Do you know what a box is in Italian?

It might not be what you think it is.

Over the years, the Italian language has borrowed many words from English,

but they don't always have the same meaning.

The good news is, you already know these words, so they're very easy to remember.

You just have to learn the new meaning in Italian.

Find out more in episode 36 of Five Minutes Italian.

Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minute Italian. I'm Katie.

And I'm Matteo, Ciao.

And all the way back in episode two, we looked at how English has borrowed some Italian words and given them different meanings, like latte or latte.

If you ask for a latte in London, you'll get a coffee. Well, if you ask for a latte in London, you'll get a coffee. Well, if you ask for a latte

in Milan, you'll get a glass of milk. But the English are not the only ones to bastardize the

words they borrow from other languages. The Italians don't get off that easily either.

There are lots of words in Italian that Italians think are English, but that actually have different meanings.

For example, like a box, which in Italian means garage, the place where you park your car by your house.

Yeah.

And so is box just like the garage that you buy? So for example,

it has, is it like a parking space as part of your apartment? Yeah, it's usually something that

is closed with a big door, not just a space in the park.

Ah, okay, perfect.

And what about if you have a house with a garage next to it?

Would that be still called the box?

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