| Hello everyone and welcome back to ItalianPod101. |
| My name is Desiree but you can call me Desy. |
| Il mio nome è Desiree ma potete chiamarmi Desy. |
| In this video, we're going to learn together how to say hi in Italian, so Italian greetings. |
| I saluti |
| The easiest one that you probably know already is ciao, ciao, which just means hi, hello. |
| You can say that to people that you meet for the first time or people that you meet on the street and you're just talking. |
| But if it's someone like your teacher or your future boss, you may want to be a bit more formal and say buongiorno. |
| Buongiorno, good day, if it's day, if it's daytime. |
| Usually, okay, in theory, it's supposed to be fine until 1 p.m. from which then you switch to buon pomeriggio, good afternoon, or buona sera, good evening. |
| Business that are kind of conservative, like maybe old shops with people that sell traditional products, |
| they would switch to buona sera immediately after 1 p.m. even if it's still like bright outside and don't use the buon pomeriggio in between. |
| But yeah, it's just a formal way to say hi. |
| Sometimes, instead of buongiorno, you will hear bondi, where di means giorno, it's still formal though, so don't worry, you can use that. |
| I like it more, it's more like hey, bondi, I don't know, I really like the accent at the end maybe, that's why, sounds more cheerful to me, bondi. |
| Of course, you can go with the hey or heyla, which doesn't need to have a real Italian word in that, so it's easy. |
| But I would say that if you say hey, you feel like you need to say the name at least of the person that you know, |
| because that's informal, right? Just say hey and it's not something that you can use with your teacher again, |
| so maybe you need to go like hey, Giulia, long time no see. |
| But if you don't remember the name, something really, really useful and that you will hear sometimes is hey, carissimo, |
| or hey, carissima, or cara, caro, which is just like dear, and carissimo is just like oh, extra dear, like you know. |
| Of course, it's something that you use with someone that you know already, |
| so if it's people that you have never seen before, just stick to buongiorno and you'll be fine. |
| Don't forget though that on the phone, you don't start with ciao or buongiorno or your name, |
| but you say pronto, pronto, which literally means ready. |
| So you just pick up the phone with pronto, then I'll go with ciao, sono Desy, oh, carissima, come stai? |
| And the reason why we say pronto is because we kept it from when we used like services to connect people, |
| like you know, when technology wasn't where it is today, we had to go through switchboards and operators |
| that would connect people from one side to the other, right? |
| The guy in the middle would ask the one and the other if they were ready, so they said ready, ready, |
| and then they were connected, so the first thing that you heard was pronto, and that's why we still use pronto. |
| I know that in English, it's common to say things like how are you, fine, fine, |
| like even to people that you don't know, like in the shop. |
| In Italian, we don't really do that, like not in shops, for example, with people that you have never seen before, |
| but we do use that when we meet people that we know already or when we are introduced to someone new, |
| and in that case, you can say come va, how are things going, come stai, how are you, |
| or tutto bene, everything's fine, which yeah, works kind of the same, but don't say that in shops. |
| Continuing our journey through the day, after buonasera, which is good evening, there is buonanotte, |
| so good night, but we don't say that when we meet, it's only when we say goodbye, |
| so buonanotte is just a good night, like you're sure that the other person is just going home and sleeping, |
| because otherwise it's buona serata, so like have a nice night from here on, |
| or buona giornata, have a good day from here on. |
| Of course, you don't have to go so specific, you can just say ciao ciao as a goodbye, |
| or arrivederci, just goodbye, or see you soon, a presto, a presto, |
| and yes, sometimes you will hear ciao even three times or more, especially on the phone, |
| because we want to fill the time up until we actually put it down, |
| so we're going to be like ciao ciao ciao ciao ciao ciao ciao, |
| and yeah, there are people that go on forever, so that's also something that you could hear. |
| Also, don't forget that for us it's common to kiss on the cheeks when we meet someone, |
| not for the first time, in that case we would just go for a handshake, |
| but actually even when you say goodbye after you spend some time together, |
| even if it was for the first time, it's fine to kiss on the cheek, |
| and it's usually two kisses, not one, not three, some people do just one or three, |
| but that's not the standard, the standard is two, you go like this and that, |
| you don't want to make too much of a sound though, |
| and also sometimes it's just basically the cheek touching softly, |
| it's not really a kiss, that's something I wouldn't do, |
| especially with people that you don't really know, so yeah, keep that in mind, |
| so we just go like hey ciao, and that's it, especially girls, |
| we do that a lot, but men do that too, like girl, girl, man, man, man, girl, everyone. |
| I think you now have a wide range of greetings, |
| but I also want to teach you something else, |
| when you hear something like say ciao, like that, |
| it's not really a greeting, it's more like yeah, sure, whatever, kind of, |
| so keep that in mind too, and the same goes with buonanotte, |
| since as I told you, it's not something that you say when you say goodbye, |
| it may be used to say and that's it, for example, |
| let's say I don't really know which bag to buy, |
| and I have been discussing it with my friends for so long, |
| I'm like the red one or the black one, I don't know, |
| and at some point I just go like okay, you know what, |
| I'll buy the black one and good night, |
| okay, you know what, compro quella nera e buonanotte, |
| which means we will not talk about this again, |
| that's it, that's the end. |
| It can be really convenient and funny to use, |
| like I decided to do that e buonanotte, |
| ho fatto così e buonanotte, |
| so to sum up, we have ciao, |
| hey carissimo or hey cara carissima, |
| buongiorno, buon pomeriggio, buona sera, |
| if you don't want to decide which one to use between buongiorno, |
| buon pomeriggio or buona sera, |
| you can also use salve, |
| which is another formal way to just say hello, |
| salve, arrivederci or a presto or buonanotte at the end, |
| so yeah, let me wish you all a good day or a good night from now on, |
| buona giornata or buona serata, |
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