All the words you need for a card game in Italian | A Coffee Break with Francesca
11/11/20256 min
Join Francesca from the Coffee Break Italian team for a coffee break and get ready to improve your Italian over just 10 minutes.
In this little espresso lesson, Francesca explores one of Italy’s favourite pastimes: giocare a carte, playing cards! You’ll also pick up useful phrases like fare le carte (to shuffle the cards), un mazzo (a deck), and even a fun memory trick, come quando fuori piove, to help you remember the order of the suits. ♣️♥️♦️♠️
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Francesca· Host0:28
[Instrumental music] Ciao a tutti e tutte. Sono Francesca. I'm Francesca from the Coffee Break Italian team, and I'm delighted to join you for a coffee break. Come sempre, I'm here to help you improve your Italian one step at a time through these short mini lessons in between main seasons of Coffee Break Italian. Allora, io sono pronta, quindi dai, cominciamo. [Instrumental music] Today's topic is something very popular in Italy, le carte. That's right, playing cards is a national pastime, and it's something I love doing when I'm back home, especially after a nice Sunday lunch, il pranzo della domenica. I have decided to talk about this topic because