You have traveled so far to visit with the side of your family that lives in Italy. You can’t wait to explore your Italian roots, visit the place where your Italian family began, and get caught up with your Italian family. They are very gracious hosts and invite you into their home in the Italian countryside. Your Italian great uncle Gianni begins right after dinner by asking you in Italian, “come stai?” He patiently sits through your twenty-minute conversation in which you tell him everything from where you go to college to what you enjoy doing in your spare time…switching back and forth between English and Italian the entire time! After you are done, he laughs and explains that many people learning Italian make the same mistake, but he only asked how you are in Italian! Well, don’t feel too bad…they were going to ask that anyway!
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! In this Italian Beginner lesson, you will learn how to ask the questions, “how are you,” and “what are you like,” in Italian and be sure you know the difference between the two! Then you will learn how to say you, food, places, and events are fine in Italian! Remember to visit ItalianPod101 for other great Italian learning materials!
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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! You’re standing in the elevator in an Italian office building, and you’re confused. You’re pretty sure the person you met while you were out last night told you in Italian to visit her today at work. Last night, she said in Italian, “Come by my office…talk to the receptionist on the thirteenth floor and she’ll point you in my direction.” So far, you’ve looked in every elevator in the building, but you don’t see a button for the thirteenth floor. You wonder whether you misunderstood her Italian, so you go to the security desk and ask in Italian, “My friend told me to visit her on the thirteenth floor, but I don’t see an elevator to take me there.” The security guard tells you in Italian, “That’s because there isn’t a thirteenth floor…we’re a little superstitious. If you have her name, I can tell you where she is.” You respond in Italian, “All I know is Maria.” The guard sighs and tells you in Italian, “That’s probably the most popular name in this building! Sorry.”
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Newbie lesson will show you how to count in Italian using ordinal numbers. We’ll also tell you where to go in Italy to see historic monuments of ancient Greece. Visit us at ItalianPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Italian lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!
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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! You are babysitting your six-year-old Italian nephew for the weekend, and when you run out of things to do in your house, you decide to take him to the Italian market so he can let loose and run out some energy. And he certainly is losing some of his energy as he terrorizes both the other Italian patrons and you! At every Italian vendor you visit, he picks up the goods and starts counting them out loud in Italian. At a vegetable stand, he pulls you over and asks you in Italian what something is. You tell him in Italian, “That’s a pomegranate.” He tells you in Italian, “I have one pomegranate, now two pomegranates, now three!” The vendor looks over at you disapprovingly, so you tell your nephew in Italian, “That’s enough…we’ll buy three of these and now we need to go to the next stop.” While you figure out where your nephew can’t get into any more trouble, you make a mental note to yourself in Italian not to take him anywhere with anything breakable!
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! This Italian Newbie lesson will teach you about how to form the Italian cardinal numbers from one through one thousand. We’ll also tell you about some fascinating cultural rituals on the Italian island of Sardinia, including a parade and festival you won’t want to miss! Visit us at ItalianPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Italian lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!
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There are so many choices to make in Italy! Today, you and your friends are spending the day together in Italy. But first you have to decide where you want to go! You and your Italian friends’ houses are scattered between Florence and Rome. Half of them are asking you in Italian, “do you want to go eat in Florence?” The rest of your friends are trying to persuade you in Italian, “let’s go sightseeing in Rome.” The final answer is up to you! But you have bigger problems than just finding an answer that will please everyone. You don’t know what bus or train to take from your house to either Florence or Rome. So you tell your friends in Italian that if they can tell you how “to go” from your house to either Italian city, you can do everything! Everyone seems happy with that idea…but they want to know which bus to take to your house in Italy! Isn’t that how this problem started?
Learning Italian with ItalianPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Italian! In this Italian Beginner lesson, we will be studying the function of the Italian verb andare in its presente indicativo conjugation. We will also discuss Italian verbs scendere and salire to discuss the action of boarding different vehicles in Italy. You will also learn how to form Italian compound numbers over twenty. Finally, we will be considering some features of tour bus transportation in Italy, their timetables, the different kinds of tickets available for Italian transportation, and certain disparities between northern and southern Italy. Visit us at ItalianPod101 for more great Italian lessons and learning materials. You don’t have to take an Italian bus to get there! Leave us a message while you are there!
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Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com. A little Italian can go such a long way! Whether you’re traveling, visiting, or sightseeing, ItalianPod101.com has all the essential travel phrases just for you! Today we are going to learn how to ask for the price of things you might want to buy. With so many nice things to buy in Italy this is an essential phrase to learn! 
