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en The time   »   it Le ore

8 [eight]

The time

The time

8 [otto]

Le ore

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Excuse me! Scu--! S_____ S-u-i- ------ Scusi! 0
What time is it, please? C----r--è (C-e-o----o-o-- --- ---o--? C__ o__ è (___ o__ s_____ p__ f______ C-e o-a è (-h- o-e s-n-)- p-r f-v-r-? ------------------------------------- Che ora è (Che ore sono), per favore? 0
Thank you very much. G-az-- m--l-. G_____ m_____ G-a-i- m-l-e- ------------- Grazie mille. 0
It is one o’clock. È-l-una. È l_____ È l-u-a- -------- È l’una. 0
It is two o’clock. S-n--l----e. S___ l_ d___ S-n- l- d-e- ------------ Sono le due. 0
It is three o’clock. S--o-le--r-. S___ l_ t___ S-n- l- t-e- ------------ Sono le tre. 0
It is four o’clock. S--- l- qu-t--o. S___ l_ q_______ S-n- l- q-a-t-o- ---------------- Sono le quattro. 0
It is five o’clock. S-no l--cin-u-. S___ l_ c______ S-n- l- c-n-u-. --------------- Sono le cinque. 0
It is six o’clock. So---le--e-. S___ l_ s___ S-n- l- s-i- ------------ Sono le sei. 0
It is seven o’clock. S-no-le--e---. S___ l_ s_____ S-n- l- s-t-e- -------------- Sono le sette. 0
It is eight o’clock. S--o--- ot-o. S___ l_ o____ S-n- l- o-t-. ------------- Sono le otto. 0
It is nine o’clock. So----- n---. S___ l_ n____ S-n- l- n-v-. ------------- Sono le nove. 0
It is ten o’clock. So-- le-di---. S___ l_ d_____ S-n- l- d-e-i- -------------- Sono le dieci. 0
It is eleven o’clock. Sono-le u--i-i. S___ l_ u______ S-n- l- u-d-c-. --------------- Sono le undici. 0
It is twelve o’clock. Son--l---o-i---(--me---g-orno- è ----anotte-. S___ l_ d_____ (_ m___________ è m___________ S-n- l- d-d-c- (- m-z-o-i-r-o- è m-z-a-o-t-)- --------------------------------------------- Sono le dodici (è mezzogiorno, è mezzanotte). 0
A minute has sixty seconds. U- ------ -- -e--a-----e-o---. U_ m_____ h_ s_______ s_______ U- m-n-t- h- s-s-a-t- s-c-n-i- ------------------------------ Un minuto ha sessanta secondi. 0
An hour has sixty minutes. Un-----ha --s----- m--u-i. U_____ h_ s_______ m______ U-’-r- h- s-s-a-t- m-n-t-. -------------------------- Un’ora ha sessanta minuti. 0
A day has twenty-four hours. U----o--o--a v-n-iqua-tro o--. U_ g_____ h_ v___________ o___ U- g-o-n- h- v-n-i-u-t-r- o-e- ------------------------------ Un giorno ha ventiquattro ore. 0

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Language families

About 7 billion people live on Earth. And they speak about 7,000 different languages! Like people, languages can also be related. That is, they originate from a common root. There are also languages that are completely isolated. They are not genetically related to any other language. In Europe, for example, Basque is considered an isolated language. But most languages have ‘parents’, ‘children’ or ‘siblings’. They belong to a particular language family. You can recognize how similar languages are through comparisons. Linguists today count around 300 genetic entities. Among those, there are 180 families that consist of more than one language. The rest make up 120 isolated languages. The largest language family is the Indo-European. It is comprised of around 280 languages. This includes Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages. There are more than 3 billion speakers on all continents! The Sino-Tibetan language family is dominant in Asia. It has more than 1.3 billion speakers. The main Sino-Tibetan language is Chinese. The third largest language family is in Africa. It is named after its area of circulation: Niger-Congo. ‘Only’ 350 million speakers belong to it. Swahili is the main language in this family. In most cases: the closer the relationship, the better the understanding. People who speak related languages understand each other well. They can learn the other language relatively quickly. So, learn languages – family reunions are always nice!
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