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This lesson will teach you how to express likes and dislikes in Italian.

Grammar reference:

In order to fully understand the following dialogues, you should take a look at these grammar pages:

• Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns
• Plural of nouns and adjectives
• Present Subjunctive
• Subjective Clauses

Dialogue

Paolo incontra Giulia in un pub

Listen to the dialogue

Paolo:"Cosa fai nel tempo libero?"
Giulia:"Mi piace andare al cinema e uscire con gli amici."
Paolo:"Ti piace leggere?"
Giulia:"Sì, mi piace leggere e anche ascoltare la musica."
Paolo:"E' bello che ti piaccia la musica. Vuoi venire ad un concerto con me domani sera?"
Giulia:"Non mi piacciono i concerti. Preferisco ascoltare i miei CD a casa."
Paolo:"Capisco."

Paolo meets Giulia at a pub

Paolo:"What do you do in your spare time?"
Giulia:"I like going to the cinema and going out with my friends."
Paolo:"Do you like reading?"
Giulia:"Yes. I like reading and listening to music too."
Paolo:"I'm glad that you like music. would you like to come with me to a concert tomorrow evening?"
Giulia:"I don't like concerts. I prefer listening to my CDs at home."
Paolo:"I see."

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Expressions:

• Anche
• Mi piace/non mi piace: these two expressions are used to mean I like/I don't like. But they're different from English in one respect. The English construction is shown below:
  

  Subject	Verb	Direct Object
  I	like	music
  Paolo	likes	Laura

  The Italian construction is the following:
  

  Indirect object	Verb	Subject
  Mi	piace	la musica
  A Paolo	piace	Laura

  "Piacere" in Italian is intransitive, while "to like" is transitive. When you want to say (a)"Paolo likes doing something/to do something" or (b)"Paolo likes someboby doing something/to do something" use the following patterns:
  

  	Indirect object	Verb	Subjective clause
  Case a	A Paolo	piace	fare qualcosa
  Case b	A Paolo	piace	che qualcuno faccia qualcosa

Verbs:

• piacere
• preferire
• andare
• fare
• ascoltare
• leggere
• venire

Question words:

• "Cosa" or "che cosa": A word meaning 'what'. It is used in the expression "Cosa fai?"(what are you doing), "Cosa c'é"(what's up) and "Cosa sta succedendo"(what's going on, what happens) and other expressions with the same meaning.