Italian Course Beginner Series 65: MUSICA!

Hello and welcome to another Italian tutorial. My name is Claudio and today we talk about Italian words that you know already. And the topic today is music. So the subtopic is music. So all these words have to do with, have something to do with music. Something. Ok, let's start from this one. A cappella. A cappella is pronounced a cappella. And it means exactly what it means in English. Just the voice and no soundtrack. Opera. Opera means exactly the same. It's pronounced opera. Opera. Concerto means concert. And it's pronounced concerto. Concerto. This word is feminine and this one is masculine. We've had a look at gender already so we know it. But just to make it clear. This, I think it's some sort of adverb, ok. A cappella is the way you are singing. So you're singing with no soundtrack and that's about it. So it doesn't really make sense to talk about gender in this case. But this word, opera, is feminine. And this word is masculine. So how do you say a concert in Italian? Well, you should know because we've done indefinite articles already. So a concert, we know that the word for concert is concerto. We know that the word is masculine because it ends in O. Therefore, the singular masculine indefinite article is un. Un concerto. A concert. Amazing. Now duo is another word, a fancy word for couple or pair. Same as English. It's pronounced duo. Duo. Remember that the Italian word for two is due. So very similar. Due, duo. Trio is well, a group of three. Same as in Italian. Trio. Sottovoce literally means whispering. So if I say something to you, sottovoce, is the equivalent of saying in English, I whispered something to you. In Italian, you don't say, I whisper something to you. You say, I say something to you, sottovoce. So this acts as an adverb. Sottovoce. I say something to you, sottovoce. It means in a way that nobody else can hear. Now tempo. Tempo. I remember when my American football coach used to tell me, come on, Claudio, high tempo, high tempo. Now tempo is pronounced tempo. Tempo. And it means time in Italian. It just means time. Tempo. And it also means weather. Now, this sentence is very common. Now, the word come, the word come is the interrogative adverb, how, how, literally how. Okay. And in this case, we get rid of the final E because the next word, in this case, it's just a letter, but the next word also is, begins with E. Well, it's just E. So come. We've seen it in the first video. We've seen it already. It means is in Italian. Is. The verb to be conjugated in the third person singular. So come. And this is an acute accent, not an apostrophe. So the first one is an apostrophe and the second one is an acute accent. So you have come. Come. This means how is it? And the object is the weather. Because tempo. Tempo. Means time, but it also means weather. And because it's masculine, you know, we have the masculine definite article, il. We've seen them already. If you don't know them, go and watch the video on definite articles. You will find that the singular masculine case is il. So il tempo. Come è il tempo? This means how is the weather? And it's a very common sentence, it's very common to hear this in everyday conversations. Okay, guys, so we've had a look at all these words. I'm pretty sure you know most of them already, if not all of them. I will see you guys in the next video. Take care and see you soon.