Italian Course Beginner Series 63: FOOD Video Lecture | Learn Italian Language: For Beginners and Travellers

hello how you doing guys hope you're
doing good today we take a little detour
and instead of doing actual Italian what
we do is we have a look at English words
in common use okay and the sub topic of
today is food so basically these are
foreign words that have become part of
the language of the Italian language
let's start from the first one as you
can see there's a warning sign here and
this is because the word menu actually
comes from French therefore in Italian
you pronounce it in French so you you do
have the same word in English but
basically what you want to do is you
want to pronounce it as if there was an
acute accent at the very end so
basically it's mineral Meno normally if
this was a normal Italian word then you
would pronounce it me no me no and not
menu but the way it's pronounced in
Italian is mineral menu and of course
the meaning is exactly the same as an
English hamburger hamburger same meaning
as in English it comes from the English
language and it's pronounced amber
Guerra
amber care amber care so it's very
different from the original
pronunciation self-service exactly the
same meaning as in English pronounced
self self-service self-service
self-service ok so this is the
pronunciation
and mix pronounced mix mix mix okay so
these birds are particularly easy
because although they come from
different languages their meaning hasn't
changed sometimes the meaning changes
when a country starts using a foreign
word in this case the meanings have been
retained
how would you ask for a menu in Italian
so assuming you're sitting down and you
are in a restaurant waiting for a
waitress and she comes along and you
want to ask for a menu now you should
know how to say this because we've
covered pretty much everything you need
for this now how to say excuse me
first of all exactly scusi scusi I would
like for rye we've already seen this
it's very useful so I recommend you
learning off by heart first person
singular I would like for LA now a menu
I haven't told you but the word menu is
masculine same as hamburger
these are masculine words so vorrei una
because we need the indefinite article
in the masculine singular form one me
know so this is enough but if you want
to be even more polite
you can add better order this means
please and we've already seen this as
well so this is a perfectly correct
sentence in Italian using everything we
know scusi Verano per favore this is how
you say this in Italian or even more
correct ill because the menu is only one
so you may as well want to use the
definite article masculine form singular
case El Nino better Favara because this
is a foreign word the plural case
doesn't change
II menu I'm not sure but I think because
of the way you pronounce it in Italian
me no you have to put the acute accent
after the world because otherwise you
would read me a no but because it comes
from French and because the
pronunciation hasn't varied much
Italians pronounce it Meno may know so
there must be an acute accent at the
very end add it in your notes
easy enough I hope to see you guys in
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