26: Dove sono le banane? How to ask for things in supermarkets
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🗓️ 30 July 2017
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You’re at the supermarket in Italy, but you don’t know where anything is! Find out how to ask for things at the supermarket, and learn some important shopping vocabulary in this episode.
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Today’s words
Il commesso = shop assistant
Mi scusi = excuse me
Dove sono = where are
I carrelli = the trolleys
Sono lì/là = they are there
Lì/là = there
All’entrata = at the entrance
A = at (also to)
La = the (for feminine nouns)
"A" combines with "la" to give us “alla” = at the
La banana = the banana (singular)
Le banane = the bananas (plural)
Con = with
La frutta = the fruit
Dov’è = where is
La pasta = the pasta
Di là = over there
Signora = madam/ma’am
Quale corridoio = which aisle?
Vicino = near
Vicino al pane = close to the bread
A = to (also at)
Il = the (for masculine nouns)
"A" combines with "il" to give us "al" = to the
Il pane = the bread
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| 0:00.0 | You're at the supermarket in Italy, but you don't know where anything is. |
| 0:05.0 | Find out how to ask for things at the supermarket and learn and Benvenuti at Five Minutes Italian. |
| 0:26.5 | Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minute Italian. I'm Katie. |
| 0:29.6 | And then, Matteo. Ciao. |
| 0:31.6 | And in today's lesson, we're going to learn how to find our way around an Italian supermarket. |
| 0:37.1 | We're going to start with a little dialogue in Italian. |
| 0:40.4 | Listen and see how much you can make out, then we'll talk you through the details later. |
| 0:46.5 | Imagine you're in the supermarket, but you don't know where anything is. |
| 0:49.8 | So you go up to the poor shop assistant, Il commissor, and you start asking lots of questions. |
| 0:57.3 | My scusi, dover are the carrelli? |
| 1:00.5 | Are there, at the entrance. |
| 1:03.5 | Okay, thanks. |
| 1:05.1 | And where are the bananas? |
| 1:07.8 | Lie, with the fruit. |
| 1:10.4 | Perfecto. And, where is the pasta? L. With the fruit. Perfect. And where is the pasta? |
| 1:13.6 | It's the |
| 1:14.6 | is, |
| 1:15.6 | sir. |
| 1:16.6 | Grazie. |
| 1:17.6 | What corridor? |
| 1:18.6 | Corridoio 5, |
| 1:21.6 | Dicinole |
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