@Cdubbs292 naahh, only certain phrases like "como stai?" in Italian would be easy to understand in Spanish with their "como esta?" They're alike in certain ways, but your question is similar to asking if an English speaker would be able to communicate easily with a German speaker.
Do Italians really use the phrase "abastanza bene" as a response to "come stai"? My professor said people say this but I have not heard it anywhere on YouTube. What are your thoughts on this?
@redcrimson718 yep, it's definitely used as a response to 'come stai' (note though, it's abbastanza with two Bs). it's the only way i can think of to answer that you're feeling mostly well, but not quite 100%.
I agree with some of the people that said you are very cute haha. This video was very helpful, especially the part about being a vegetarian, because I am one! Thank you very much :)
i am half if not a little more then half italian and i i watched ur video and i think if i keep watching it i will learn more i also plan on buy a italian dictionary so thanks for the video Grazie
Hey Nicholas! My name is Aaron and I'm moving to Bologna soon and I was wondering if you could maybe email me or we could talk because I know nothing really about Bologna so far and I'm really excited to go there and I'm almost 21. So if you could message me back or email me at, iloveitaly09@yahoo.com, I would really like to have a friend over there in Bologna and get to know some stuff about that country first hand so thank you and your video really helped!!!
I'm getting married in Rome, this April, 2011. Can you help? me say these phrases in Italian.... We are getting married in St. Pauls on Thursday? This is my fiance? This is my wife, husband? We just got married? We are going to Venice for our honeymoon. Can we have a nice room or the honeymoon suite? Can you please take our photo? One more? Did that come out O.K? I can't think of anything else. Grazie
I like the fact...u use english n translate to italian...would be lovely and kind of you...you do more videos on varioues a subjects......been trying to learn it so far...u make it sound n loook more graspable...thankyou.
Do you pronounce por favore like "por-fuh-vor-UH" or "por-fuh-voy-AY"? I always thought it was the second one but then the way you said it sounded like the first way. I'm probably wrong since I don't know Italian. Maybe it's a different dialect of Italian? I went to Bari, Italy a little over a year ago (I loved it!!). I don't know. I'm confused. Oh well! Italian it a beautiful language nonetheless.
@Nicole3900 um, it's difficult to reply. as you say the last letter is "E", so you should pronounce it like the first letter of "electricity", "eh". my pronunciation might not be very clear as it's obviously influenced by my own regional accent(s), sorry! but yes, "per favore" is pronounced with an "eh" sound at the end, which is exactly like the first sound in the english "electricity". hope this helps!
I'm trying to learn some basic Italian because I'm going on a trip with school to Italy in April. I have a friend at school who is an Italian exchange student so she is helping me as well :)
How do you say "where is the bathroom"?
dov'e ....
and if I want to get some food from a bakery or somerthing and I want to say "can I have this" and point can I say - posso avere questo/questa?
Sembri inglese dal tuo accento! Comunque hai quasi perso l'accento italiano! All'inizio credevo fossi inglese! O.O Ma da dove vieni per curiosità , non lo capisco! XD Comunque lezione utile! ;)
@TheAlixRose grazie :) sono originariamente da vicino milano, ma quando ho fatto quel video vivevo a bologna e potrebbe aver influenzato il mio accento italiano! :p
Thanks for the very helpful and clear video. Someone else here mentioned locations, and I too would like to know how to correctly pronounce the names of the major cities. What is especially helpful in your video is the explanation of the difference between casual and formal phrasing, in addition to pronouncation.
Hello! Thank you for making this video - it has been a crash course for me. Just a few other questions that popped up - How do you say how much is that in total? How do you call for help? How do you pronounce the major cities in Italy (Florence, Nice etc.)?Could you do some counting? Many Thanks! :)
@bubbilicious429 are you talking about me? you might have heard wrong/it might have been my accent. i assure you i am indeed italian, and i can prove it with a public talk in italian if you're not convinced :P
You speak great English!! At first I thought you were British for a second....haha. I really want to learn Italian fluently. I've been to Italy once one year ago. My family is going back in a year or two. The next time we go I want to know how to speak Italian, so I actually understand. Also, I have a question for you: Have you ever been to the United States (or to any other English speaking country)?
@Rikyzful no, ho imparato nel corso degli anni per conto mio (da quando ero piccolo, un po su internet, un po guardando film/tv in inglese...)... la scuola in genere da quello che ho visto insegna solo le frasi base per la sopravvivenza :P
@Jasper24able hey - if you're male, you say "mi sono perso"; if you're female you say "mi sono persa". can you help me is "mi può aiutare?", formal. if you're talking to a young person or someone you know, it's "mi puoi aiutare?".
ur cute ^^ Whats "Good night" , "where is the beach?" and "Ice cream" in italian? ur awesome! I am in italy so much but i cant speak :S But u helped me ^^
cool vid..you made it sound so easy to understand...i need your help im going to italy and i think i need a friend to help me with the language though..thanks,,and keep uploading videos its very helpful:)
@lovekakashi123 Really!! your name is such a wonderful! you are ltalian right? I meant name lol well,nice to meet you Italian and your parents is so creative super love it love it!
