21: Fa caldissimo! How to talk about the weather in Italian
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🗓️ 22 June 2017
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Summary
Italians talk about the weather just as much the English do, so it’s an essential skill to master. Find out how to talk about the weather in this episode.
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Today's words
che tempo fa? = What's the weather like?
che = what
tempo = weather
fa = does
fa caldissimo = it's extremely hot (literally it does hot)
caldo = hot
freddo = cold
fa freddo = it's cold
fa freddissimo = it's extremely cold
gradi = degrees
è = it is
è nuvoloso = it's cloudy
è nuvolosissimo = it's extremely cloudy
piove = it's raining
piove molto = it's raining a lot
nevica = it's snowing
nevica molto = it's snowing a lot
c'è sole = it's sunny (literally there is sun)
c'è molto sole = it's very sunny (literally there is lots of sun).
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| 0:00.0 | Contrary to popular belief, Italians talk about the weather just as much as we English do. |
| 0:10.0 | So it's an essential skill to master. |
| 0:12.9 | Find out how to talk about the weather in episode 21 of five-minute Italian. |
| 0:31.4 | Hi everyone and Benvenuti a Five Minute Italian. |
| 0:34.2 | Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minutes Italian. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Katie. |
| 0:36.1 | And I'm Matteo. |
| 0:36.7 | Ciao. |
| 0:41.8 | And in today's episode, we're going to learn how to talk about the weather in Italian, |
| 0:46.6 | which is pretty timely as we've got some interesting weather in Milan at the moment. |
| 0:47.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.8 | So, Matteo, what time does? |
| 0:53.3 | It's caldissimo. |
| 0:54.4 | Caldissimo. Yeah. It's veryissimo. Caldissim. |
| 0:54.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.7 | It's very novolosso and it's all together. |
| 1:02.7 | Yeah, today, yeah. |
| 1:06.3 | Okay, so let's take that from the beginning. |
| 1:08.7 | I asked Matteo a question. |
| 1:10.2 | What time do? Can you guess what that means? |
| 1:14.6 | Ke tempo fa means what's the weather like? |
| 1:19.7 | Ke means what, |
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