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INTRODUCTION
Consuelo: Ciao a tutti. Buongiorno.
Marco: Marco here. Upper intermediate, season 1, lesson #3. What’s That Name You Used to Call Me in Italian?
Consuelo: Hi, my name is Consuelo and I am joined here by Marco.
Marco: Hello everyone and welcome back to italianpod101.com
Consuelo: What are we learning today?
Marco: In today’s class, we will focus on the passato remoto tense of second conjugation regular verbs.
Consuelo: This conversation takes place on the phone.
Marco: And it’s between Claudia and Irene.
Consuelo: They will be speaking informal Italian.
Marco: Let’s listen to the conversation.
DIALOGUE
Irene: Pronto?
Claudia: Pronto, Ire sono io.
Irene: Oh ciao sorellona! Da dove chiami?
Claudia: Da Nairobi. Com'è andato l'esame?
Irene: Ah, bene bene.
Claudia: Un altro trenta?
Irene: Sì...
Claudia: Che secchiona!
Irene: Ma no...
Claudia: Invece sì! Lo sei sempre stata, dalle elementari... Quando ricevesti quel premio per la piccola scienziata dell'anno.
Irene: Vuoi dire il premio di miglior esperimento dell'anno.
Claudia: Sì, sì, quello! Comunque volevo dirti che ci vediamo sabato a pranzo dal babbo.
Irene: Ah, bene. Ciao a sabato allora!
Marco: Let’s here it slowly now.
Irene: Pronto?
Claudia: Pronto, Ire sono io.
Irene: Oh ciao sorellona! Da dove chiami?
Claudia: Da Nairobi. Com'è andato l'esame?
Irene: Ah, bene bene.
Claudia: Un altro trenta?
Irene: Sì...
Claudia: Che secchiona!
Irene: Ma no...
Claudia: Invece sì! Lo sei sempre stata, dalle elementari... Quando ricevesti quel premio per la piccola scienziata dell'anno.
Irene: Vuoi dire il premio di miglior esperimento dell'anno.
Claudia: Sì, sì, quello! Comunque volevo dirti che ci vediamo sabato a pranzo dal babbo.
Irene: Ah, bene. Ciao a sabato allora!
Marco: And now, with the translation.
Irene: Pronto?
Irene: Hello?
Claudia: Pronto, Ire sono io.
Claudia: Hello, Ire, it's me.
Irene: Oh ciao sorellona! Da dove chiami?
Irene: Oh, hi, sister! Where are you calling from?
Claudia: Da Nairobi. Com'è andato l'esame?
Claudia: From Nairobi. How did the test go?
Irene: Ah, bene bene.
Irene: Ah, well, very well.
Claudia: Un altro trenta?
Claudia: Another thirty?
Irene: Sì...
Irene: Yes...
Claudia: Che secchiona!
Claudia: What a swot!
Irene: Ma no...
Irene: No way...
Claudia: Invece sì! Lo sei sempre stata, dalle elementari... Quando ricevesti quel premio per la piccola scienziata dell'anno.
Claudia: It is so! You have always been since primary school... When you received that prize for little scientist of the year.
Irene: Vuoi dire il premio di miglior esperimento dell'anno.
Irene: You mean the prize for best experiment of the year.
Claudia: Sì, sì, quello! Comunque volevo dirti che ci vediamo sabato a pranzo dal babbo.
Claudia: Yeah, that one! By the way, I wanted to tell you that we'll meet on Saturday at Dad's for lunch.
Irene: Ah, bene. Ciao a sabato allora!
Irene: Ah, okay. Bye, see you on Saturday then!
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Consuelo: La scuola elementare.
Marco: That is primary school right?
Consuelo: Yep. Now tell me Marco, as a student, what period did you like the most?
Marco: I really enjoyed scuole medie.
Consuelo: What? Junior high school, no way.
Marco: Why?
Consuelo: The best school years of my life were le scuole superiori.
Marco: Ah high school.
Consuelo: Sure. When you make those school trips abroad all around Europe.
Marco: Oh you are right. Those are definitely amusing. Where did you go with your class?
Consuelo: Oh umm..we went to many places. England, Austria, but the most impressive was Prague, in the Czech Republic.
Marco: I see. That’s a really charming city.
VOCAB LIST
Marco: Let’s take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. The first word we shall see is
Consuelo: Chiamare.
Marco: To call, to phone.
Consuelo: Chiamare. Chiamare.
Marco: Next we have
Consuelo: Secchione.
Marco: Swot, grind, dweeb.
Consuelo: Secchione. Secchione.
Marco: And next we have
Consuelo: Elementare.
Marco: Elementary.
Consuelo: Elementare. Elementare.
Marco: Next word is
Consuelo: Ricevere.
Marco: To receive, to get.
Consuelo: Ricevere. Ricevere.
Marco: And next we have scientist.
Consuelo: Scienziato. Scienziata. Scienziato. Scienziata.
Marco: And the next word is
Consuelo: Esperimento.
Marco: Experiment.
Consuelo: Esperimento. Esperimento
Marco: And next we have
Consuelo: Sabato.
Marco: Saturday.
Consuelo: Sabato. Sabato
Marco: And today’s last word is
Consuelo: Babbo.
Marco: Dad, father.
Consuelo: Babbo. Babbo.
VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
Marco: Consuelo, what word are we studying today?
Consuelo: The Italian word “secchione”.
Marco: Secchione is masculine and the feminine is
Consuelo: That one we heard in the dialogue, secchiona.
Marco: It means swat, grind or dweeb.
Consuelo: In brief, someone who is really good in studies, but in Italian this word is not that offensive and has the meaning of bookish or bookworm.
Marco: Well it can become so depending on the tone used and the context.
Consuelo: Yes and no. We have another nice expression for that which is topo di biblioteca.
Marco: Haha! The library mouse, it’s very fun though.
Consuelo: However, sei un secchione Marco?
Marco: Sinceramente no. Honestly I don’t think so.
Consuelo: Aaha so you are a somaro.
Marco: A donkey? What’s that?
Consuelo: Those guys who are a bit blockheaded are called somaro in Italy.
Marco: Hey, I am not a dunce!
Consuelo: No, no I was just joking. Let’s take a look at today’s grammar point.