you're a really nice person, you made me smile during all video :D molte grazie! :) and tell me, please, is it really normal to skip articles in italian like you do, for example "... va in stazione?"
yeah, it is very normal to skip articles. italian constructs often omit definite articles (esp. when there is a proposition in the way, like "va IN stazione"), as well as the subject of the verb (as you see, you can say "va in stazione?" pointing at the bus, without saying "questo bus va in stazione?". english uses "it"; italian can use nothing cause the gender/number of the subject are included in the verb, so it's easy to understand in context).
you're very welcome! feel free to ask if you've got any more doubts. good luck in learning italian, even though it seems like you're already doing great! :P
hehehe, grazie, ma non è cosi, studio l'italiano solo da alcuni mesi, è troppo poco.
are you sure it's ok, if I ask your help? :D I'm affraid you'll regret about it, cause I have a lot of doubts and questions about the italian language :D and I'll be really happy, if you help me with it, may I contact you anywhere else besides youtube, if you don't mind? :)
your italian was ok- you did mess up some of the spelling and grammar but i could understand :P i'm sure you can speak italian better than you write it, as most italian-americans i met! "inglese" is female when you says "english language" ("language" is female). so it'd be, say, "parli bene la lingua inglese". your comment, though, would've been "il tuo inglese è perfetto", male.
i am visiting NYC and cleveland, ohio next month actually! :D do you know of anything nice to do in cleveland? :P
if you do, then go see a Cleveland Cavs game. LBJ (lebron James) is by far the best basketball player in the NAB at the moment. Some say hes almost as good as Michael Jordan ( do you know him?)
if you like Electonr dance music like Trance, House, Jungle etc... they have a big dance seen. Also the rock n roll hall of fame is in cleveland. Its sweet, youd like it if you love rock music.
thanks for the thing about english language vs english itself.
Did you watch a lot of American TV? Im taking Italian in college at the moment, but ill be at the 102 level and ill have a 3 month break until i take 102 next fall (autumn). What would you suggest i do over summer to keep my italian skills up? are there good Italian game shows to watch where the Host speaks a bit slow. Thats my biggest problem, i can never keep up with their words, they seem like they speak fast in italian compared to english.
i did watch a lot of american tv. that's pretty much all i watched to learn english :P
there aren't many (if any) nice italian shows to watch, i'm afraid. i am not sure how well you can speak/understand italian, but you could listen to songs (usually the lyrics are quite clear). there are famous italian films that maybe you can follow with subtitles.. or just dust off your skills every now and then on sites like livemocha. if you wanna have a conversation or two on skype i'd be happy to help :p
not really - i was crappily taught english in school, so i mostly learned on my own growing up because i find it very natural. i consider myself to be almost a native speaker in english, but technically i was raised 'mono-lingual' :P
originally from milan, but i was living in bologna when i made that video and i tend to pick up accents fairly quickly, so i might have made a good mix of those two...
well, if you studied every day, i'd guess about a year... mostly because you need to learn a lot of words (from what i've seen, italian has got a way wider lexicon than english) and that's something you get with practice rather than study!
your very helpful and so adorable!!!.... I was in rome last summer and I loved I it... I find the italian language easy to understand and pronounce because it is pretty similar to spanish. io parlo inglese e spangnolo e poco italiano... you really are adorable ;).. ciao
Thank you so much for this lesson. I'm going to Venice the first week of May for my friend's birthday celebration. Looking forward to discovering the Venetto. I'm trying to study as much Italian as possible between now and then. Thanks again!
Thank you for the Italian lessons. I am planning a trip next year to Sicily to visit the towns where my grandparents came from and I was wondering if formal Italian is easily understood by most everyone there. I remember as a child listening to my Grandmother speak in her Sicillian dialect and it sounds very different than the Italian I'm hearing here. So I was wondering if learning Italian would be helpful in trying to converse with most Sicillians too. Thank you again for all your help!
i've never been to sicily, but from what i know it depend on the context. if you're going to be in an old village full of old people, i think they will understand you but they might not be able to reply in correct italian (a lot of older people in italy only speak dialects).
if you go to big cities, you'll be able to have a conversation with pretty much everybody, but they will have a strong accent (not a dialect!) when replying to you. you'll get used to it, but you need the basics of italian!
Can I ask you something? At the end you said it would be alright, but I felt like I should ask you first if I could lol
~But anyway, how would you say, "I am looking for ___" as in family or a house, street, restaurant, etc.? I can't find an answer to this one either! I feel rude asking for help and then pointing at things and speaking non-sense because I can't find the right words lol Can you help me please? :)
if you want to ask for a place, you can say "Sto cercando via [whatever the street is called]" which means exactly 'i am looking for' - it's pronounced roughly "stoh ch-er-kahn-doh vee-ah [x]"; you can also say 'do you know where x is?' which would be "sa dov'è [x]"? - there are a lot of accents and all in that, but it's simply pronounced "sah dove eh [x]" (s in sah pronounced as in "*s*ystem" and dove as in the bird).
