Monday, October 23, 2017

ITALIAN WORDS which you need at a chocolate exhibition

La Dolce Vita Italian Caffe in Hatch End. Photo by Angela Lansbury. 


Problem
What does the Italian sign say? I look around in a caffe (notice double f in Italian, single f in French).
On the internet I read about the chocolate exhibition in Perugia every year in October and read the signs in the photos. I look back at photos I took in Perugia. What do those signs in the caffe and chocolate shop say?

Answers

Italian - English
(Spaces inserted when spell checker insists on changing)
biglietto - ticket
carta - card or map
c i o c o l a t o - chocolate
contatti - contacts (the letter i at the end of the word is plural)
dolce - sweet
esposizione - exhibition
guida - guide
informazioni - information
la - the
meglio - better
ottobre - october
partire - leave
prodotti - products
pronto /pronti - ready
rubriche - headline
sconti - discounts
selezione - selection
ti - you
tutta - all
vita - life

English - Italian
all  - tutta
better - meglio
Chocolate - c i o c o l a t o
contacts - contatti
discounts - s c o n t i (I had to insert spaces. Spell checker replaced the Italian with scent.)
exhibition - esposizione
guide - guida
information - informazioni
leave - p a r t i r e
life - vita
Map - Carta geografica
October - Ottobre
ready - pronto
selection - selezione
ticket - biglietto
you - ti

If you want an easy to remember phrase to say to an Italian, just smile, hold up your chocolate or point to it and say, "La Dolce Vita!"

For a description of chocolate events at Perugia, UK and elsewhere, see previous posts. Chocolate events are held in: Rome and Sicily.

Useful Websites
www.duolingo.com
www.umbria.it
www.visititaly.it
http://www.eurochocolate.com/news
https://www.alitalia.com/en_gb
www.ryanair.com

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker, language teacher.


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