CBI 1-13 | Visiting an Italian restaurant
Coffee Break Italian
Coffee Break Languages
4.7 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode you’ll take what you’ve learned so far about ordering food a step further. You’ll learn to deal with dietary requirements and other situations encountered in a restaurant. You’ll also learn about the infinitive of Italian verbs and how you can use this to express a variety of concepts such as talking about what you like to do – or indeed to eat!
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| 0:00.0 | Coffee Break Italian, season 1, episode 13. |
| 0:07.6 | Bonjour à toutes, eben de notee, coffee Break Italian, or sono marc. |
| 0:11.8 | Io sono Francesca, ciao, you sono Katie. |
| 0:15.0 | We're back with another episode of Coffee Break Italian for you. |
| 0:18.0 | We hope that you've been enjoying our episode so far |
| 0:20.5 | and indeed that you've been learning a lot. |
| 0:23.0 | Today, we are talking a little more about il chivo. |
| 0:26.0 | Can you remember what that means? |
| 0:28.5 | Katie, what does il chivo mean? |
| 0:30.0 | It's food. |
| 0:31.0 | It is indeed food, so we're going back to a restaurant |
| 0:34.0 | and we're going to be learning a little more about how to deal with particular situations |
| 0:38.0 | which may occur when you're visiting a restaurant. |
| 0:42.0 | Siamo prontissimi. |
| 0:44.0 | Come in, ciao! |
| 0:49.5 | Okay, in today's program, we are going to be looking particularly at a type of verbe. |
| 0:55.5 | It might sound as if this is going to be a very grammatical lesson, absolutely not. |
| 0:59.0 | We're going to be looking at verbs in the form that you would find them in the dictionary. |
| 1:03.5 | Now, the special word for this is the infinitive form, the infinitive form, |
| 1:08.5 | because in a sense, it has infinite possibilities. |
| 1:11.5 | It's a verb that could be referring to any particular person. |
| 1:15.5 | It could be referring to I, U, H, E, U, U, D, |
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