Thank you so much for including the vegetarian phrases!! I have been looking everywhere on how to say I don't eat meat or "I'm a vegetarian", so thank you! I was so lost until I found your vid lol
not really, if you don't count latin and greek :p i can understand spoken european languages like french and spanish mostly, and i've studied german for 2 years, but i wouldn't be able to sustain a conversation!
faccio il Dehon... sn al sociopsicopedagogico! si lo zucchi è vicino di scuola.... ci sn andata l' altro ieri per un' incontro con la scuola cmq da quanto tempo sei uscito (ovviamente sl se vuoi rispondere nn per essere indiscreta)
in realtà l'ho mollato 2 anni fa (dopo la 3a liceo) perché mi sono trasferito a bologna... ora finalmente son diplomato da quest'estate e faccio l'uni a glasgow!
è imbarezzante per mi, parlare italiano. ma ho appena imparato. sono cercando per qual uno per parlare con. anche, ha un poca domande come sei dice 'about' .. how to structure sentences. mille grazie. =) scrive mi un e-mail.
"about" can be translated in so many ways... can you give me a full sentence with 'about' in it? if you want we can be e-mail pals... you can email me at savethewabbit at gmail!
i didn't mean to put about in quotation marks, i was just wondering how to structure sentences, since alot of the time they're out of order the way they put the words. and i was wondering if their was anyway to remember alot of the phrases. =) thanks!
Oops. Tu sei adorabile. Well, you're both. especially when you're like "not arrrrrrrrrrrrivederrrrrrrrrci" . That's hilarious. We Amerrrrrrrrrricans don't talk like that. Orrrrrrrrrrrr do we? haha.
Very cool, grazie! Make more videos please. But next time have stuff in order so you don't take so much time thinking about what to say next. A video on how to order stuff in a restaurant and how to say different foods would be great!
thanks for the help i used some of your phrases and words when i went to italy for two weeks a couple weeks ago i love italy so much i want to live there
ciao - questo video non voleva insegnare l'italiano. in realtà era per un mio amico australiano che doveva venire in italia... so che per imparare una lingua come si deve bisogna concentrarsi sulla grammatica :)
riguardo all'autobus - mi riferivo al bus che porta da bologna città all'aeroporto Marconi. siccome il mio amico veniva a bologna, dovevo spiegargli quale autobus specifico prendere per arrivare in città (appunto il BLQ).
hey, thanks :) it depends - if you're saying it to a girl, it's "sei bellissima" (behl-EES-see-mah). if you're saying that to a boy it's "sei bellissimo" (pronounced the same but ends in -eemoh).
hi i'm an italian guy and i think that you have a good pronunciation. better than some italian guys ahahhaha
lallofighter 1 month ago
you're cute...i think that i just fell in love with you
a40511a012325 2 months ago
very helpful, thanks.
TheNuncFluens 3 months ago
awww i love the way guys have an acentt it soo cute n hotttttttttttttttttttttttt
barbietwinss 4 months ago
Way too much talking in English. Explanations in English should be quicker, speak Italian slowly. It took forever to learn a 3 expressions.
jaraf107 7 months ago
I really want to learn italian!!!! :)
mimigdl8809 7 months ago
I think Italian sounds very attracting and great coming from an Italian who knows it's accent molto bene! :D Grazie par Video ? :)
TheDeLeG3nD 7 months ago
In italy can you communicate with Spanish Speakers? I feel like the languages are extremely close
Cdubbs292 8 months ago
@Cdubbs292 naahh, only certain phrases like "como stai?" in Italian would be easy to understand in Spanish with their "como esta?" They're alike in certain ways, but your question is similar to asking if an English speaker would be able to communicate easily with a German speaker.
zthomasack 6 months ago
@Cdubbs292
no i'm italian and they seem similar but they are a lot different
lallofighter 1 month ago
"...theyll probably make a wierd face and call the police" HAHAHAHAHAHA!
thanks man...ur adorable and hopefully this will help me as im going to rome in 2 weeks!
TheJangda 9 months ago
Do Italians really use the phrase "abastanza bene" as a response to "come stai"? My professor said people say this but I have not heard it anywhere on YouTube. What are your thoughts on this?
redcrimson718 9 months ago
@redcrimson718 yep, it's definitely used as a response to 'come stai' (note though, it's abbastanza with two Bs). it's the only way i can think of to answer that you're feeling mostly well, but not quite 100%.
psychomethod 9 months ago
@psychomethod Thank you!
redcrimson718 9 months ago
sei a bologna?? e pensavo che avessi un accento un po' romagnolo.
ragazzoshitfuck409 10 months ago
Thanks for this! I am going to favorite it and practice. I will be visiting Italy in May and am very excited and nervous!
