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INTRODUCTION
Marco: Marco here! Beginner series Season 1, Lesson 27 - What Will You See When You Go to Italy?
Cinzia: I’m Cinzia and we’d like to welcome you to the 27th lesson of the beginner series in ItalianPod101.com.
Marco: Thank you for joining us in ItalianPod101.com. We’re going to teach Italian in a fun and interesting way.
Cinzia: So, stay tuned!
Marco: So Cinzia, what are we talking about in today’s lesson?
Cinzia: Oh, today, we will see Anna who just came back home after a Saturday evening, watching a soccer match with Peter.
Marco: So, with who is she talking to?
Cinzia: She’s talking to her friend, Elena, of course, and she’s telling her about the time she had with Peter.
Marco: Oh! So, it’s a chitty chat between two girls, two Italian girls!
Cinzia: Exactly. Esattamente una conversazione tra ragazze.
Marco: Exactly, a conversation between girls.
Cinzia: I think I have to do two voices today?
Marco: Yes. Give it all you’ve got, Cinzia. You can do it!
Cinzia: Okay. Today is my turn then.
DIALOGUE
Anna: Hai visto?
Elena: Cosa?
Anna: Peter si è offeso subito quando gli ho chiesto di suo fratello!
Elena: Sì, è geloso! Comunque, suo fratello è davvero carino!
Anna: Ha, ha, ha! Allora sei d'accordo con me!
Marco: Let's hear it slowly now.
Cinzia: Ascoltiamolo lentamente.
Anna: Hai visto?
Elena: Cosa?
Anna: Peter si è offeso subito quando gli ho chiesto di suo fratello!
Elena: Sì, è geloso! Comunque, suo fratello è davvero carino!
Anna: Ha, ha, ha! Allora sei d'accordo con me!
Marco: And now, with the translation.
Cinzia: E ora, con la traduzione.
Anna: Hai visto?
Anna: Did you see?
Elena: Cosa?
Elena: What?
Anna: Peter si è offeso subito quando gli ho chiesto di suo fratello!
Anna: Peter got offended as soon as I asked him about his brother!
Elena: Sì, è geloso! Comunque, suo fratello è davvero carino!
Elena: Yes, he is jealous! Anyway, his brother is really cute.
Anna: Ha, ha, ha! Allora sei d'accordo con me!
Anna: Ha ha ha! So you agree with me!
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Marco: Good, Cinzia. That was not so tough, but good anyway.
Cinzia: Ah, thank you, but it’s too hot today. I want…
Marco: Wait, wait, wait, not picnic with squirrels?
Cinzia: Picnic with squirrels? Now, with this heat?
Marco: Yes.
Cinzia: No way.
Marco: Okay. So, what do we do now then?
Cinzia: We should take a look at the vocabulary?
Marco: Yes.
VOCAB LIST
Marco: So, the first word is…
Cinzia: vedere [natural native speed]
Marco: to look, to watch, to see
Cinzia: vedere [slowly - broken down by syllable] vedere [natural native speed]
Marco: Next word…
Cinzia: cosa [natural native speed]
Marco: what
Cinzia: cosa [slowly - broken down by syllable] cosa [natural native speed]
Marco: Next word…
Cinzia: offendersi [natural native speed]
Marco: to get offended
Cinzia: offendersi [slowly - broken down by syllable] offendersi [natural native speed]
Marco: Next word…
Cinzia: subito [natural native speed]
Marco: immediately, right away, straight away
Cinzia: subito [slowly - broken down by syllable] subito [natural native speed]
Marco: Next word…
Cinzia: geloso [natural native speed]
Marco: jealous
Cinzia: geloso [slowly - broken down by syllable] geloso [natural native speed]
Marco: Next word…
Cinzia: carino [natural native speed]
Marco: cute
Cinzia: carino [slowly - broken down by syllable] carino [natural native speed]
Marco: Next word…
Cinzia: essere d'accordo [natural native speed]
Marco: to agree
Cinzia: essere d'accordo [slowly - broken down by syllable] essere d'accordo [natural native speed]
VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
Cinzia: Now, let’s take a look at the usage for some of the words and expressions.
Marco: The first word we’re gonna look at is…
Cinzia: vedere
Marco: So, the first sample sentence is…
Cinzia: Hai visto il mio cellulare?
Marco: "Have you seen my cell phone?"
Cinzia: The next word we will look at is the verb offendersi.
Marco: And the example sentence is…
Cinzia: Marina si è offesa.
Marco: "Marina got offended." Now, talking about these reflexive verbs, we saw a lesson last week, didn’t we, about this?
Cinzia: Oh yes. We studied in the beginner lesson no. 26.
Marco: So, if you don't know what they are, please take a look at the previous lesson. What is the next word we’re gonna take a look at?
Cinzia: subito
Marco: And the example sentence is…
Cinzia: Torna subito a casa!
Marco: "Come back home immediately!" So, this could be said maybe from a mother to a child, right?
Cinzia: Mm, yes, or from a girlfriend to a boyfriend.
Marco: Or from a boyfriend to a girlfriend.
Cinzia: Yes, true.
Marco: I mean, today’s day and age, things can happen in every situation.
Cinzia: Torna subito a casa, sciagurata!
Marco: Okay. What’s sciagurata? Now, that’s difficult.
Cinzia: Sciagurata means “reckless.”
Marco: So a reckless person. In this case, sciagurata or sciagurato, what did you just say?
Cinzia: I said something that my dad used to tell me.
Marco: Sciagurata meaning “reckless girl.”
Cinzia: Yes.
Marco: Ah… And what is the next word we’re gonna take a look at?
Cinzia: geloso
Marco: And the example sentence is…
Cinzia: Maybe this time, you can say the example.
Marco: Okay. Sono geloso di te.
Cinzia: Really? Why?
Marco: No, no, no. It’s just an example sentence. What does the phrase mean?
Cinzia: "I am jealous of you."
Marco: Maybe because you have so much free time.
Cinzia: I have free time?
Marco: Yes.
Cinzia: When?
Marco: I am chained to my desk.
Cinzia: In my dreams.
Marco: While you have dreams, I’m chained to my desk 24 hours a day.
Cinzia: Twenty-four? You don’t sleep? You don’t eat? You don't…okay. Let’s take a look at the next word which is carino.
Marco: Okay. And the example sentence is…
Cinzia: Il tuo gatto è così carino!
Marco: "Your cat is so cute!"
Cinzia: And lastly, we have an expression - essere d'accordo.
Marco: And the example sentence is…
Cinzia: Non sono d'accordo con te.
Marco: “I do not agree with you.”
Cinzia: After essere d'accordo, we always use con.
Marco: Just as in English, we would use to agree (with) someone.
Cinzia: Yes. You can agree with someone or with something also, sono d’accordo con te oer sono d’accordo con questa cosa.
Marco: Okay then. Now, let’s take a look at today’s grammar.