Lesson focus

Marco: In today’s lesson, we focus on the passato remoto tense of second conjugation regular verbs.
Consuelo: We will start by giving you the endings for each person.
Marco: Remember to drop the infinitive suffix and add the appropriate endings. For io use
Consuelo: -ei
Marco: Tu
Consuelo: -esti
Marco: Lui/lei
Consuelo: -è
Marco: Noi
Consuelo: -emmo
Marco: Loro
Consuelo: -erono
Marco: However, the first and the third singular and the third pleural persons have an alternative ending that can replace the ones we just said. For io you can also use
Consuelo: -etti
Marco: For lui/lei
Consuelo: -ette
Marco: And for loro
Consuelo: -ettero.
Marco: As a result, several regular verbs have a double form.
Consuelo: As happens with a regular verb ricevere, meaning to receive.
Marco: Let’s now listen to the conjugation for this verb.
Consuelo: Io ricevei or ricevetti.
Marco: I received.
Consuelo: Tu ricevesti.
Marco: You received.
Consuelo: Lui/lei ricevè or ricevette.
Marco: He/she/it received.
Consuelo: Noi ricevemmo.
Marco: We received.
Consuelo: Voi riceveste.
Marco: You received.
Consuelo: Loro riceverono or ricevettero.
Marco: They received.
Consuelo: And now let’s listen to some examples with regular -ere verbs at the passato remoto tense.
Marco: In the two possible variations.
Consuelo: The verb credere
Marco: To believe.
Consuelo: Crederono per anni a un culto magico.
Marco: Or
Consuelo: Credettero per anni a un culto magico.
Marco: They believed for years in magic worship.
Consuelo: The verb vendere
Marco: To sell.
Consuelo: Mi ricordo che vendei la mia macchina molti anni fa.
Marco: Or
Consuelo: Mi ricordo che vendetti la mia macchina molti anni fa.
Marco: I remember I sold my car many years ago.

Outro

Marco: That just about does it for today.
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Marco: A presto.
Consuelo: Ciao a tutti.

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