chuckhuffit 10 months ago
I agree with some of the people that said you are very cute haha. This video was very helpful, especially the part about being a vegetarian, because I am one! Thank you very much :)
rejectedchik89 10 months ago
i am half if not a little more then half italian and i i watched ur video and i think if i keep watching it i will learn more i also plan on buy a italian dictionary so thanks for the video Grazie
joecap1995 10 months ago
Hey Nicholas! My name is Aaron and I'm moving to Bologna soon and I was wondering if you could maybe email me or we could talk because I know nothing really about Bologna so far and I'm really excited to go there and I'm almost 21. So if you could message me back or email me at, iloveitaly09@yahoo.com, I would really like to have a friend over there in Bologna and get to know some stuff about that country first hand so thank you and your video really helped!!!
amull3 11 months ago
I'm getting married in Rome, this April, 2011. Can you help? me say these phrases in Italian.... We are getting married in St. Pauls on Thursday? This is my fiance? This is my wife, husband? We just got married? We are going to Venice for our honeymoon. Can we have a nice room or the honeymoon suite? Can you please take our photo? One more? Did that come out O.K? I can't think of anything else. Grazie
ClassicsZealot 1 year ago
I like the fact...u use english n translate to italian...would be lovely and kind of you...you do more videos on varioues a subjects......been trying to learn it so far...u make it sound n loook more graspable...thankyou.
kadzoketu 1 year ago
y guys US have hard accent speaking nother Language Like Italian ,spanish .ect...sucks.
PAWASHUPA 1 year ago
I'm half italian and I have to say you're so so good at explaining!! I rubbed my italian up with you! GRAZIIE!;) x
tomk311210 1 year ago
This is so easy for me because i speak Spanish. :D
Grazie mille!
Muchas gracias!
fedemaster545 1 year ago
Do you pronounce por favore like "por-fuh-vor-UH" or "por-fuh-voy-AY"? I always thought it was the second one but then the way you said it sounded like the first way. I'm probably wrong since I don't know Italian. Maybe it's a different dialect of Italian? I went to Bari, Italy a little over a year ago (I loved it!!). I don't know. I'm confused. Oh well! Italian it a beautiful language nonetheless.
Nicole3900 1 year ago
@Nicole3900 um, it's difficult to reply. as you say the last letter is "E", so you should pronounce it like the first letter of "electricity", "eh". my pronunciation might not be very clear as it's obviously influenced by my own regional accent(s), sorry! but yes, "per favore" is pronounced with an "eh" sound at the end, which is exactly like the first sound in the english "electricity". hope this helps!
psychomethod 1 year ago
he sounds rather british
sh4un1sl33t 1 year ago 4
very helpful ,......grazie!!
ashleydlin 1 year ago
you speak english wonderfully...
Indulgeindark394 1 year ago
Da sposare
Knifethunder180 1 year ago
I'm trying to learn some basic Italian because I'm going on a trip with school to Italy in April. I have a friend at school who is an Italian exchange student so she is helping me as well :)
How do you say "where is the bathroom"?
dov'e ....
and if I want to get some food from a bakery or somerthing and I want to say "can I have this" and point can I say - posso avere questo/questa?
buona giornata !
horsexaddiict 1 year ago
You are very cute! :) I enjoyed your Italian video very much!
MaddCow02 1 year ago 14
Sei Italiano sicuro?
cswtds 1 year ago
Sembri inglese dal tuo accento! Comunque hai quasi perso l'accento italiano! All'inizio credevo fossi inglese! O.O Ma da dove vieni per curiosità , non lo capisco! XD Comunque lezione utile! ;)
TheAlixRose 1 year ago
@TheAlixRose grazie :) sono originariamente da vicino milano, ma quando ho fatto quel video vivevo a bologna e potrebbe aver influenzato il mio accento italiano! :p
psychomethod 1 year ago 3
tu vuo fa l'americano
Skatedatbake101 1 year ago
Thanks for the very helpful and clear video. Someone else here mentioned locations, and I too would like to know how to correctly pronounce the names of the major cities. What is especially helpful in your video is the explanation of the difference between casual and formal phrasing, in addition to pronouncation.
StrictlyMystic 1 year ago
Hello! Thank you for making this video - it has been a crash course for me. Just a few other questions that popped up - How do you say how much is that in total? How do you call for help? How do you pronounce the major cities in Italy (Florence, Nice etc.)?Could you do some counting? Many Thanks! :)
mumblebumb 1 year ago
Sei Italiano sicuro?
rbd510 1 year ago
@rbd510 sicurissimo :P
psychomethod 1 year ago
Your sooo cute
Lovelanguages1 1 year ago
per favora!iE' per favore.non e' italiano.lui e' americano.
bubbilicious429 1 year ago
@bubbilicious429 are you talking about me? you might have heard wrong/it might have been my accent. i assure you i am indeed italian, and i can prove it with a public talk in italian if you're not convinced :P
psychomethod 1 year ago
How do you say "Is your daughter 16 yet?"
GabriKnight 1 year ago
@GabriKnight hahahahahhahahahahaah
vivisson 1 year ago
You speak great English!! At first I thought you were British for a second....haha. I really want to learn Italian fluently. I've been to Italy once one year ago. My family is going back in a year or two. The next time we go I want to know how to speak Italian, so I actually understand. Also, I have a question for you: Have you ever been to the United States (or to any other English speaking country)?
