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9. What A Party! (Intermediate)

March 16th, 2006

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What A Party

In today’s episode, we are going to hear about a fun birthday party, and a lucky girl that received some very nice presents. We’ll learn and practice more verbs and useful expressions using the past tense.

Intermediate Level - Lesson Nr. 9

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5 Responses to "9. What A Party! (Intermediate)"

Tama Says:

March 17th, 2006 at 1:11 am

senza parole!!, its great! ,the podcasts get better and better!, grazie mille!!

Nicole Says:

February 4th, 2008 at 4:18 am

Hi there, I noticed that Jane said that the verbs in this lesson - ho saputo, hai compiuto, abbiamo ballato were all built with ‘to have’ and in lesson one we built the past verbs with ‘to be’ instead. You said it was because in the first lesson we were talking about movement(io sono andato) But isn’t - we went dancing -considered movement also?
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LearnItalianPod.com Says:

February 4th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

Nicole, the sentence “I went dancing” translates in Italian as “sono andato/a a ballare” (notice the construction: Io + sono andato + a + infinitive).

And here’s an example using “avere” + “ballare”: “ieri sera ho ballato tanto” (last night I have danced a lot).

Ludwig Says:

March 27th, 2008 at 6:35 am

Wouldn’t the “ho saputo” of the dialogue more naturally be “sapevo”, given that “knowing” is a continuous action?

Karen Says:

July 29th, 2008 at 8:09 am

Hi Jane, I noticed that you pronounce “il computer” the same way we say it in English, but I thought to get that “yoo” sound in Italian the word is spelled with “iu” as in “compiuto” ?

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