You and your Italian roommate are spending the day shopping in Milan. She said she wanted to leave early…but you left so early this morning you couldn’t even grab a bite to eat! At least you managed to grab your Italian cappuccino to take with you! By 10:30 in the morning, you have already rummaged through every shelf in at least five of the most amazing Italian shops! Your Italian friend seems to gather more strength with each new Italian shop you enter! You, on the other hand, are about to drop from exhaustion and hunger. You have no idea how to tell her in Italian that you have to stop for some food! You have tried waving at Italian restaurants and rubbing your stomach, but she just thought you were waving at friends and your stomach hurt! You thought for sure she heard your stomach growl a few streets back, but she just asked you in Italian if you heard that dog! This is not going well! Maybe you should just try walking into an Italian restaurant…if she doesn’t follow you then at least you can grab a croissant for the road!
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Beginner lesson will teach you how to ask people what is wrong in Italian. You will also learn how to tell people in Italian when you are hungry, or thirsty, or sleepy. Finally, we will discuss the importance of food in Italy. Please, visit ItalianPod101 where you will find tons of helpful Italian learning materials! Leave us a comment while you’re there!
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20 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #5 - Talk About Being Hungry…and Thirsty…and Tired in Italian!”
Wednesday at 6:30 pm
One of the most useful Italian phrases is Ho fame! “I am hungry!”. It’s like a magic word, say it politely and your Italian friends will cook a tasty meal for you!
Ciao
Saturday at 3:05 pm
hahahahahaha, cinzia is hilarious!
questa lezione e` magnifico!
Sunday at 11:47 pm
Grazie markystar!
Continua a seguirci per favore
Keep following us please
Monday at 1:07 am
thank youuuuu!!!!
grazie grazie grazie!
=)
Cinzia
Monday at 2:34 am
È possibile che alcuni italiani dicono “tengo fame” invece di “ho fame” a causa di un’influenza della lingua spagnola sopra gli anni?
Molti dei miei compagni di classe che parlano lo spagnolo anche l’italiano dicono “tengo fame” invece di “ho fame” perché si sono abituati dire il verbo “tengo”.
Anche se è inesatto, nel’lo spagnolo il verbo “tenire” vuol dire “avere.” È possibile che lo spagnolo così la prossimità geografica e le radici vicine delle lingue potrebbero essere la causa per quest’anormalità. Questa è la mia teoria.
Ciao e mi dispiace se è un post molto “boring!”
Gustavo
Monday at 9:08 am
Il tuo post non è boring (noioso) per nulla!
Non ho mai cercato le ragioni per l’uso di “tengo”, ma il tuo ragionamento è molto giusto.
Infatti è nelle regioni del sud Italia che si usa “tengo” e queste regioni sono state dominate dalla Spagna per molti anni, durante il Regno delle due Sicilie.
Ciao
Marco
Tuesday at 11:42 am
per Gustavo
Caro Gustavo,
la verità è che non solo gli spagnoli lo dicono, a Napoli, in seguito alla dominazione spagnola, il dialetto napoletano ha preso molto dallo spagnolo arcaico, perciò anche io … con la mia famiglia spesso ho usato “tengo fame”!
Grazie infinite per i tuoi ottimi commenti!
Cinzia
Wednesday at 1:00 am
Ho fame!
Avete pizza? 
Wednesday at 10:49 am
Magari!
I wish!
Monday at 6:28 am
Question about pronunciation. (questo è un post noiso)
Is the Italian ’s’ pronounced as /z/ (as in English ‘zebra’)?
For example: is ‘cosa’ pronounced /koza/, cosi pronounced /kozi/?
Grazie mille,
Renato
Monday at 7:16 am
You introduce “stanco” but don’t appear to mention that this should change with gender if I remember correctly.
Monday at 3:08 pm
Ciao Renato,
si hai ragione!
You are right! in some words the S in italian sounds like a Z (like in ZEBRA in eng)
and the weird thing is that this word in particular -ZEBRA- in Italian has to be read with a strong sound like in ZATTERA (punt)
in fact in LATIN the Z was a sonorous variant of the S.
So good point!
Thank you very much
Grazie mille!
C!
Monday at 7:22 pm
Dear Peter,
You are right we should have mentioned it.
Adjectives were covered the previous week in Newbie lesson #4.
Please take a look.
A presto
Marco
Tuesday at 8:05 am
Dear Marco,
Can you please explain more fully the interconnection between Newbie and Beginner lessons?
I have sent an email to the site but have not received a reply.
I don’t find it entirely satisfactory that there are two introductory series running together-the difference between them unexplained - but apparently not being self contained.
Sorry to be critical but if I am learning a language at an elementary level I don’t think that I should need to run two courses together.
Tuesday at 9:28 am
Dear Peter,
I have sent an email reply yesterday.
Please check your spam filter to see if it has been blocked.
Ciao!
Saturday at 8:46 pm
Ciao Cinzia e Marco:
Cinzia ha scritto:
> You are right! in some words the S in italian sounds like a Z (like in ZEBRA in english)
I have a question: each time I learn an Italian word do I need to memorize in which words the S sounds like Italian SS and in which words the S sounds like the English Z in Zebra?
Grazie!
Renato
Saturday at 8:59 pm
Ciao Marco,
I, too, am interested in knowing the difference between the Newbie course and the Beginner course. Would you please email me the information?
Grazie mille,
Renato
Thursday at 12:53 am
Ciao Renato!
- I have studied the foreign languages,and also japanese.
Come stai?
Si, io ho studiato le ligue straniere e anche giapponese
For your studies I can give you some advices; the sound “Z” can be usually found in the last syllable of the words like
“casa” - house
“mese” - month
instead you have the “SS” in words like
“insalata” - salad
“salto” - jump
I hope it’s clear, but the best way is the constant practice with the various sounds!
Thank you again for joining and following us.
Ciaoooo
Cinzia
Thursday at 11:39 am
In the next we days we are going to have a nice page with detailed explanations to how to best approach the various lesson levels we have published and also the lessons that we are going to!!!
A presto
Marco
Thursday at 10:30 am
Here is the page with all the information about the current and some of the future series!
http://www.italianpod101.com/help-center/the-courses/
Ciao
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