Italian Course Beginner Series 3: Basic Expressions Video Lecture | Learn Italian Language: For Beginners and Travellers

hello welcome to this video my name is
Claudia and today we're going to have a
look at some basic Italian expressions
these expressions are very useful very
common and also very easy to learn so
the first one is ciao ciao
and it means hi or goodbye it's not very
formal so you shouldn't be using that
with all the people or people you don't
know but it's always better than nothing
so very useful the second expression is
basically yes and no see no and notice
that the pronunciation of no is a bit
different it's more similar to not than
it is to know it's pronounced not know
if you want to say yes you say see and
most people don't know this but see is
actually written with an accent at the
very end acute accent what that does it
basically changes the pronunciation so
it's not an apostrophe it's not like I
have it's just there to tell you that
the sound is a bit different so instead
of see it's si si si any means yes the
third expression means please or excuse
me
you can use it for both cases it's
pronounced schools up schools up or
schools II if you want to make it polite
you basically substitute
the letter A with the letter I and he
becomes school Z and that makes it more
polite it means please excuse me also
like ciao is a very eclectic word you
can basically use it in many different
situations a bit of a jack-of-all-trades
Gracia
this means thank you so you have to
learn this because it's very important
not extremely easy to pronounce but
we're going to have a look at how to
pronounce the R sound and the Z sound in
Italian in later videos but for now just
remember that the way to say thank you
is gadot see it Korat see it ah the last
two expressions so none parla Italiano
this means I do not speak Italian now
there are a few things that you want to
notice first of all the word Italian
like the word English do not have a
capital letter and this is not a mistake
this is how the Italian language works
if you don't use the capital letters for
countries or languages and this is the
verb it means I speak now where is the I
well the subject I is included in here
basically we could have written
yo non parlo Italiano
and this would have translated in I do
not speak Italian part a lot being the
verb nun is basically a word that makes
the sentence negative if it's positive
or positive if it's negative ile means I
in Italian the reason why this was
omitted in this case and it's always
omitted in Italian is because of the way
the language works really basically the
verb has the information of who is doing
the action in it so when I say part of
law it means I speak if I said partly
with an eye that would have meant you
speak so in this case you do not speak
Italian in this cases I do not speak
Italian so that's the reason why
personal pronouns are often omitted in
Italian now we can see that we have the
same issue in the second and last in the
very last sentence partly in glaser this
means do you speak English
and there is something else that we want
to notice now as you can see there's no
obsolete verb in English we would have
asked something like
do you speak English
but as you can see in Italian nothing
changes in Italian when you ask a
question you don't actually change
anything in the sentence so this makes
it a lot easier for you to learn it so
how do you make a question in Italian
how do you ask a question
well you just simply change the
intonation and you add a question mark
partly in glaser means you speak English
badly in glazier means do you speak
English
of course change the intonation you
change the meaning of the sentence okay
guys so these phrases are really really
common and really important I hope you
found this video helpful I will see you
guys in the next video