The Travel Linguist - Italian 101

[squathacker]

i love the background music in those videos

[Fefzel]

This makes me feel like an alien.

Italian is harder than it seems, so, good luck everyone.

[greatesteva14]

if u kno spanish u can learn italian and french eez. spanish is ur key

[nednarbb]

what the work for hi ?

[DJasCava]

come si chiama is - what is his / her name lol

[MsPcTutorial]

how are you? = come stai?

[acdcrockist]

i maltese and italian and maltese is very the same

[venusviola]

----> Note that this only works if you are talking to someone you want to show respect to! If you are talking to a friend you should say:

- "ciao" instead of "salve"

- "ciao" or "ci vediamo" instead of "arrivederci"

- "come va?" or "come stai?" instead of "come sta?"

- "molto bene, e tu?" instead of "molto bene, e lei?"

- "come ti chiami?" instead of "come si chiama?"

- "parli inglese?" instead of "parla inglese?"

- "scusa" or "scusami" instead of "mi scusi"

[rub1k]

@venusviola ah yes, the formal and informal variations

that was helpful, thanks =)

[ttttkk2]

Come sta = Come esta haha

[MIREYAIL]

dude these videos are nice....because I can hear the pronounciation really slow and see how they move there mouths...i like it

[chldpghks1]

What's the difference between Salve and Ciao?

Also what's the difference between Mi scusi and Mu scusi??

[fireblood9]

@chldpghks1

Salve is used as a formal greeting and Ciao it is used to greet a friend!

Mu scusi dosen't exist we use Mi Scusi

[shilde1]

How you doin'? - Hello.

EYY WHASDAMADDA WITH YOU, AH?! - Is something wrong?

FUGGHEDABOUT IIIT!! - It's fine, don't worry.

[soychivadecorazon1]

@shilde1 Lol that made me laugh so hard xD

[Mirani2]

@shilde1 Ayyyyyy! hawwaya?- How's it going?

Whaddayathinkimmanidiotawwut??­- Are you crazy?

*drools*- "your sister is hot"

[TinTunTanPonerai]

Non ho mai detto salve in vita mia

[igorlacerdabjs]

this is so esay when u know portuguese too *-*

[ParentalAdvisoryBass]

Thumbs up if Assassins Creed II brought you here! :)

[mclovin1234567890]

requiescat in pace.

[Monty893]

@mclovin1234567890 Assassino!

[x4thHorsemanx]

@Monty893 VIVA AGLI ASSASSINI!

[serbetli100]

Sabatini is maybe ok. Sabatini maybe Sicilian. BUT no BIanchi. Bianchi is a terrible white supremacist. I like Sabatini no matter it is a mafia or whatever.

[serbetli100]

Italia 101 for us. Italians are indeed arrogant racists, white chiristian supremacists extremely despising non-christian coloreds, asians africans. I never want to visit there, No more Bianchi racist shit!......hummmmm that's Italia 101

[biljons]

Mi bello mi bello - mi scusi mi scusi :)))

[boii1990]

Lovely language, too bad they have a sucky government and a prime minister who's a pedophile and sleeps with prostitutes. Also, they're homophobic. Too bad. Italy has so much potential.

[TheRushingWind]

@boii1990 America has a paedophile in charge

[boii1990]

@TheRushingWind

That's probably true, and anyway; I'm not American...

[SnipingDonkey]

Ciao il mio nome è bob

[friedchicken1981]

a ro st'o cess?.. cess!

[luizcastelli]

I don't speak Italian, it's not difficult to learn.

[amentelibera1]

mazza che pronuncia!

[DrSAM69]

The phrase for:

Go fuck yourself is

Vaffanculo

Now you try!!!

*ends in hospital*

[kctrst24]

great for a novice like me..

[alessandrax31]

IM ITALIAN:)

[onlyteck25]

man thats easyyy like a cake its like spanish i understand everything wat they say :) but im from costa rica

[Almarian4eg]

italians are fucking Gypsies with no manners. I was in egypt during new year celebration and saw a lot of italiains behaving like a filthy pigs

[Arch0Alex]

@Almarian4eg

Very mature of you, judging a whole country by a bunch of assholes you found in freaking Egypt.

