33: Review: how to travel around Italy on trains, trams, buses and...boats!
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🗓️ 17 December 2017
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Summary
In today’s lesson, you’ll learn how to get around Italy on public transport, using only Italian. And you’ll practice using all the handy words and phrases for travel we’ve been learning over the last 3 lessons.
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Today's words and phrases
Si può comprare un biglietto per Capri qui? = Is it possible (literally “can one”) buy a ticket for Capri here?
qui/qua = here (interchangeable)
Quanto costa un biglietto per Capri? = how much does a ticket to Capri cost? (literally = how much costs a ticket for Capri?)
Quanto tempo ci mette? = How long does it take?
A che ora torna l’ultima? = What time does the last one come back? (literally = what time returns the last one?)
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| 0:00.0 | In today's lesson, you'll learn how to get around Italy on public transport using only Italian. |
| 0:06.2 | And you'll practice using all the handy words and phrases for travel. |
| 0:10.2 | We've been learning over the last three lessons. |
| 0:12.9 | Find out more in episode welcome to Five Minute Italian. Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minute Italian. I'm Katie. |
| 0:33.2 | And I'm Mateo. Ciao. And today we're going to review the words and phrases we've been learning over the last three |
| 0:39.9 | lessons to help us get around Italy on public transport. |
| 0:44.3 | We're going to use the example of a boat in today's lesson, but these are phrases that |
| 0:49.2 | will be useful for any kind of transport in Italy. |
| 0:53.1 | So let's get started. |
| 0:59.0 | Come and chamo. Let's imagine we're in Naples and we want to get the boat over to Capri. So you're at the port and you see loads of ticket |
| 1:07.1 | counters and you're not sure which is the right one. So you go up to one of the kiosks and you ask, is it possible to buy a ticket to Capri here? |
| 1:17.6 | Remember in Italian, to ask if something is possible, they often speak like the Queen of England. |
| 1:24.6 | That is, they literally say, can one buy a ticket? So can you remember |
| 1:29.9 | how to say can one? And can you remember how to say buy a ticket? |
| 1:42.2 | And what about 2 Capri? |
| 1:47.8 | So last week we learned that Italians used the word per, which literally means for, instead of the word 2 |
| 1:56.2 | when they talk about a destination. |
| 1:58.8 | We learnt the phrase, um billietto per Bologna, literally a ticket for Bologna. |
| 2:06.5 | So how would you say a ticket for Capri? |
| 2:15.7 | And finally, can you remember how to say here? |
| 2:18.3 | Here. |
| 2:19.3 | You can also say, |
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