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INTRODUCTION
Cinzia: Buon giorno! Mi chiamo Cinzia.
Marco: Marco here. Newbie Series, season 1, lesson #9 - You Might End Up Anywhere in the World! Buon giorno a tutti! Hello and welcome to the Newbie Series of Italianpod101.com. My name is Marco and I am joined here by Cinzia.
This series focuses on the essentials of Italian for anyone who wants to start learning.
Cinzia: So our dear listeners, join us for this lesson on Italianpod101.com.
Marco: The focus of this lesson is on Italian singular definite articles.
Cinzia: This conversation takes place in the countryside during a picnic.
Marco: And it is between Laura Rossi and John Smith.
Cinzia: The speakers are friends, therefore they will be speaking informal Italian.
DIALOGUE
Laura: John vorrei il panino al prosciutto.
John: Eccolo. Io voglio la panna cotta.
Laura: Sei un goloso!
Marco: one more time, slowly.
Laura: John vorrei il panino al prosciutto.
John: Eccolo. Io voglio la panna cotta.
Laura: Sei un goloso!
Marco: Once again, this time, with the translation.
Laura: John vorrei il panino al prosciutto.
Marco: John, I would like to have the ham sandwich.
John: Eccolo. Io voglio la panna cotta.
Marco: Here it is. I want panna cotta (literally, baked cream).
Laura: Sei un goloso!
Marco: Oh, you are a gluttonous one!
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Marco: And yes, for all the listeners out there, I am a goloso!
Cinzia: Really? You didn't seem very happy today, when I brought you my cake.
Marco: Well, I was busy, setting up everything...
Cinzia: You didn't even open it!
Marco: I know I know. The truth is that I was afraid that you baked it!
Cinzia: Oh! Marco! I can't believe you just said that! You know I come from Napoli, Marco! You know I can cook! Well, ok, I bought the cake today!
Marco: You mean today's cake is from a shop?
Cinzia: Yes.
Marco: Ok, I'll go eat it now.
Cinzia: So so for it!
VOCAB LIST
Marco: Let’s take a look at today’s vocabulary.
Marco: First
Cinzia: panino [natural native speed]
Marco: sandwich
Cinzia: panino [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Cinzia: panino [natural native speed]
Marco: Next word
Cinzia: Eccolo [natural native speed]
Marco: Here it is
Cinzia: Eccolo [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Cinzia: Eccolo [natural native speed]
Marco: Next word
Cinzia: prosciutto [natural native speed]
Marco: ham
Cinzia: prosciutto [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Cinzia: prosciutto [natural native speed]
Marco: Next word
Cinzia: la [natural native speed]
Marco: the (feminine singular)
Cinzia: la [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Cinzia: la [natural native speed]
Marco: Next word
Cinzia: il [natural native speed]
Marco: the (masculine singular)
Cinzia: il [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Cinzia: il [natural native speed]
Marco: Next word
Cinzia: panna cotta [natural native speed]
Marco: panna cotta (literally “baked cream”)
Cinzia: panna cotta [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Cinzia: panna cotta [natural native speed]
Marco: Last word
Cinzia: goloso [natural native speed]
Marco: gluttonous
Cinzia: goloso [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Cinzia: goloso [natural native speed]
Marco: Now, I think our listeners are now wondering why la and il are the same “the”.
Cinzia: We’re gonna cover that in the grammar section.
VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
Cinzia: Let’s have a look at the usage for some of the words and expressions. The first expressions we will look at is Eccolo.
Marco: Cinzia, can you give us an example sentence please?
Cinzia: Mi passi il Parmigiano per favore?
Marco: Certo, eccolo!
Marco: Pass me the Parmesan cheese please?
Cinzia: Sure, here it is!
Cinzia: OK. The next vocabulary word is prosciutto.
Marco: Let’s have an example
Cinzia: Il prosciutto cotto è buono.
Marco: Ham is good. Cinzia... why do we say prosciutto cotto? What's the difference between prosciutto and prosciutto cotto?
Cinzia: It's for making a distinction between prosciutto cotto and prosciutto crudo which is the one I prefer!
Marco: So exactly what is prosciutto crudo?
Cinzia: Prosciutto crudo is the red one and prosciutto cotto is the red one! It's easy!
Marco: Ok, so... prosciutto crudo means...
Cinzia: ahaha!
Marco: Now, for all our listeners prosciutto crudo is actually non cooked ham, crudo means raw, and the most famous is Parma ham.
Cinzia: Buono!
Marco: Molto buono! Very good, well the usual prosciutto is the cooked ham, the pink one, like Cinzia pointed out.
Cinzia: prosciutto crudo is the red one, and prosciutto cotto is the pink one.
Cinzia: OK the next word is la.
Marco: One example please.
Cinzia: La casa rossa.
Marco: The red house.
Cinzia: The next word we will see is Panna cotta.
Marco: And the example is?
Cinzia: La panna cotta è un dolce italiano.
Marco: Panna cotta is an Italian dessert.
Cinzia: The last word for today is goloso. And obviously all our listeners know who I'm talking about.
Marco: yes yes yes, she is talking about me. And remember if we are talking about Cinzia we have to change the adjectives ending to feminine, so Cinzia è molto golosa. Cinzia is very gluttonous.
Cinzia: E Marco è più goloso di me.
Marco: And Marco is well you translate that
Cinzia: And Marco is more gluttonous than me.
Marco: OK ok ok, but now everybody be careful because goloso doesn’t have this negative image as it is in English, gluttonous is not such a nice adjective, is it?
Cinzia: No, it isn’t.
Marco: But goloso you can hear it often in Italy can’t you?
Cinzia: Yes of course
Marco: I mean if you tell me goloso I don’t get angry do I?
Cinzia: No why should you?
Marco: Because maybe goloso is just someone who likes to eat good food.
Cinzia: Yes.
Marco: And who doesn’t like to eat good food?
Cinzia: Especially food from Napoli
Marco: Yes, on to the grammar.

