Italian for Tourists - The Words Every Tourist Should Know

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Speaking Italian can make your Italian vacation even more memorable. You do not have to be fluent in Italian, but a few words can go a long way to make your visit to Rome, Florence, or Venice just a bit better. Here are the most important words that tourists should know when they visit Italy.
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@LIBREPUB Жыл бұрын

I was in Italy in 2019 and heading back in November. These little words and phrases really go along way with the locals. They totally respect the effort.

@donnie1623 Жыл бұрын

If you say " Salve " when coming in a place and " arrivederci " when you go out, it will always be fine, everytime of the day

@deepbluehue3 18 күн бұрын

Yes ( pronounced : sal vugh ) I believe is a more respectful / ancient way of greeting ... You might hear it from a local Italian shopkeeper ....

@paulawashington3175 8 сағат бұрын

@@deepbluehue3 I didn't hear Salve so much on the Amalfi Coast or in Rome, but it was very common in Bologna.

@grouloulle Жыл бұрын

6:03 The Italians are awesome.

@bbrown1558 Жыл бұрын

2:55 that guy was so drunk. Had too many. Marc did not lose his cool or get nervous. I'd have run off in the other direction 🤣🤣👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Excellent tips . I love Italy and on previous visits the little Italian I could speak was much appreciated by the locals.

@woltersworld Жыл бұрын

He came over a few more times while i was filming :)

@bbrown1558 Жыл бұрын

@@woltersworld u should have made another video for us. On how to avoid blokes like him 🤣🤣🤣👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@RudieObias Жыл бұрын

I'm going to Italy for the first time next week. I've been watching A LOT of your videos to get ready for the trip!

@woltersworld Жыл бұрын

Glad to help out. The other comment thing was spam from a fake account. Got to love KZfaq. Thanks again and have a great trip!

@ryanrigley Жыл бұрын

I studied Italian on a language app for a year before my trip this year to Italy. Speaking Italian made for an excellent experience with the locals with them being gracious. I like how there are so many cognates in the vocabulary between English and Italian.

@davidwillers652 4 ай бұрын

Which language app and course?

@bthomps6024 2 ай бұрын

@@davidwillers652 i'm using babbel. babbel teaches a lot of grammar. i'm using duolingo for some vocab. we're leaving in two months for our trip to italy

@daltongriffis Жыл бұрын

Right on time! Enjoying Rome today, traveling to Sorrento Friday. Thank you for the awesome videos!

@woltersworld Жыл бұрын

Cheers!

@kevlarcardhouse252 Жыл бұрын

Perfect timing, Wolter. I will be in Italy on Saturday as long as the airport gods smile upon us, and as with all my trips, your videos have been very helpful. Grazie!

@woltersworld Жыл бұрын

Thank you. The other comment is a scammer. Have a great trip!

@kevlarcardhouse252 Жыл бұрын

@@woltersworld LOL I guessed that when he called himself Wolters Worlds.

@OneRedFeatherStudios. Жыл бұрын

Really like the new graphics you have incorporated into your new videos like these. Adds a lot to the information exchange. Kudos.

@m4dg33k Жыл бұрын

I stumbled upon your videos by chance, and was really moved by how much you seem to appreciate our country. I'm glad you had a great time staying here each time you went, and I just wanted to drop a big "Thank You".

@shonnaroadruck5194 6 ай бұрын

This is FANTASTIC! Thank you

@kaunas88 Жыл бұрын

This is a nice condensed summary of tourist basic words.

@AdventuresofMattandNat Жыл бұрын

Great video per usual!!! All of your videos are so helpful! We’ll be binge watching all of your Italy videos now! 🤣👌🏼

@sherryhibbs2804 Жыл бұрын

I wish this had come out before my trip in July, lol. I know enough Spanish to usually make the leap in Italian. Having an Italian tour guide, watching videos and just picking up words as I went was just fine. Most do speak English, but I still always tried.

@willamjackson8746 Жыл бұрын

Yeah you're right

@willamjackson8746 Жыл бұрын

Hi there 😄 Just decided to stop by and say hi!! I hope my compliment is Appreciated

@jvc43523 Жыл бұрын

Bravissimo. Grazie mille amico. Vi auguro una buona Giornata

@Gg2294.-. Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for context to these phrases. I’ve been learning Italian and I really appreciate help understanding the tone of how things are said, because it makes me feel more confident to speak. :)

@woltersworld Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I'm the same way. I thought this would be better than just saying the words 10 times

@allyson1691 2 ай бұрын

It’s sounds so musical and fun to say too. Thank you

@michaeladkins6 Жыл бұрын

I will be in Italy at the end of the month. We will be travelling the length of Italy by train. From the Swiss border to Positano.

