Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! It is often said that people will judge your character within the first five minutes of meeting you. You would never speak to a potential employer as you would your best friend! Imagine a very well dressed Italian man steps into a room. He is very confident, stands tall, smiles, and reaches out his hand to greet you with a firm handshake. The Italian man introduces himself as the manager of the company for which you are interviewing. Do you know how to introduce yourself and greet someone unfamiliar in the Italian language? The way in which you greet someone may make all the difference in the world as to whether you get that job you are seeking, a date with that special someone, or even horrible service in a restaurant! Learning Italian greetings is an easy way to be polite, show respect, and begin all those wonderful Italian conversations you want to have while you are in Italy! Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com, a fun and effective way of learning! In this Italian Newbie lesson, you will learn how to introduce yourself in Italian, and you will learn both formal and informal Italian greetings. Then learn all about the Italian language and where you will most likely find people speaking Italian. Stop by ItalianPod101 to pick up more Italian learning materials and leave us a comment while you are there! 
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47 Responses to “Newbie Lesson #1 - First Impressions Can Last a Lifetime!”
Monday at 6:30 pm
First Comment!!
Congrats ItalianPod101.com!! Will I learn how to make some ravioli on this podcast? Ravioli is my favorite!!
Monday at 6:45 pm
Il primo post è mio!
The first post is mine!
Hehe but I was waiting for the website opening.
Marco here! Thanks for joining us!
See you soon
Monday at 6:46 pm
Nooooooo!
I got beaten by a few seconds!
Oh well!
Ciao a tutti
Marco
Monday at 6:49 pm
Hi Marco and Cinzia!
Piecere di conoscervi !!
Congratulations!!
Monday at 6:50 pm
Congrats, Italianpod101.com!!!
Que la Force sia conte!
(That’s “May the Force be with you” in Italian!!!)
Sachiko
Monday at 7:01 pm
L’Italiano e` la lingua del’amore! Awwww yeah!
Congratulations everyone! Cin cin!
Monday at 7:12 pm
benvenuti!!!
imparerete a fare i ravioli, pizza e tiramisu` come dolce!!
you`ll?learn to make ravioli pizza and tiramisu` as dessert!!
have fun!!!
d`oh! stasera bucatini alla matriciana e un bel bicchiere di vino rosso.
ciao
Monday at 7:18 pm
I second that Kieth!!
Amo TANTO i ravioli e gli spiedini. Voglio fare gli spiedini per la mia ragazza! Sono molto deliciosi, no? La cucina italiana e` la prima nella tutta il mondo!
Monday at 11:07 pm
Wow, everyone seems to be really up to speed on their Italian!
I learnt classical music since I was 5 years old, so I know all the musical terms. That’s about it though.
I’m excited to learn Italian though. The suburb I lived back in Sydney has lots of Italians, throughout the day you can see old guys sitting around seemingly yelling to each other and gesturing.
Fine. (Finished).
Monday at 11:49 pm
ciao a tutti!
non faccio altro che mangiare ravioli.
congrats everyone!
Tuesday at 1:04 am
A question: I don’t know anything about Italian but to me “sc” sounds like “sh” at times and “s” at other times.
Which one is closer to standard?
Grazie!
Tuesday at 2:17 am
Wow, Congrats on the new site!
Great lesson! I really like how “Laura” is pronounced in Italian, hehe…
ciao
Tuesday at 3:09 am
Io sono contento che adesso noi possiamo parlare anche in italiano.
Questa lingua mi piace anche moltissimo.
Ci vediamo!!!
Tuesday at 4:11 am
Finally! I’ve longed for this. I just gave up the japanese, for a while, to learn italian instead. I think I will be fluent in italian faster than japanese so. If I think about everything I learned on jpod I’m excited about “iPod” hahaha. I will learn it in an instant!
Ciao a tutti
Tuesday at 5:56 am
Wow…now there is ipod101…..what other languages are you all going to offer?
Tuesday at 10:42 am
Congratulations!
Really glad to see this course live! Will definitely be checking it out as it develops and grows. Keep up the good work.
Joseph
Tuesday at 10:49 am
IP101!
WOW! after looking at this pic and my experience I think of making the switch.
Congratulations for the launch IP101!
S_R_C
Tuesday at 11:24 am
Signor Hyunwoo Sun,
in italian you have to remember these combinations:
ci, ce = english chi, che
so therefore,
sci, sce = shi, she
if you want to make those sounds hard just add H:
chi, che = ki, ke
schi, sche = ski, ske
e` facile, no?
pretty easy, right?
Tuesday at 5:50 pm
hey Marky, you speak italian too?
