Italian Course Beginner Series 15: Common Words & Phrases! Video Lecture | Learn Italian Language: For Beginners and Travellers

hello and welcome to this Italian
tutorial you know who it is
it's Claudio and today I'm gonna give
you a treat common words and phrases in
Italian but we're not going to cover
things like Chou's are there and you
know all the different ways to say hi
and goodbye because we've we had a video
on that and I don't think that's as
interesting as learning a few very
useful words that are really common and
you can use in order to make your own
sentences and speak in Italian so this
is a perfect video if you are learning
Italian and you're just starting out and
you are eager to practice okay so let's
start by telling you what the most
common word in the whole entire language
by far is and the word is thing give me
a thing I'll tell you a thing oh I have
a thing oh I have to I'm thinking of
something oh no nothing oh the thing you
know that thing also um it so happens
that an Italian you use the word thing
even more than you would in English for
instance when you ask the question what
and you use the interrogative adverb
what in English which is this one well
basically in Italian you use the same
word so thin and what are actually the
same word in Italian so imagine how
popular this word is it's by far the
most abused word in the Italian language
okay the word is Carl czar it's also
very easy to pronounce isn't it Kaza cut
like in cool and Z like in zoo car czar
Kaza and if you want to make it a
question Kaza you just change the
intonation and in the spelling you would
add a question mark
and basically it's very useful if you're
if you're foreigner visiting Italy it
can turn out use for when you don't
understand what a native speaker is
saying you can you can say Casa and of
course it's not the most polite way of
asking somebody to repeat but you know
it works so this is the first word that
you have to learn and if you're planning
on learning just one word in Italian
this has to be it
okay let's move on now this is basically
a sentence that you can personalize now
I'll show you what I mean now these
words are very useful this and that
questo quello quest quello questa means
this and quillo means that so they are
very used for words very powerful they
allow you to do a lot especially if
you're in the shop and you're really you
know in real-life situations you really
want to you know pick something or make
the person in front of you understand
what you mean and what you want okay and
a an is a very useful word to know I
know it's just the letter but it's also
a word and it means is if you don't know
or if you want to understand more about
this go back to the first video and
watch and watch that because that's
where I explain it okay so this is or
that is questo è quello at hopefully by
the end of video you will be able to
make your own sentences because this is
the actual purpose of this video okay
Bello Bello means nice good looking and
if you want the feminine version of it
you just substitute the O with an A so
Bella Bella
instead of Bello
crystal at belleau it means this is nice
now you can actually speak Italian and
say this is nice bruto means not
nice-looking not good-looking bad brutal
it's difficult to pronounce because of
the R sound so if you can't drill your
tongue this is tricky but try and
practice training your tongue and
trilling your tongue is something very
advanced so we will have a look at that
and do the best job you can and
everything should be fine so you can say
quest or a bellow quail or a brute oh so
this is good the other one isn't so
talking about shops and you know
restaurants open closed appear toe
queues or apart o qs or of course to
pronounce all italian words you need to
know how to pronounce the italian vowels
so go back and watch that video if
you're struggling if you're not
struggling that's good okay two very
useful words are mine and yours now in
English you use the word my and mine
when you need an adjective or a pronoun
respectively you're all yours for
instance your bag is yours in Italian
there's no difference between my and
mine or your and yours
basically in Italian there's only one
word meal so you can say quest or a meal
that means this is mine or you can say
Mia mama
this means my mother okay so my and mine
are just one single word same as your
and yours well look at door that is
yours okay so these are all adjectives
that are very useful that you can put
just after the verb to be for the
sentence to make sense now
adding one more level of complexity we
can basically add math which is but MA
so this is nice but here so no three
step so freeze add your sauna means I am
and priest it means sad so you could say
this is nice but I'm sad I know it
doesn't make sense but I'm just picking
the most common words so that you can
personalize these sentences and kind of
do what you want with them
yo saw not means I am to say means you
are now we will have a video
specifically on the verb to be because
it's such a useful verb and it's
probably the first verb that we will
study but for the purpose of this video
just stick with my I'm sorry stick with
I and you okay yo so no I am do say you
are you can also omit the subject in
Italian so in English you say I am you
can't just say am because that wouldn't
make sense people wouldn't understand
what you mean but in Italian people
would people actually do omit the
personal pronouns so these are other
adjectives that you may want to know
this means happy content or content
3-sphere sad arrabbiata very difficult
to pronounce and it's a very good word
to practice you are it means sad I'm
sorry it means angry arrabiata
pissed-off F Amato
this means hungry Stanko this means
tired quickly these are two adverbs this
means here and the second one means
they're so very useful crystal a qui
this is here quelle heure Utley
that's there ok2say Lee you are there
people don't use the pronoun the
personal pronoun so say Lee this means
you are there say Lee with a question
mark
so say Lee with a question mark would be
a very common question are you there
like are you already there
I don't know also I just noticed that
there's a mistake in my notes and this
pisses me off
yo so no arrabbiata I'm really angry Lee
should have an acute accent what does it
do it just changes the sound from Lee -
Lee it's a more emphasized
E ok so correct it in your notebook if
you are copying it out otherwise print
it and remember that this is wrong this
is another sentence but this time we are
requesting something this was just a
statement this is going to be a request
and it's also going to be very useful
for you scusi is what you want to say
before asking anything in Italian it
makes everything more polite and you
appear to be kind and it's all good
scusi like excuse me it's something nice
to say and you don't have to change it
you know it just stays the way it is
vorrei this means I would like I would
like for a own do it
threat okay so una means one numero uno
so or not means one hoon is the
contracted form of una and it's also an
indefinite article so it's more common
than una when it comes to say things
like one coffee a coffee own cafe this
may
one coffee do it cafe two coffees three
cafe this means exactly three coffees so
excuse me I would like to have two
coffees this is exactly what this means
scusi but I do it cafe traffic own cafe
you can't have more than three by the
way it's just it's illegal and this is
another level of complexity added to
this sentence so this is the very useful
stuff that you have to learn and this is
something for the enthusiasts that want
to learn more so Peter is another
preposition a little bit like here it's
a preposition and it means four so I
would like a coffee for me for myself
for my son for my wife for my husband
for my daughter so me means me you
wouldn't guess that but mio figlio this
means my son mia more yeah my wife son
is a regular masculine word it ends in
all therefore we have the relative
adjective ending in our as well more
year wife is feminine however it doesn't
end in a but even if it doesn't end in a
we said it's feminine therefore it's
possessive adjectives ends in a mio
marito this is husband Morita husband my
husband and Mia via now daughter is
feminine and it's regular it ends in a
so you can just put an A there and have
your right possessive adjectives Mia
philia okay guys so I hope that with
this video I've enabled you to speak a
lot of Italian even though you may not
be rock solid on grammar just
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