First steps to learning a language? Let's take Italian
1 Going on holiday in the country
2 Going to a restaurant
3 Looking at an Italian film - La Strada - the street
4 Reading an Italian website
5 Buying an Italian dictionary
6 Subscribing to an Italian newspaper - such as ....
7 Hearing Italian songs
8 Translating a restaurant name - Tia Teresa (Aunt Teresa); Tia Maria (aunt Maria drink); tia is aunt
Today's Italian words, found in English, for example in newspapers or conversation:
1 aficionado - follower, devotee
2 piano - adjective (soft or) quiet
3 forte - strong or loud
4 la dolce vita - the sweet life
5 virtuoso - expert
6 maestro - master
7 mio / mia - my
8 tia - aunt
9 ponte vecchio - old bridge
10 casa - house
Words which sound similar:
bank - banca
bar - bar
beefsteak - bistecca
beer - birra
bottle - bottiglia
cafe - caffe
centre - centro
cinema - cinema
city - citta
coffee - caffè
cold - freddo (like freezing)
costa - cost
credit card - carta di credito
data - date
dessert - dessert
difficult - difficile
excellent - eccellente
excuse me - scusi
flask - fiasco (i is elongated to become an l in English)
fruits - frutti (but frutti del mare is seafood, fruits of the sea)
good / OK / fine / all right - bene (as in beneficial, benefit), buon
hotel - hotel
name - nome
numero - number
olive - olive(s)
order - ordinare
passport - passaporto
perfect - perfetto
pizzeria - pizzeria
problem - problema
restaurant - ristorante
risotto - risotto
salad - insalata
speciality - specialità
taxi - taxi
tea - tè
theatre - teatro
train - treno
Goodbye - Ciao. See you again soon.
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About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, speaker and author, teacher of English for foreigners, and foreign languages.
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