Cinzia, Marco,
Congrats for the launch!
Im interested in learning some Italian. I had French in school. Does that give me a head start?
ciao
Tuesday at 11:27 pm
Ciao
Eccomi = here I am
for Keith
concerning cooking, I can only say we will make your mouth water
for Hyunwoo Sun
careful you wrote “Piecere”, but it is “Piacere”.
regarding the sci, sce and ci, ce I guess markystar gave you all the answers.
Way to go markystar
for Sachiko
It should be “Che la forza sia con te!”, you were very close
for maxiewawa
great idea we could do a lesson on italian gestures, well maybe it would take a whole series!
for davidcha
don’t eat too much ravioli, leave some space for lasagne! hehe
for Charles
I am glad you like the site
for João Paulo
thanks, hope you will keep following us
for JockZon (JZ)
I am sure you will learn a lot on IPod101!
for watermen
the sky is the limit!
for Joseph
thank you. Hope to see you around.
for Sindy RC
thanks for the support
for marvin
thanks! Knowing some French might help, but be careful of the pronunciation that is rather different.
Ci vediamo presto
See you soon
Marco
Wednesday at 6:09 am
Wow, video vocabulary! I didn’t notice that earlier. “Awesome job” to those who put all this content together!
Wednesday at 5:45 pm
How did I not know about this?
Thursday at 12:10 am
CIAOOOO !
Helloooo
Thank you everyone!
I am so glad you all liked the website and Marco and I will wait for your comments and posts to know your ideas and opinions.
Keep posting!
e…
CI DIVERTIREMO TANTO A STUDIARE INSIEME ITALIANO!
(we will have fun in studying ITALIAN together)
!
A prestissimo!
(see you very soon)
Thursday at 9:28 am
Ciao!
Io sono molto contenta di aver trovato ItalianPod!
Io amo molto la lingua e la cultura italiana.
Complimenti!
Friday at 12:42 am
Ciao Cinzia! Ciao Marco!
You guys rock!
Friday at 7:47 am
Ciao! Congratulations for the site! I’m glad you finally launched Italianpod! Now I just have to find time to study Japanese and Italian at the same time…
By the way? was that Peter’s voice in the video vocabulary??? it sounded too familiar to me…
Can’t wait for the next lesson!
Vane
Friday at 6:35 pm
for Vane
Yes you heard right! It was Peter.
In some future lessons I am going to use a character named Peter and get him into all sort of crazy situations. Hihi
Ciao
Saturday at 12:36 am
Nice. I’ve been waiting for this site. Every since I visited Italy on my honeymoon I’ve been really into Italian culture and cuisine. Glad to see the pod101 group start an Italian site. Hope I can balance Italian and Japanese. Looking forward to all the lessons!
Saturday at 11:40 am
Chiao Cinzia e Marco!
(Does the La have to be capitalized?)
Piacere di conoscerLa. Mi chiamo Katie.
So far, so good, you guys! Molto bene!
I picked up a little Italian after studying on my own in 2006 (the Winter Games in Torino really piqued my interest), and it’s nice to see an ItalianPod that works like JapanesePod does! I also wanted to say… perhaps take a leaf out of their book too… have multiple speakers! It’s nice to hear the different people over at JPod, and it would be nice to hear others here at IPod (when you can manage), too! Otherwise…. it sounds kind of “set up” or “one sided”….. um, scripted, you know? But you guys have great pizzaz, so you’ll be wonderful hosts!
Hmmm… I suppose for myself, I’m looking for “everyday” Italian, as in vocab and phrases I’ll use every day. Eventually, I’d like to get into the grammatical nitty gritty, verb conjugations and the like. (I had began a some in my previous study.)
Oh! I just had a thought: pick Torino as one of your cities!
I’m gonna’ steal Cinzia’s line: A prestissimo!
P.S. I teach French and took some Spanish courses while in University, so Italian looks a lot like Spanish mixed with French to me!
But I can usually pick out a lot of content from reading because of my French. ^_^
Saturday at 10:16 pm
Dear ladykuroda,
thank you for the comment, we really appreciate any feedback and you have given us a lot!
We are certainly going to offer more speakers, but don’t want to use up our best assets now. That is why I am the host. Luckily I am balanced by Cinzia. hehe
We shall have tons of everyday phrases available in a few months, so please keep listening!
“conoscerLa” should be with a capital L, but you can also find it without it especially in handwriting.
I am sure you will be able to pick up a lot using your French and Spanish skills, just watch out for the “false friends”.
Arrivederci
Monday at 2:28 am
Amazing! I’ve always wanted to learn Italian! I speak spanish (native tongue) french and japanese (sort of) but i’ve wanted to learn this for soooo long!
