146: How Are You in Italian: Local Phrases You Should Know!

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

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Asking “how are you” in the right way is the perfect opener to any Italian conversation. Learn how to do it just like a local!

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Today's Italian words:
Come stai? = How are you (informal)
Come sta? = How are you (formal); How is he? How is she?
Come va? = How’s it going?
Tutto bene? = Everything ok?
Come vanno le cose? = How are things? (lit. How, they go, the things)
Che mi racconti? = What’s new with you? (lit. What, me, you tell)
Come va con… = How’s …. going?
Come va con il lavoro? = How’s work going?

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0:00.0	How Are You is one of the first and most important questions you'll ask in Italian.
0:05.0	Of course, you can just remember one basic phrase and be done with it.
0:09.0	But if you do that, then you'll be missing out on all those lovely local sounding phrases
0:14.0	that can help you communicate smoothly and also have more fun talking to Italians.
0:19.0	Yes, just like how in English sometimes you need a casual, how is it going?
0:24.8	And sometimes you want to go deeper with house life.
0:29.0	So in this lesson, you'll pick up a few different ways to ask Italians, how are you?
0:34.9	By the end, you'll know how to choose the perfect expression for any situation.
0:39.3	Hi everyone and welcome to learn Italian with joy of languages.
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1:12.4	this. Grazie. Today we're coming to you from England where we go sometimes in the hottest
1:18.9	months of summer to escape the Italian heat. We're still catching up with our friends back in Italy
1:25.0	and recently we got a message from one of our teachers,
1:28.9	Christina. We thought it would be fun to dissect because it had a lot of examples of how to say
1:36.3	how are you in Italian. Listen to the audio messages. How many ways to say, how are you, can you hear? Please keep in mind that as
1:46.1	this is a real conversation, the Italian is quite fast, but don't worry, we'll break it down
1:51.0	after.
1:52.4	Hi, Katie. How about?
1:55.5	All right? Here, it's a cold. How are the things in England? Brody, how is it?
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