100 Phrases Every Italian Beginner Must-Know 

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Wow Italian it's quite like Spanish, that helps a lot.

Bounanotte = good night Sono = I’m / I am Buonasera = good evening Mi chiamo = my name is Come ti chiama = what’s your name? . E tu= and you ? Prego = you’re welcome Sì = yes No = no Va bene = okay Che ora è = what time is it Dove la stazione = where is thee station Possa usare il bagno = May I use the restaurant Vorrei quelcosa da mangiare = I would like something to eat Posso avere il conto = can I have the check please A presto = see you soon A dopo = see you later Dove posso mangiare la gelato = I would like the gelato Verbs Essere = To be Avere = To have Fare = to do Dire = to say Potere = can Volere = To want Sapere = To know Stare = to stay Dovere = must Prendere = to take Vedere = to see Andare = to go Venire = to come Dare = to give Parlare = To talk Trovare = to find Sentire = To hear Lasciare = to leave Guardare = to look Mettere = to put Pensare = To think Passare = To Pass Credere = To believe Portare = to bring Mangiare =To eat Italian nouns Cosa = thing Anno = year Uomo = man Giorno = day Volta = time Casa = home Parte = part Vita = life Tempo = weather Donna = woman Mano = hand Occhio = eye Ora = time Signore = mister Paese = country Momento = moment Modo = way Parola = word Padre= father Punto = point Lavoro = job Stato = state Caso = case Citta = town Animale = animal Adjectives Grande = big Piccolo = small Dolce = sweet Diverso = different Primo = first Ultimo = last Anziano = old Giovane = young Carino = pretty Bello = beautiful Brutto = ugly Buono = good Cattivo = bad Bravo = capable Nuovo = new Alto = tall Basso = short Vero = true Aperto = open Chiuso = closed Caro = expensive Economico = cheap Difficile = difficult Facile = easy Divertente = fun

Who else is watching this before their trip to Italy 😂

I loved the video! I would appreciate if you repeated the sentences in Italian twice. The first time slowly so we can get the correct pronunciation and the second time normally to get an understanding of how it is used in real world scenario. Thank you for the quite helpful video!

Being a native spanish speaker is so helpful when it comes to learning italian.😊

listen!! don’t get hung up on words, listening is the key to language, hear the sounds first then learn the vocabulary and grammar fun videos, repetition works!

Ive spent almost a year learning spanish. Stumbled on this video, looks like Italian will be my 3rd language It feels so good to intuitively understand communication 😂😅

Thank you so much for this tutorial!! Extremely informative, helpful, and easy! 🙏🙌🏼💜

The most beautyful language I have ever been heard!

she's truly an italian beauty.

Success is about focusing Your energy on what creates results and using what you already know

As a Turkish guy, love italian language and i have started to learn recently. Love italian cuisine, very similar to us, they love high carbs bread, pasta, pizza ;) . love their history as well, studied roman law at university, read cicero, dante... but i havent met any italian tough. when i was teenager l like and know tiziano ferro songs. other italian far as i heard pavorotti and berlusconi and some footballers respect totti, maldini. if i compare italian with my language; verb conjuctions - similar to our language, verb changes, ignoring subject pronouns . But so many exceptions in italian, irregular verbs and various tenses are quite challenging. In turkish rules are rules and tenses are quite simple. yet in one month i learned common verbs different versions at basic level. words, prepositions changes. challenging a bit but like it it sounds natural. we have gender free and there is no def. articles in our language. Yet i like it. best thing about isi talian that word pronouncations are so clear and natural to my ears. they dont swallow, hard roll or make weird sounds. We almost all italian sounds at our lives, similar usages. Easy to listen and follow... Personally i coudnt make french throat sounds well or english special th (tongue out), schwa, hard jawdropper sounds are quite annoying for me... French dont pronounce %60 of word, what the hell if u dont sound :) i mean so many silent letters, calculation of numbers looks weird. i just want to say number, it turns to the math problem. italians sound nearly all letters, their numbers are same sense. italian unique rhytm and stress are quite pleasant like music. tons of hand gestures like turkish. i think italian much easy to learn at begining but hard to master than English.

Watching this video everyday for a year, will not be difficult

I've been learning german for 6 months before starting Italian, and I got to say man that's relaxing.