Grazie Mille!
-Jordi
Monday at 12:04 pm
CIAO BELLI!
Sono felicissima di leggere i vostri commenti! Grazie
(I am SUPER happy to read your comments)
and please ask us everything ! if you need suggestions for a trip to Italy or (overall to me) if you go to Naples and you need to taste the real PIZZA in the REAL city…
CIAO CIAO
io vado a mangiare (non la pizza purtroppo)
i am going to eat (not pizza … unfortunately!)
BACI
C!
Thursday at 4:53 pm
Grazie per questo sito. Stavo cercando qualcosa per nostri studenti qui in italia. C’e un livello advansato vero? Io devo lavorare sulla lingua scritta quindi aiutami!!
a presto,
Shandra
Saturday at 10:18 am
Cara Shandra,
Di avanzato per ora stiamo offrendo i blog. Ma tra poco inizieremo anche serie più avanzate.
Per la lingua scritta puoi provare ad ascoltare ai blog, tradurli in inglese e poi paragonare la tua traduzione con quella del PDF.
Siamo aperti a qualsiasi suggerimento.
Ciao
Marco
Wednesday at 3:52 am
Ciao!
Grazie, Marco and Cinzia!!!!
i’m so happy to have an ability to learn Italian in such an easy way!
i waited for this opportunity for so long.
i love your style of doing the lessons!!!
Svetlana(Zverka) from Russia
Wednesday at 11:47 pm
Dear Svetlana,
I am happy to hear that you enjoy our lessons.
Buon ascolto!!
Happy listening!
Marco
Wednesday at 11:15 am
Ciao Marco and Cinzia,
My family is from Lucca and has been un the U.S. since my great grandparents came here in the early 1900’s. In the couple of generations my family stopped speaking Italian. My grandmother only remembers her father speaking it when he was upset so she doesn’t know much. I really love the lessons and have listened to them all so far and hope to pass on the language and cultural history to my children. Thank you for putting your time and energy in to helping people learn the language.
Thanks, Bob (California’s wine country)
Thursday at 1:03 am
Hey Bob,
thank you very much for your comment and support!
I adore thinking about the Italians who moved to US in the early 1900’s
I am glad yu are enjoynig the lessons and I hope they will help you to remember what you already have inside yourself as a heritage!
PS
I smile if I think about about your grandmother’s father speaking in Italian when angry! I actually do kind of the same… speaking in neapolitan dialect when getting reall angry!
You know… no one can escape or forget his/her own origins!
Ciao ciao e grazie!
C!
Friday at 3:08 am
Ciao - ha my first word except I’ve been saying that one for awhile.
I’m excited to learn Italian. I thought it would be a lot like Spanish, but I’m finding it’s a bit more difficult. Spanish was very easy to learn.
I don’t think I have any Italian in me, but I believe the customs and fashion are both very comforting and romantic. I would love to go visit one day.
Anyway, I’m hoping someone knows that best way to study. Listen over and over again? ha! Write it down? I have 3 kids and very little concentration time. I’ve hooked up with some friends who might be studying with me over Skype so hopefully we can get something going.
Ciao,
Rebecca
Friday at 4:29 pm
Dear Rebecca,
Benvenuta!
Wellcome!
Do not get discouraged if Italian may seem a little more difficult compared to Spanish.
I am sure that sometimes you get confused by some words and usages between the two languages that if initially seem similar, in the end are very far apart.
My advice is have fun, especially with 3 kids around you!
Try playing with them by using Italian words, I am sure they will be very curious about what you are doing.
A presto
Marco
Friday at 11:35 am
Caio!
Good practice for me too 
Love these lessons! Though is it taking me a while to get the hang of myfeed.
My daughter loves the lessons too and wants me to tell her new words every day.
Wednesday at 11:47 am
Dear bendeb,
Benvenuta!
We are glad you are enjoying the podcast.
p.s. be careful you wrote “Caio”, it is a common spelling mistake also we Italians do, especially when writing on mobile phones.
Thursday at 10:49 am
Oops! Scuzi
Sunday at 1:16 am
reviewing!! ^^
Friday at 1:09 am
Mi pare da essere un buon sito per imparare questa lingua. Devo dire che mi piace davvero. WOW
It looks like a good place to start learning this language. I really like it… WOW
Friday at 3:02 am
Grazie Lino,
facciamo del nostro meglio.
Complimenti per il tuo italiano!
We do our best, congratulations for your Italian!
Thursday at 11:30 pm
Mi chiamo Melanie, ed amo italianpod101.com!
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