Italian Course Beginner Series 9: The 4 Seasons Video Lecture | Learn Italian Language: For Beginners and Travellers

hello boys and girls and welcome to
another Italian tutorial my name is
Claudio and the four seasons we're gonna
learn the full seasons today I know it's
easy it's gonna take a minute or so but
it's very important and it's nice and
easy and we're only at the beginning of
our journey towards becoming fluent
Italian speakers so here we go let's
start with something simple but
important so the four seasons let
Quattro stud Johnny um so the word
season in Italian is star John it start
Joe Nick
basically it's an irregular word in fact
you would expect all feminine words in
Italian to end in a and then the plural
should end in E but this word is very
regular although it's feminine
it ends in E in the singular case and
then it's plural case ends in I so it's
very confusing we still treat it as a
feminine word meaning we use la feminine
article for the singular case and then
we use lip the plural version of the
feminine article for the plural case
so this is strange because you would
expect the plural to be like less that
your net and then the singular to be
last a jewel now because this is how all
feminine words end in Italian but this
is irregular so la Stazione it singular
and lipsti journée plural you've just
got to learn it and commit it to memory
because that's the way it is okay so
what throw is the number 4 we're going
to see numbers in a later video but what
throw is the number 4 so the four
seasons a spring summer autumn and
winter now I know in America people say
fall instead of autumn well it so
happens that the word in Italian is very
similar to autumn it's ah oh - no of
course in Italian you pronounce every
single letter in barrenly of you know
regardless of the context so do not
pronounce this as or it's pronounced aah
ooh ow
do not in Verona is started primavera
and spring bean primavera summer is
started autumn Oh for all to know and
winter in Verano
the first two are feminine so and this
is something you can't ask me why this
is just the way it is so the first two
words the first two seasons spring and
summer Primavera and Astarte they are
feminine words and the second - autumn
and winter are masculine as you can see
all these words are regular
meaning the masculine words and in all
and the feminine word ends in a apart
from summer summer behaves exactly like
the word season so basically if you want
to say one summer una because it's
feminine yes start there with the knee
at the end because it's irregular you
would expect an A as well but it's
irregular and then to say two summers
the where meaning to is that now you
would expect an e because it's a plural
feminine word but it's AI same for
season one season and two seasons una
stood on it duets the journée so yeah
quite tricky you have to you have to
learn these by heart
okay guys and this was meant to be a
very quick video just showing you the
four seasons how to pronounce them how
to use them all about them and practice
practice practice
I'll see you guys in the next video