CBI 1-09 | Language problems and talking about which languages you speak
Coffee Break Italian
Coffee Break Languages
4.7 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2015
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Join native speaker Francesca, learner Katie and teacher Mark in this latest lesson of our series for beginners in Italian. In this episode we’re talking about language problems: saying which languages you speak and solving problems when you don’t understand what people are saying to you.
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| 0:00.0 | Coffee Break Italian Season 1 Episode 9 |
| 0:08.8 | One John A Tuti e Ben Venuti are Coffee Break Italian |
| 0:12.3 | Ciao a tutti sono Francesca, ciao, it's Katie |
| 0:16.5 | And this is Mark, welcome back to another episode of Coffee Break Italian in which we are |
| 0:21.5 | going to be helping you learn Italian. |
| 0:24.2 | Now in this series so far we've been covering a number of topics which have helped you |
| 0:29.8 | learn the basics of Italian and to just yourself cope with some difficult situations you |
| 0:34.2 | might find yourself in if you're traveling in Italy and today we're taking that one |
| 0:38.8 | stage further by learning how to deal with language problems. |
| 0:43.8 | So, what are you doing today? |
| 0:47.6 | Are you happy to be here again to learn Italian? |
| 0:52.6 | It's fine, thank you, but I didn't understand anything else, I'm afraid. |
| 0:58.5 | If you don't understand something Katie you can see non capisco. |
| 1:04.1 | Non capisco. |
| 1:05.8 | We'll come back to this later in the lesson. |
| 1:08.4 | Francesca, what you did see was... |
| 1:11.9 | Are you happy to be here today to learn Italian? |
| 1:23.3 | Sure. |
| 1:24.3 | Good stuff, let's get started with the lesson then. |
| 1:32.7 | By way of our recap in this lesson we're going to start with a conversation similar to |
| 1:37.4 | one we heard last time and this is where I'm going to be asking for some directions in |
| 1:42.3 | the town in Francesca. |
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