Lesson focus

Marco: Now as we have briefly mentioned in our previous lesson, definite articles correspond to the English counterpart “the”.
Cinzia: As in English, they are employed to identify one or more specific nouns.
Marco: As for the indefinite articles, proper nouns are due to their very definition already specific, therefore they cannot be preceded by any kind of article.
Cinzia: For example, saying il John.
Marco: The John.
Cinzia: Or un John.
Marco: A John.
Cinzia: Would not make any sense, since there can be only one individual named John.
Marco: And one girl named Cinzia!
Cinzia: Of course!
Marco: Ok then, let us take a closer look at the Definite Italian articles. But only the singular form, in our next lesson we shall see the plural form.
Cinzia: Use il before masculine nouns starting with a consonant. For example, il cane "the dog".
Marco: L + apostrophe before masculine nouns starting with vowels. For example, l’albero “the tree”.
Cinzia: Lo before masculine nouns starting with z, y or s + consonants
Marco: For example, lo zaffiro “the sapphire”; lo studente “the student”; lo yogurt “the yogurt”.
Cinzia: Use la before feminine nouns starting with a consonant, including z, y or s + consonants.
Marco: For example, la ragazza “the girl”; la strada “the road”.
Cinzia: L + apostrophe before feminine nouns starting with vowels. For example, l’uva “the grapes”.
Marco: That was a long grammar section
Cinzia: Yes, I hope we didn’t loose any listeners because of this.
Marco: Well I could tell a joke.
Cinzia: You a joke??? You’d make them cry.
Marco: My jokes aren’t that bad.
Cinzia: Come on, only you laugh at them, and usually you laugh even before you finished telling the joke!!!
Marco: OK then. This will conclude today’s lesson.
Cinzia: Scusa! Ahahahaahah

Outro

Cinzia: Be sure to pick up the PDF at Italianpod101.com.
Marco: Also, if you have any questions, feel free to use our forum or comment on today’s lesson.
Cinzia: See you again tomorrow, a domani!
Marco: Ciao, a domani!

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