CBI To Go 2.06 | Preferisci l’estate o l’inverno? - Do you prefer summer or winter?
Coffee Break Italian
Coffee Break Languages
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🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Coffee Break Italian To Go, Francesca asks the question, preferisci l’estate o l’inverno? Do you prefer summer or winter?. You can use the answers of our interviewees to help you answer this question in Italian and Mark is back in the studio and he’ll help you understand all the responses. Please note all interviews were filmed before lockdown.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Coffee Break Italian to go the podcast version. We are working on Season 2 of to go and this is Episode 6. |
| 0:12.5 | Buon giorno tutti, io sono Mark, |
| 0:14.5 | I am Mark and I am in the studio today while Francesca is out and about, |
| 0:18.0 | or the streets of Streza, the beautiful town on the shores of Lake Majori in Northern Italy. |
| 0:23.5 | Now in this series of Coffee Break Italian, we are helping you build your comprehension skills and your listening skills |
| 0:30.5 | with a series of questions. So in each episode Francesca is asking one question to lots of people and it's my job to help you understand the answers. |
| 0:38.5 | We'll begin, as ever, by listening to the full set of interviews and then we'll split them up, |
| 0:43.5 | listening to each interview in turn and talking about the language used. |
| 0:47.5 | Now if you'd like to watch the video version of these interviews and see Streza in all its beauty, |
| 0:52.5 | then you can do so on our website for the direct link, go to the address bar on your browser and enter this link. |
| 0:59.5 | CoffeebreakLink.com slash CBI2Go206. I'll say that again. |
| 1:07.5 | CoffeebreakLink.com slash CBI for Coffee Break Italian to go TOGO206. |
| 1:16.5 | I am going to hand you over to Francesca now to find out what today's question is. |
| 1:21.5 | Hello everyone and welcome to a new episode of Coffee Break Italian to go. |
| 1:31.5 | The question today is, preferring the state or the winter or formal, preferring the state or winter. |
| 1:42.5 | Repeat it. Preferring the state or winter or formal, preferring the state or winter. |
| 1:51.5 | Okay, so our question is, preferring the state or winter. |
| 1:56.5 | Do you prefer the summer or the winter or in more natural English? |
| 2:02.5 | Do you prefer summer or winter? |
| 2:04.5 | Any time you have to use a definite article there. |
| 2:07.5 | You have to say, do you prefer the summer or the winter, but we can get away without doing that in English. |
| 2:13.5 | So preferring the state or winter or as Francesca said, the formal version preferring the state or winter. |
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