Nicole3900 1 year ago
@Nicole3900 Ok now I looked on your profile and it says you like in the UK?
Nicole3900 1 year ago
very useful, thanks
cswtds 1 year ago
questo ragazzo è italiano e anche se la sua allora non ha accento e la mia molto bene l'inglese fa schifo
awa4sho123 1 year ago
Hai imparato a parlare inglese così bene a scuola ??
(solo per curiosità) :)
Rikyzful 1 year ago
@Rikyzful no, ho imparato nel corso degli anni per conto mio (da quando ero piccolo, un po su internet, un po guardando film/tv in inglese...)... la scuola in genere da quello che ho visto insegna solo le frasi base per la sopravvivenza :P
psychomethod 1 year ago
This is really helpful. Thank you! :)
Caritarian 1 year ago
hey wanted to know how do you say "im lost" and "can you help me" ?
Jasper24able 1 year ago
@Jasper24able hey - if you're male, you say "mi sono perso"; if you're female you say "mi sono persa". can you help me is "mi può aiutare?", formal. if you're talking to a young person or someone you know, it's "mi puoi aiutare?".
psychomethod 1 year ago
ur cute ^^ Whats "Good night" , "where is the beach?" and "Ice cream" in italian? ur awesome! I am in italy so much but i cant speak :S But u helped me ^^
swtk4kizes 1 year ago
@swtk4kizes hey, thanks! good night is "buona notte", "dov'è la spiaggia?" means "where is the beach", and "ice cream" is "gelato".
psychomethod 1 year ago
Traveling to Rome tomorrow. I speak portuguese and spanish, non parlo l'italiano
back2thefutre 1 year ago
Thank you soooooooooo much! :') Such a big help! ^^
Catrina14SBJ 1 year ago
idiot face
raphita80cc 1 year ago
cool vid..you made it sound so easy to understand...i need your help im going to italy and i think i need a friend to help me with the language though..thanks,,and keep uploading videos its very helpful:)
krizzy451 1 year ago
Thanks a lot, Nicholas! You speak very interesting and simple. And also thank you for not repeat last phrases like some of teachers.
JuliyaShik 1 year ago
this is fantasic, thank you! :)
lizface 1 year ago
you cute:)
BloodzStaiiFly 1 year ago
you are very attractive.
shka101 1 year ago
ahah invece dell'italiano sto imparando l'inglese con qst video!
EleNaPuFfs 1 year ago
thanks or grazie ;) you are cute =)
14722026 1 year ago
i need u to make more videos
TheMaakqueens 1 year ago
Your English is very good and you looking like a neard but good neard I mean smart! cute!!!
GossipMay 1 year ago
hi! can you tell me what the italina translation of "i am not iltalian" is please.
This may sound weird but it is because my name is italian.
thank you
lovekakashi123 1 year ago
if you're female, it's "non sono italiana"; if you're male, it's "non sono italiano" :)
psychomethod 1 year ago
@lovekakashi123 Really!! your name is such a wonderful! you are ltalian right? I meant name lol well,nice to meet you Italian and your parents is so creative super love it love it!
GossipMay 1 year ago
Sei proprio bravo a spiegare l'italiano.. ( già che la nostra lingua non è facile..)
complimenti :-) ciao!
90DanielaP 1 year ago
You look dead nervous. shy
and your English is fantastic :)
your well cute.
This video really help so Grazie:)
MJRocksMyWorld10 2 years ago
When you meet someone for the first time, do you have to say piacere di conosceti, or can you just say "piacere"?
Thank you
battythecat 2 years ago
you can use either of them, it doesn't really matter :)
psychomethod 2 years ago
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fedyun 2 years ago
you're a really nice person, you made me smile during all video :D molte grazie! :) and tell me, please, is it really normal to skip articles in italian like you do, for example "... va in stazione?"
fedyun 2 years ago
heh, thank you for watching! :)
yeah, it is very normal to skip articles. italian constructs often omit definite articles (esp. when there is a proposition in the way, like "va IN stazione"), as well as the subject of the verb (as you see, you can say "va in stazione?" pointing at the bus, without saying "questo bus va in stazione?". english uses "it"; italian can use nothing cause the gender/number of the subject are included in the verb, so it's easy to understand in context).
psychomethod 2 years ago
ho capito, mille grazie per le tue spiegazioni :)
fedyun 2 years ago
you're very welcome! feel free to ask if you've got any more doubts. good luck in learning italian, even though it seems like you're already doing great! :P
psychomethod 2 years ago
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hehehe, grazie, ma non è cosi, studio l'italiano solo da alcuni mesi, è troppo poco.
