Lesson 2 Part 1 - Language Instruction

just informal if you want to be a little bit more formal you can say what well we're not going to bed yet you're saying you're going to die is today is an important day in italy because it's the beginning of carne vale carnevales is carnival i think you are familiar originally italy the celebration of carnival was the celebration of the end of the winter and the beginning of the spring it should be much later here in boston it's not usually february in italy usually middle of february is a good time when it starts to get warmer and it's not spring but it's the beginning so carne vale is carnival it starts today and it will end on tuesday next tuesday tuesday is martini today and we call this specific tuesday means fats yeah it's fat tuesday so why is fat tuesday well because typically we would eat very very fat food and you have some examples here these are some typical sweets that we eat for carnevale they're both deep fried so we're not going to do them they're not particularly healthy but if you want the recipe i need you the recipe anyway they're very very tasty the idea is that this celebration was initially a pagan celebration and then it became a christian celebration like a huge party where everything or almost everything is allowed before the beginning of juarez had lent that is a period where period more of any turns a period where many many people decide for example to let go of some luxuries of some things they like so it's like the last huge party you can eat everything in fact and afterwards maybe you decide oh i'm gonna diet i'm not going to eat anything so for carnivale carnival people usually wear costumes kind of like halloween here and mostly kids like it's very unusual that you walk anywhere in italy and you find everybody in costume but well there are like kids especially and there are some parties and there are some i'm sorry for the quality but you have a printout actually of the macbook and there are some huge huge celebrations the most famous are the carnivale of diarrhea girl is in tuscany there is carnevale ibrea ibrea is in and for the carnivale of the apart from wearing costumes there is also a very famous bottle with oranges people throw oranges if you google it you see the images is really really something and then probably the most famous carnival in italy is incarnate venezia venice there it is so in venezuela there are a lot of parades and there are some characteristic costumes traditional costumes so you should enjoy carnevale during the weekend you have a long weekend for a different reason but okay enjoy nevada until tuesday until because afterwards we can't celebrate anymore so let's try to review what you did the idea is this each of you can stand up look at the others and say ciao you say your name and then just tell us something that you remember from last week it can be anything that could it can be another sentence it could be even just the way that you pronounce the letter a that's uh okay you can come here and say hey ciao we say oh the vowels ciao michael mcclara uh our second lesson and i can ask each of you let's do it one word at a time you remember omit the subject too because it's not that important unless i really want to emphasize then i would i would say so i start from here let's do another round we can ask each other where do we come from and you can say i come from wherever you come from i said milano i'm not exactly from milan i'm from a small town close to milan on big lake that's the largest lake in italy named lake lagos but i think that most of you come from this unity let's say that would if you have a feminine it could be so texas is not a city it's a state so you put the article and you say vengo dal texas texas yeah so now you know how to introduce yourself how to say where you come from let me look around is yeah so we are trying to learn demonstrative objectives so in english you have this that these those let's start with the singular in italian we have questo code okay you see they all end with an o so that's masculine how come that we have three choices instead of just two this and that well questo means this and it's something that is close to me when i'm talking about something that's close to me is something that is far from me but is close to you it's not really very common you won't hear it when you talk to the other italian unless he or he comes from tuscany then there is a chance that they will use podesta but from now on we will just stick to cuesto for that so in principle is when it's far from both of us so as i told you already last time in italian we conjugate everything so if an adjective refers to a noun that's feminine or masculine the ending changes so in english you would say this onion and this book in italian i would say questo foreign if it's masculine it becomes questi and if it's feminine it becomes quest question and now you can try to read without me what's going on with that and those so let's see what i told you earlier questa questions i forgot adjective similar okay is bigger d that would be then what itself since we want to go ahead and learn how to say la let's see exactly where this word come from sulla is a composition of soup that means on and that would be the article and then we just put them together and it becomes okay so take it some time and try you can discuss you can do this together try to come out with some new ten sentences involving the adjectivity and some of the words that you already know let me write it down people look at you like where do you come from united states we put an apostrophe that little sign is an apostrophe you can say questions so yeah one way to refer to apples and pears is to call them homie typically if you are talking about this fruit then you say you call it milan so this fruit is mela and i can say mela with me well i actually have two oh yeah so it was questa now i have two questions when we have only one cuesta who wants to write the nest very good so you see we don't add an s like in english to make the plural we change the ending of the word we also next time we will actually conjugate the whole verb to be in the present okay good so tonight we're going to cook a dish that's typical from northern italy it's called risotto you