Hey Professor Dave! Your mom is my professor at Western Connecticut State! She should definitely be in one of your videos, she’s a sweetheart. Thanks for your Italian help!
This is such a weird thing for me to be asking, as a native speaker, but I'm pretty sure theres exceptions to the "no feminine special sounds words" rule and a good example being the female version of Student. But I think the rule here is that the root is still masculine. So to fit the examples at ~2:40: "Uno studente" and "Una studentessa". Also, i really have 0 recollection of "special sounds" being taught to me. I'm really only skimming thru here to see dave explain verbs hahahaha.... I bet it will be funny. Verbs are mess in italian.
I'm so happy i got them all right !! Your lessons are really helpful! I'm learning italian because i love learning languages and i love italian food, italian music, the culture, everything! And my mum promised me we're going to italy if i learn almost fluent italian and i think im going in the right direction! I learnt english and spanish pretty easily so i hope the Italian will work out for me as well (I'm 15 years old and from Sweden btw)
A year late, but the special sound he's referring to is "s + any consonant," in this case, _st._ If it were just _s_ on its own, it would use _un._ There are other special sounds, and they are _ps, pn, gn, x, y_ and _z._
is "una scarpa" not an example of a feminine special sound word? or did you mean that it's irrelevant because it stays as "una" anyway, so it's just the same as any other feminine noun?
The reason why we have "special sounds" are cause of the hard sounds, saying in scarpa with 3 consonants (nsc) is tricky so we had a vowel to make it easier to flow, As Una for female already has a vowel ending, we don't need another letter for it, hope this helps ❤
@@ProfessorDaveExplains thanks professor! i saw "una spremuta" written in a book for learning italian.. would that be wrong? should it be uno spremuta?
Dude, Maybe its because the camera cuts off just above your waste, but i can definately see your arms move each time you speak italian. Zoom out bro... you cant speak italian without using your hands..
Hey Professor Dave! Your mom is my professor at Western Connecticut State! She should definitely be in one of your videos, she’s a sweetheart. Thanks for your Italian help!
Maybe some day, Delecia... but I guarantee you, Dave is doing a great job!
Your lessons are so clear and helpful. I truly appreciate how you explain things and make grammar points easy to understand. Thank you so much!!!!!
Your way of explaning is just great! I can watch this all day !
This is such a weird thing for me to be asking, as a native speaker, but I'm pretty sure theres exceptions to the "no feminine special sounds words" rule and a good example being the female version of Student. But I think the rule here is that the root is still masculine. So to fit the examples at ~2:40: "Uno studente" and "Una studentessa".
Also, i really have 0 recollection of "special sounds" being taught to me.
I'm really only skimming thru here to see dave explain verbs hahahaha.... I bet it will be funny. Verbs are mess in italian.
this video is 4 years old yet still helped me out a lot, thanks!!!
No feminine nouns beginning with "s impura" or "z"? What about una scuola? Una speranza? Una scala? Una zia? Una zaffira?
I'm so happy i got them all right !! Your lessons are really helpful! I'm learning italian because i love learning languages and i love italian food, italian music, the culture, everything! And my mum promised me we're going to italy if i learn almost fluent italian and i think im going in the right direction! I learnt english and spanish pretty easily so i hope the Italian will work out for me as well (I'm 15 years old and from Sweden btw)
Wait, I'm confused by the criteria of "special sound", how is studente a special sound? S is a consonant, so why is it uno and not un?
A year late, but the special sound he's referring to is "s + any consonant," in this case, _st._ If it were just _s_ on its own, it would use _un._ There are other special sounds, and they are _ps, pn, gn, x, y_ and _z._
Wow, questa spiegazione è incredibilmente chiara! Grazie mille
I loved this, thank you!
Bro this guy teaches everything. Last place I would've expected him to be is when I looked up stuff for my Italian class 😂😂
THANK YOU, YOU'RE SAVING ME FROM FAILING
I'm italian and I have to say his pronunciation is quite good
Grazie mille Prof Dave!
I loved the waiter exercise in the end!
Grazie mille, ottimo video!
▪︎Thanks professor Dave for your Italian help !
Hello professor dave. Can you tell me how did you choose words like cognac, tiramisu`, te` as masculine words?
i did not choose anything, those qualities are assigned.
I mean Is there a way to tell those words( cognac,te`) are masculine or feminine Or do we have to memorize its gender?
Yes unfortunately for words like these there is nothing you can do other than simply memorize the gender assigned to the specific word.
@@ProfessorDaveExplains Thank you professor dave for the explanation. Your tutorials are so helpful.❤
Loved this lesson. Thankyou
Thank you, saved me on my finals
is "una scarpa" not an example of a feminine special sound word?
or did you mean that it's irrelevant because it stays as "una" anyway, so it's just the same as any other feminine noun?
The reason why we have "special sounds" are cause of the hard sounds, saying in scarpa with 3 consonants (nsc) is tricky so we had a vowel to make it easier to flow, As Una for female already has a vowel ending, we don't need another letter for it, hope this helps ❤
Perfecto 💯
and what about an artical for plural? Or there are no articles for plural undefined things in italian
Thanks Dave. You should sell a PDF of your Italian charts. I like it better than the book we are using in school.
There are many ways you can help prof Dave: through patreon.com and through watching the whole short Google ads. Grazie tanto.
Great teacher.... Dear Dave
Thank you for the great video:)
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Could someone please explain it to me what this special sound thing is??
There’s a tutorial just on that! Check the playlist.
I love your mom dave she's so funny
What is a special sound
go earlier in the series, there is a tutorial specifically explaining that
@@ProfessorDaveExplains thanks professor! i saw "una spremuta" written in a book for learning italian.. would that be wrong? should it be uno spremuta?
@@La123x look at the ending it ends with a so it feminine
til why my italian friend had to take a minute to stop laughing/cringing at me saying "uno mese"
but what's considered feminine or masculine if it's an object or animal??? like orange, why is it considered feminine if it's inanimate
It's arbitrary. You just have to memorize it word by word.
grazie mille. Io capito questa video.
Sorry, but how do I know which one is a special sound word?
Check the tutorial on special sound, it depends on how the word starts.
i got forced by my italian teacher to watch this during online
The only engish word that I know of that starts with a vowel but uses the article "a" is European considering it is pronounced "yur-uh-PEE-uhn"
What about the plural?
The nouns will change
amazing
Molto Gracie
You did it bettet man im jealous
Dude, Maybe its because the camera cuts off just above your waste, but i can definately see your arms move each time you speak italian. Zoom out bro... you cant speak italian without using your hands..