are you sure it's ok, if I ask your help? :D I'm affraid you'll regret about it, cause I have a lot of doubts and questions about the italian language :D and I'll be really happy, if you help me with it, may I contact you anywhere else besides youtube, if you don't mind? :)
fedyun 2 years ago
@fedyun, if you send me a private message i'll reply with my email! don't worry about it, i'm happy to help! :)
psychomethod 2 years ago
i seem to forget to put the article a lot when i speak and when i write my termino's for Italian class.
it just seems natural not to say the article in those situations like you said.
roughrider8182 2 years ago
where are you from friend?? yOU'RE A VERY WELL STUDENT
MrLUCA29 2 years ago
milano :) well, i actually lived in bologna for 2 years before i moved to scotland.
psychomethod 2 years ago
@psychomethod very well :)
MrLUCA29 2 years ago
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roughrider8182 2 years ago
your italian was ok- you did mess up some of the spelling and grammar but i could understand :P i'm sure you can speak italian better than you write it, as most italian-americans i met! "inglese" is female when you says "english language" ("language" is female). so it'd be, say, "parli bene la lingua inglese". your comment, though, would've been "il tuo inglese è perfetto", male.
i am visiting NYC and cleveland, ohio next month actually! :D do you know of anything nice to do in cleveland? :P
psychomethod 2 years ago
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if you do, then go see a Cleveland Cavs game. LBJ (lebron James) is by far the best basketball player in the NAB at the moment. Some say hes almost as good as Michael Jordan ( do you know him?)
if you like Electonr dance music like Trance, House, Jungle etc... they have a big dance seen. Also the rock n roll hall of fame is in cleveland. Its sweet, youd like it if you love rock music.
thanks for the thing about english language vs english itself.
roughrider8182 2 years ago
you said learned english pretty much on your own.
Did you watch a lot of American TV? Im taking Italian in college at the moment, but ill be at the 102 level and ill have a 3 month break until i take 102 next fall (autumn). What would you suggest i do over summer to keep my italian skills up? are there good Italian game shows to watch where the Host speaks a bit slow. Thats my biggest problem, i can never keep up with their words, they seem like they speak fast in italian compared to english.
roughrider8182 2 years ago
i did watch a lot of american tv. that's pretty much all i watched to learn english :P
there aren't many (if any) nice italian shows to watch, i'm afraid. i am not sure how well you can speak/understand italian, but you could listen to songs (usually the lyrics are quite clear). there are famous italian films that maybe you can follow with subtitles.. or just dust off your skills every now and then on sites like livemocha. if you wanna have a conversation or two on skype i'd be happy to help :p
psychomethod 2 years ago
thanks. i was gonna listen to some songs and such.
ill check out livemocha as well once summer hits here, and i might try skype.
roughrider8182 2 years ago
@psychomethod yeah and don't forget american movies dubbed in italian! btw is there an italian movie you recommend? one made in italy??
ragazzoshitfuck409 1 year ago
@psychomethod scusi, ma devo proprio chiedertelo in italiano. c'e qualche bel film d'origine italiana???
ragazzoshitfuck409 1 year ago
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roughrider8182 2 years ago
what A shit is this
jiger101 2 years ago
if you don't like this, don't watch it :)
psychomethod 2 years ago
your english is great! lol im taking italian in school and suck and pronouncing and sounding italian so thanks! this was helpful(:
jellybear114 2 years ago
I am going to Rome for the Easter holiday, could you tell me the Italian for Easter?
good video by the way, cheers!
4beerstime 2 years ago
the italian word for easter is "pasqua", pronounced "PASS-koo-ah"!
glad you enjoyed, & thanks for watching!
psychomethod 2 years ago
you got both good English and Italian sound
are you bilingual?
kontact666 2 years ago
not really - i was crappily taught english in school, so i mostly learned on my own growing up because i find it very natural. i consider myself to be almost a native speaker in english, but technically i was raised 'mono-lingual' :P
psychomethod 2 years ago
@psychomethod
which part of Italy are you from precisely?
your Italian accent sounds different from mine
kontact666 2 years ago
originally from milan, but i was living in bologna when i made that video and i tend to pick up accents fairly quickly, so i might have made a good mix of those two...
psychomethod 2 years ago
@psychomethod
ok, keep it up!
kontact666 2 years ago
cheers :)
psychomethod 2 years ago
You're very sweet to do this...Grazie!
Lindi1949 2 years ago
Very helpful.
ashleynicole4444 2 years ago
Come ti chiamo merccato i think too that was my first thing i learned this was great though ciao oh and BA !!!!
mkcjonise85 2 years ago
Grazie mille
mkcjonise85 2 years ago
great video... it really helped =D
0o0o0o0oPHIL0o0o0o0o 2 years ago
oh thanks a lot =) greats from Mexico !! ^^
nuevanack03 2 years ago
Your video has been very helpful, Grazie :D
RogerPerezJr 2 years ago
wow the video is so great!!!
samsonsylar 2 years ago
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samsonsylar 2 years ago
lol now i know where most of spanish language come from when ya speack italian some words sound spanish
garciawr2 2 years ago
it comes from latin not from italian
both comes from latin
lovejacobblack 2 years ago
Rolling the 'R's is going to be hard for the Brittish people they can't even say 'R' HA-HA-HA-HA.
iAmazingGrace 2 years ago
On other italian video-lessons they just say the words, but this guy really explain the words.
iAmazingGrace 2 years ago 4
In your opinion Psychomethod how long would it take to learn enought Italian to get by?
