Learn to say what city you're from
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| Hi everyone, I'm Felice. |
| Ciao a tutti, sono Felice! |
| Welcome to the Italian Whiteboard Lessons! |
| In these lessons you'll learn how to say what city you are from. |
| Let's get started! |
| Sono di New York |
| First we have the verb essere, conjugated based on the subject. |
| In this case it's in the first person singular, sono. |
| Next is the simple preposition di, meaning from. |
| Then we have the name of the city, |
| here it's New York, literally I'm from New York, |
| but the meaning is I'm from New York. |
| So, di and city. |
| Let's look at the dialogue. |
| When I read I want you to pay attention to how to say where are you from. |
| Find the city name and see how it's used in the dialogue. |
| The dialogue uses formal Italian. |
| Di dov'è? |
| Where are you from? |
| Sono di Sydney. |
| I'm from Sydney. |
| Now let's look at another speaking example. |
| Paolo Parisi. |
| Mark Lee. |
| Di dov'è? |
| Sono di New York. |
| Where are you from? |
| I'm from New York. |
| In Italian, when saying where are you from, |
| remember to use the simple preposition di, |
| only with cities, not with countries. |
| Some city names are the same as the original, |
| New York, New York, Tokyo, Tokyo, |
| but others are completely different. |
| Beijing, Pechino, Barcelona, Barcellona, Paris, Parigi. |
| So, have a check before you say where are you from okay. |
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