20: Molto buono! Or is is bene?
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🗓️ 14 June 2017
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Summary
What’s the difference between “buono” and “bene”? And what about bello and bravo? If you’ve ever felt confused about when to use these words, this lesson is for you.
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Today’s words
cominciamo = let’s start
è buono = it tastes good
Il caffè è buono = the coffee is good
la pizza è buona = the pizza is good
il servizio è buono = the service is good (quality)
il bambino è buono = the baby is well behaved
è bella = she’s beautiful
è bello = he’s beautiful
il film è bello = the film is good (use bello for creative works)
il libro è bello = the book is good (use bello for creative works)
è bravo = he’s talented
è brava = she’s talented
come stai = how are you?
sto bene = I’m well
parlo = I speak
parlo bene italiano = I speak Italian well
parli = you speak
parli bene inglese = you speak English well
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes Italians say, |
| 0:02.7 | Molto Buono. |
| 0:04.5 | And sometimes they say, |
| 0:06.2 | Molto Benne. |
| 0:07.9 | But what's the difference? |
| 0:09.6 | And what's about bello and bravo? |
| 0:13.0 | If you've ever felt confused about when to use these words, |
| 0:16.4 | today's episode is for you. |
| 0:18.5 | Find out more in episode 20 of Five Minute Italian. |
| 0:21.6 | Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minute Italian. I'm Katie and welcome to Five Minute Italian. Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minutes Italian. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm Katie. |
| 0:39.9 | And I'm Matteo. |
| 0:41.1 | Ciao. |
| 0:41.9 | And in this week's episode, we're going to learn the difference between |
| 0:44.9 | Buono, Bene, and two other words which are commonly mixed up. |
| 0:50.4 | Bello and Bravo. |
| 0:52.8 | We're also going to learn a very simple sentence structure which will |
| 0:56.4 | immediately help you sound more advanced in Italian. So let's start. Cominciamo. Let's imagine |
| 1:04.4 | I'm eating the my favorite ice cream, gelato alla Nutella. |
| 1:13.2 | And I'm enjoying it so much that I want to tell everyone about it. |
| 1:17.4 | I want to say, it's good. |
| 1:19.6 | What would I say? |
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