
| 0:05.0 | Find out how to order an ice cream in this week's episode of Five Minute Italian. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi everyone and welcome a Five Minute Italian. |
| 0:23.6 | Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minute Italian. I'm Katie. |
| 0:27.6 | And I'm Matteo. Ciao. |
| 0:29.6 | And in this week's episode we're going to learn a very important skill, possibly the most |
| 0:35.6 | important skill you will ever master in Italian. |
| 0:38.3 | Definitely. |
| 0:39.3 | And that is, how to order a gelato. |
| 0:44.3 | We'll also be learning some useful phrases for buying things in shops and loads of different names for food. |
| 0:51.3 | Sweet food, of course. So fruits, etc. So let's get started. You walk into the |
| 0:59.0 | ice cream shop and the first thing you say is, and just a quick cultural note here, it's |
| 1:06.4 | really important to greet people when you walk into shops in Italy. So in England it's quite normal |
| 1:12.0 | to walk into the shop or news agents and just sort of look around on your own and then you |
| 1:17.1 | just say hi when you go to the counter. But Italians always say, bonjourno as soon as they walk |
| 1:23.6 | in, unless it's a really big shop like a supermarket. Yep. |
| 1:37.0 | Then you walk up to the counter and you see all these amazing gusty, which means flavors. |
| 1:43.9 | And let's hear some of the gusty, which are quite similar to English and see if we can guess what they are. |
| 1:47.0 | Chocolato. |
| 1:48.2 | Which of course means chocolate. |
| 1:51.0 | Limone. |
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