How much can you remember from previous lessons of 5 minute Italian? In this quiz lesson, you’ll review the magic verb fare together with some handy grammar, words and phrases you’ve learnt in previous lessons. By the end, you’ll be able to combine them to say loads of new sentences in Italian.
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Today's Italian words
Facciamo = we do
Colazione = breakfast
Quando = when
Quando facciamo colazione? = When shall we have breakfast?
A che ora = what time
A che ora facciamo colazione? = What time shall we have breakfast?
Adesso/ora = now
Facciamo colazione adesso/ora? Shall we have breakfast now?
Facciamo la spesa = let’s do the food shopping
Non facciamo la spesa ora = let’s not do the food shopping now.
Facciamolo! = Let’s do it!
Facciamola = Let’s do it (for feminine nouns like “la spesa”)
Più = more
Late = tardi
Più tardi = later
Non facciamo la spesa adesso, facciamola più tardi = let’s not do the shopping now, let’s do it later.
Che cosa/che/cosa = what
Che facciamo? = What shall we do?
Che facciamo più tardi? = What shall we do later?
Fai = you do
Che fai più tardi = What are you doing later?
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Katie: How much can you remember from previous lessons of 5 minute Italian? In this quiz lesson, you’ll review the magic verb fare together with some handy grammar, words and phrases you’ve learnt in previous lessons. By the end, you’ll be able to combine them to say loads of new sentences in Italian. Learn how in episode 38 of 5 Minute Italian.
K: Ciao a tutti e benvenuti a 5 minute Italian, hi everyone and welcome to 5 minute Italian. I’m Katie…
M: And I’m Matteo. Ciao.
K: And today we’re going to help you remember and practice using the words and phrases you learned in previous lessons and importantly, show you how you can use them to build new sentences in Italian. Let’s get started.
M: Cominciamo.
K: Let’s start with the most important word: Can you remember how to say breakfast?
M: Colazione
K: And can you remember how to say “we do”
M: Facciamo
K: So how would you say, we have breakfast, or as the Italians say, we do breakfast.
M: Facciamo colazione.
K: Now all the way back in episode 8, we learnt that to make suggestions, as in “shall we have breakfast” in Italian is very easy. All you have to do is repeat the verb with a question intonation. So instead of saying “we have breakfast”, you say “we have breakfast?”. So how would you say this in Italian?
M: Facciamo colazione?
K: Great. Now can you remember how to say “when” in Italian?
M: Quando.
K: So how would you say: When shall we have breakfast?
M: Quando facciamo colazione?
K: And can you remember how to say “what time?” Literally “at what hour”
M: A che ora
K: So how would you say “what time shall we have breakfast?”
M: A che ora facciamo colazione?
K: And can you remember how to say “now”?
M: You can either say adesso or ora.
K: So how would you say "shall we have breakfast now?"
M: Facciamo colazione ora?
K: We also learnt that the way Italians say “let’s” as in “let’s have breakfast” is easy. All you have to do is say “we have breakfast”, but with a tone that sounds like you’re making a suggestion. So how would you say “let’s have breakfast” in Italian?
M: Facciamo colazione
K: Can you remember how to say “do the food shopping”?
M: Facciamo la spesa.
K: So how would you say “let’s do the food shopping”?
M: Facciamo la spesa.
K: To make a negative, we know that we just put “non” in front of the verb. So how would you say “let’s not do the food shopping”
M: Non facciamo la spesa.
K: And how would you say, "let’s not do the shopping now".
M: Non facciamo la spesa adesso. Or you can say non facciamo la spesa ora
K: To say “it” as in, let’s do it, we say “lo”.
K: So how would you say “let’s do it”?
M: Facciamolo
K: And that “lo” gets attached to the end of the word, as you’ll be able to see in the show notes. We use “lo” if we’re just using the phrase in general, without referring to a specific thing for “it”, or if we’re talking about a masculine noun, like. However, if we’re referring to a feminine noun, like the shopping la spesa, we say la. Facciamola.
K: K: Then in episode 35, we learnt how to say “more”, when we were talking about New Year’s Resolutions, I said "I’d like to be more organised". Can you remember how to say more?
M: Più.
K: The word for late in Italian is tardi. In English, to make a comparison, we can either add the word more, as in more organised, but we can also add "er" on the end, as in later. But in Italian, it’s easy, they just say “more” all the time. To say “later” in Italian, we’d say more late. So how do you say that in Italian?
M: Più tardi.
K: So how would you say “let’s do it later”, if we’re referring to the shopping?
M: Facciamola più tardi
K: So how would you say “let’s not do the shopping now, let’s do it later”
M: Non facciamo la spesa adesso, facciamola più tardi. Or you can say non facciamo la spesa ora, facciamola più tardi.
K: And do you remember how to say “what?”
M: You can either say che cosa, che or cosa. They all mean "what".
K: For today, let’s just use che So how would you say “what shall we do?”
M: Che facciamo?
K: So how would you say: what shall we do later?
M: Che facciamo più tardi?
K: And can you remember how to say you do?
M: Fai
K: Now we want to say: What are you doing later? In Italian, it’s easy, because they usually use the present tense to talk about plans in the near future. So you literally say: “what you do later?”
M: Che fai più tardi?
K: So tell us Matteo, che fai più tardi?
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