How do you say nice to meet you in Italian?

It's a phrase you'll definitely need in Italy anytime you meet someone new.

There's one simple word that you can use, but you'll also get to see a couple of extra ways depending on whether you want to be formal or informal. Hi everyone and welcome to learn Italian with Joe of Languages.

You're going to see how to say nice to meet you in Italian.

It's a really useful greeting that helps you come across

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Grazie. The great news is that there's one word you can always use in Italian to say,

nice to meet you. It works whether you want to be formal or informal.

Piacere. Piacere.

It's a bit like the English word pleased, like in pleased to meet you.

This will likely be one of the first words you'll say to someone in Italy.

So getting the pronunciation right will make a good first impression.

You'll sound like you really know Italian and it will stop Italian switching to English right away.

The first three letters of this word are P-I-A.

But when the I and the A are said together it becomes more like a yeah sound pia

pia pia piae and then there are also the letters c e which follow in pacer. When you have C and E next to each other in Italian, it makes a

ch-sound. So, ch-ch, ch. Piacere. And finally, the word ends in E. It would be easy to think that it's pronounced

Piacere or maybe even Piaceri, but it's a short e-sound, eh, e. Piacere Piacere

And if you want to say really nice to meet you, you can just add

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