Coffee Brick Italian Season 1 Episode 34

Salve, Yo Sono Marque. I'm Mark and I'm delighted to be back with another episode of Coffee Brick Italian for you.

As you know, in this final batch of lessons we are following Katie as she visits Italy

and uses the Italian that she's learned in coffee-brick Italian in a variety of situations.

Today we're going to be listening to a conversation recorded at breakfast.

Alora, si è te pronte? Cominciamo!

Now one of the important things about learning a language is that you don't get too used to one particular accent

and it's important to get as much exposure to other accents as possible.

And you can do that by listening to radio or indeed to podcasts

or you can find YouTube videos online with Italian speakers from all over the Italian speaking area.

Now in this particular episode we encountered a waiter who was serving as breakfast

and he had quite a specific accent. In certain parts of the north of Italy, particularly towards the French border,

you sometimes find that the R sound becomes a little more like a French R, like a R.

So instead of Alora, sometimes you hear Alora.

And you'll hear this R sound in the dialogue with our waiter in today's episode.

Don't let it put you off again, you need to get exposure to different types of accents.

In this dialogue you'll hear me and you'll hear Katie, but you'll also hear the waiter

with his slightly different accent. And we also got chatting to a man who was sitting at the table next to us.

Let's have a listen to the dialogue in its entirety and then of course I'll help you understand everything in the dialogue

by going through it with you afterwards. And we'll try to slow some things down and explain some things in various ways

because there was lots of fast Italian in this dialogue. Let's have a listen now.

Good morning, do you have a collection?

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