Loved this, especially with useful added little details ❤

Thank you Desiree!. Your video is great!. Italian is my third language and I am far from being fluent in it, but I am studying hard to make it my own language!. Is the first time I watch your video and I already learned several words from you. Thank you so much!.

I've found your channel recently (or it found me :)) and I'm loving your way to teach Italian!!! Good examples, showing the difference between formal and informal use of the language, and you're really simpatica... Grazie mille!!!

Such a great video! Perfect for someone who wants a quick intro for a short trip. Perfect pace. Grazie mille

Grazie per queste video!! So well explained and honestly entertaining!!

This is wonderful and so are you . This is my first Italian lesson. Pretty easy so far because I speak español .

belissimo, fell in love the way you teach it,it's amazing and so easy to learn,superb!!

My great grandfather came to Australia from Italy in 1909..so your help is much appreciated ...thank you!

Thank you. I'm inspired hearing you and watching you. I'm excited to memerized the Italian words

Well i am a russian, living in Germany and speaking it perfectly now learning italian because want to buy real estate there...with english it will be my 4th language.

Lovely job, your personality comes through beautifully. Well done young lady

I love to learn Italian. Your method of teaching is very effective. Thank you So much ma'am

Great instructional. I am watching these to brush up on my basics. Desiree is beautiful. Grazie mille!

amazing!! thank you. i hope i can use some of these phrases in Italy in July. i am complete beginner. Italian has always fascinated me. Due to lockdown i decided it is time to fulfill my dream to learn some Italian.

When you here native Italian speaker, it sounds so rhythmical, like they are singing!!! They invented Opera you know!

Good video! My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!

You are truly, great at teaching. Thanks.

I love you tutorials as ypu are so clear and concise. Thanks alot for your help.

You are awesome...I've watched others teaching italian and they talk too much just to say 0ne word...you help with short sentences! Grazie!! 🙌😊

Thank you you are explaining the verbs in good context, this seems to be a big problem for me.. I am living in Italy for 6 years but still having problems with verbs and adjectives

Watching many times 💕 very useful Grazie mille!

Had Italian 1n2 in school., You bring me back to it. Love your everything.

Amazing content! 🙌🏻 I’m Italian too and I’m so happy that people appreciate our language 🇮🇹🥰

I'm new learner here and the lesson was informative of information Thanks a lot 🌹🌹

Wow this is really powerful and practical! Thank you so much

Great video to use for my review in my Italian class. Thank you so much. Grazie - molto bene

This was a lot of information to take on in a short time. But I feel that with repetition and using other sources this video will be extremely helpful. I like that the words here were used in full sentences because I can go learn grammar elsewhere and come back and see if the sentences here make sense. Its a good way to associate words, grammar and setence structure.

Interesting! I have learned some false cognates in Italian. In Portuguese, my first language, we have the verb "sentir", which means "to feel", but in Italian "sentire" means "to hear". "Guardare" and "guardar", in Portuguese it can mean "to keep", "to save" depending on the context. Very nice video, Desiree!

Muy buen video tratando de aprender un poco de italiano antes de mis vacaciones en Italia. Great video trying to learn some Italian before I go there for my family vacations. Grazie mile

I love how you break it down in what to say and not to say but slow down on the words so i can understand the word and pronunciation

Grazie Desireè. My great grandparents are from Palermo and Calabria and I haven't spoken any Italian, other than to sing it (I am a choir/vocal music teacher) in years. I appreciate your videos to relearn what I have forgotten many years ago. Also, I will give a compliment that you have very kind eyes! Take care and keep up the great work!

I’m 16 and currently trilingual. I know English, Spanish & BSL. And I’ve always loved languages so now I’m trying to learn Italian! I think it’s a good 4th language since it’s similar to Spanish. I also want to be constantly learning a new language so ones I have my eye on for the future are French, Russian, Norwegian, Polish & Chinese!

So helpful, thanks so much!!

You are a great teacher!!!!! This video is totally useful!!!! It's awesome!!!! Thanks a lot!!!

Finally a channel that explains things clearly 👌

Best Italian-teaching video I've found on RU-vid, not even in spanish you can find such a well explained video, thanks a lot!

I watch this a lot to learn. Great teacher!

Excellent video. Thorough and clear and easy to understand.

One of the best teachers I have ever seen in RU-vid. She is so good.

Grazie mille Désirée I love you.

Thank you so much for your tuitorial.

Bravo!!! thank you so much for making this video.

