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INTRODUCTION
Consuelo: Ciao. Buongiorno a tutti.
Marco: Marco here. Upper intermediate, season 1, Lesson #11. I Will Only Forgive You After You Will Have Told Me Everything in Italian.
Consuelo: Hello everyone. I am Consuelo and welcome to italianpod101.com
Marco: With us, you will learn to speak Italian with fun and effective lessons.
Consuelo: We also provide you with cultural insights
Marco: And tips you won’t find in a textbook. In today’s class, we will focus on the futur anterieur, the future perfect.
Consuelo: This conversation takes place at the park.
Marco: And it’s between Mirco and Irene.
Consuelo: They will be speaking informal Italian.
Marco: Let’s listen to the conversation.
DIALOGUE
Mirco: Sai, non vengo spesso al parco, non ho mai tempo.
Irene: A me piace venire qui, a volte porto pure i libri e mi metto a studiare.
Mirco: Già, tu studi dappertutto!!
Irene: Ah ah, non è vero, ma piuttosto, dimmi, perché non ti sei fatto vedere sabato scorso? Ho fatto qualcosa..?
Mirco: Cosa? Tu? Assolutamente no, se ho l'occasione di vederti non manco mai, ma la partita è finita tardi e siamo andati a cena con la squadra. Ecco perché ho chiamato Filippo.
Irene: Davvero? Filippo mi ha detto che...
Mirco: Cosa ti ha detto?
Irene: No niente.
Mirco: Dai, dimmi cosa ti ha detto!
Irene: Non ha importanza non me lo chiedere più!
Mirco: Non te lo chiederò più solo quando me lo avrai detto!
Irene: Andiamo su quella panchina...!
Marco: Let’s here it slowly now.
Mirco: Sai, non vengo spesso al parco, non ho mai tempo.
Irene: A me piace venire qui, a volte porto pure i libri e mi metto a studiare.
Mirco: Già, tu studi dappertutto!!
Irene: Ah ah, non è vero, ma piuttosto, dimmi, perché non ti sei fatto vedere sabato scorso? Ho fatto qualcosa..?
Mirco: Cosa? Tu? Assolutamente no, se ho l'occasione di vederti non manco mai, ma la partita è finita tardi e siamo andati a cena con la squadra. Ecco perché ho chiamato Filippo.
Irene: Davvero? Filippo mi ha detto che...
Mirco: Cosa ti ha detto?
Irene: No niente.
Mirco: Dai, dimmi cosa ti ha detto!
Irene: Non ha importanza non me lo chiedere più!
Mirco: Non te lo chiederò più solo quando me lo avrai detto!
Irene: Andiamo su quella panchina...!
Marco: And now, with the translation.
Mirco: Sai, non vengo spesso al parco, non ho mai tempo.
Mirco: You know, I don't come often to the park. I never have time.
Irene: A me piace venire qui, a volte porto pure i libri e mi metto a studiare.
Irene: I like coming here; sometimes I bring books and start studying.
Mirco: Già, tu studi dappertutto!!
Mirco: Right, you study everywhere!
Irene: Ah ah, non è vero, ma piuttosto, dimmi, perché non ti sei fatto vedere sabato scorso? Ho fatto qualcosa..?
Irene: Ah ah, it's not true. But I'd rather you tell me why you didn't show up last Saturday. Did I do something...?
Mirco: Cosa? Tu? Assolutamente no, se ho l'occasione di vederti non manco mai, ma la partita è finita tardi e siamo andati a cena con la squadra. Ecco perché ho chiamato Filippo.
Mirco: What? You? Absolutely not; if I have the chance to see you I never miss it, but the match finished late and we had dinner with the team. That's why I called Filippo.
Irene: Davvero? Filippo mi ha detto che...
Irene: Really? Filippo told me that...
Mirco: Cosa ti ha detto?
Mirco: What did he tell you?
Irene: No niente.
Irene: Oh, nothing.
Mirco: Dai, dimmi cosa ti ha detto!
Mirco: Come on! Tell me what he said!
Irene: Non ha importanza non me lo chiedere più!
Irene: It doesn't matter. Don't ask me anymore!
Mirco: Non te lo chiederò più solo quando me lo avrai detto!
Mirco: I won't ask you anymore only after you'll have told me!
Irene: Andiamo su quella panchina...!
Irene: Let's go to that bench...!
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Marco: Hey Consuelo, what’s going on here?
Consuelo: Irene and Mirco cleared things up, I guess.
Marco: It is obvious that there is something between them.
Consuelo: Yes Mirco said “se ho l'occasione di vederti non manco mai”.
Marco: If I had the chance to see you, I never miss it.
Consuelo: So their friend Filippo made them have this sort of misunderstanding.
Marco: Yes I remember.
Consuelo: We will see what happens.
Marco: What is Mirco’s team? I mean what sport do you think it is?
Consuelo: I am pretty sure it’s soccer.
Marco: Calcio.
Consuelo: Having dinner with a team after a match reminds me of my Italian friends who played soccer.
VOCAB LIST
Marco: Ah I see. Let’s take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. The first word we shall see is
Consuelo: Parco.
Marco: Park.
Consuelo: Parco. Parco
Marco: And next we have
Consuelo: Libro.
Marco: Book.
Consuelo: Libro. Libro
Marco: The next word is
Consuelo: Dappertutto.
Marco: Everywhere.
Consuelo: Dappertutto. Dappertutto.
Marco: And the next word is
Consuelo: Assolutamente.
Marco: Absolutely.
Consuelo: Assolutamente. Assolutamente
Marco: And next we have
Consuelo: Mancare.
Marco: To be lacking, missing.
Consuelo: Mancare. Mancare.
Marco: And the next word is
Consuelo: Squadra.
Marco: Team.
Consuelo: Squadra. Squadra
Marco: And the next word is
Consuelo: Importanza.
Marco: Importance.
Consuelo: Importanza. Importanza
Marco: And today’s last word is
Consuelo: Panchina.
Marco: Bench.
Consuelo: Panchina. Panchina
VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
Marco: So Consuelo, what expression are we studying today?
Consuelo: The Italian expression “mettersi a”.
Marco: To start to.
Consuelo: This is a very common and useful expression.
Marco: Literally it means to put oneself into something but it is translated as to start to do something.
Consuelo: Let’s look at some practical examples.
Marco: I have heard this expression many times combined with dieta, meaning diet.
Consuelo: Bravo Marco. Mettersi a dieta.
Marco: To start the diet.
Consuelo: Da domani mi metto a dieta.
Marco: From tomorrow, I start the diet. Is that true?
Consuelo: Absolutely not. Let’s go on with our examples now. This is nice. Se non la smetti mi metto a urlare.
Marco: If you don’t stop, I will start screaming.
Consuelo: As you can see, mettersi a can be followed by a noun or a verb at the infinitive form.
Marco: Okay so one last example.
Consuelo: Questo film è commovente. Ora mi metto a piangere.
Marco: This movie is moving. Now I will start crying. No Consuelo, non piangere.