Idiots are everywhere, man. Look around you, you may find a lot of them where you live too. Maybe more.

[lelandjonas]

i think the girl in the video is hot.

[Veeolinxalto]

0:58 I like his complete failure at rolling the R's.

[Lordbaldurs]

jaja en español (sanish) "come sta" , "come esta" = "eat this" significa algo totalmente diferente

[AnnaCNunes]

@Lordbaldurs HAHAHAHAHA !!

[DaHNoVa]

There's something I don't quite understand, most of the words said are "formal" such as 'come si chiama', shouldn't the translation of goodbye be 'arriverderla' instead of 'arrivederci'?

[swozhere]

@DaHNoVa you can also say 'arrivederla', its just not as usual as 'arrivederci', but correct

[DaHNoVa]

@swozhere ok, grazie

[AirbusA380rox]

@DaHNoVa i know. i thought that too...

[DragonCoasterStorm]

this is sooooo easy when u know spanish!!!!!!

[kirra16]

@DragonCoasterStorm

i know right D:

[frogsrule42]

@DragonCoasterStorm thats what i tell EVERYBODY!

[DragonCoasterStorm]

@frogsrule42 LAWL IKR

[lost99sheep]

@DragonCoasterStorm I understand you! I tried Italian first and then tried french two times it was so hard and I was like "you know what? I'll stick with Italian!" <3 ITALIA!!

[DragonCoasterStorm]

@lost99sheep rlly? knowin' Spanish makes learnin' Italian, French, Portuguese, and Latin pretty easy dude.

[lost99sheep]

@DragonCoasterStorm I haven't tried latin...i'm gonna look for it. Portuguese language I love too but Italia is my fave! French was so tough on me but I needed a more slowly I like how it sounds! so you speak spanish?

[DragonCoasterStorm]

@lost99sheep yess sir ah do speak spanish B)

[lost99sheep]

@lost99sheep actually is a signorina but its okay! Spanish is my first language is it yours too?

[Aanastassia]

@DragonCoasterStorm Or french / O francès ;P

[DragonCoasterStorm]

@Aanastassia that too :)

[br3akd4ncing]

salve means prejudice >.<

[LifeOfTheParty323]

The girl in this video looks so depressed. Like they're holding her passport and won't release it until she's done with these videos hahaha

[marek0086]

@LifeOfTheParty323~ HAHAH!!

[screech519]

@LifeOfTheParty323 She just needs a good lay!!!

[chel23]

@LifeOfTheParty323 You should see the guy in the Russian 101 videos.

[cheerlicious101]

@LifeOfTheParty323 bhahah that made me giggle.! :)

[imreadyformycloseup]

@LifeOfTheParty323 ACCURATE! So accurate hahaha

[mateushac]

is it me or these voices are the exact same as the ones in Age of Empires II?

[acecombatfan438]

lol i only want to learn this because i played Assassins creed 2 and the people had awesome accents

[UesugiVincentibanez]

@acecombatfan438 XD me too brah

[edithblue]

Totally wrong! This is not usefull languange because isnt the EVERY DAY LANGUAGE...

Hello = Ciao

Good Bye = Ciao

How are you? = Come stai?

Very well, and you? = Molto bene, e tu?

What's your name? = Come ti chiami?

Do you speak english = Parli inglese?

The others are correct

[particelleeeee]

@edithblue How are you? = Come STA? ( if is a stranger or not friend) and Come STAI? if is your friend!

[fultho]

@edithblue

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[EDAHI3000]

It reminds me the scene if unglorious basterds

[PLNataliaDK]

Mocio grazias amigos! :P

[AhmadAlony123]

Man Italians are so lucky. They don't have a continent on the other side of the world ripping their language off.

[sweaciabic]

@AhmadAlony123 Maybe we don't have a continent on the other side of the world, but we have 20 regions and their dialects... XD

[acecombatfan438]

@AhmadAlony123 what country are you talking about

[AhmadAlony123]

@acecombatfan438 About Spain.

[acecombatfan438]

@AhmadAlony123 ah okay

[xxxPLAYGIRL4lifexxx]

HELP!!!

[lechanceuxrov]

i would love to learn italian & also for work related as well.. is there any other videos that can help me to understand the language more??

[candy5434]

bravo...motlo bene'...grazie...

