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195: What phrases do you need for Italy? We asked our teachers

Learn Italian with Joy of Languages

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

50 useful Italian words and phrases to know to get around Italy. From shopping and eating out to chatting and getting information.

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Today's Italian words:
C'è il Wi-fi qui? = Is there Wi-Fi here?
Do un'occhiata, grazie! = Just looking, thank you!
Scusi, è questa la fila per entrare? = Excuse me, is this the line to get in?
Quanto dista? = How far away is it?
Posso pagare con la carta? = Can I pay by card?
Ecco qui. = Here you go.

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0:00.0

Ciao, just a quick note before we get started, we wanted to let you know that doors to our online Italian school are opening very soon.

0:07.0

We'd love to see you there, so if you think you might like to join us, click the link in the description to find out more.

0:15.0

You might have just got back from Italy and realized that there were lots of Italian phrases that

0:21.1

you didn't know, so whether it was when you were ordering food, asking for information, or

0:26.0

making small talk. Or maybe you're about to go to Italy and you want to make sure that this

0:31.0

doesn't happen. This is really common and it's really frustrating because it can make you feel

0:37.0

like you have lots of gaps in your Italian. But it's really frustrating because it can make you feel like you have lots of gaps

0:39.2

in your Italian. But it's not your fault if you don't know the most useful phrases to get around

0:45.0

Italy because textbooks often give you long lists without showing you the ones that you'll

0:49.9

actually need the most often. In this episode, our Italian teachers share the phrases Italians actually use,

0:57.1

so you can focus on what you'll hear and use on your trip. Ciao to all and benvenuti.

1:14.6

Hi everyone and welcome to Learn Italian with Joy of Languages.

1:18.6

For today's episode we ask the teachers at our online Italian school

1:23.6

if you had to teach students just one Italian phrase to help them get around Italy. What would it be?

1:32.0

We'll share what they told us, but before we get started, can we ask you a quick

1:35.8

favor? If you're listening to this on your podcast app, could you click the subscribe or

1:40.5

follow button? This way you'll get notified when we release a new episode.

1:44.7

You'll help our podcast grow so that we can keep making free lessons like this one.

1:49.3

Grazie.

1:50.6

The phrases you hear are chosen by Italian, so they're natural sounding and something that

1:56.4

an Italian would really say.

1:58.8

You'll also hear the teachers pronounce each phrase.

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