Learn Italian - Italia 500 Italian Beginner 1 course - Lesson 7 (Preview)

Hello guys, I'm Giacomo who is here in Italy500. This is the seventh lesson of the course for beginners online Francesco says pleasure Giovanna says pleasure Pleasure, pleasure, yes? Formally, ragazzi - What is it? The present To you I present The Virgilio. And we're putting the LA there Because I'm talking about her. Yes, I'm not addressing her directly I'm addressing Signor Dandy so there is no il there Signor Dandy, may I present And he says piacere She says pleasure back Pleasure, pleasure. Now that pleasure, that pleasure is simply the short version for this Please, please. Pleased to meet you. That's a literal translation, right? In English you probably say just pleased to meet you, yes? And pleasure to meet you. Again, pleasure to make your acquaintance. In English would, of course, be pleased to meet you But, ragazzi, we'll just leave it at piacere, piacere because that's the most common way to do it It's the shorter version rather than the longer version. And we'll leave it at that for the moment, yes? Ragazzi, we also use piacere When you want to say please, yes? You have per favore I'm going to go. Per piacere, yes? I was just... And you can translate those into English In English, which is understandable as a favor. It was a pleasure. Even though we're literally using Perde Which is for, for pleasure For a favour, yeah? Anyway, two ways to say please. Ragazzi, piacere, however can also be used as a verb Pleasure And you could translate that as to be pleasing Now, I know in English you don't use to be pleasing Very much, yes? But this verb here, in Italian, piacere is very, very common Because that's how we say in Italian I like, do you like Do you like formal So it's actually quite common Now, boys. I mentioned this before, every object has a name. People have names. So objects and people We don't know the names. that actions also have names - I'm not sure. to go to eat, to sleep to arrive, yes? And in English, when it's the name of an action You put a to in front of it. Now, when you say to go You're not telling me who's going Or when the person is going, yes? You're just telling me what the name of the action is and in the grammar the name of an action is called the infinitive In Italian we call it I'm not going anywhere. I've never been through this before. But it's one of those things you hear A dozen times before you really remember it I'm not going to tell you. Pleasure is an infinito. The abitare is an infinito Prise is an infinito Start is the endless The infinitive of the verb. and what you notice Is that in English you put a to in front of it to go, to live to have, to leave In Italian? If we see a word, no. which end in are or We know it's a... We know it's the infinitive of the verb the name of the verb and it's not telling us Who lives, yes? and when the person lived or lives or will live Wherever Does that make sense? So we have to change these And the only reason we bring this up is because If it's an are verb It has certain endings. This is the present tense we call this I live in the present, now. Notice how the he, she or it The you formal has a or a there whereas the ere verbs The ones that end in er Take it like that. Which we did of course. Does the e here to take he, she or it is having, referring to food or drinks So that's why we bring this up, otherwise to be honest We wouldn't bother at all One more thing very quickly Sometimes the infinitive of a verb or l'infinito di un verbo or the infinito of a verb can actually end in Arsi We have come across Chiamarsi Don't let that fool you, ragazzi The fact that there's a si at the end doesn't mean It means that it is still a are verb That's the A there. See the are Arsi, we replace the e there with a si That's still an are verb. And it will behave like this the Sedersi to sit down I know it looks different from this. But the e's are there. The e is still there So he behaves like these verbs that have the ere ending And vestirsi is the same Starting - What? The IRS makes it an ire verb And as I said This affects how we conjugate The verb, what endings we put to indicate who we are talking about and when the person He's doing something. Does that make any sense, ragazzi? We're gonna come across this many, many times. So this will gradually sink in Ragazzi, please. is an ere the verb And it's very similar Of course, to take The prendere, it's an ere verb Take it now, is perfectly regular He's behaving perfectly. That's the pattern. And that applies to the vast The vast majority of the Verbs, that pattern there. Being is also an ere verb But see how it is It's all over the place here. I'm not a man. It's not... If you didn't know that Sono belonged to essere Yeah, you'd never guess Just by looking at it. when you take prendo Prendo looks like a prisoner. It's a shorter version, but they relate Each of these looks like this to each other But being These don't look like that. And this is very irregular, we call it Yes, when it's not following a nice