[alexfulgo]

i' m italian! this is not italian... hello = oi! good bye = ciao how are you? = elura? very well and you? = m' al solit! ti? thank you = bon aposto! you are welcome = ve vùtar what is your name = tu sei? do you speak english = come cazzo parli?!? excuse me = scusa l' ho fatto apposta where is the bathroom = n' do sta l cesso?

[flaybariana]

e questo e italiano scemo!!.....almeno non farli in milanese!!...che e il dialetto piu brutto che ce in italia

[alexfulgo]

@flaybariana non sono in milanese!! è tutta un altra pronuncia la mia (è piacentino) cmq li ho messi cosi perchè dico io così.. non dico mica che parliamo tutti cosi, volevo invitare la gente a lasciare commenti sui diversi modi di parlare italiano.. e cmq lo ribadisco XD non è milaneseee! XDXDXD

[gioiellikno97]

@alexfulgo Ahahah veramente ormai i vocaboli usati in questo video sono andati dispersi xD

[xxxPLAYGIRL4lifexxx]

@alexfulgo or is this portugese??? my dad lived in italy before i was born and he tried teaching me and he said that hello and bye is ciao, como ti chiamo is what is your name and mi chiamo is my name is

[gossipgi]

i wish they would put more hot ppl into this vids

[gioiellikno97]

Waaaaaaaaaaaa dio bo mi sento potente a vedere questo video dato che sono italiana xD

[mirkos91]

@gioiellikno97 vero? :D

[gioiellikno97]

@mirkos91 CRISTO UN BOTTO!!!Posso bestemmiare che tanto loro capiscono solo grazie e prego :D xD

[0Nio1]

no, "you are welcome" sta per "prego"

[MYfunnyFACTORY]

@0Nio1 non lo sapevo

[MYfunnyFACTORY]

YOU ARE WELCOME IS ''SEI IL BENVENUTO'' NOT PREGO

[Dcikula]

@MYfunnyFACTORY what's "prego" then?

[racoones]

@MYfunnyFACTORY si ma in inglese e` l`equivalente di prego

[PaulThePuppetier]

salve?

what about ciao?

[MYfunnyFACTORY]

@PaulThePuppetier is =

[kaulitzzima]

this is a very formal language...colloquial language is a bit different. for example: for "hello" we say "ciao", for "how are you?" "come stai?", for "what's your name?" "come ti chiami?" :-)

[skibidido]

the girl has a pretty sexy voice

[cubanheat3rules100]

wow its super easy, if you know spanish!!soo similar!

[Kimnes86]

italians don't say collegio they say università, ie. " Ciao ragazzi, spero che state bene nella università." sounds better because she's speaking to more than one kid, so it's not in the 'tu' form, but 'voi' meaning all of you =)

[rylexks1]

@ thesunmanho. Is that kind of negative output needed? It's things like that start arguments. Which isn't needed either. Let's be mature shall we?

[RavenHairedMaiden]

e lei? Shouldn't it be: e tu?

[MrMusicfan94]

@RavenHairedMaiden e lei? is formal. E tu? is informal

[endecasillabosciolto]

salve è da idioti, non dice niente, è meglio ciao ;-)

come stai ? come sta = how is she / he

come ti chiami ( you ), come si chiama ( she, he )

parla ( he, she), parli ( you )

mi scusi or scusami

quite well this video

[Iwant2learnItalian]

@endecasillabosciolto

HI, How how would I say, Hi, kids I hope you are doing well in college?

[endecasillabosciolto]

what do you want me to do ??

[Iwant2learnItalian]

@endecasillabosciolto

I just wanted to know how to say that in italian.

"Hi Kids I hope you are doing well in college?"

Thanks,

[maria280187]

@endecasillabosciolto sarà... però io ora all'università lo uso spesso per salutare gli assistenti giovani dei prof... ciao è troppo confidenziale... buongiorno è troppo da vecchi ...quindi si usa salve :)

[cesko123456789]

in italian hello is ciao, but for old peoples is salve for education

[mileycyruscousinchad]

Italian is Very easy for me Because i am a native Castilian (Spanish) Speaker and Italian French Spanish Romanian Portuguese are all from Latin so if you know any of these the other Romance languages are easy to learn

[MomokaMatsuda]

thank u for the vid!

