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First steps in Italian
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| 1 | paper (the paper) |
| la carta (f) | |
| Mem: card, postcard, cardboard | |
| 2 | white |
bianco |
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Mem: blank. Vino bianco = white wine |
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| 3 | rice |
il riso (m) |
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| 4 | flour |
la farina |
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| 5 | snow |
la neve (f) |
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| Mem: Sierra Nevada (snowy saw), mountain ranges in Spain and the USA | |
| 6 | is |
| è | |
| Note the accent: è = is, e = and | |
| 7 | Paper is white. |
| Carta è bianca. | |
| 8 | Rice is white. |
| Riso è bianco. | |
| 9 | Flour is white. |
| Farina è bianca. | |
| 10 | black |
nero |
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| Mem: negro, Nigeria, River Niger, Roman Emperor Nero | |
| Note: riso = bianco (m = masculine -o) carta = bianca (f = feminine -a) |
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| 1 | coal |
| il carbone (m) | |
Mem: carbon footprint, carbon paper, carbonated drinks |
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| 2 | Coal is black. |
Carbone è nero. |
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| 3 | red |
rosso |
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| Mem: Vino rosso = red wine | |
| 4 | tomatoes |
| pomodori (plural of pomodoro) | |
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| Mem: pomo-d'-oro = apple of gold; pomade (apple jelly); oro in "el dorado" | |
| 5 | they are |
sono |
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| 6 | Tomatoes are red. |
| Pomodori sono rossi | |
Note: Plural ending -i agrees in noun and adjective. |
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| 7 | blood |
il sangue (m) |
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| Mem: sanguine | |
| 8 | fire |
| il fuoco (m) | |
| Mem: focus (burning point) Tierra del Fuego (Spanish: Fire Land) | |
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| 9 | butter |
| il burro | |
Mem: Initial letters agree. |
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| 10 | banana |
la banana (f) |
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| 1 | yellow |
giallo |
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| Mem: looks different, sounds alike | |
| 2 | grass |
| l'erba (f) (from "la erba") | |
| Mem: herb | |
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| 3 | green |
| verde | |
| Mem: verdant, verdure | |
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| 4 | sky |
| il cielo (m) | |
Mem: celestial |
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| 5 | blue |
| azzurro | |
| Mem: azure | |
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| 6 | the sea |
| il mare (m) | |
| Mem: mere, Windermere, marine, mariner, maritime | |
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| 7 | The sea is blue. |
Il mare è azzurro. |
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| 8 | cloud |
la nube (f) |
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| 9 | grey |
grigio |
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| 10 | flower |
il fiore (m) |
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| 1 | England |
| Inghilterra (f) | |
| Note: land = terra; terrestrian | |
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| 2 | Italy |
Italia (f) |
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| 3 | the sky |
il cielo (m) |
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| 4 | the paper |
la carta (f) |
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| 5 | the cloud |
la nube (f) |
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| 6 | The sky is blue. |
Il cielo è azzurro. |
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| 7 | today |
oggi |
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| 8 | Today the sky is blue. |
Oggi il cielo è azzurro. |
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| 9 | The cloud is grey. |
La nube è grigia. |
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| 10 | The paper is white. |
La carta è bianca. |
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| 1 | In Italy the sky is blue. |
In Italia il cielo è azzurro. |
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| 2 | In England the sky is grey. |
In Inghilterra il cielo è grigio. |
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| 3 | chocolate |
la cioccolata (f) |
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| 4 | brown |
| marrone | |
Note: "marrone" will work for most objects, including edible chestnuts, but not for brown hair. Brown hair is called "bruno". |
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| 5 | colour |
il colore (m) |
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| 6 | I |
io |
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| 7 | I am |
| Io sono | |
| 8 | the exercise |
l'esercizio (m) (from: il esercizio) |
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| 9 | Italian (language) |
l'Italiano (m) |
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| 10 | to learn |
imparare |
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| 1 | I learn, I am learning |
io imparo |
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| 2 | I am learning Italian. |
Imparo l'Italiano. |
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| Note: The "I" (io) can be omitted in Italian. | |
| 3 | insert filler items here |
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In this exercise we call the items by letters rather than numbers.
| a | zero |
zero |
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| b | one |
uno |
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| Mem: unity, uniform | |
| c | two |
| due | |
Mem: dual, dualism |
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| d | three |
tre |
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| e | four |
| quattro | |
| Mem: quartet, quart, quarter | |
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| f | five |
cinque |
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| g | six |
sei |
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| h | seven |
| sette | |
Mem: September |
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| i | eight |
| otto | |
Mem: October |
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| j | nine |
nove |
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| Mem: November | |
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| a | ten |
| dieci | |
Mem: Dezember, decimal |
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| b | eleven |
| undici | |
| Mem: un + dieci | |
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| c | twelve |
dodici |
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| d | thirteen |
tredici |
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| e | fourteen |
quattordici |
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| f | fifteen |
quindici |
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| g | sixteen |
sedici |
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| Note: se-dici = 6 + 10 = 16 | |
| h | seventeen |
| diciassette | |
| Note: dici-assette = 10 + 7 = 17. Compare that with 16 = 6 + 10, not 10 + 6 | |
| i | eighteen |
diciotto |
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| j | nineteen |
diciannove |
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