29: How to buy food at the market
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🗓️ 8 October 2017
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Summary
No trip to Italy would be complete without a wander around the food market. In today’s lesson, learn how to buy food "al mercato" and review all the handy words and phrases we’ve been learning for buying food over the last 3 lessons.
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Today’s words
Mi dica = What can I get you? (literally “tell me”)
Un etto = 100 grams
Due etti = 200 grams
Quattro etti = 400 grams
Prendo = I’ll have (literally “I take”)
Prendo quattro etti di Parmigiano = I’ll have 400 grams of Parmesan.
Qualcos’altro = Anything else?
Che cos’è quello? What’s that?
Posso avere 300 grammi di provola = can I have 300 grams of provola? (you can also say tre etti)
Basta così?/A posto così? = Is that everything?
Posso avere un sacchetto? = Can I have a plastic bag?
Quanto costa? Quanto viene? Quant’è? = how much does it cost?
Posso pagare con la carta? Can I pay by card?
Solo contanti = cash only
Dov’è un bancomat? = Where’s a cash machine?
È lì/là = it’s there
È di là/è di lì = It’s over there
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| 0:00.0 | No trip to Italy would be complete without a wonder around the food market. |
| 0:06.0 | In today's lesson, learn how to buy food at Mercato and review all the handy words and phrases we've been learning for buying food over the last three lessons. Hi, all of all and welcome to Five Minute Italian. |
| 0:30.9 | Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minute Italian. I'm Katie. |
| 0:34.0 | And then, Matteo. |
| 0:35.1 | Ciao. |
| 0:36.2 | And recently we had a fab suggestion from one of our listeners, |
| 0:39.9 | which is to do a review lesson once a month, so you can practice some of the things you learn |
| 0:45.1 | in the last three lessons. So welcome to the first five-minute Italian review lesson. |
| 0:50.3 | Woo-hoo! And today, you'll review some of the grammar and phrases from lessons 26 to 28. |
| 0:57.0 | And we've been talking all about buying food. |
| 1:00.0 | And importantly, you'll use these phrases to build new sentences, which is possibly the most important skill you can master when learning a language. |
| 1:09.0 | And if you want to practice speaking your Italian, |
| 1:12.3 | you can join us for a speaking workshop this Saturday. So make sure you listen till the end |
| 1:17.1 | for details on how to join. Let's start, shall we? |
| 1:20.7 | Yes, commicamo. And this week we're at the market. |
| 1:25.2 | Al Mercado. So, you're in the market, you see a tasty cheese stool and you wander over, and you |
| 1:34.3 | see a friendly Italian lady behind the counter who asks, what can I get you? |
| 1:40.3 | Can you remember how to say that? Italians literally say, tell me. |
| 1:45.3 | And you want to buy some parmesan. |
| 1:49.5 | How would you say 100 grams? |
| 1:52.5 | So you can say 100 grammy, but there's another way that Italians often use. |
| 1:59.1 | Un etto. |
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