Hi Matteo.

Hi Katie.

How stay?

Well, ben.

And you?

All good, but I'm a bit hot, to be honest.

What?

It's just that when you just lay this literally to Italian, it means I'm horny.

It's true. To avoid making this mistake in Italian, we actually have to say I have hot.

Oh, caldo.

Actually, there are quite a few phrases like this.

So in this episode, you'll learn seven moments where you need to say I have in Italian,

instead of I am, like you normally would in English, to avoid making embarrassing mistakes.

Music There are lots of situations where Italians use I have or, but in English we say I am. Another example is age.

Yes, it's true.

In fact, Italians often make this mistake the other way around.

For example, we say, I have 40 years.

Yeah, because in Italian we have our age.

So we say, or 40 years.

It's a topic that's three-year-for-every-one. In fact, we actually already covered this topic back in episode 74, but it's one that keeps coming up and there are a few

more common ones that are worth learning. So we thought we'd revisit it. What other ones are there?

Well, how about we listen to a typical conversation with a few examples?

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