01 Presentando Luca Toni (1 Viewer)

[Martin]

Presentando Luca Toni

1. Delneri: Ragazzi, questo è Luca Toni, il nuovo attaccante.
2. Del Piero: Luca! Sono contento di rivederti!
3. Toni: Ciao, Alex! Ciao a tutti!
4. Amauri: Ma Luca, sei bravo o no?[sup](1)[/sup] Perché io...
5. Krasic: Tu[sup](2)[/sup] non[sup](3)[/sup] sei bravo a nulla!
6. Delneri: Buoni, ragazzi! Domenica c'è[sup](4)[/sup] la partita contro la Roma[sup](5)[/sup]. Con Luca siamo a posto[sup](6)[/sup].
7. Aquilani: Ma mister, sono infortunato!
8. Marchisio: Tu sei sempre infortunato.

Presenting Luca Toni

1. Delneri: Guys, this is Luca Toni, the new attacker.
2. Del Piero: Luca! It's great to see you again!
   [Am happy to re-see-you!]
3. Toni: Hello, Alex. Hello everyone.
   [Hello to everyone.]
4. Amauri: But Luca, are you good or not? Because I...
   [But Luca, are good or not? Because I...]
5. Krasic: You are not good at anything!
   [You not are good at nothing!]
6. Delneri: Calm down, guys! The match against Roma is on Sunday. With Luca we are ready.
   [(Be) good, guys! Sunday there-is the match against the Roma. With Luca are in place.]
7. Aquilani: But coach, I'm injured!
   [But coach, am injured!]
8. Marchisio: You are always injured!

Notes

1. There is no special word order that turns a statement into a question, such as the English "you are" -> "are you?". Instead, questions are expressed using intonation.
2. Here the pronoun "tu" is used only for emphasis. Without it, the sentence is still correct and has the same meaning.
3. Negation is expressed with "non", which comes before the verb, so in English this would be "you not are" ~ "tu non sei".
4. c'è = ci è ~ there is
5. Names of countries and organizations use articles, so Juventus is "la Juventus". This does not mean that the article is part of the name itself (as if Juventus were to be called "The Juventus"). Nevertheless, in a sentence an article is used, and the most common is "la".
6. È tutto a posto ~ Everything is in order. [Is everything in order.]

Theory: A short introduction to Italian sentences

As in English, the word order in a sentence is subject-verb-object, for example "I am happy." However, the subject is usually left out when it is a personal pronoun (a word like I/you/he/we/they etc.), because the form of the verb makes it clear which person is performing the action. Thus, "Io sono contento." becomes "Sono contento." Both forms are correct.

Theory: Verb tenses

What distinguishes the following sentences?

• Lippi wins the scudetto.
• Lippi won the scudetto.
• Lippi has won the scudetto.
• Lippi will win the scudetto.

The subject (Lippi) and object (the scudetto) are the same, and the verb is the same (to win). But the tense of the verb is different.

 

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[Quetzalcoatl]

Motta: Non voglio celebrare se ho punteggio contro la Roma.

 

[Martin]

Yeah, so the idea is: is it clear? Is there anything you don't understand?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

So Martin, the sentence in parenthesis is the word-to-word translation?

 

[Martin]

So Martin, the sentence in parenthesis is the word-to-word translation?

That's right.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Va bene.

 

[ReBeL]

Nice.

It would be appreciated if you give us a table of Italian letters and another table of Italian pronouns.

 

[Dostoevsky]

Yeah, I understand everything here now. Small details in notes did help.

 

[Martin]

Nice.

It would be appreciated if you give us a table of Italian letters and another table of Italian pronouns.

The alphabet you mean? Here: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_italiano Under "nome" is how Italians pronounce each letter separately. And under "diacritico" you have all the accented variants of each letter (not that many in Italian).

A table of pronouns will come later.

 

[DVS]

Hey Martin I must say thank you for taking effort into creating such a thread. Learing Italian culture is a great thing to learn while most of us are foreign Juventino's. I have to say teaching verb tenses before actually knowing verbs is rather different. Then again I myself am I very unorthodox learner.

Thanks again

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Since Krasic is now meeting Toni, wouldn't he use the formal "you"?

 

[Martin]

Since Krasic is now meeting Toni, wouldn't he use the formal "you"?

That's more of a cultural question. In this course I have very few examples of the formal "you" because I'm keeping it very informal on purpose. Krasic here is talking to Amauri, but if he were talking to Toni he might use the formal tense.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Oh right, it's Amauri he's talking to.

 

[IliveForJuve]

Very good, Martin, I like your method.

This is gonna be much easier for me to learn 'cause I speak Spanish and there are many similarities with Italian.

 

[Azzurri7]

Is that your voice Marts?

Now that I'm thinking of it, Italian doesn't sound similar to Romanian that much like I thought.

Question

Ciao a tutti? It doesn't work without "a"? Like Ciao tutti? Tutti is everyone no? Hello everyone!

When I'll have time, I'll make a quiz to myself after each lesson, this way I'll learn faster.

First lesson looks more than okay for me.

 

[Martin]

Is that your voice Marts?

I'm so disappointed that noone is making fun of me yet

Now that I'm thinking of it, Italian doesn't sound similar to Romanian that much like I thought.

Question

Ciao a tutti? It doesn't work with "a"? Like Ciao tutti? Tutti is everyone now? Hello everyone!

Good question. In English we have two forms, don't we?

You can say "Welcome to everyone". That sounds a bit old fashion, like what a king or some "important person" would say to a group, no?

Or you can say "Welcome, everyone".

In Italian you can say both "Ciao a tutti" and "Ciao, tutti" but the first one seems a bit more natural to me.

When you're talking to a single person you would definitely say "Ciao, Gigi"

 

[Azzurri7]

I wouldn't have noticed that the voice is yours but then I remembered you mentioning through PM about doing it with your own voice.

Your Italian looks very good to me. Would an Italian notice you're a foreigner or you still don't have the the accent?

 

[Martin]

I wouldn't have noticed that the voice is yours but then I remembered you mentioning through PM about doing it with your own voice.

Your Italian looks very good to me. Would an Italian notice you're a foreigner or you still don't have the the accent?

It's a bit hard to tell, because Italian is a pretty easy language to speak. I imagine Italians can tell that I'm not native, but I haven't undergone any kind of testing to find out.

 

[swag]

I'm slow on the uptake and need a refresher. Just gotta say this is a cool method, using audio and translations.