You and your friends walk through the Italian streets. You decide to sit in an Italian sidewalk café for a while to watch the people of Italy as they go about their business. You enjoy hearing the group of people seated next to you speaking noisily in Italian. You realize you understand a lot of their Italian language dialogue! Excitedly, you and your friends lean over to their table and begin communicating in Italian to them. You sit and get to know your new Italian friends, chatting about everything from your careers to where you are from. Everyone is having a fantastic time! Speaking in Italian, you ask the lady sitting across from you if she is married. She answers, but then grows very quiet. The conversation seems to have died a little. Did you say something wrong?
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15 Responses to “Newbie Lesson #5 - Age Restrictions Do Apply in Italy!”
Tuesday at 6:30 pm
Dear listeners, if it’s not asking too much, I’d like to know your age!
Saturday at 1:06 pm
Ciao a tutti!
Although I am a male, I am old enough to know better and wise enough not to answer. Let’s just say you CAN teach an old dog new tricks…or a new language, that is!
Grazie por tutti.
Ed
Sunday at 11:49 pm
Grazie a te per il commento.
Thank you for the comment
Marco
p.s. It is better to say “grazie per tutto”, “thanks for everything”
Monday at 1:09 am
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Marco Marco….
it is GRAZIE DI TUTTO!!!!
careful!!
and Ed thank you very much again!
Cinzia
Monday at 8:55 am
Ops
Cinzia ha ragione!
Cinzia is right!
Scusatemi
Marco
Thursday at 12:34 am
Why is it “grazie DI tutto”? Doesn’t “tutti” mean “everything” (plural)? And “di”? Doesn’t that mean “from”?
Please clarify. I’m a bit confused at this point.
Ciao,
Ed
Thursday at 10:48 am
Dear Ed,
“di” means “of” or “from”, for example “Il gatto di Marco” - “Marco’s cat” and “Marco è di Sanremo” - “Marco is from Sanremo”
“tutto” means “all, everything”, while “tutti” means everyone”.
Hope this makes it a little clearer.
Ciao
Tuesday at 2:44 pm
“Tengo fame” is very similar to spanish. In spanish we say “Tengo hambre”.
Well, we all know how similar these two languages are.
Tuesday at 11:41 pm
Yes they really are very similar.
Thanks for your comment!
Sunday at 1:28 am
Reviewing! : )
Ora, ho ventisette anni, ma avrò ventotto anni.
Monday at 10:12 am
Quand’è il tuo compleanno?
When is your birthday?
Monday at 4:19 pm
Marco
Il mio compleanno è ventinove de Diciembre. ^^
Monday at 4:36 pm
Dear Hyonu,
let me correct your spelling a little.
“Il mio compleanno è il ventinove dicembre”
In Italy people born around Christmas time are considered to be slightly unlucky as they only get one big present a year as birthday and Christmas are so close.
Friday at 2:12 am
Ho quarantotto anni.
And I’m definitely trying to learn new tricks, or at least a new language.
Love this site I just found yesterday.
Sunday at 12:07 pm
Ho quarantatre anni.
I’m glad there’s a couple of people here my age
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