Learn how to politely ask which bus stop is the proper one to help you reach your destination
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| Ciao a tutti! Sono Consuelo. Hi everybody! I’m Consuelo. |
| Welcome back to ItalianPod101.com’s Italiano in tre minuti, the fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Italian. |
| In the last lesson, we covered how to ask whether a bus is going to the right destination. Today, we are learning how to ask which stop is the next stop. |
| Are you ready? Cominciamo! Let's start! |
| Now, recently Italian buses have started using displays and making some announcements in Italian that inform the passengers where the bus will stop next. |
| Unfortunately, buses like that are in the minority. In case you don’t see any display or you don’t hear any announcement, you must be ready to ask someone. |
| You can ask the bus driver or a passenger, "What is the next stop?" |
| So in Italian, the word we use for "what" or "which" is quale; the third singular person of the verb "to be," essere, is è. “Stop” is fermata, which is a feminine noun, and the article and adjective "the next" switch into the feminine: la prossima. |
| Let’s recap. The whole sentence is Qual’è la prossima fermata? |
| (One more time, slowly: qual’è la prossima fermata?) |
| Since quale ends with a vowel and the verb è is a vowel, quale takes the apostrophe and drops the e. |
| Another way of inquiring could be asking whether your desired destination is the next stop. |
| In order to say that in Italian, you should ask La prossima fermata è…..? And here add the bus stop's name or the place. |
| (One more time, slowly: La prossima fermata è ..........?) |
| Let’s imagine we want to know whether the next stop is the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan because we want to see Da Vinci’s painting, The Last Supper. |
| La prossima fermata è Santa Maria delle Grazie? |
| Please remember that in both cases, you should first say scusi to draw someone’s attention. |
| So: Scusi, qual’è la prossima fermata? Scusi, la prossima fermata è Santa Maria delle Grazie? |
| Let’s now see a practical example. We are in Naples on a bus and we want to go to the famous square Piazza del Plebiscito, but the stop we should ask for is the close by Piazza Trento. |
| Here the background changes into the bus’s interior. |
| Consuelo: Scusi, qual’è la prossima fermata? |
| Passenger: Piazza Trento. |
| Consuelo: Ah bene, grazie. |
| Consuelo: Scusi, la prossima fermata è Piazza Trento? |
| Passenger: No, Piazza Trento è fra due fermate. |
| Consuelo: Ah, grazie mille. |
| Now it’s time for Consuelo’s tips. |
| Don’t shy away from asking people these questions. In Italy, it is very common for people to ask for and to give this kind of information on a bus, even among Italian citizens. |
| Please remember that "to get on a bus" in Italian is salire sull’autobus, and "to get off a bus" is scendere dall’autobus. |
| What does può scattarci una foto mean? Do you already know it? We’re going to learn this and much more in the next lesson. |
| See you in our next Italiano in tre minuti lesson! |
| Ciao alla prossima lezione! |
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