SuperSean32 2 years ago
well, if you studied every day, i'd guess about a year... mostly because you need to learn a lot of words (from what i've seen, italian has got a way wider lexicon than english) and that's something you get with practice rather than study!
555stealth 2 years ago
your very helpful and so adorable!!!.... I was in rome last summer and I loved I it... I find the italian language easy to understand and pronounce because it is pretty similar to spanish. io parlo inglese e spangnolo e poco italiano... you really are adorable ;).. ciao
sonodimiami2008 2 years ago
can't wait go to europe! good thing i am in my 3 year of french, I know spanish english and a bit of itlain and now i know alot more thank you!
NaiJorJul 2 years ago
Haha, you're so cute! "They will probably make a weird face at you and probably call the police." Thanks for this, I'm going to Italy tomorrow!
burtonlovely 2 years ago
Thank you so much for this lesson. I'm going to Venice the first week of May for my friend's birthday celebration. Looking forward to discovering the Venetto. I'm trying to study as much Italian as possible between now and then. Thanks again!
BigDanceFan 2 years ago
questo autobus va ALLA stazione ? ------------
SmotPoker09 2 years ago
Thank you for the Italian lessons. I am planning a trip next year to Sicily to visit the towns where my grandparents came from and I was wondering if formal Italian is easily understood by most everyone there. I remember as a child listening to my Grandmother speak in her Sicillian dialect and it sounds very different than the Italian I'm hearing here. So I was wondering if learning Italian would be helpful in trying to converse with most Sicillians too. Thank you again for all your help!
12mulligan 2 years ago
i've never been to sicily, but from what i know it depend on the context. if you're going to be in an old village full of old people, i think they will understand you but they might not be able to reply in correct italian (a lot of older people in italy only speak dialects).
if you go to big cities, you'll be able to have a conversation with pretty much everybody, but they will have a strong accent (not a dialect!) when replying to you. you'll get used to it, but you need the basics of italian!
psychomethod 2 years ago
hey im going to Italy in February to ski anything you know that is to do with skiing? if so can you post a video for me please ?
WeeDeaneGc09 2 years ago
ma sei italiano tu?? ^^
XxmOr4stylexX 2 years ago
sì! :)
psychomethod 2 years ago
:D Aww thanks! :)
Ok, that makes sense. Thank you so much for the help! Now I don't have to look like a complete idiota in public lol
It helped very much! Super grazie!! lol :)
~loveisyou18 (:
loveisyou18 2 years ago
you're very welcome!
let me know if there's anything else you need translated :D
psychomethod 2 years ago
Thanks for everything Nicholas!
I appreciate your help! :)
I probably will need more of it acutally, if that's ok with you :) ....once again I feel the need to ask! lol X)
So I will most likely be back (or soon enough) because I am not very good at Italian :(
Have a good day and talk to you again later! tehe :)
Thanks Nick, you saved my Italian life! hahaha ;)
~alysha <3
loveisyou18 2 years ago
:DD
and you're speedy at answering too! lol
Can I ask you something? At the end you said it would be alright, but I felt like I should ask you first if I could lol
~But anyway, how would you say, "I am looking for ___" as in family or a house, street, restaurant, etc.? I can't find an answer to this one either! I feel rude asking for help and then pointing at things and speaking non-sense because I can't find the right words lol Can you help me please? :)
~loveisyou18 :)
loveisyou18 2 years ago
haha, sure you can ask!
if you want to ask for a place, you can say "Sto cercando via [whatever the street is called]" which means exactly 'i am looking for' - it's pronounced roughly "stoh ch-er-kahn-doh vee-ah [x]"; you can also say 'do you know where x is?' which would be "sa dov'è [x]"? - there are a lot of accents and all in that, but it's simply pronounced "sah dove eh [x]" (s in sah pronounced as in "*s*ystem" and dove as in the bird).
i hope this is helpful!
psychomethod 2 years ago
Thank you so much for including the vegetarian phrases!! I have been looking everywhere on how to say I don't eat meat or "I'm a vegetarian", so thank you! I was so lost until I found your vid lol
Grazie!! <3
loveisyou18 2 years ago
you're very welcome! i'm glad to help other veg*s out there :D
psychomethod 2 years ago
how do you lean the verb to talk for all persons?
jantelino 2 years ago
i'm not sure i understand. what kind of verb are you talking about?
psychomethod 2 years ago
isn't "to talk" parlare or something like that?
bunbacheso 2 years ago
Can you speak any other languages?
s2LaDolceVita 2 years ago
not really, if you don't count latin and greek :p i can understand spoken european languages like french and spanish mostly, and i've studied german for 2 years, but i wouldn't be able to sustain a conversation!
psychomethod 2 years ago
thanks man i am haf Italian an i want to pick up on some of the words :D
kong9111 2 years ago
are you italian??
