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🇮🇹 Italian · Beginner Level 3

PART 3 · LESSON 28 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Tombola at Gino's

Play tombola at Gino's bar on Christmas night, calling the numbers to ninety and shouting ambo, terno and cinquina.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

Gino's bar in Fontelupo on Christmas night, the whole village at the tables for the tombola.

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Giochiamo a tombola? Due euro a cartella.joh-KYAH-moh ah TOHM-boh-lah, DOO-eh EH-oo-roh ah kar-TEHL-lahShall we play tombola? Two euros a card.
La tombola.lah TOHM-boh-lahThe tombola.
Va bene! Una cartella per me.vah BEH-neh, OO-nah kar-TEHL-lah pehr mehAll right! One card for me.
Una cartella.OO-nah kar-TEHL-lahA card.
Quarantasette! Sessantasei! Ottantanove!kwah-rahn-tah-SEHT-teh, sehs-sahn-tah-SAY, oht-tahn-tah-NOH-vehForty-seven! Sixty-six! Eighty-nine!
Ottantanove! Ce l'ho!oht-tahn-tah-NOH-veh, cheh LOHEighty-nine! I've got it!
Ottantotto.oht-tahn-TOHT-tohEighty-eight.
Settantuno! Ventitré!seht-tahn-TOO-noh, vehn-tee-TREHSeventy-one! Twenty-three!
Ambo! Che fortuna!AHM-boh, keh for-TOO-nahTwo in a row! What luck!
Tombola!TOHM-boh-lahFull house!

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