Lesson focus

Cinzia: In today’s grammar, we will review the passato prossimo of the reflexive verbs which require the verb essere "to be" as their auxiliary.
Marco: And since the passato prossimo is a compound tense, the auxiliary essere needs to be conjugated at the simple present form and then followed by the past participle of the main verb.
Cinzia: In fact, as you know, my dear listeners, in the passato prossimo of verbs that require the auxiliary verb avere "to have," the past participle never changes.
Marco: For example, Cinzia?
Cinzia: Hai visto?
Marco: “Have you seen?”
Cinzia: Abbiamo visto un film.
Marco: "We have seen a movie."
Cinzia: Instead, with the verb essere "to be," the past participle changes in order to agree in number and gender with the subject.
Marco: And if you remember, In the dialogue, we had - Peter si è offeso "Peter got offended." Cinzia: And if we had a plural case…
Marco: For example…
Cinzia: Anna e Elena si sono offese.
Marco: "Anna and Elena got offended."
Cinzia: So, as you can see, the past participle changed in order to agree in number and gender.
Marco: Now, Cinzia, when do we use the auxiliary erese to construct the passato prossimo.
Cinzia: First of all, we use it with intransitive verbs, so that express motion.
Marco: For example…
Cinzia: andare
Marco: “to go”
Cinzia: venire
Marco: “to come”
Cinzia: Verbs that express state.
Marco: For example…
Cinzia: stare, rimanere
Marco: “to stay”
Cinzia: And verbs that express a change of state.
Marco: Like…
Cinzia: diventare
Marco: “to become”
Cinzia: And “cambiare.”
Marco: “To change.” Well, in this first point, first of all, anything that means something is changing something is moving, right?
Cinzia: Yes.
Marco: And in the second case where we use the auxiliary verb to construct passato prossimo is when we have reflexive verbs.
Cinzia: Yes, which is actually our case.
Marco: For example, with the verb offendersi.
Cinzia: “to get offended”
Marco: lavarsi
Cinzia: “to wash oneself”
Marco: To better explain this, let’s take a look at the following verbs. First of all, we have a reflexive verb that is…
Cinzia: offendersi
Marco: And now, let’s hear the conjugation.
Cinzia: Io mi sono offeso, tu ti sei offeso, lui si è offeso, lei si è offesa, noi ci siamo offesi, voi vi siete offesi, loro si sono offesi.
Marco: Instead, in the case of a motion verb, here, we have the verb…
Cinzia: andare.
Marco: And the conjugation would be io sono andato, tu sei andato, lui è andato, lei è andata, noi siamo andati, voi siete andati, loro sono andati.
Cinzia: Thank you, Marco. Please remember, when conjugating the passato prossimo of reflexive verbs, you have to match the past participle to gender and number.

Outro

Marco: Excellent Cinzia, ci vediamo presto!
Cinzia: Sì, a presto. Ciao e grazie!

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