CBI 1-01 | Saying ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ in Italian
Coffee Break Italian
Coffee Break Languages
4.7 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2015
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Take your first steps in learning Italian with teacher Mark, learner Katie and native speaker Francesca. In this lesson you’ll learn to say “hello” and ask the question “how are you?” You’ll also learn some appropriate answers for this question, and discover more about Italian culture.
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| 0:00.0 | Coffee Break Italian, lesson 1. |
| 0:21.0 | Buongiorno. |
| 0:23.0 | My name is Mark and I'm here to help you learn Italian. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome to Coffee Break Italian. |
| 0:30.0 | Now I'd like to introduce you to someone here. |
| 0:32.0 | Buongiorno, Katie. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello. |
| 0:35.0 | So tell us a little about yourself, Katie. |
| 0:37.0 | Well, my name's Katie and I'm going to be learning Italian along with all of you at home. |
| 0:43.0 | I have been to Italy a few times and I'd love to go back. |
| 0:47.0 | There are so many beautiful places I really want to visit. |
| 0:50.0 | So I'm really looking forward to improving my Italian with this course. |
| 0:54.0 | Allora, Katie. |
| 0:56.0 | Parli italiano, do you speak any Italian? |
| 0:59.0 | A few words, but not much at all. |
| 1:02.0 | I do speak French in Spanish, so I'm hoping I'll be able to spot some similarities between the languages. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm sure you will, and in fact, if any of our listeners have already learned French or Spanish, |
| 1:12.0 | they'll notice that there are lots and lots of similarities between French, Spanish and Italian. |
| 1:19.0 | Now, Katie is going to be learning with all of our listeners, |
| 1:22.0 | and this means that Katie gets to make the mistakes. |
| 1:25.0 | Katie gets to try things out, and by listening to Katie and listening to me teaching you, |
| 1:31.0 | hopefully you'll make great progress. |
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