55: Che cosa puoi fare a Milano?
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🗓️ 21 October 2018
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Today's words:
Che cosa puoi fare a Milano? = What can you do in Milan?
Che cosa = What
Puoi = You can
Fare = do
A Milano = in Milan
Puoi visitare il duomo e salutare la Madonnina = You can visit the cathedral and say hello to "la Madonnina", which is the little golden statue of The Virgin Mary at the top of the cathedral.
Puoi = You can
Visitare = visit
il duomo = the cathedral
e = and
salutare = say hello to
la Madonnina = the little Virgin Mary statue.
Panino = sandwich (literally means small bread).
Pane = bread
ino = word ending that means "small"
Puoi visitare il castello sforzesco = You can visit the Sforzesco Castle.
Con un parco bellissimo = With a beautiful park.
Puoi mangiare piatti tipici del Nord Italia, come il risotto = You can eat typical dishes of Northern Italy, like risotto.
Puoi = you can
Mangiare = eat
Piatti = dishes
Tipici = typical
Del = of the
Nord = North
Italia = Italy
Come = like
il risotto = the risotto
Puoi mangiare il panettone e bere il Prosecco = You can eat Panettone (a typical Italian Christmas cake, which is a Milanese speciality) and drink Prosecco.
Puoi fare "aperitivo" = You can do "aperitivo" (a cocktail with all you can eat nibbles)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're in Milan for the weekend. |
| 0:03.2 | What can you do? |
| 0:04.8 | What can you do? |
| 0:06.8 | Find out in episode 55 of Five Minutes Italian. |
| 0:24.1 | Ciao to and welcome at Five Minutes Italian. I'm Katie and I'm Matteo. |
| 0:26.2 | Ciao. |
| 0:27.2 | And in today's lesson, we'll be talking about things to do in Milan. |
| 0:32.1 | Let's listen to the conversation first, then we'll go through the details. |
| 0:37.3 | Matteo, what can you do in Milan? |
| 0:41.7 | Well, you can visit the duomo and salutary the madonina, |
| 0:49.3 | or you can visit a castello sforcesco, |
| 0:53.8 | can eat pastelsi, you can eat patty typical of North Italy, visit a castello sforcesco, |
| 0:55.3 | you can't manage the tippics of north |
| 0:57.7 | Italy, like the risotto, |
| 1:00.5 | you can be |
| 1:01.9 | the prosaecco and |
| 1:03.9 | manage the panettone, |
| 1:05.8 | you can do |
| 1:07.3 | aperitivo, and |
| 1:09.7 | obviously you can |
| 1:10.5 | talk in Italian. |
| 1:12.6 | So first you heard me ask, |
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