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While traveling and meeting new people in Italy, one of the most common questions people want to know is, “where are you from?” Knowing how to answer this simple phrase in Italian is important to communicating with the people in Italy. Using your Italian language skills to ask where someone is from is a pleasant way to begin a conversation. Furthermore, this phrase is essential to getting to know someone better in Italy!
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Newbie lesson will teach you how to tell people what city or country you are from and how to ask them the same question in Italian. It also covers Italian pronoun usage so you can ask where other people and things came from as well. Finally, learn a little about Rome’s history! Then, stop by ItalianPod101 to pick up even more great Italian learning materials! Leave us a comment while you’re there! 
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20 Responses to “Newbie Lesson #3 - Do People Understand Where You’re Coming From in Italy?”
Tuesday at 6:30 pm
Ciao a tutti! Hello everyone! Where are you from?
Wednesday at 3:48 am
ciao! sono jon, vengo dall’ inghilterra pero in questo momento vive in giappone. io studio giapponese, ma perche la mia ragazza e italiana, desidero imparare italiano. piacere di conoscerti! grazie per questo site!
Wednesday at 5:06 am
FYI, the grammar, content and vocab question screens in the practice area are rather broken.
For content, no questions show up at all. Check Answers gives a confusing screen with a grammar explanation about no/non, and shows an (unanswered) content question.
For Grammar: one item shows up, but there is no question, just what may be 4 multiple choice asnwers to choose from. There are two more empty circled areas.
For Vocabulary questions, just a single question shows up, but check answers shows 3…
Wednesday at 5:14 am
Suggestion 1: make Leaving a Reply easier for logged in users by pre-populating name and email fields.
Suggestion 2 (nit): use consistent language, for instance on this page we have 3 different words to describe one thing:
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Wednesday at 7:33 am
memmifer, we have fixed the issues with the questions
Thank you for the good suggestions, and for pointing out the problem!
Wednesday at 9:51 am
Ciao John!
Piacere di conoscerti.
La tua ragazza cucina piatti italiani?
Does your girlfriend cook Italian dishes?
Wednesday at 9:52 am
Dear memmifer,
thank you for pointing out the problems.
Any suggestion is more than welcome.
Buona giornata
Have a nice day
Marco
Wednesday at 11:34 am
for thatkidpercy:
CHE BELLO!!!! hai la fidanzata italiana?
Do you have an italian girlfriend?
So we’ll need to arrange the a lesson about a ROMANTIC DATE (un appuntamento romantico) with an italian girl!
Cinzia
Thursday at 4:59 pm
You’ve done a terrible thing making me think about food now, I’m so hungry! Yes, luckily for me she loves to cook Italian food - in fact, all of her family do. Whenever we’re in Italy at her parents house it’s like an intense culinary experience - even the pasta is hand made!
And yes, a romantic date lesson would be a great idea!
Jon
Friday at 3:34 am
Good lesson. Grazie Marco e Cinzia,
One minor translation error: “Note that we could also answer saying “Siamo giapponesi”, (We are Italian),
although this answer does not duplicate the question’s grammatical structure.” I believe you mean “We are Japanese.” Keep up the good work and glad to have initially found you on iTunes.
Buona giornata
Ed
Friday at 11:49 am
4 Ed
GRAZIE MILLE ED,
sometimes it can be difficult,
but thank you very much !
we will be more careful next time
Cinzia
Tuesday at 6:20 am
Ciao!
Sono della Repubblica Dominicana.
Tuesday at 11:15 am
Benvenuta Jacquelline!
Spero che ti possa divertire con noi.
I hope that you will have fun with us.
Marco
Wednesday at 9:38 am
Why the use of “Essi” for they in “essi sono”?
Loro appears everywhere else I have seen in the verb tables.
Wednesday at 11:51 pm
Dear Peter,
“Essi” masculine and “esse” femminine can be used in place of “loro”, so I must have inadvertently written “essi” instead of “loro”.
Thank you for your comments
Friday at 3:09 am
Dear Marco,
Yes but essi/esse is used nowhere else and is out of line with the otherwise invariable use of loro when declining verbs here.
For those coming after me it should be changed to avoid confusion or an explanation provided.
Friday at 9:18 am
Dear Peter,
I have changed Essi to Loro.
Thank you for your help in improving our user experience.
Buona giornata
Marco
Saturday at 4:20 am
Caio Marco e Cinzia,
It is July 4, and I just finished listening to the 3rd Newbie lesson. I noticed that the word “essi” was not changed to “loro” in the audio or in the pdf file. Also, in the Grammar Bank, Di dove sei? section, the translation for example sentence #5 is incorrect:
“5. I miei amici sono giapponesi.
My friends are Italian.” - should be “My friends are Japanese.”
And, you have Italian and English in the example sentence #10:
“10. Da dove vengono Mark and John? (”and” should be “e”)
Where are Mark and John from?”
Were you planning on updating the pdf and website to fix these errors?
Otherwise, I am enjoying your lessons. Grazie.
Sunday at 10:52 am
Why no lesson notes?
Tuesday at 10:40 am
Dear Phil,
The problems should have been fixed.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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