Italian Course Beginner Series lesson 23: Dialogue 1 Video Lecture | Learn Italian Language: For Beginners and Travellers

hello and welcome to the moment that
everybody was waiting for the first
dialogue now the dialogues are lessons
where we basically put into practice
what we've learned in the previous
videos we should know pretty much
everything about this so I suggest you
pause the video right now and read it
slowly and try and figure out as much as
you can and hopefully you'll figure out
a lot but it doesn't matter we're going
to go through it together
anyway here we have new words that we
can add to our dictionary now I think we
already have some of these words in our
dictionary but by now our dictionary
should be should be quite long which is
good so we have two people talking the
first person says ciao the reply is ciao
Keisei so we have hi hi who are you
so the first person asks who are you and
the reply is oh no gee Rafa - so the
reply is a giraffe and yourself - is you
owner is the indefinite article feminine
singular case just as the word jirafa
jirafa is the noun therefore everything
has to go along with the gender and
number of Jennifer so the reply to two
is one one one siano committee chiami
now this means an old man the normal
word for old is vacuum but it's not a
good word
I prefer anciano and siano as you can
see in Italian the adjectives go after
the nouns there are a few cases where
this doesn't happen but we will have a
look at those and we will have a look at
something very interesting that exists
only in Italian as far as I'm aware
which is polymorphism in adjectives but
anyway so we have the adjective after
the noun which is strange because in
English you have
the adjective followed by a the noun
here is the opposite way around own
warmer one more means man so one more is
a very important word that you want to
remember warm or Donna is woman Donna
woman okay on warm auntie Anna committee
Jionni this is an example of reflexive
form the reflexive form is very typical
of the Italian language it's one of
those topics that nobody really
understands so we will cover it but not
now because it's quite advanced it means
what's your name this sentence means
what's your name we've covered it in the
conversational Italian series the reply
is Lucilla Lucilla is a very old name
but it's okay it's a female name at or
normal molto strana it means it is own
norm a a name now we know that the word
name although ending in E is actually
masculine okay so we have norm a the
singular case and Normie the plural case
so in its plural form it behaves
normally like a normal masculine word
but it doesn't end in oil in its
singular case it ends in E the old man
is saying it's a very strange name but
of course the word strange strainer
strainer comes after the noun because
we've seen that the adjectives usually
go after the noun they follow the noun
in Italian strano norm it's travel why
not
strainer with the nay well because name
is masculine
therefore we need an adjective in its
masculine form
molto is an adverb and basically what it
does is it puts more emphasis on the
word that comes next
so strano means strange mortal strano
me
very strange it's like very in English
very strange so it's a very strange name
and the reply is no so no okay
questa è una conversación Astana okay so
the old man is realizing that this
conversation is very strange
he's talking to a giraffe to begin with
so no wonder okay is pronounced in
Italian okay okay and questa is a
pronoun it means this this obviously in
its feminine form Questor would be this
but talking about something that is
masculine questa feminine Christi would
be plural Ches masculine form and quest
a feminine case plural okay so questa ad
again it is questa è una conversación s
Tran as you can see what dictates the
gender and the plurality in this
sentence is the noun as usual so the
noun is conversation and conversation
ends in E but it's feminine
conversazione conversazione being
feminine the adjective strange this time
has to be in its feminine form as
opposed to earlier on when we had the
masculine form so conversazione a
strainer owner of course the indefinite
article has to go along with the gender
of the noun as well as the adjective so
they are both feminine and this is also
feminine because it's referring to the
conversation questa è una conversación
is Tran this is a strange conversation
this is what the old man is saying
no to say strana so the giraffe
complains and says no you were strange
to say stana strano
because it's talking to a man to say
strana
molto strana this is an argument between
a giraffe and an old man so you can't
expect much the word giraffe in Italian
is feminine so the old man is talking as
if he was talking to a to a femur to a
to a woman if he was a lion or if he was
a dog then you know dog and lion just
happened to be masculine therefore he
would be saying to say strano
molto strano I know it's strange to you
know getting used to gender is something
that will come with time you just need
to be patient don't worry and practice
go with it and you know one day you'll
find out that somehow it all makes sense
no see no see okay like two retarded
children the purpose of this dialogue
was to get you used to my dialogues my
weird sense of humor and you know giving
you some more words to work with than
some more roles to pay attention at but
the next dialogue would be a little bit
more challenging if I'm honest I will
see you in the next video take care see
you soon
member