Scenes Season 2 | Chapter 6: La vera amicizia non ha età

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No, però ognuno, secondo me, può immaginarsi una cittadina, un paesino, anche una città, ma forse più un paesino o una cittadina. Sì, and in each episode we're just listening in on a particular slice of life that happens and we have got another slice of life today, this time with Gianni. Gianni, sì, che conosciamo già un pochino dalla prima stagione. Esatto, he's one of the three vecchietti. Sì, sì, che giocano sempre a carte. Esatto, so we'll find out how he's getting on in this episode. But first, Francesca, can you tell us what happened in the previous episode? Ah, l'episodio precedente è molto carino. Se ti ricordi, abbiamo conosciuto due ragazze, una delle quali era molto nervosa perché stava per presentare la sua fidanzata ai genitori. Ma come abbiamo imparato nell'episodio precedente, tutto è bene, ciò che finisce bene. Esatto. Now that was interesting because you said tutto è bene, ciò che finisce bene. Ah sì, o quel che finisce bene. So we can use either tutto è bene, quel che finisce bene, or tutto è bene, ciò che finisce bene. Esatto, sì. Nice. You've got a little bonus here to do. Ecco. Ecco. Okay, today, of course, we're going to go on and listen to chapter six. We'll listen to it first at a slightly slower rate, and then we'll go through all of the language before listening to it once more time at a normal speaking rate. Va bene. Dai, cominciamo. Now it is rainingbs on the ice. This rain is going along with trees and we have started offering cold coffee. me, it seems a bit normal to put a glass in the coffee, but I like it a lot. I boys then are gone mad. I have offered one to Gianni when I saw him enter, but he has been storting his nose, he was just a doctor. He told me that he was a doctor, he had done analysis, hoped that had a great chaos. It never practiced. A lot of people go on. I have beaten the dentist quite or later on. Because he isしま Deswegenn Gerry has hair survived me without grabbing. Rcker challenged it. the situation, especially because of the time in time he adora to do the campagnes in mountains. I tried to solve the morale, but I couldn't think anything. Fortunately, in that moment, they arrived Mario and Anselmo. They also noticed that Gianni was a good morale, and he was a I two looked at a moment. They said that the seat of the row would not have impeded to divert themselves, especially to play games with friends. Mario ha aggiunto che, quando Gianni vorrà fare una scampagnata, lui e Anselmo saranno contenti di accompagnarlo. Adesso, però, era ora di giocare a briscola. I tre vecchietti si sono messi in posizione di gioco e hanno iniziato a fare il solito chiasso. C'è da dire che l'amicizia non ha davvero età. È vero. Anche qui mi piace l'ultima frase, l'amicizia non ha davvero età. Ed è proprio così quando si hanno dei veri amici. Esatto. Let's go through it line by line and we'll talk about all the interesting aspects of the language. Perfetto. In questi giorni fa veramente tanto caldo. So these days fa veramente tanto caldo. It really is extremely hot. Le granite stanno andando a ruba e abbiamo iniziato a offrire caffè freddo. Okay, so le granite stanno andando a ruba. We've seen this before in other episodes of Coffee Break Italian. Una bella espressione. Andare a ruba. It means they're selling like hotcakes. And of course, le granite are the sort of slush ice drinks. Sì, sì, buonissime. Soprattutto le granite siciliane. Che buone. Mamma mia E abbiamo iniziato a offrire caff freddo And we started offering iced coffee Francesca having an iced coffee, next she'll be having chicken on her pizza. No, quello mai. No, ma ad esempio è molto buono il caffè leccese, il caffè che servono a Lecce, che è un caffè freddo con del latte di mandorla, è molto rinfrescante in estate. Ok. Eh sì, il caffè shakerato anche. Shakerato, I think that's such a funny word. Okay, so here what our narrator is saying, a me sembra un po' insolito. It seems to me a bit unusual mettere cubetti di ghiaccio. Listen to me, di ghiaccio. Mi abbiamo parlato nell'episodio precedente, Mark. So it seems a little bit unusual putting ice cubes in your coffee, ma ai cliente piace molto, but the customers really like it. I just can't I mean it wouldn't be an awful thing I would happily drink it particularly in the summer but I'd rather have something fruity and something cold and fruity or something like that in the summer Sì, però se se tu non vuoi rinunciare al tuo caffè d'estate questa è un'ottima alternativa Un altro molto buono è il caffè freddo con l'amaretto Ah, ok L'amaretto mi piace Ok Forse non freddo Oh, che difficile che sei, Mark. Allora, continuiamo. Okay. I ragazzini poi ne vanno matti. Oh, this is great. Andare matto per qualcosa, o di qualcosa. Per. Per. Right, that's interesting because per has been replaced by ne here. Sì, sì, sì. It's a bit unusual because normally ne replaces the preposition di, but we can also find it in this structure andare matti per qualcosa and replace it with ne. So i ragazzini, the young people, the kids poi, then, or especially ne vanno matti, they go mad for it, they go crazy for it. Sì, sì, una bella espressione andare matti, andare matto, andare matta per