[sipyoanjo7003]

Wow! I heard the "molto bene" phrase in a volleyball match. Obviously, the commentators were Italians . Anyway, nice vid!

[brasiliano14]

Viva L'Italia

FORZA LAZIO!

[ascottoascotto]

I'm Italian and I can assure you that English is much easier to Italy because there are so many verbs in English and then still I like both English and Italian

[zooropah82]

Hahaha I love italians and their names they are like Vittoria Mancinni, Giancarlo turella, or Gioseppe Carbonetti. hahaha LOL.

[MrMatyou]

yes if you know spanish learning italian is very simple

because spanish like italian is very close to latin, in fact "Hispania" was a roman province...you have just to make the "s" at the end of all the words..try if you know italian XD

[Geffe87]

I'm italian and, the way I see it, english is much easier than italian: there are some things (for exemple tenses of verbs) that many people aren't able to use even after graduation

[Petaros69]

And that's why no italian can speak really well English, they underestimate it and think, that's the basic grammar is enough...I don't want to defend English, I'm from Czech Republic, but I've never ever met an italian, who could speak fluently English or better then high school student in CZ...

[Kimnes86]

I happen to know someone Italian who speaks perfect english and has never lived in america or england, but anyone who isnt native has an accent, it's only natural, so that was a bit ignorant to say...

[rmm413d]

An accent is one thing, but I've never heard an Italian pronounce the two English "th" sounds, short vowels, or the short "oo" sound correctly. They also often don't enunciate final consonants clearly. It's OK, most English speakers will still understand. And, of course, a lot of Italians can speak English in a perfectly comprehensible manner. Whether the Czechs speak it better, I have no idea. Most Germans, Dutch, and Scandinavians do, but that's understandable. English is a Germanic language.

[Prosty86]

Yes, but I've never met a tourist in Italy who could say just something more than "ciao ciao" (to say nothing about speaking Italian fluently). So, it is a symmetrical situation...

[rmm413d]

Interesting perspective Geffe. I'm an American who's now learning Italian. After studying German and Ancient Greek, Italian seems very simple and easy. I always just figured that English would be more difficult to learn because 1) it has a significantly larger vocabulary (though, of course, most foreigners never learn a lot of the less used words or the multiple words for a single thing) and 2) because the pronunciation varies from word to word (unless you're mispronouncing it, as many do).

[TheSunmanho]

you are a liar.

"I'm an American who's now learning Italian."

Shut up! There is NO American who really learned ANY other language. They only think they do. But when they open their mouth, it sounds like Mickey Mouse chewing chewing gum.

US-Americans suck!

[rmm413d]

@TheSunmanho What a funny comment Sunmanho! Let me guess, you're 12 years old, right?

I don't mind criticism of the content of my comments, but silly insults are just, well, silly.

[kailastaila]

salve????

who say salve in italy????

Ciao is much more common.

[deja4993]

they are using formal !

[SuperKiara]

well yeah..but not in formal conversations it may sound funny..but "salve" it's very commonly used especially to people you meet for the first time:))

[Kimnes86]

actually salve is very common when speaking with someone you dont know either over the phone or at a store for example

[redbmusic]

English is very difficult because there's no agreement on pronounciations. Italian is Latinic . Even though, there are some exceptionto the rules, It's A, E, I, O, U:-}

[TheMoncheri86]

I'm Italian and it's so funny to heard lessons in my language!!!!

[ENZO9JESUS]

hahahahaha "PREGO" in Brazil means another thing like "NAIL"

[xXxAmberAutopsyxXx]

haha.most people in italy dont no english because english is a very complicated language .because so many words can be used to mean something else most of the time.

[8CoreyTaylor8]

Lol your words offend me... english is just an annoying and easy language to me... it's not even hard ... and anyway i prefer Russian to English.

[THNswimmer11]

omg im going to die! lol im double minoring in spanish and italian to accompany my international business major! I had 4 years of spanish in high school but italian is completely new.. Eek!

[deja4993]

italian is so close to spanish, it will be really easy. just say what they say in italian and say it in spanish afterwards. it helps me.

[fellinian]

@deja4993

Ciao is friendly, but they are speaking in third person, so they say salve.

