140: Italian Grandma or Grandpa? How to Talk About Your Origins in Italian

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

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If you have an Italian grandma or grandpa, learning how to talk about your family in Italian will help you connect with your heritage on a deeper level.

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Today's Italian words:
Mia nonna era di… = My grandmother was from… (+ town)
Mio nonno era di… = My grandfather was from… (+ town)
I miei nonni erano di… = My grandparents were from (+ town)
Era di Roma = S/he was from Rome
Erano di Napoli = They were from Naples
Erano calabresi = They were Calabrian
I miei parenti = My relatives
I miei genitori = My parents
I miei cugini = My cousins

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0:00.0	Last summer, we met our student Rick for lunch in Milan.
0:04.0	He was full of energy because he just got back from a village in Sicily that he'd wanted to visit for decades.
0:10.0	Not just any village, the very special one where his nonna was born.
0:15.7	The Italians he met along the way were curious and asked a lot of questions.
0:20.2	These conversations weren't always
0:21.7	easy because he'd inherited the blood but not the language. But luckily Rick had been learning
0:27.2	Italian so while he didn't always say everything perfectly, he enjoyed his little chats with
0:32.2	the locals. Family is a really popular topic for everyday conversations in Italy.
0:37.8	So if you got an Italian family like Greek, this lesson will help you talk about them.
0:44.1	But Italians usually love talking about people in general.
0:47.8	So even if you don't have a family here, you learn some phrases to talk about people in your life
0:53.8	that will help you connect with
0:55.8	the locals on a more personal level.
1:10.2	Hi everyone and welcome.
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1:29.3	grow so we can keep making free lessons like this. Grazie. Today we're talking about
1:35.8	originisiana, Italian origins. Did you know that the Italian diaspora is around 60 to 80 million people.
1:46.2	It's larger than the population of Italians in Italy.
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