47: How (and when) to say sorry in Italian
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🗓️ 29 July 2018
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Summary
If you're traveling in Italy and you want to be polite, you'll need to know how to say sorry! Learn how to apologise like an Italian in this week's episode.
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Today's Italian words
Quando dici "mi dispiace" di solito? = When do you normally say sorry?
Quando = when
Dici = you say
Mi dispiace = I'm sorry (literally, "it displeases me" or "to me, it displeases")
Di solito = usually
Quando non ho moneta = when I don't have change
Quando = when
Non ho = I don't have
Moneta = change
Oppure quando qualcuno mi racconta un accaduto triste = or when someone tells me about a sad event.
Oppure = or
Quando = when
Qualcuno = someone
Mi racconta = tells me
Un accaduto = an event/occurance
Triste = sad
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sorry, we owe you a little apology. |
| 0:03.4 | So we thought, what better way to say sorry than with a lesson on how to say sorry in Italian? |
| 0:09.6 | Find out why we'd like to say sorry and learn how Italians say sorry to each other in episode 47 of five minute Italian. |
| 0:29.5 | Ciao to all and and welcome at 5 minute Italian. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Katie. |
| 0:32.3 | And I'm Matteo. |
| 0:33.5 | In today's lesson, you'll be learning how to say sorry in Italian. |
| 0:43.3 | This theme is very timely because we'd like to start by saying, sorry. Yes, we're sorry we haven't been publishing regular episodes recently, |
| 0:47.3 | and that's because we've been renovating our new apartment in Milan. |
| 0:51.3 | The good news is we've now moved in and we've got a guest room which will soon be |
| 0:55.7 | renting out to you guys if you'd like to come and learn Italian with us for a few days here in Italy. |
| 1:01.7 | If you'd like to know more about that, sign up to our mailing list and we'll send you an email |
| 1:05.5 | with the details as soon as we've got everything up and running. You'll find the link in the show |
| 1:10.1 | notes. |
| 1:13.4 | For now, let's move on to today's lesson. |
| 1:15.0 | First, |
| 1:18.1 | we'll listen to the conversation. |
| 1:21.0 | Let's listen to the conversation. |
| 1:24.0 | Then we'll go through it step by step. |
| 1:26.3 | Matteo, |
| 1:28.3 | when you say, me displece, |
| 1:29.3 | the solito? |
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