Italian · Beginner
Adapted from The Fox and the Stork
A fox serves food in a way the stork cannot eat, and the stork later returns the trick.
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Scene 1 · Beginner
La volpe e la cicogna si fanno visita e sembrano grandi amiche. Un giorno, la volpe invita la cicogna a cena. Per farle uno scherzo, le serve solo un po’ di zuppa in un piatto molto basso.
The fox and the stork visit each other and seem like great friends. One day, the fox invites the stork to dinner. To play a trick on her, she serves her just a little soup in a very shallow dish.
La volpe mangia facilmente la zuppa con la lingua. La cicogna, invece, riesce a mettere nella zuppa solo la punta del suo lungo becco. Alla fine della cena ha ancora la stessa fame di prima.
The fox easily eats the soup with her tongue. The stork, on the other hand, can get only the tip of her long beak into the soup. At the end of dinner, she is still just as hungry as before.
«Mi dispiace che la zuppa non ti piaccia», dice la volpe.
“I’m sorry you don’t like the soup,” says the fox.
«Non devi scusarti», risponde la cicogna. «Spero che presto verrai a cena da me».
“You don’t need to apologize,” replies the stork. “I hope you’ll come to my place for dinner soon.”
Le due amiche scelgono un giorno per la cena a casa della cicogna.
The two friends choose a day for dinner at the stork’s house.
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