DivinaHBest 2 years ago
yup, i am...! why do you ask?
psychomethod 2 years ago
so, just to ask you because you, obviously, have a beautiful pronunciation...
PS nn so perchè ti ho risposto in inglese che parlo italiano cmq carino complimenti!
DivinaHBest 2 years ago
hehe, grazie :p fra l'altro ho visto che hai fatto/fai il dehon... eravamo vicini di scuola, io ho fatto lo zucchi :)
psychomethod 2 years ago
faccio il Dehon... sn al sociopsicopedagogico! si lo zucchi è vicino di scuola.... ci sn andata l' altro ieri per un' incontro con la scuola cmq da quanto tempo sei uscito (ovviamente sl se vuoi rispondere nn per essere indiscreta)
DivinaHBest 2 years ago
in realtà l'ho mollato 2 anni fa (dopo la 3a liceo) perché mi sono trasferito a bologna... ora finalmente son diplomato da quest'estate e faccio l'uni a glasgow!
psychomethod 2 years ago
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DivinaHBest 2 years ago
and to french
ml1ml3 2 years ago
very similar to spanish haha easy
ml1ml3 2 years ago
very helpful video.....thanks so much bro.....
rondosky 2 years ago
great video i love italy i love every thing about it i move to sicily so this would really help me...
sparlock 2 years ago
è imbarezzante per mi, parlare italiano. ma ho appena imparato. sono cercando per qual uno per parlare con. anche, ha un poca domande come sei dice 'about' .. how to structure sentences. mille grazie. =) scrive mi un e-mail.
sureyourscene 2 years ago
"about" can be translated in so many ways... can you give me a full sentence with 'about' in it? if you want we can be e-mail pals... you can email me at savethewabbit at gmail!
psychomethod 2 years ago
i didn't mean to put about in quotation marks, i was just wondering how to structure sentences, since alot of the time they're out of order the way they put the words. and i was wondering if their was anyway to remember alot of the phrases. =) thanks!
sureyourscene 2 years ago
Psychomethod, will you marry me? Just joking. But you are adorable IN DUE LINGUE! How do you say adorable? bello? Tu sei molto bello.
bunbacheso 2 years ago
haha, thank you!! :D "bello" means handsome - adorable is simply "adorabile" :)
psychomethod 2 years ago
Oops. Tu sei adorabile. Well, you're both. especially when you're like "not arrrrrrrrrrrrivederrrrrrrrrci" . That's hilarious. We Amerrrrrrrrrricans don't talk like that. Orrrrrrrrrrrr do we? haha.
bunbacheso 2 years ago
Simpatico e con un buon inglese. Video carino, facile da capire. :-)
Ghaladh 2 years ago
Very cool, grazie! Make more videos please. But next time have stuff in order so you don't take so much time thinking about what to say next. A video on how to order stuff in a restaurant and how to say different foods would be great!
thezeka11 2 years ago
thanks for the help i used some of your phrases and words when i went to italy for two weeks a couple weeks ago i love italy so much i want to live there
usitalian10 2 years ago
Salve! Commenterò questo video in italiano perché non sono molto abile nel parlare l'inglese.
Ritengo questo filmato abbastanza istruttivo per chi non "mastichi" l'inglese,
anche se omette le regole base per la formazione di genere, numero e conteggio delle prime cento unità numeriche.
Comunque è un lavoro fatto molto bene.
P.S. In Italia ci sono diversi tipi di autobus, che si differenziano per marca e modello, nonché per zona di competenza.
Non ci sono solo i BLQ!!!
AlessandroMalavasi 2 years ago
ciao - questo video non voleva insegnare l'italiano. in realtà era per un mio amico australiano che doveva venire in italia... so che per imparare una lingua come si deve bisogna concentrarsi sulla grammatica :)
riguardo all'autobus - mi riferivo al bus che porta da bologna città all'aeroporto Marconi. siccome il mio amico veniva a bologna, dovevo spiegargli quale autobus specifico prendere per arrivare in città (appunto il BLQ).
psychomethod 2 years ago
this video is awesome!! love it.
but seriously i have no idea how to pronounce 'arrivederci' ! :`( is it just me or people do think this is ...difficult to pronounce?
chrischrissiecrystal 2 years ago
you can play the video back but
a-ri-va-dear-ci
comes pretty close phonetically
buona fortuna! In bocca al lupo!
razoraudi 2 years ago
hey! great video! im going to italy in a week! how do you say, "You are beautiful?"
lkman4 2 years ago
hey, thanks :) it depends - if you're saying it to a girl, it's "sei bellissima" (behl-EES-see-mah). if you're saying that to a boy it's "sei bellissimo" (pronounced the same but ends in -eemoh).
psychomethod 2 years ago
Good teacher. How do you say, "I am learning Italian" ?
HamletMacbeth21 2 years ago
"sto imparando l'italiano" - imparando is pronounced 'eem-par-AN-doh'!
psychomethod 2 years ago