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🇮🇹 Italian · Beginner Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 4 OF 30 · 31 MINUTES

Shall We Say Tu?

On Monday morning the pasta course begins. Matteo makes coffee, still with the polite you, and Chiara, a new student from Lecce, arrives late, says the friendly you from her first word and laughs at Laura and Matteo. Then Signora Ada teaches flour and eggs, and says well done to someone else. Offer and order a coffee, ask someone's name and say yours, and agree to use the friendly you.

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THE STORY

It's Monday morning, a quarter to nine, the first day of the pasta course. Laura is in the kitchen early, with her own apron, and Matteo is making coffee. A new student arrives late, and laughs at the way Laura and Matteo talk to each other. Then Signora Ada begins. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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un caffèoon kahf-FEHa coffee
vuoleVWOH-lehyou want, the polite way
Vuole un caffè?VWOH-leh oon kahf-FEHWould you like a coffee? The polite way.
un cappuccinooon kahp-poot-CHEE-noha cappuccino
Un cappuccino, per favore.oon kahp-poot-CHEE-noh pehr fah-VOH-rehA cappuccino, please.
lo zuccheroloh TSOOK-keh-rohthe sugar
Con lo zucchero?kohn loh TSOOK-keh-rohWith sugar?
senzaSEHN-tsahwithout
Senza zucchero.SEHN-tsah TSOOK-keh-rohWithout sugar.
o senzaoh SEHN-tsahor without

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