pattern And that's the pattern, we call it irregular, irregular It's an irregular verb. Ragazzi, piacere is also unusual But it's not terrible. Irregular, see? and I'll show you In just a second, ragazzi I'll cancel it, all right? I'm going to be fine. Let's actually look at the verb Pleasure, or better. Let's conjugate tense of the verb Pleasure, yes? Because we want to learn how to say I like And do you like, informal and formal Ragazzi, as I said Pleasure is slightly irregular Totally irregular, not like being not What are you doing, ragazzi? In prendere, what we did I should say, is we cut off the ere We just cut it off. And what we're left with I 'll take that. That's called the root of the plant which is the root And then to the root We add those endings The O if you want to say I'm having I if you want to say you are having informal, the E if you are saying You're having a formal, and so forth. And we can do the exact same thing The thing with pleasure You cut off the Here, and what you're left with is Which actually sounds funny. in Italian, yes? because that's not how we say it Of course, too. That's the root. And then to this. We have to add the endings But watch what we do in the case of We have that market, technically I should simply Add the O there. like we did here, and to have me Pleasing, yes? Watch what we do. We add an extra CI and then we add I and And then we add Excuse me guys. I'm going to write the O in the purple color Now I'm putting the There's a trattino. the hyphen, just to show you What endings will we be putting Does that make sense? Because normally when you're writing This you don't put the trattino in there and that's pronounced the place and the reason we introduce the I There, the I Think of Italy when you think of the I in Italian The reason we introduce the I is because I makes it a soft C. And you don't even hear it that much. The whole point of it is simply to make it a soft C It's Piaccio No, not at all. You're not really hearing that I'm You're not pronouncing that I very clearly Piaccio, it's just making that C sound The double C doesn't. affect whether we pronounce it as a The double C doesn't affect that at all. The double C just means you have to The sound, you'll hear a gap prolong After it. Can you hear that gap? There's a pause there. as opposed to Can you hear the difference? as opposed to piaccio So it's a double C there. The fact that we insert a now CI is what makes that irregular Because normally it would just be the PIA and then the O But of course It's not regular. In this one here, piaccio literally means I am. pleasing I know what you're thinking. This guy. I've been drinking, no. I'm not making this up. I'll show you in a moment. How we use it We'll come back to that in a moment. So it's piaccio and for the informal The U We get the market again. But this time we add the I And that's Piacci. other And that's perfectly regular. There is no problem. There's the radice. and we add the I Like we do here, perfectly regular. Yes, and that's You are pleasing informal Yes, informally and I'll come back to this in a moment See, ragazzi, the formal But this time we add e Please Yes, and it's perfect. regularly the square formal - Yes, I know. and the formal is always the same as the he, she or it Actually the other way around The he, she or it is always used also for the formal So again We get the market. We add the e and it's pronounced piacce That means He, she or it is pleasing He, she or it is pleasing - Yes And for the we, see how it is The root plus the iamo. Same thing. Ragazzi, it's different because we put an extra c there So it's piacciamo So it's slightly irregular there, you add the extra c and it's piacciamo If you don't add the extra c, it's But this one here is Piacciamo You pause on that double C. Yes, and that means we're pleasing And I know what you're thinking When are we going to go around Saying this kind of stuff Yes, you'll see in a moment And then this one here is market perfectly regular It's perfectly regular. You are. I like it. And the last one there, ragazzi You get the market. But then we have to add an extra c and we have to add a I, then we want to put Ono Yes, and then? We add the ono Pause on that c If you don't put the I there It becomes piaccono. And that means they're pleasing. This is plural And this one here is them are pleasing Guys, I'm not going to. I am pleased You are pleasingly formal It's a little weird. We are pleased Yes, you can go around saying Saying just this one here Which is like saying Of course I did. It's like saying I'm liked. See, it's pretty bizarre, you know? You can do it of course if you want to We sometimes tell students Ragazzi, if you have a little low self-esteem Just go to the mirror. in the bathroom and just look in the mirror and say piaccio 20 times And it makes you feel so much better So there we are just using the piaccio itself And you're saying I'm pleasing Basically I'm liked by people in general, yes? You can do the same thing in the plural You can go, you and your friends, to