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INTRODUCTION
Cinzia: Ciao a tutti!
Marco: Marco here. Newbie Series, season 1, lesson#37 - Who Knows Whether We Will Be in Italy in Ten Years' Time.
Cinzia: Hi everyone! I'm Cinzia, and welcome to ItalianPOD101.
Marco: With us, you'll learn to speak Italian with fun and effective lessons.
Cinzia: We also provide you with cultural insights
Marco: and tips you won't find in a textbook.
Marco: In this lesson you will learn about the Futuro Semplice tense of the verbs essere, “to be”, and avere, “to have”.
Cinzia: This conversation takes place at a café.
Marco: The conversation is between John and Anna.
Cinzia: The speakers are friends, therefore the speakers will be speaking informal Italian.
Marco: Now, if you're listening on an iPod...
Cinzia: or an iTouch or iPhone...
Marco: click the center button of the iPod or tap the screen on an iTouch or iPhone, to see the notes for this lesson while you listen!
Cinzia: Read along, while you listen.
Marco: This technique will help you remember faster! Okay...
Marco: Let's listen to the conversation now.
DIALOGUE
John: Chissà dove saremo fra dieci anni.
Laura: Io sarò ancora qui a Bologna e tu sarai a New York.
John: Sì, sarò a New York e avrò una casa piccola piccola.
John: Tu invece avrai una casa in campagna.
Laura: E avrò un grande mutuo da pagare!
Marco: Let’s hear it slowly now.
John: Chissà dove saremo fra dieci anni.
Laura: Io sarò ancora qui a Bologna e tu sarai a New York.
John: Sì, sarò a New York e avrò una casa piccola piccola.
John: Tu invece avrai una casa in campagna.
Laura: E avrò un grande mutuo da pagare!
Marco: And now, with the translation.
John: Chissà dove saremo fra dieci anni.
Marco: Who knows where we will be in ten years' time.
Laura: Io sarò ancora qui a Bologna e tu sarai a New York.
Marco: I will still be here in Bologna, and you will be in New York.
John: Sì, sarò a New York e avrò una casa piccola piccola.
Marco: Yes, I will be in New York and will have a tiny, tiny house.
John: Tu invece avrai una casa in campagna.
Marco: Instead, you will have a house in the countryside.
Laura: E avrò un grande mutuo da pagare!
Marco: And I will have a big mortgage to pay!
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Marco: Chissà dove saremo domani?
Cinzia: Marco, of course we’ll be here at Italianpod101.com.
Marco: Yes, we will certainly be here tomorrow as well!
Cinzia: Yes, and we will be having fun!
Marco: Are you sure?
Cinzia: Oh my god, what happened to him?
Marco: Thinking about the future, pensando al futuro.
Cinzia: Ok, listeners, please, pay attention just to me, ok?
Marco: Yes, only to Cinzia.
Cinzia: In the dialog we have seen a very interesting repetition, which was piccola piccola.
Marco: In English, which means “tiny tiny”.
Cinzia: Oh he’s awake now.
Marco:Yay.
Cinzia: We often use this kind of repetition to strengthen the meaning of an adjective.
Marco: So can I say "buono buono" when I want to stress it is something really good to eat?
Cinzia: Sure! But be careful on the tone.
Marco: I have to stress it right?
Cinzia: yes if you say buono buono, it doesn't feel as if it is really good.
Marco: That is very useful advice. So I should say buono buono, faster rhythm, right?
Cinzia: Bello bello!
Marco: Because if I say bello bello it sounds the opposite.
Cinzia: Yes, of course.
Marco: It sounds ironic.
Cinzia: Yes, it sounds ironic. So listeners, please pay attention, and if you want to use this repetition, just do it with the right rhythm, just to mark meaning of the adjective.
VOCAB LIST
Marco: Today’s first word is
Cinzia: chissà [natural native speed]
Marco: who knows
Cinzia: chissà [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Cinzia: chissà [natural native speed]
Marco: Next word
Cinzia: fra [natural native speed]
Marco: in (period) time
Cinzia: fra [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Cinzia: fra [natural native speed]
Marco: Next word
Cinzia: ancora [natural native speed]
Marco: still, yet, again
Cinzia: ancora [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Cinzia: ancora [natural native speed]
Marco: Next word
Cinzia: invece [natural native speed]
Marco: instead
Cinzia: invece [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Cinzia: invece [natural native speed]
Marco: Next word
Cinzia: campagna [natural native speed]
Marco: countryside
Cinzia: campagna [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Cinzia: campagna [natural native speed]
Marco: Today’s last word is
Cinzia: mutuo [natural native speed]
Marco: mortgage
Cinzia: mutuo [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Cinzia: mutuo [natural native speed]
VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
Marco: Let's have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson.
Cinzia: The first word we will look at is chissà.
Marco: And the sample sentence is?
Cinzia: Chissà quando parte Luca.
Marco: Who knows when Luca will leave.
Cinzia: The next word is fra.
Marco: And the sample sentence is?
Cinzia: Ci vediamo fra mezzora.
Marco: I’ll see you in half an hour.
Cinzia: The nexy word we will look at is ancora
Marco: And the sample sentence is?
Cinzia: Noah è ancora all’aeroporto.
Marco: Noah is still at the airport.
Cinzia: The next word is invece
Marco: And the sample sentence is?
Cinzia: Ho fame. Io invece ho sete.
Marco: I’m hungry. Instead, I’m thirsty.
Cinzia: The next word is campagna.
Marco: And the sample sentence is?
Cinzia: Mi piace passeggiare in campagna.
Marco: I love walking in the countryside.
Cinzia: And the next word we’ll look at is mutuo
Marco: And the sample sentence is?
Cinzia: Devono ancora finire di pagare il mutuo.
Marco: They still have to extinguish the mortgage.
Cinzia: Ayy mutuo, the common nightmare. And now, let’s take a look at today’s grammar.

