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You’ll need “where” in Italian to ask really useful questions. Here, you’ll see how to pronounce it the right way and use it in common phrases.
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Today's Italian words:
Dov’è il bagno? = Where’s the bathroom?
Dov’è la stazione? = Where’s the station?
Dove vivi? = Where do you live?
Di dove sei? = Where are you from?
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0:00.0 | The word for where is one of the most useful words you can learn in Italian. |
0:05.0 | You'll need it for small talk, like asking where are you from, and also for practical questions like, where's the train station? |
0:13.0 | But something interesting happened with word where in Italian when you ask a question like, where is? |
0:19.0 | In today's episode, you'll see what we mean. |
0:33.6 | Hi everyone and welcome to learn Italian with Joy of Languages. |
0:39.1 | In today's episode we're looking at the Italian word for where. |
0:43.0 | It's so common you might have come across it already. |
0:46.3 | But it's a word that lots of learners don't realize they're not saying correctly. |
0:50.8 | So you'll also find out how to say it the right way. And you'll get some handy phrases |
0:57.2 | using wear in Italian that will really help you when you're in Italy. But before we get started, |
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1:11.3 | when we release a new episode and you'll help our podcast grow so that we can keep making free |
1:16.1 | lessons like this one grazie the italian word for where is dove dove for example you could say, |
1:28.3 | Where should say, where should we go for dinner? |
1:33.3 | Literally, where, we go to, dinner, dinner. |
1:39.3 | Dinner, do we want to dinner. Or if you wanted to to an italian and get to know a bit more about them |
1:47.8 | you could ask do where do you live literally do where you live you live dove vivi or another very useful question would be, di dove say. Where are you from? Literally. |
2:06.5 | Di from. Dove? Where? Say. You are. The literal translation isn't the same as English, but this is the most natural way to ask |
2:19.2 | where are you from or where do you come from? Italians like to ask you this question as well. And to get the |
2:25.8 | pronunciation right for dover, you want to make sure not to say dovet, but dover. A lot of learners add an a sound at the end because English files tend to be |
2:38.6 | longer and they kind of slide all over the place a little bit but in Italian they're much shorter |
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