"Io mangio un fagiolo."

Translation: I eat a bean.

[FumihikoMiura]

How about the plural version?
Is it "Io mangio fagioli."?

[Rae.F]

Either "Mangio fagioli" or "Mangio dei fagioli".

[FumihikoMiura]

Grazie mille, Rae!

[BremerKatze]

Is it a soft or a hard "g?" Having a hard time determining from audio.

[Rae.F]

gi is pronounced like "George", not like "gong".

[Spanishlea27779]

Io mangio is also i am eating?

[Jessi784299]

sì :)

[deactivated user]

How does one say, I eat beans, or I am eating beans?

[Rae.F]

Mangio dei fagioli.

[zarekwentzel1]

What does the dei mean?

[Rae.F]

Idiomatically, "some". Literally, "of+the".

[Jessi784299]

Grazie! Voglio mangiare dei fagioli, non solo uno. Ho fame!

[AnupamShar659878]

What is pronounciation??
Fodolo or fogolo

[Rae.F]

fah-JOH-loh

[Anne926099]

what's the difference between io and lo for I??

[Rae.F]

IO is "I". It begins with the same letter as "I". It is cognate with the Spanish "yo".

LO is "the" or "it/him".

[BarryKissane]

Try as I might, after several attempts, I cannot hear 'un' or 'il' fagiolo. I can hear it on slow mode, but trying to hear it as it happens. So I wrote 'il' ... but was incorrect. What context suggests that it should be 'un'??

[benton.1]

"Un" means "a". "Il" means "the". This sentence says "a bean" so you would use "un".

[Rae.F]

Yes, but you don't have that clue with listening exercises. Everyone gets the sentence presented to them differently.