@jean-mariesimpson8989 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this! Going in June!

@ganymedes62 Жыл бұрын

The very first word I learned in Italian was 'domani' 🙂 Like in 'yeah, we'll get to that tomorrow' or 'sure, we'll fix that tomorrow' 🙂 It was always 'domani, domani' 🙂 Now just so you know, I was still 0 when I first was in Italy 🙂

@WoltersWorldShorts Жыл бұрын

that's funny

@StMeadMary Жыл бұрын

Very cool helpful video thank you! Ciao!

@annaamorimm Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU SO MUCH!GREAT HELP!

@melgonz.6962 6 ай бұрын

Italian is so similar to Spanish. All my spanish classes are going to come in handy.

@EA-tx8ef 3 ай бұрын

Grazie! I'll be visiting Italy for the first time next month.

@LeoFtravels Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this...I will be there in 3 weeks

@giovannibertocci8944 Жыл бұрын

Me too!

@woltersworld Жыл бұрын

Have fun!

@woltersworld Жыл бұрын

Awesome. Have fun too

@Bc232klm Жыл бұрын

I like these videos! Don't know if I'll ever make it to Italy, but I like trying to learn the little bits of useful language.

@MrRealgar Жыл бұрын

Thanks for introducing some Italian terminology to our American friends! 🇺🇸🇮🇹 I would only argue about the term “ciao”. It’s very informal, and is usually used by friends, or by adults to young people. You rarely enter a public activity with “Ciao” (apart, of course, if you already know the staff members). With “Buongiorno” and “Buonasera”, I would add “Salve”. A more formal “Ciao”, easy to apprehend and very common in Italy for starting a good conversation.

@woltersworld Жыл бұрын

however if people have a hard time learning a language or a few words, then ciao is just fine.

@MrRealgar Жыл бұрын

@@woltersworld Indeed! Thanks for providing interesting information of our country! 🇮🇹

@deepbluehue3 18 күн бұрын

@@MrRealgar After five trips to Italy I finally learn this ! ... Salve better with working people you don't know ...

@thinkthearts2604 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful Italy

@jonathankinnear8431 Жыл бұрын

Very helpful.

@WoltersWorldShorts Жыл бұрын

thanks Jon!

@dearisabella Жыл бұрын

Wow, just in time! I'll be studying abroad in Italy for a few months and I was about to look for these types of videos. Thank you :)

@WoltersWorldShorts Жыл бұрын

cool! you will have a great time!

@anarchocyclist 10 ай бұрын

You're gonna need a lot more than these videos 😂

@michaelinminn Жыл бұрын

You have a grasp on niceness. gotta say!

@CDHfilms Жыл бұрын

I always dream of seeing italy!

@kcrossleKMC Жыл бұрын

"Salve" - one of the few words I remember from Latin 😀

@eleanor9004 Күн бұрын

It's still very in use

@TheTwoofWands 10 ай бұрын

I have been trying to learn a bit on Duolingo. Your pronunciation is so good!

@zepplinrox3 Жыл бұрын

Love Sorrento!

@michaelwells7549 Жыл бұрын

Not to nit-pick Mark, but ciao is really for friends and acquaintances, when walking into a new place, store, bar, restaurant, then buon giorno is really more appropriate. Grazie.

@great207 Жыл бұрын

Would you recommend saying Salve instead?

@didonegiuliano3547 Жыл бұрын

@@great207 also

@deepbluehue3 18 күн бұрын

I love that in larger markets the past aisles are both sides ALL THE WAY DOWN one aisle ... and they have a HUGE selection of ready made stuffed pastas typically available ... Napoli was so distracting a large city , ( and I was traveling alone ... ) that I FORGOT to get Napolitan pizza when I was there ! Ten years later I still find that amusing ...

@loribaker758 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tips. Sorrento is one of my favorite places to visit. One of our first stops is Pizzeria Aurora. 😜

@kueller917 8 ай бұрын

Very helpful thank you since I'm taking a short trip to Italy in a week and did not prepare. Coming from France and family being from Latin America (Spanish-speaking) it's fun seeing the similarities and the differences.

@jamietaveras7657 Жыл бұрын

So much like spanish.. languages of love..

@kellyk854 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Marc! We enjoy your channel and find them so helpful. In your opinion, is it too early to book an April flight to Rome?

