If you’ve only just arrived in Italy and your vocabulary hasn’t progressed far beyond ciao and grazie, there is a survival phrase you should definitely make an effort to learn: Do you speak English? Italian has both formal and informal registers, so if you’re addressing a stranger on the street or in a shop, the …
If you’ve just met someone new in Italy, one of the first things you’ll want to find out in order to avoid an embarrassing situation in the future is their name! (That is, if you manage to remember it, of course!) The most common way to ask What is your name? in Italian in an …
When travelling around Italy, the temptation to eat out will prove difficult to resist with all the wonderful ristoranti there are. But even the best meal must come to an end! There are different ways to ask for the bill in Italian. One of the most common is: posso avere il conto per favore? Let’s …
We’ve already talked about the word amore, so now it’s time to write about one of the most important expressions in any language to communicate your love for someone else. I love you translates to Ti amo in Italian. Learn with our video Naturally it is most common to use this phrase with your boy/girlfriend, …
Mi raccomando is one of those wonderfully Italian phrases that cannot easily be translated into English because there isn’t an exact equivalent. It comes from the verb raccomandare which translates to recommend or to entrust but by making it reflexive (raccomandarsi) it becomes to plead with, to beg or to implore. Mi sono raccomandato tanto …
One of the first phrases I remember desperately wanting to learn when I moved to Italy was Who cares? As it turns out, there are a few different ways to translate this expression as we’ll discover below. The standard and most inoffensive way of translating this phrase is Chi se ne importa? which literally translates …