40: More sneaky ways to remember Italian verbs
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🗓️ 22 February 2018
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Summary
Did you know that Bill Gates can help you learn Italian? He's often quoted as saying: I will always hire a lazy person to do a difficult job, because he will find an easy way to do it.
This describes exactly how we feel about Italian verbs - what's the point in wasting time doing it the hard way, when there's an easier way? In today's episode, you'll learn more sneaky shortcuts to help you remember Italian verbs.
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Today’s words
Aspettare = to wait
Aspetto = I wait
Aspetti = you wait
Aspettiamo = we wait
Vedere = to see
Vedo = I see
Vedi = you see
Vediamo = we see
Partire = to leave
Parto = I leave
Parti = you leave
Partiamo = we leave
Aspetta = he/she waits
Parla = he/she speaks
Scrive = he/she writes
Vede = he/she sees
Parte = he/she leaves
Dorme = he/she sleeps
Fumare = to smoke
Fuma = He/she smokes
Fuma? = does he/she smoke?
Prendere = take
Prende = he/she takes
Il treno = the train
Prende il treno = he/she takes the train
Quando = when
Quando prende il treno?
Offrire = offer
Offre da bere =he/she is buying the drinks.
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| 0:00.0 | Bill Gates is sometimes quoted as saying that he would always hire a lazy person to do a difficult job |
| 0:06.0 | because he'll find an easy way to do it. And this is how we like to learn languages. Mattio and I are very |
| 0:12.2 | lazy, so we're always looking for the easiest ways to help you guys learn Italian verbs. Learn some sneaky |
| 0:18.6 | shortcuts to Italian verbs in episode 40 of Five Minute Italian. |
| 0:22.7 | Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minute Italian. Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minutes Italian. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm Katie. And I'm Matteo. Ciao. Last week we looked at how to conjugate verbs in Italian |
| 0:46.3 | to say I, as in I speak, you as in you speak and we as in we speak. We'll be building on what we learned so if you didn't |
| 0:56.6 | catch that you can go back and listen to episode 39 now let's practice these verb forms quickly with a few |
| 1:03.3 | new verbs aspectare means to wait so how would you say I wait? |
| 1:11.6 | Aspetto. |
| 1:13.6 | And how would you say you wait? |
| 1:17.6 | Aspetti. |
| 1:19.6 | How would you say we wait? |
| 1:22.6 | Aspectiam. |
| 1:25.6 | Now, Vederer means to see. |
| 1:30.3 | So how would you say I see? |
| 1:33.3 | Vedo. |
| 1:35.3 | You see? |
| 1:38.3 | We see. |
| 1:41.3 | We see. |
| 1:42.3 | Vediam. |
| 1:43.3 | And Partire means to leave. |
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