Learning for an exchange year in Italy in the near future! This was so helpful!!🙌🏻Thank you 💗

Grazie mille insegnant

grazie for the video!!! Loved it for the basics... it was very hard to communicate in Italy 🇮🇹 I wish I watch this first

Desirèe, you speak absolutely beautiful English (albeit American English!). I’m using your RU-vid clips to help my daughter learn good Italian, and she is really enjoying your lessons. Keep up the good work.

I speak Spanish and English and now I want to learn Italian 💞🤗🙋🏻‍♀️. I love the pronunciation ✨

Wooooow i just have to take a break from italian, because I have to focus on my finals but you really motivated me to start again!:D grazie mille❤

Thank you so much. This is very helpful.

Your videos always help me to learn. Brava 👍

Desiree it is really useful. Thank you very much. I've already learnt lot.

Grazie tanto! Desiree

Great video. I didn't realize I already knew a lot of Italian words by way of Spanish. Thanks

Grazie mille! Tu ayuda es muy apreciada💛realmente quiero aprender italiano ahora!

At 9:14 this helped me understand why a lovely co worker from Italy would run into work late shouting, "I know, I know, I know, I'm late". We were shocked speechless, because in the USA, this sounds antagonistic and would definitely upset people even more, LOL. In the US we would say something like: "I'm so, so sorry! I had car trouble!" (or whatever the reason was), and then: I'll be sure to stay late to make up for the lost time" of if you're meeting a friend, "let me buy you a drink to make up for it". Hope I don't do some sort of mistake like this when I'm in Italy, yikes.

Wow, how about this for a change? It's not too fast for me, and you can always pause or rewind (for the expressions e.g.) and copy them from the screen, do some work yourself hey? The problem with most vids is that they are short , don't have that much information and are too slow, with a lot of repetition, so this is just perfect, as is the presenter BTW, but there is a mistake in the word describing her at the beginning (there's one letter too many in the word 'host') :-) So, as an absolute beginner in Italian, I would say: Ooh, quella donna è così carina! I am sure I would learn a lot of Italian very fast if she were in more vids (?). She has a relaxed attitude, which is good. But be careful not to overdo the technical gimmicks, use them sparingly. Thank you so much! La ringrazio molto. Will subscribe.

Thank you so much for the video! I tried what you have learned me on my visit to Napoli, the local people understood what I spoke, which was wonderful.

thank you miss. I learnt a lot of Italian language with you today.

I love how italian sounds like Portuguese! Makes a lot of easier to learn

I'm learning Italian language , that's great

Thank you for your teaching

Thank you so much! Im currently learning italian and Japanese this video helped me a lot! Also your so pretty💚

As a romanian person , I fell like Italian and even Spanish sound so much like Romanian

Wow! So similar to French!

I learned so much from you. Thank you and God bless you @

Great teaching! Grazie!

Has a spanish native speaker, Italian it's surprisingly easy, I think I'm learning even faster than when I was learning English.

thanks!! I like your videos....very helpful

Thank you so much that was very helpful

Thank you. I am 100% Italian but born in Australia & never left. Hope to go there one day. Grazie mille

Just started to learn this beautiful language and found these videos really helpful and productive💕👌Thank you Desiree!

This is great start for hopeless beginners like myself thank you 😊

Thank you very much for this video

You really got me when you said "Look at me when I'm talking to you"... I was only listening at that time.. I laughed so hard😅

You're the best teacher ive ever had. I love that she is using her actual personality. She's lively, beautiful, cute dimples, and a lovely accent. ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you so much! Grazie mille.

I can listen to her for hours!!! Grazie Bella!

a great video for Intermediate or upper intermediate learners of Italian language. I highly recommend this channel to the learners.

Really awesome I'm loving the Italian lessons couse you're the perfect teacher beautiful 😍🔥

Helpful, thank you!

Thanks Desiree for teaching so nice Italian I loved your video a lot I am trying to learn Italian.

Hi, I love your "Learn Italian with ItalianPod101, out of all the others on RU-vid i like yours the most but there is one problem, you go way too fast if you slow down just a little it would be perfect. Please continue to make more learn Italian conversation videos but please go slower, I listen to you while i go walking everyday for an hour. Thanks for taking your time to do this because we appreciate it. ti amo

Grazie insegnante

Grazie ! You explained very well

Great helpful vid - Grazie!!