CBI 1-20B | Top-up episode
Coffee Break Italian
Coffee Break Languages
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🗓️ 8 October 2015
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this special “top-up” episode of Coffee Break Italian, Mark will test you on some of the words and phrases you’ve learned so far in the series with some translation challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | Coffee Break Italian Top-Up Episodes |
| 0:07.0 | Bonjour, sono Marc, the Coffee Break Italian. I'm here with a top-up episode and this is going to help you get ready for the next lesson of Coffee Break Italian coming very soon. |
| 0:17.0 | For our Premium listeners, this will be the fifth in our series of top-up episodes between the first part of season 1 and the second part. |
| 0:24.0 | And for those of you who are listening to the free podcast, we hope that this helps you get ready for lesson 21. |
| 0:30.0 | Coming channel! |
| 0:36.0 | Basically what I'm going to do is give you some translation challenges. |
| 0:39.0 | Now this is using lots of different vocabulary areas that we've covered in the first 20 lessons of Coffee Break Italian. |
| 0:46.0 | And you'll be able to use all your Italian skills to come up with these sentences in Italian. |
| 0:52.0 | Let's begin with number one, going from English into Italian. |
| 0:57.0 | I am from Washington, but now I live in Florence in Italy. |
| 1:03.0 | Now we're going to give you some time to think this through and translate that into Italian. |
| 1:07.0 | So I'll say it again. |
| 1:09.0 | I am from Washington, but now I live in Florence in Italy. |
| 1:23.0 | Okay, so let's put this into Italian. |
| 1:27.0 | I am from Washington, that would be Sono di Washington, but now I live in Florence, Ma Adesso, Abito Affirense in Italy, in Italy. |
| 1:43.0 | So the whole thing, I am from Washington, but now I live in Florence in Italy, Sono di Washington, |
| 1:51.0 | Ma Adesso, Abito Affirense in Italy. |
| 1:56.0 | Okay, let's move on to number two. |
| 2:00.0 | The question I'd like you to translate into Italian is, how many children do you have? |
| 2:07.0 | How many children do you have? |
| 2:11.0 | That's quite tricky, especially the question word. |
| 2:14.0 | Try translating that into Italian. How many children do you have? |
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