Italian Language Basics to Learn for Travel. There are those of you who love learning a new language, and those who don’t.
Many travelers heading to Italy have no desire to learn the language and think everyone will just speak English anyway, so what’s the point. Personally, I am in the first camp, especially when it comes to learning Italian. It’s just one of the most beautiful and melodic languages out there – I relish the opportunity to use it and learn more of it. But I certainly understand those who don’t have the time or desire to tackle a new language. But, I still think learning some beneficial Italian language phrases before traveling to Italy, is a good idea.
Italian Language Lessons - Lessons in Italian - Learn Italian Online. Basic Words in Italian. Learn Italian with free online lessons. Italian I Tutorial: Basic Phrases, Vocabulary and Grammar. If you're interested in buying books to supplement your Italian studies, I've recommended some books from Amazon.
Also check out the Foreign Service Institute Italian FAST Course that I am converting to HTML. If you'd like to download the mp3s, use the DownThemAll add-on for Firefox to download all the mp3s at once instead of right-clicking on each link. Thanks to Corrado for the recordings! 1. Basic Phrases / Frasi semplici NEW! Notice that Italian has informal and formal ways of saying things.
Also, the words pazzo and zitto refer to men. 2. Italian is a very phonetic language, so pronunciation should be easy. In spelling, the letter e is used to represent both [e] and [ɛ]; while the letter o is used to represent both [o] and [ɔ]. Italian consonant + vowel combinations The consonant h is always silent. Stress falls on the second-to-last syllable in Italian. 3. 4.
All nouns in Italian have a gender (masculine or feminine) and the articles must agree with the gender. 5. Italian Lesson 1. Disclaimer This page is being provided to me, Tyler Jones, by Lucio Chiappetti to hopefully be of value to people using the Web.
These pages are provided by Lucio Chiappetti in his spare time, more or less following the template and cadence of the Spanish pages by Tyler Jones. However the author does not guarantee to provide compilation of new pages regularly. This page is only meant to be viewed through Mosaic, for Mac, Windows, or X. Foreign language characters will not show up correctly under a text-based viewer like Lynx. Introduction My name is Lucio Chiappetti. Lesson 1 This Week's New Words: Numbers 1-10 Pronunciation The Italian alphabet is fairly similar to our own (English, or depending on where you're from, American). Gli The gli (followed or not by another vowel) in Italian is pronounced more or less as ll in Spanish Thus, the Italian word coniglio (rabbit) is pronounced like conihlyo. and the word conigli (rabbits) is pronounced like conihli. gn h a, e, i, o, u a e i o u.
Short Lesson 1 - Italian Language Basics. The Basics About Italian Language. Learn Italian online. With our podcast, learning Italian is easy.