| Hi everyone, I'm Felice. Ciao a tutti, sono Felice. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Welcome to the Italian Whiteboard Lessons. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | In this lesson you'll learn how to give your email address in Italian. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Let's get started! | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Ok, let's look at the vocabulary. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | First we have the Italian alphabet. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | First in English and then in Italian. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | A (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | A | 
                                                                
                                                                            | B (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | bi | 
                                                                
                                                                            | C (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | ci | 
                                                                
                                                                            | D (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | di | 
                                                                
                                                                            | E (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | e | 
                                                                
                                                                            | F (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | effe | 
                                                                
                                                                            | G (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | gi | 
                                                                
                                                                            | H (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | acca | 
                                                                
                                                                            | I (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | I | 
                                                                
                                                                            | J (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | I lunga | 
                                                                
                                                                            | K (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Kappa | 
                                                                
                                                                            | L (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | elle | 
                                                                
                                                                            | M (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | emme | 
                                                                
                                                                            | N (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | enne | 
                                                                
                                                                            | O (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | O | 
                                                                
                                                                            | P (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | pi | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Q (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | cu | 
                                                                
                                                                            | R (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | erre | 
                                                                
                                                                            | S (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | esse | 
                                                                
                                                                            | T (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | ti | 
                                                                
                                                                            | U (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | U | 
                                                                
                                                                            | V (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | vi | 
                                                                
                                                                            | or | 
                                                                
                                                                            | vu | 
                                                                
                                                                            | W (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | doppia vi | 
                                                                
                                                                            | or | 
                                                                
                                                                            | doppia vu | 
                                                                
                                                                            | X (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | ics | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Y (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | ipsilon | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Z (in English) | 
                                                                
                                                                            | zeta | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Let's look at the dialogue between Carla Conti and Karen Lee in formal Italian. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | When I read, I want you to pay attention to the email address, find what the email address is and see how it's used in the dialogue. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Il suo indirizzo email, per favore. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Your email address, please. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Il mio indirizzo email è kappa-a-erre-e-enne-chiocciola-innolang-punto-com. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | My email address is karen@innolang.com | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Now let's look at the sentence pattern. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | This pattern is the structure that our dialogue follows. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Il mio indirizzo email è [email address]. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | My email address is [email address]. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | Il mio, my in Italian, used to denote possession. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | è is it's a linking auxiliary verb in Italian used to connect the subject with the predicate. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | In the traditional Italian alphabet, there are only 21 letters. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | The extended alphabet also includes j, k, w, x and y. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | These five letters are often referred to as foreign letters. | 
                                                                
                                                                            | That's because they are mainly used to spare words and names that come from foreign languages. | 
                                                        
                     
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