[deja4993]

3rd person formal....

[laura5787]

I'm italian and... yes, that's true.

[jerseyman34]

@laura5787 but not very modest.. huh , laura ?  lol !

[screech519]

I suck at rolling my R's

[weykmanfr]

@screech519 u can do it with the D and T, y cant u do it here?

[Freddie88]

Se dovessi fare un video così,mi sentirei un perfetto idiota...

[amybonj]

what

[Yuval012]

I been in Italy...

very nice people but not really know english...

it's took me like a hour everytime to find someone that know english...

[IMoonLights]

happend to me too!

I had a great time in italy, but I noticed not too many people there speak english.! I wonder why!

I don't know what's the second language there.

[Yuval012]

i think it's german...

because when i been there, there was South park on tv and it's was in German...

[IMoonLights]

Thank you for the info.

[amybonj]

ohh and I was planning to go to italy. U killed it

[IMoonLights]

lol you can still go. I'm sure each of us will have different experiences there, My only problem was the language other than that I loved every moment of it:)

[codeagent47]

Italian people are nice and kind,, and girls are hot too.

[greggreVASCOmio]

@codeagent47 bravooo!!!hai detto benee ..ahah ;)

[codeagent47]

@greggreVASCOmio

no problem! 

[Ncditaly]

@codeagent47 thanks im a italian girl

[pinkyellowblackred]

@codeagent47 not when they are driving they are not

[Roflmfaooooooo]

@codeagent47

Like the spanish and portuguese too :)

[Bakasara]

@codeagent47 Ok, so these are stereotypes, too. I know of Italian people who are very very rude, racists, narrow minded, etc.

And maybe some think girls are hot because 95% of our TV programmes are about supposedly hot women with breast implants who are either really ignorant and willing to be considered as sexual objects or just playing dumb showing their tits and being successful just because of their huge fake boobs, but not every girl is like that.

Just so you know, I'm Italian.

[codeagent47]

@Bakasara

it's really not a stereotype. But in general Italian girls are hot!

[mjdpepa]

jajaja, your so right! pianomemoir. The gay guy from the movie "Euro Trip" was sooooo funny.. :-D

[TheDragonageorigins]

italia! to sono italiano : )

[pianomemoir]

"mi scusi"

I remember the guy in the movie "euro trip" lol

[t3k1ll3r]

yes hahaha

[InlandQuarter]

@pianomemoir ahhhhahhahahahha yesyesyesyes he was freakin molesting them in the tunnel ahhhahha

[gossipgi]

@pianomemoir omg me tooooo i was thinking the same thing!

[SalvatoreSardo]

@pianomemoir HAHAHAHA... that guy was fucking weird

[7776867675]

dovè il cesso

[HINRG14]

porca puttana dimmi dove cazzo e` il cessoooo!!

this is "where is the bathroom, please"

[angela8467]

'8 tu hai un bel culo is you have bel ass ' c'è un errore in questa frase/ there is an error in this phrase and it is:

tu hai un bel culo = you have a beautiful ass (bel = beautiful)

P.S. : non esiste la parola 'bel' in inglese per dire 'bello' = the word 'bel' doesn't exist in english to give the meaning of 'beautiful'

[gippobastard]

1 bastardo is bastard. 2 merda is shit 3vaffanculo is fuck off 4 figa is pussy 5 puttana is bitch 6 tette is tits 7 scopare fuck 8 tu hai un bel culo is you have bel ass 9 ti voglio is i want you 10 io ti odio is i hate you 11 testa di cazzo is dick head (testa head, cazzo dick)

[eliasninph]

it makes u talk italian with the third person: a form of respect, as "vous" of french, for us is "lei" (she)

[xprofessorelliot]

Arreviderci: Inglorious bastards lol.

[BELiALRADKECRAiG]

you guys might be confused using LEi and TE!

because LEi has 2 significants.. it might be She or for respecting :)

[NikitaWill]

Arrivederci actually mean "so long", questi americani sono dei somari, non sanno nemeno tradurre corettamente, e va beh che ci voi fa'....

[ShadowdancerXXL]

What's the point by knowing the phrase "where is the bathroom?" if you don't understand the answer.........

[teoferrazzi]

they can point it to you