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Third A2 Italian listening exercise, and a ‘spot’

July 31, 2014 by Daniel

Here’s the latest in our series of A2 (pre-intermediate) level Italian listening comprehension exercises.

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So, to business:

  • you should see an image with the task here below, and below that, the listening plug-in.
  • listen, answer the questions, and post your answers as a comment on this article. There’ll be a transcript for today’s exercise next time.

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Free Italian listening comprehension exercise level A2

If you’d like to share your answers to this exercise, or read what others write, view this article on our website (the comments are at the bottom).

Transcript for the previous exercise

Below is the transcript from the second exercise in this series. If you missed it, or if you would like to listen to it again while you read the transcript, click here.

Giovedì è stato il compleanno di Andrea. I fratelli hanno passato molto tempo a decidere il regalo da fargli.
Giorgio, il fratello maggiore voleva regalargli un computer nuovo, ma era troppo costoso. Paolo, il fratello minore, voleva regalargli un orologio.
Alla fine hanno deciso di andare al centro commerciale a cercare il regalo giusto.
Al centro commerciale Paolo e Giorgio hanno visitato vari negozi. Prima sono andati in gioielleria a vedere un orologio, ma anche quello era troppo costoso. Così hanno deciso di andare il libreria.
Alla fine sono andati in un negozio di elettronica e hanno deciso di comprare un telefono nuovo per Andrea.
Andrea è stato molto felice del regalo.

P.S.

‘Spot’ in Italian is one of those borrowed words that end up with a different meaning from that which is typical in the language they are borrowed from.

When Italians talk about a ‘spot’, they don’t mean the marks your husband made dripping pasta sauce down his new shirt, nor the infected and swollen pore on your nose that will typically afflict you right before a hot date.

In Italian, ‘spot’ means ‘commercial’ or ‘advert’ – those irritating breaks in your favorite programs which have the purpose of selling you something.

Which brings me to the point…

We’re about to restart our online conversation classes – these are group classes with up to five students, and an Italian teacher. They meet once a week for five weeks. The cost is modest, and there’s no software to install, but you do need to have a decent Internet connection…

You’ll find full details here: Online Italian Conversation lessons

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Comments

  1. Sergey says

    July 31, 2014 at 3:15 pm

    Ciao Daniel!
    Ecco la risposta all’esercizio.
    1. Maria e’ una pensionata di 73 anni. Falso. In realta’, ha 66 anni.
    2. Maria ha lavorato in un museo a Roma. Vero.
    3. Maria studia lingue. Falso. Lei studia arte.
    4. L’amica di Maria si chiama Giovanna. Vero.
    5. Giovanna e Maria studiano sempre insieme. Vero.
    6. Giovanna e Maria sono andate ai Musei Vaticani. Falso. Sono andate a visitare i Fori Imperiali.
    7. Maria laureera’ a marzo di quest’anno. Falso. Si laureera’ il prossimo anno.
    Grazie e a presto!

    • Daniel says

      July 31, 2014 at 4:44 pm

      Thanks for participating, Sergey.

  2. patricia a. lenz says

    July 31, 2014 at 3:20 pm

    Listening to the exercises after slightly over a year and a half of Italian classes is really helpful. Recognizing more with each listen (as many as ten per exercise!)is great. I can track actual learning, and it’s fun.
    I think the exercises are ideal paired with actual lessons–in my case via Skype.

    • Daniel says

      July 31, 2014 at 4:43 pm

      Nice to hear from you, Patricia. It’s great to hear you’re getting so much out of the material, and that it complements the online lessons, or vice versa!

  3. patricia a. lenz says

    July 31, 2014 at 6:19 pm

    maria non ha settanta sei anni? ho ascolto, ho ascolto, ho ascolto……….

  4. Nina Rault says

    July 31, 2014 at 6:23 pm

    1. falso – ha 66 anni
    2. vero – era impiegata lì
    3. falso – studia arte
    4. vero
    5. vero
    6. falso -sono andate ai fori imperiali
    7. falso – si laureerà l’anno prossimo

    • Daniel says

      August 1, 2014 at 10:46 am

      Ottimo to see you guys pooling answers… Bravi!!

  5. Maria Iramendy says

    August 1, 2014 at 6:12 pm

    Ecco il mio compito:
    1 F
    2 V
    3 F
    4 V
    5 V
    6 F
    7 F

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