@C_ia_R Жыл бұрын

Grazie

@WoltersWorldShorts Жыл бұрын

prego :)

@marcguidobolen693 Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't use "voglio" (I want) when ordering food though. Could be considered impolite

@paulawashington3175 8 сағат бұрын

Yes. It will come across as a demand rather than a request.

@mariobotelho32 Жыл бұрын

Very useful video. Just have to pronunciate vorrei and birra with hard rrrr.

@Bswaggn Жыл бұрын

That is the informal way to say HI and Bye.

@darkleto89 Жыл бұрын

Sorry man to made u redo the video. Love your channel :)

@gabrielesantucci6189 2 ай бұрын

Ok...but "ciao" it's very confidential ! It's usually used with friends or people we know well and with whom we are familiar. And above all, if you want to say thank you in our language, please not GRACIAS (spanish) or GRAZI (you need the final E) ... otherwise thank you in your language it's better and appreciated anyway!!!👍😉🇮🇹

@paolodominici202 Жыл бұрын

Your pronunciation is almost spot on but I'd like to correct two accents and a sentence(which is still perfectly understandable even without my intervention) : vorrei= the accent is on the E dov'è = the accent is on the E cosa hai bisogno? = you need to add the preposition DI. Di cosa hai bisogno?

@WoltersWorldShorts Жыл бұрын

i am going to guess that for a tourist it will be just fine ;)

@claudiocioffi306 Жыл бұрын

@@WoltersWorldShorts Yes, it is! 😉

@paolodominici202 Жыл бұрын

@@WoltersWorldShorts no doubt, Wolter! Great video as usual 👍🏻

@giovannibertocci8944 Жыл бұрын

Oddio il tizio alla fine col VENTILATORR🤣🤣

@timmmahhhh Жыл бұрын

Great video Mark, thanks. I knew some of these and back in the good old days of 1988 and my Europe trip we didn't have the luxury of listening to hear somebody pronounce it unless you bought a book with a cassette. As students we butchered grazie, saying GRAHT-zee. When we got back my father-in-law learning Italian cringed what he heard me say it and corrected me, lol! I knew some phrase Italian and tried to use Spanish where I could, which was sometimes successful and other times so different I wasn't understood. In Spanish for example the word for entrance is similar but exit is salida, way different.

@claudiocioffi306 Жыл бұрын

Ahahaha.... you make me laugh! I'm Italian and your accent sounds so funny! Anyway I have a special request: I know you've already made some videos of New Orleans, very nice and usefull videos, but I would like one more video about Nola! I lived there 1 year and I miss it so much! Anyway congratulation for your channel! Keep punching! 🤜

@WoltersWorldShorts Жыл бұрын

Grazie Claudio. We all have accents :) I don't know how many more NOLA videos I can make :) we have... what to know before you go, what to eat in NOLA, the don'ts of NOLA, 5 Love & Hates of NOLA, 10 Shocks of NOLA, how tourists get arrested in NOLA, Don'ts of NOLA... i guess i could make a few more on my next visit for you ;)

@claudiocioffi306 Жыл бұрын

@@WoltersWorldShorts Thanks Wolter, I'm sure that you are going to do your best! Good luck for your channel! ✌️

@austingee238 Жыл бұрын

Italian sounds like if English, Spanish, and French all raised the same baby.

@gwencampbell4345 Жыл бұрын

I found ghiacchio to be the most useful word. Ice!

@mariacristinaciampi3069 Жыл бұрын

hi ... it is ghiaccio ...

@ronweasley1354 Жыл бұрын

If all else fails, just remember “(Scusa) puoi parlare l’inglese?” “Can you speak English?”

@Eric-fx9xf Жыл бұрын

Molto bene. Gratzie. ✌

@Tramptraveller Жыл бұрын

😍😍😍😍👍👍😍😍😍😍

@erikverbove6351 Жыл бұрын

Party pooper ! Maybe he needed a 🍸;)

@WoltersWorldShorts Жыл бұрын

oh he did :) we chatted later

@claudiabassi9670 8 ай бұрын

Il signore alle spalle 😂 no comment

@monicarollo2462 5 ай бұрын

Don't say ciao to someone who is working. He/she is not a friend of yours. Ciao in this case is rude.

@deepbluehue3 18 күн бұрын

Oh interesting ; a good insight ... I assume salve is better in that case then ...

@danielward7008 17 күн бұрын

@@deepbluehue3 Salve or buongiorno if it's morning or early afternoon. Ciao is fine with someone you've built a rapport with.

@paulawashington3175 8 сағат бұрын

Yes. It's a little too familiar for my taste. In a business setting where you don't know people personally, it's better to say buongiorno or buona sera.