18: How to ask "Where are you from?" in Italian
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🗓️ 3 April 2018
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Summary
Learn the most popular conversation starter of all time - an essential topic to master if you want to make small talk with Italians.
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Today's Italian words
Di dove sei? = Where are you from? (informal)
Di = from
Dove = where
Sei = you are (informal)
è = you are (formal)
Di dov'è? = where are you from? (formal)
Siete = you both/all are
Sono = I am
Inglese = English
Americano/a = American
Australiano/a = Australian
Italiano/a = Italian
E tu? = And you? (informal)
E lei? = And you? (formal)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's the first question most Italians ask when making small talk? |
| 0:06.3 | Where are you from is probably the most common. |
| 0:09.5 | Find out how to ask people where they're from and tell them about your nationality |
| 0:13.3 | in this week's episode of Five Minute Italian. Ciao to all |
| 0:25.6 | and welcome |
| 0:27.6 | Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minute Italian. I'm Katie. |
| 0:33.8 | And I'm Matteo. |
| 0:34.8 | Ciao. |
| 0:36.0 | And today's lesson is the first in a mini-series on how to have a basic conversation in Italian. |
| 0:42.4 | In this lesson, you'll learn how to ask someone where they're from and talk about your own |
| 0:46.9 | nationality. We're also going to learn how to use one of the most important verbs in Italian, |
| 0:52.6 | which is, to be. To ask someone where they're from, you can say, |
| 0:59.0 | di dove say. |
| 1:01.0 | Now, Italians actually say it backwards. |
| 1:05.0 | Di dove say. |
| 1:07.0 | Di means from. |
| 1:10.0 | Dove means where |
| 1:12.8 | and say means you are |
| 1:16.4 | So they literally say |
| 1:18.4 | From where you are |
| 1:21.2 | Di dover say |
| 1:22.6 | So far we've learned that say |
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