Italian–English parallel text
Il dal di mia madre
My Mother’s Dal
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A bilingual Italian–English edition: the Italian text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
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Panini
Sandwiches
Priya vive a Londra. Ha ventisette anni. Viene da Mumbai, in India.
Priya lives in London. She is twenty-seven. She is from Mumbai, in India.
Ha un nuovo lavoro in un grande ufficio. Ha un piccolo appartamento con una cucina molto piccola.
She has a new job in a big office. She has a small apartment with a very small kitchen.
Ogni giorno all’una in punto, Priya mangia un panino alla sua scrivania. Un panino con formaggio. Un panino con uovo. Un panino con pollo.
Every day at one o’clock, Priya eats a sandwich at her desk. A cheese sandwich. An egg sandwich. A chicken sandwich.
«Londra è bellissima», pensa. «Ma un panino ogni giorno? Mi manca casa».
“London is great,” she thinks. “But a sandwich every day? I miss home.”
La sera, chiama sua madre in video. La faccia di sua madre è sullo schermo del telefono.
In the evening, she calls her mother on video. Her mother’s face is on the phone screen.
«Priya! Mangi?», chiede sua madre.
“Priya! Are you eating?” asks her mother.
«Sì, mamma. Mangio un panino ogni giorno».
“Yes, Mum. I eat a sandwich every day.”
«Un panino? Quello non è cibo. Quello è pane».
“A sandwich? That is not food. That is bread.”
Priya ride. «È cibo a Londra, mamma».
Priya laughs. “It is food in London, Mum.”
«Cosa vuoi per cena? Dimmi».
“What do you want for dinner? Tell me.”
Priya pensa. «Il tuo dal, mamma. Voglio il tuo dal».
Priya thinks. “Your dal, Mum. I want your dal.”
Sua madre sorride. «Il mio dal è facile. Lo puoi fare».
Her mother smiles. “My dal is easy. You can make it.”
«Posso?»
“Can I?”
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