Lesson focus

Consuelo: Let’s take a look at today’s grammar point.
Marco: In today’s lesson, we focused on the futuro anteriore.
Consuelo: The future perfect.
Marco: When should we employ the futuro anteriore?
Consuelo: As in English, it is different from the simple future, futuro semplice, since it is used to express a future action that is completed before another future action.
Marco: In other words, this action will be over and done with before another future event occurs.
Consuelo: If we take a look at the meaning of the word anteriore in Italian, it is easier to understand whether to employ this tense.
Marco: Anteriore stands for previous or earlier.
Consuelo: Consequently, futuro anteriore is used to report a future event that will happen earlier than in other one that is expressed through futuro semplice.
Marco: We talked about its usage. Now let’s see how to conjugate a verb at futuro anteriore .
Consuelo: The futuro anteriore is a compound tense formed with futuro semplice of the auxiliary verb essere or avere plus the past participle of the main verb.
Marco: In the dialogue, we heard Mirco saying:
Consuelo: Non te lo chiederò più solo quando me lo avrai detto.
Marco: I won’t ask you anymore only after you have told me.
Consuelo: Now in English, in the same situation, we use the simple present and the future.
Marco: So remember that in Italian, it’s better to use futuro anteriore. Listen carefully to the following statements.
Consuelo: Quando avrai finito di lavorare andremo a cena fuori?
Marco: When you will have finished working, will we go out for dinner?
Consuelo: Partirò per la Svezia solo quando avrò trovato un lavoro.
Marco: I will leave for Sweden only when I will have found a job.
Consuelo: So the verbs at futur anterieur were avrai finito and avrò trovato.
Marco: Now let’s listen to the conjugation for all the six persons of the verb dire, meaning to say.
Consuelo: Io avrò detto
Marco: I will have said.
Consuelo: Tu avrai detto
Marco: You will have said.
Consuelo: Lui/lei avrà detto
Marco: He/She/It will have said.
Consuelo: Noi avremmo detto
Marco: We will have said.
Consuelo: Voi avrete detto
Marco: You will have said.
Consuelo: Loro avranno detto
Marco: They will have said.
Consuelo: The futuro anteriore has an additional employment.
Marco: It is used also when expressing doubts and conjectures.
Consuelo: But we will see this different employment in detail during the next lesson.

Outro

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Consuelo: Ciao, alla prossima lezione.

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