qualcosa. Certo. Then we have another ne. Ne ho offerto uno a Gianni. So I offered one, one being one of them, the caffè freddo. Sì, sì. Or the caffè freddi in this case. Ne ho offerto uno a Gianni. I offered one to Gianni. Quando l'ho visto entrare, when I saw him come in. Ma ha storto il naso. He turned up his nose. He was very keen. Sì, un bel verbo questo. Storcere il naso. Un verbo irregolare. Storcere. E il participio passato è storto. Storto. Voleva il solito. He wanted his usual order. Sì, il solito. You can go to your usual cafe and just say buongiorno, il solito. Il solito. And un bravo barista o una brava barista sa subito che cosa intendi. Okay. Mi ha detto che era stato dal dottore. Ah, so he told me he had been to the doctor. Era stato, they're perfect tense. Because the action of going, being at the doctor, happened before the action of telling that this had happened. Aveva fatto delle analisi visto che aveva un gran male alle gambe e a volte faceva fatica a camminare. So, aveva fatto delle analisi, he had some tests on, visto che aveva un gran male alle gambe. So seeing that or given that he had pain in his legs, a lot of pain in his legs, e a volte faceva fatica a camminare. So fare fatica a fare qualcosa is to have difficulty doing something, to struggle. So sometimes he was struggling to walk. Sì, sì, poverino. Abbiamo qui un aggettivo interessante, gran. Gran is short for grande. Grande. So at times we can find this alternative only when it's used in front of a noun. We cannot really say aveva un male gran alle gambe. But when we use grande preceding the noun, then we can just shorten it and say gran. And is the meaning changing there when we bring it in front of the noun? In this case, it's not big in terms of size, but it's more like deep, strong. so it loses its literal meaning, let's say. Okay. For example, if we think of the word chiasso, which we learned in previous episodes, we can say i bambini stanno giocando e fanno un gran chiasso. Un gran chiasso, sì. So they're making a lot of noise. So it's not that the noise is big, but it's like, it's a lot of noise. But for example, let's say Gianni had a large bruise on his leg. That would not come before the noun, that would go after the noun. Maybe if you want to emphasize on the fact that it's surprisingly big or painful, that it could still go in front of the noun for additional emphasis. And what's a bruise in Italian? A bruise is un livido. Un livido. So if you just want to say that the bruise is big and it's not small, you can say un livido grande. But if you want to emphasize on the fact that it's really big and maybe painful and blue, purple, then you would say un gran livido. Un gran livido. Okay well hopefully he not got un gran livido No speriamo di no Let continue A detta del dottore prima o poi dovr usare la sedia a rotelle perch le sue gambe si stanno indebolendo Okay, so a detta del dottore, according to the doctor, that's a nice expression, isn't it? It's nice, it's slightly formal. You would probably use it in the written language or at a very formal level. The meaning is secondo il dottore. But it's very common to hear, for example, a detta di molti, a detta degli esperti, to convey someone's opinion. Okay, so according to the doctor, prima o poi, sooner or later, dovrà usare la sedia a rotelle. He will have to use a wheelchair Perché le sue gambe si stanno indebolendo? Because his legs are getting weaker. Sì, and here we can see the verb indebolirsi used in the progressive structure stare plus the gerund. And we need to include the reflexive pronoun sì. Okay. Gianni era molto dispiaciuto per la situazione. soprattutto perché di tanto in tanto adora fare le scampagnate in montagna. So Gianni era molto dispiaciuto. So he was very upset, he was sad per la situazione because of the situation soprattutto perché di tanto in tanto, above all, because from time to time adora fare le scampagnate in montagna. He loves to go for day trips in the mountains. Ho cercato di risollevargli il morale. Ma non riuscivo a pensare a niente. So this is cercare di fare qualcosa, of course. So I tried to cheer him up, risollevargli il morale. That's quite tricky. So risollevare il morale a qualcuno, to cheer someone up. Ma non riuscivo a pensare a niente, but I couldn't think of anything. Okay, let's leave it there. we'll come back in just a moment to finish off the chapter. 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Anche loro hanno notato che Gianni era giù di morale e lui li ha aggiornati. So anche loro, they also hanno notato, noticed, che Gianni era giù di morale, that Gianni was down or low spirited. E lui and he, talking about Gianni, li ha aggiornati. He updated them, he told them what was going on. And here we can see the direct object pronoun li preceding the verb. That's why we have the nice agreement aggiornati. Benissimo. I due si sono guardati per un attimo. So the two of them looked at each other for a moment. Here the verb is guardarsi, which is a reciprocal verb. So the idea is that the action is done to one another. Guardarsi. Gli hanno detto che la sedia a rotelle non gli avrebbe impedito di divertirsi, specialmente di giocare a carte con gli amici. So to him they said, gli hanno detto che la sedia a rotelle non gli