In this lesson I will teach you some common words that you can use to talk about the things you eat! So everything that deals with taste.
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I think that the senses are very powerful and they can be a tool for us to link new vocabulary to feelings and memories. So we can use these nouns, verbs and adjectives to create a link that will allow for you to never forget their meaning and so use them correctly in your Italian language journey.
Let’s start with SAPORE. Sapore means taste - IL SAPORE means the taste.
If you change one little letter you will have the verb SAPERE. The verb SAPERE means to know, and in this case you can use this verb to talk about flavor.
If I bite into a delicious piece of cake I might tell you: SA DI CIOCCOLATO, SA DI MANDORLA, SA DI PISTACCHIO. to talk about what I think the flavor of the cake is.
You have 4 main flavors that your tongue can usually “pick-up” easily.
4 sapori: 4 flavours
You can say,
Now we will learn to associate some fun words to the quality of what you are tasting.
Try to think of some of your favorite food and let’s describe that food with these words. I can’t stress this enough… make your own sentences to remember the words and their meanings, associate them with things that are close to your choices and your habits… in this way learning is a lot easier and it simply will make more sense!
Here are some of my sentences! Write your sentences and use a dictionary if you need to! Write them in the comments and I will help you to correct the sentence and create some fun ones!
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