a nightclub And just go around saying They'll kick you out of the nightclub. But that's okay. Okay, so you can use it like that If you're game enough, yeah? How do we actually use this verb? This pleasure, to be pleasing It's something interesting. You can use it of course on its own As we just showed you But normally you put something in it, yes? Now, you're probably not You know this already. When you're growing up, as you're growing up You learn your verbs of course, yes? But you also learn how to use them So for example, when you're learning the verb to give to give You also learn that you give Something. To someone. So you're learning what you normally put after it, yes? In Italian it's the same. We learn it's dare And the something is something which we had in Something to eat Something to eat. Remember from the coffee lesson? Something to dare someone I'll give you something. What's up, boys? And the same thing when you're saying to eat Unless you're a cannibal. You eat. Yes? and the same thing in Italian It's eating You eat something? And this will come back to this many many times Yes, you will understand. Why do we come back to it so many times ragazzi, for example with presentare present Somebody Yes, you present? Someone. Some people You present someone to Someone, yeah? So you need to to someone with that one Someone to present So ragazzi, that's how you start learning your verbs You start learning what to put after the verbs and so on. Pleasure boys Which is to be pleasing What would you put after that? I know it's not used very often anyway in English I don't hear many people saying it a lot. But if you had to put something after it What would you put? No, no, no scherzo ragazzi. I was just going to say, to be pleasing To please someone The same in Italian. It's pleasure. You need to put a to someone There. You don't have to. You can just go around saying Piaccio, I am liked Or I'm pleased Or we are liked But if you want to put something after it If you want to put it together with something It would probably be with a to someone So we need this We need to establish to whom One is pleasing So I'm going to do this for a moment And we've done some of these Already Guys, we've done some of these already. I'm not sure if you remember In the coffee class We did this one here. My coffee. - What's the matter? It's one way of saying you'd like a coffee. You can say " vorrei un caffè " I'd like a coffee. I 'd like a coffee. Or you can just say un caffè Per favore, you don't have to say mi da Or vorrei, but anyway If you want to say a little more than just un caffè Please, you can say "Vorste un caffè" That would literally mean per favore or per piacere Since we're on the subject here I'm pleased Or my coffee. Now that mi ragazzi That mi, my voice broke there for a moment To me. I'll give you And you're being formal here with the DA It's not at all rude so To me you give Un caffè, a coffee Please, yes. So we already had a to me In that mi da un caffè Give me a coffee please. So we're going to put that mi here And the to me is in that one word I'm not sure why I'm leaving such a big gap here I might as well put it here. mi, si, And that means to me And the to and the mi is in that Mi, now how do we know that How do we know that? Because of this ragazzi if you have Yeah, or mi with whatever. any one of these The fact that it's with this means It means to me Because it's to please someone I'm glad you're here. You have something that resembles that mi Almost perfectly. But it's in front of Chiamo. Yeah, just because it's with Chiamo, we know that. That mi doesn't mean anything to me Mi means I myself I call That's how we say in Italian, of course. My name is What's the matter? It depends what the mi is with so What verb is it with, if it's with chiamo It means me, if it's with Whatever, yeah. I'm serious guys, huh? Benissimo, ragazzi we also did to you in Italian We did it, yes, and we did it with this one here Someone, yes And we had it just before When we were saying Francesco, please. presentation Francesco, this is Giovanna. O my friend Giovanna I beg your pardon, boys. Francesco to present To you. I present to you Giovanna. So that's the present, the present. Someone, Giovanna. I'm going to see you. That's the ti So Francesco grabbed his attention To you, that's the Someone, to someone Presento is the verb That's a present. Somebody, that's Giovanna and To you I present Giovanna to introduce someone to someone Guys, see that? to, that ti excuse to you, the to and the means you is in one word there And we know it means to you Because it's with Presento May I present you, Captain? If it were with Come on, you. Chiami If it was with this chiami We know that means How? yourself. You call. Which is how you ask in Italian. Of course, what's your name? the context, yes that ti is being used with chiami It means yourself. The ti here, yes is being used with Piacciono, whatever the combination of those It doesn't really matter Some make sense, some less, but you'll see it in a moment. To you, that's to