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Lesson Transcript

Hi everyone
I'm Felice!
Ciao a tutti, sono Felice!
Welcome to the Italian Whiteboard Lessons!
In this lesson you'll learn how to give your nationality in Italian.
Let's get started!
Ok, let's look at the vocabulary.
First we have
italiano
italiana
Italian
italiano
sudcoreano
sudcoreana
South Korean
sudcoreano
messicano
messicana
Mexican
messicano
russo
russa
Russian
russo
indiano
indiana
Indian
indiano
tedesco
tedesca
German
tedesco
egiziano
egiziana
Egyptian
egiziano
sudafricano
sudafricana
South African
sudafricano
greco
greca
Greek
greco
israeliano
israeliana
Israeli
israeliano
brasiliano
brasiliana
Brazilian
brasiliano
francese
French
francese
giapponese
Japanese
giapponese
canadese
Canadian
canadese
norvegese
Norwegian
norvegese
svedese
Swedish
svedese
Let's look at the dialogue between Emily and Patricia in an informal conversation.
When I read
I want you to pay attention to the words used to express the nationalities.
Find what the nationality is and see how it's used in the dialogue.
Sei giapponese?
Are you Japanese?
No, non sono giapponese.
Sono italiana.
No, I'm not Japanese, I'm Italian.
Now let's look at the sentence pattern.
This pattern will be the structure that all of our dialogues will follow.
To ask someone their nationality, you can say.
Sei nationality?
Are you nationality?
When giving your nationality, you can say.
Sono nationality.
I am nationality.
Sei giapponese?
Sono italiana.
Non is used as a negative in front of the verb.
Sono is used for "I am"
and it does not change depending on the gender of the subject.
The ending "o" in nationalities is usually masculine and "a" is usually feminine.
Nationalities ending in "e" have only one form.
For example
giapponese for both male and female referring to Japanese people.

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