avrebbe impedito di divertirsi, so that the wheelchair wouldn't prevent him from enjoying himself, specialmente di giocare a carte con gli amici. especially from playing cards with his friends. And Mark, do you want to tell me something about avrebbe impedito? Of course, it's our lovely conditional perfect there, avrebbe impedito, because of course we're just saying it would not or it won't even in the past. Sì, so we talked a lot about this in the previous episode. We did. Okay. Mario ha aggiunto che quando Gianni vorrà fare una scampagnata, lui e Anselmo saranno contenti di accompagnarlo. So Mario ha aggiunto che he added that, quando Gianni vorrà fare una scampagnata, when Gianni wants to go for a walk in the mountains, lui e Anselmo saranno contenti di accompagnarlo. He and Anselmo would or will be happy to accompany him. Francesca, why is it not lui e Anselmo sarebbero stati contenti? In this case, we could have said, ha aggiunto che sarebbero stati contenti. That's absolutely fine. I think in this case we want to take it in the real future Okay yeah I see what you mean So it not something it not like a future in the past but it still something that hasn happened yet I see. So when we use the future, or the conditional perfect, to represent a future that hasn't yet happened in the past, that's because it might have happened in the present by that time. But here we're talking about a future that hasn't even happened in the present. Esatto, that's the idea. So we want to convey this idea that they haven't done it yet, but they will do it in the actual future, in the real future. Okay, good. It's a very subtle difference. It's very subtle, I know, I know. Interesting. Okay, andiamo avanti. Adesso però era ora di giocare a briscola. But now it was time to play briscola. Is that a card game? Sì, è un gioco di carte tipico del bar italiano, dei vecchietti, sì. Ci sono molte gare, tornei di briscola di solito nei bar italiani. Sì, sì. Ok. I tre vecchietti si sono messi in posizione di gioco e hanno iniziato a fare il solito chiasso. Il solito chiasso. It's not the bimbi che fanno il chiasso. Sì, abbiamo parlato nell'episodio precedente, fare un gran chiasso, ti ricordi? So, I three vecchietti, the three old chaps, si sono messi in posizioni di gioco, they got into their playing position e hanno iniziato a fare il solito chiasso and they began to make their usual racket. Mi piace il racket come parola. C'è da dire che l'amicizia non ha davvero età. So c'è da dire, it must be said that, l'amicizia, friendship, non ha davvero età. It truly has no age. There's no age boundaries in friendship. Sono d'accordo. La vera amicizia non ha età. Anch'io sono d'accordo. Okay, well, we've seen quite a few idioms in this episode. We had andare a ruba, andare matti per qualcosa. Sì, sì, sì, è vero. Storceri il naso To turn up your nose L'espressione c'è da dire che Alla fine E anche a detta di Ah, that's nice, yeah So according to A replacement for Secondo Listen out for those As we hear the text one more time This time at a normal speaking speed a coffee cold. A me, it seems a bit normal to put a glass in the coffee, but I like it a lot. I boys then, they're not mad. I offered one to Gianni when I saw it enter, but he's not going to the nose. He was the only one. He told me that he was the doctor. He had done some analysis, since he had a bad pain and sometimes had a lot of work to walk. A doctor, and then he will use the sedia to rotelle because his legs are weak. Gianni was very dispatched for the situation, especially because of the time he adored to do the campagina in the mountains. I tried to get rid of him the morale, but I didn't think I was able to do anything. Fortunately, in that moment, they arrived Mario and Anselmo. They also have noticed that Gianni was a good morale and he was a good one. The two looked at a moment. They said that the seat at a row would not have impeded to play, especially playing cards with friends. Mario has said that when Gianni wants to do a camp, he and Anselmo will be happy to accompany him. Now, however, it's time to play with the three kids. They've been in the game and started to play the same thing. C'è da dire che l'amicizia non ha davvero età. There's also a vocabulary list for each episode and an exercise. And there is also our spotlight video. And in the spotlight videos, we focus on one particular expression and develop that further. All of that can be found at the Coffee Break Academy. So just head to coffeebreakacademy.com and look for the Scenes course. And as always, don't forget that we share more Italian tips and tricks and help you build your language skills even more every week in our free newsletter. To access this, just go to coffeebreaklanguages.com slash italian and sign up there. Allora, un bel episodio. Grazie, Francesca. Sì, un altro bel episodio. Sono d'accordo, Mark. Grazie a te. Grazie a te. I hope Gianni's feeling a bit better next time. Sì, forza Gianni. And what's coming up next time? Il prossimo episodio sarà molto interessante perché è qualcosa che tutti prima o poi abbiamo vissuto nella nostra vita. Un colloquio di lavoro. Ah, ok, ok. Well, we can look forward to that in the next episode of Scenes. For now, grazie mille e alla prossima. Ciao, ciao. Thank you.