you In the same word And the formal was I have to. Cancel this guys because now We're being formal. Yes, and the formal - I'm not going to. Here is the Signor Dandy. - Yes, you did. That's just grabbing his attention. I present The lady. So to you I present Mrs. Virgilio, is that you? So that means le And we put it there What are you guys doing? Notice when we were talking about Using this verb here, what's your name formal It's coming. Call me when you get back. That was a formal How are you? But formal The you here It happens to be different from the le It just happens to be different. See, there's no point in protesting about it. or whatever, it's just the way it is So you in the informal the ti and the ti resemble each other Yes, they're twins of course Even though they mean different things This is with Chiami, this is with Piaccio or whatever. But the si is actually different In the come si chiama It's just something you learn. Now, we have this We have the mi, ti, le And we'll be working with these ragazzi You also have a to me, to you To you, formal. You have a thing for him. Sorry, that's informal is informal and formal Yes, you also have a to him A to her, a to us. A to you plural and a to them But we're not doing the whole family of these These things here are called Pronouns They also have an extra name But for the moment They're just called pronomi. We'll get back to it properly. We won't be doing the extra ones right now. If we have time we will do it in the same lesson here, but later on Are you all right, guys? So, repeat this mi, ti, and le I just... We had something similar before. We had le Yes, and you Yes, when you were throwing back the same question At someone. Le, that was a formal Here it's not le, it's le Remember, that means How do we use this? That's the whole point. We were doing it just before and it sounded pretty bizarre Just going around saying piaccio I am liked. I just want to explain this to you You can actually say this, yes? Which one should we use first? Okay, let's do this Ragazzi, that mi means Are you a gamer? And you're talking to someone informally I'm serious Yes, I like it. I like it I'm not going to. Now, ragazzi, that is a literal Translation, is it? If you were subtitling an Italian The movie in which this appears, yes? You certainly weren't translated as You were pleasing to me. You would translate it as I like you. Yes, boys? Now, when you think about it, ragazzi I like you, yes? Who is doing the action of liking? isatto But watch the Italian. With your beauty With your friendliness, with your charm Yes, with your fantasticity I am the recipient of your beauty, fantasticity, greatness Whatever, intelligence, yeah? I am the recipient of it. The Italian actually, for me, at least, makes a lot more sense So you're being the active person Who is being charming and fantastic Yeah, so it's the complete opposite to the English, yes? You are pleasing to me. And notice also, of course, that we put that to me And that to you, and that to you formally at the beginning, before the verb Which is a little strange, but you'll get used to that. Watch this one here. This will be good, ragazzi, if you go out a lot If you go to nightclubs, I'm too old for that kind of thing these days But if you go out, you might want to write these down. Because we're not actually gonna be working on this, ragazzi We'll be working on these here at Mors. When we do our dating and romance lesson So we're not doing this now. Just giving you a couple of examples, yeah? This one here. You hear this in playgrounds, it's so cute You hear kids saying this They say it with a funny voice What does that mean, ragazzi? Am I pleasing? Now that's a literal translation I am pleased to you. But again If you have to give it a proper translation in English one that is not literally Do it You like it? - What about me? When you're in school and you look at kids You want to play? See the kids together So again, literally, ragazzi in English Do you like me? You're doing the act of liking. Not in Italian, ragazzi. We are saying with my friendliness, charm, wonder Whatever, pleasing to you, yes? You are the recipient of my charm, pleasantness Beauty, whatever. It's the other way around. Ragazzi, the fact is that we don't actually use the piaccio, the piaci Depends on the context, of course, yes? If you're going to nightclubs every day, you may be using I really like this. I don't know. but in general usage the place formel You don't hear it all that much, do you? Piacciamo and the piacette You don't hear all that much The two we use all the time, ragazzi Is this one here? he, she, or it is pleasant, basically I like him, I like her. I like it, whatever. and piacciono They are. Those are the two we'll be working on. on the piazza and piacciono So try saying this for me Piacciono, see? And of the two, people find this one here the harder The piacciono is a place where you can read and write. Guys, let's do this one. pause Let's take a break. We'll have a break. And then we start again. We'll pick it up again.