Italian for Tourists - The Words Every Tourist Should Know

I have been trying to learn a bit on Duolingo. Your pronunciation is so good!

Meth problems even there

Very cool helpful video thank you! Ciao!

This is a nice condensed summary of tourist basic words.

"Salve" - one of the few words I remember from Latin 😀

The accent in Italian💀

THANK YOU SO MUCH!GREAT HELP!

I stumbled upon your videos by chance, and was really moved by how much you seem to appreciate our country. I'm glad you had a great time staying here each time you went, and I just wanted to drop a big "Thank You".

Italian sounds like if English, Spanish, and French all raised the same baby.

Thanks for this! Going in June!

Thank you Marc!
We enjoy your channel and find them so helpful. In your opinion, is it too early to book an April flight to Rome?

I studied Italian on a language app for a year before my trip this year to Italy. Speaking Italian made for an excellent experience with the locals with them being gracious. I like how there are so many cognates in the vocabulary between English and Italian.

Great video per usual!!! All of your videos are so helpful! We’ll be binge watching all of your Italy videos now! 🤣👌🏼

So much like spanish.. languages of love..

I like these videos! Don't know if I'll ever make it to Italy, but I like trying to learn the little bits of useful language.

I was in Italy in 2019 and heading back in November. These little words and phrases really go along way with the locals. They totally respect the effort.

If you say " Salve " when coming in a place and " arrivederci " when you go out, it will always be fine, everytime of the day

Very useful video.
Just have to pronunciate vorrei and birra with hard rrrr.

You have a grasp on niceness. gotta say!

Molto bene. Gratzie. ✌

I found ghiacchio to be the most useful word. Ice!

That is the informal way to say HI and Bye.

Love Sorrento!

Thanks for the tips. Sorrento is one of my favorite places to visit. One of our first stops is Pizzeria Aurora. 😜

Beautiful Italy

Thanks for introducing some Italian terminology to our American friends! 🇺🇸🇮🇹 I would only argue about the term “ciao”. It’s very informal, and is usually used by friends, or by adults to young people. You rarely enter a public activity with “Ciao” (apart, of course, if you already know the staff members). With “Buongiorno” and “Buonasera”, I would add “Salve”. A more formal “Ciao”, easy to apprehend and very common in Italy for starting a good conversation.

How did you get such a hot wife? lol

Not to nit-pick Mark, but ciao is really for friends and acquaintances, when walking into a new place, store, bar, restaurant, then buon giorno is really more appropriate. Grazie.

Sorry man to made u redo the video. Love your channel :)

I'm going to Italy for the first time next week. I've been watching A LOT of your videos to get ready for the trip!

Great video Mark, thanks. I knew some of these and back in the good old days of 1988 and my Europe trip we didn't have the luxury of listening to hear somebody pronounce it unless you bought a book with a cassette. As students we butchered grazie, saying GRAHT-zee. When we got back my father-in-law learning Italian cringed what he heard me say it and corrected me, lol! I knew some phrase Italian and tried to use Spanish where I could, which was sometimes successful and other times so different I wasn't understood. In Spanish for example the word for entrance is similar but exit is salida, way different.

I wouldn't use "voglio" (I want) when ordering food though. Could be considered impolite

You need to work on your accent a bit, it doesn't sound nearly as accurate as Brad Pitt!

I will be in Italy at the end of the month. We will be travelling the length of Italy by train. From the Swiss border to Positano.

I always dream of seeing italy!

Bravissimo. Grazie mille amico. Vi auguro una buona Giornata

Really like the new graphics you have incorporated into your new videos like these. Adds a lot to the information exchange. Kudos.

Perfect timing, Wolter. I will be in Italy on Saturday as long as the airport gods smile upon us, and as with all my trips, your videos have been very helpful. Grazie!

I wish this had come out before my trip in July, lol. I know enough Spanish to usually make the leap in Italian. Having an Italian tour guide, watching videos and just picking up words as I went was just fine. Most do speak English, but I still always tried.

The very first word I learned in Italian was 'domani' 🙂 Like in 'yeah, we'll get to that tomorrow' or 'sure, we'll fix that tomorrow' 🙂 It was always 'domani, domani' 🙂 Now just so you know, I was still 0 when I first was in Italy 🙂

If all else fails, just remember
“(Scusa) puoi parlare l’inglese?”
“Can you speak English?”

Very helpful.

Wow, just in time! I'll be studying abroad in Italy for a few months and I was about to look for these types of videos. Thank you :)

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Your pronunciation is almost spot on but I'd like to correct two accents and a sentence(which is still perfectly understandable even without my intervention) :
vorrei= the accent is on the E
dov'è = the accent is on the E
cosa hai bisogno? = you need to add the preposition DI. Di cosa hai bisogno?

Grazie

Ahahaha.... you make me laugh! I'm Italian and your accent sounds so funny! Anyway I have a special request: I know you've already made some videos of New Orleans, very nice and usefull videos, but I would like one more video about Nola! I lived there 1 year and I miss it so much! Anyway congratulation for your channel! Keep punching! 🤜