Lesson focus

Cinzia: The Futuro Semplice tense works nearly as the English Simple Future.
Marco: Today we shall focus on the futuro semplice of the verbs essere, “to be”, and avere, “to have”.
Cinzia: we use this tense when we wish to convey occurrences meant to take place in the future
Marco: and we do not know whether they will take place or not.
Cinzia: here are some examples with the verb essere. Voi sarete i benvenuti a casa mia.
Marco: You will be welcome at my house.
Cinzia: Sarò lì fra cinque minuti.
Marco: I will be there in five minutes.
Cinzia: And here are some examples with the verb avere. Avrai tempo di aiutarmi?
Marco: Will you have time to help me out?
Cinzia: Quando avremo parchi decenti?
Marco: When will we have decent parks?
Cinzia: Ah, that’s a good matter.
Marco: Yes, well in Italy you don’t have such beautiful parks, I think, as in for example, Britain.
Cinzia: Wales, Ireland.
Marco: Yes.
Cinzia: Well we have some parks, we have Sempione in Milan.
Marco: Yes, but it seems like they were trying to build a big big parking center somewhere there.
Cinzia: Yes, so let's protect our green spaces.
Marco: Yes, we should.
Cinzia: Now let us take a look at the conjugation of these two verbs
Marco: let us start with the futuro semplice of the verb essere, “to be”
Io sar-ò “I will be”
Tu sar-ai “You will be”
Lui/lei sar-à “He/she/it will be”
Noi sar-emo “We will be”
Voi sar-ete “You will be”
Loro sar-anno “They will be”
Marco: now the verb avere “to have”
Io avr-ò “I will have”
Tu avr-ai “You will have”
Lui/lei avr-à “He/she/it will have”
Noi avr-emo “We will have”
Voi avr-ete “You will have”
Loro avr-anno “They will have”
Cinzia: Before we end today's grammar, we have to remind our listeners about a very important but tiny tiny thing.
Marco: you mean piccola piccola?
Cinzia: hehe, yes.
note that the first plural person ending is written with only one “m”
Marco: this is done in order to distinguish it from the first plural person of present conditional
Cinzia: which is written with the double “m”.
Marco: This rule is valid to all three conjugations verbs, both regular and irregular.

Outro

Marco: That just about does it for today.
Marco: Okay, some of our listeners already know about the most powerful tool on ItalianPod101.com.
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Cinzia: by listening to lines of the conversation again and again.
Marco: Listen until every word and syllable becomes clear. Basically, we breakdown the dialog into comprehensible, bite-size sentences.
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Marco: Ciao a tutti!
Cinzia: Ciao!

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