Your Easy Italian Phrasebook 700 Realistic Italian Phrases for Travel Study and Kids E-Book

Christian Stahl

• Herausgeber: Midealuck Ltd.
• Kategorie: Fremdsprachen
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Would you like to learn Italian fast and perhaps travel to Italy?
Maybe you have plans to move to Italy and start a new life there.
This Italian phrasebook for students, travel and kids will help you to learn Italian fast and to speak Italian with confidence.
You will learn realistic Italian phrases and words to cover basically every situation a traveler or student is likely to encounter. This book also contains many terms and expressions suitable for kids and students, it also includes a pronunciation guide that shows you the correct Italian pronunciation and phonetic spelling of hundreds of phrases.


Guide to Italian Pronunciation and Pronunciation Tips


700 Phrases:

Personal Introductions in Italy

Everyday Phrases & How to Address People

Greetings & Easy Questions

Flight and Hotel Phrases

Restaurants & Eating Out Phrases

Shopping and Renting

Asking Directions

Driving & Parking Phrases

Transportation Phrases

Medical Issues & Emergencies

Banking Phrases & Terms

Housekeeping

Christmas!

Invitations and Parties

Housekeeping!

Insurance Phrases and Terms

Real Estate Phrases and Terms

Illness & Wellness

Sports Phrases and Terms

University and Education

Computer and Social Media

Small Talk and Getting Things Out of People

Your Workplace

Airports, Flights, and Reservations

Food, Cooking, and Diet

Phrases for Business & Negotiations

Arts & Hobbies

Entertainment and Recreation

Crime and Help Phrases

General Repairs (Learn Italian Toys)

On Vacation and Breaking the Ice with Strangers

Running Errands

Going to Church

Public Holidays

This is your perfect companion for Italian travel plans; you can use it as a phrasebook and some parts you can even use it as Italian language textbook. (You can also use it like the Italian journey book 1)

This booklet will help you in many ways! Get your copy now and start your Italian ventures with confidence!

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Your Easy Italian Phrasebook 700 Realistic Italian Phrases for Travel Study and Kids

Your Complete Italian Phrasebook for Traveling to Italy

2021 Edition

Christian Stahl

Copyright 2020 @ by Christian Stahl

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Contents

Introduction

Pronunciation Guide

Personal Introductions

Everyday Phrases & How to Address Italians

Greetings and Easy Questions

Travel and Hotel Phrases

Restaurants and Eating Out Phrases

Shopping and Renting

Asking Directions

Driving & Parking Phrases

Transportation

Medical Issues and Emergencies

Banking Phrases and Terms

Housekeeping

Christmas

Invitations and Parties

Insurance Phrases and Terms

Real Estate and Terms

Illness and Wellness

Sports Terms and Phrases

University and Education

Computer and Social Media

Small Talk and Getting Things Out of People

Your Workplace

Flights, Airports and Reservations

Taxis and Hiring a Car

Food, Cooking and Diet

Business and Negotiations

Arts and Hobbies

Entertainment and Going Out!

Crime and Help

Rentals and Documents

General Repairs

Church and Religion

Seasons and Holidays

Flirting and Breaking the Ice with Strangers in Italy

Everyday Words for Travelers

Legal Phrases and Terms

Introduction

The book Your Easy Italian Phrase Book700 Realistic Italian Phrases for Travel Study and Kids contains proven and realistic phrases for every-day-use, and also lessons on the pronunciation of the language.

The first chapters explain the basics of the language and contain proven steps on how to learn Italian in a reasonable short time and to a proper level.

We have prepared over 700 phrases for those with no or very little knowledge and who want to advance their language skills in the shortest time possible.

This book aims to provide a compact resource learning guide that includes essential phrases and terms for most situations.

Pronunciation Guide

Italian spelling is largely phonetic; that is, in most cases a single letter or cluster of letters that represent the same sound, and each sound occurring in the language has only one written representation.

Vowels

There are only 7 Italian vowel sounds, one each for a, i and u; and two vowels each for e and o.

Italian vowels are pure. A sound written with a single letter has a single, unchanged value.

One-sound vowels a, i, u

Italian a is long and open. For English speakers, it sounds similar to the short o in shot or to the first a in mama. It does not sound like aw or uh

Italian i and u are relatively easy to pronounce, because they make sounds which usually occur in everyone's English. Italian i makes a long e sound (for example steep). Italian u makes the sound of oo like in boot.

Two-sound vowels e, o

Each has a so-called "open" and "closed" sound. There is actually only one simple rule for the spoken language: Italian unstressed e and o are closed sounds

Open e has a sound similar to the English short e, for example bet); the Italian sound is probably a bit more open (mouth taller). Closed e sound more like the a in chaotic. It's not the same as the English vowel sound in a way, but the slides from the sound goes a little more into ee.

Open o is like the vowel in law or awe if you pronounce it without any hint of diphthong. Closed o: Most often it's the first vowel sound in go, before it turns into oo.

Diphthongs

Diphthongs (2 connected vowels) are frequent in Italian. i is most often pronounced like y in yard (for example the word pietà)

Otherwise each vowel in a diphthong has its typical sound.

Consonants

Most Italian consonants are similar in pronunciation to English; the consonants c and g are the only exceptions, because usually they vary according to the letters that follow them.

The R Sound

Words you already say in English that have a"rolling R".

Butter, cutter, ladder etc

You’ll notice what a rolled “R” would sound and feel like the double t’s or d’s.

You can also try saying “t + d” in a row.

Depending on the region, Italians often drop the final vowel, for example: Pasta e fagioli pah-stah eh faj-yoh-lee becoming pasta fasul fa-zool and calzone cal-tso-nay becoming cal-zone.

Double Consonants

Double consonants in Italian should take noticeably longer to pronounce than a corresponding single consonant

For example the double tt in tutto can and should be make longer

Hard and soft: interactions among c, g, sc, h, and i

As in English, c and g may be hard or soft. Each consonant is hard when followed by another consonant or by one of the vowels a, o or u and is soft when followed by e or i. The hard sounds however, are similar to English: g as in good, c as in car. Soft g is also similar to English, like the g in general. Italian soft c is like English ch in chess

Another one is the soft sound sc is like the sound sh makes in ship

See the following rules for sounds of consonants

Italian Letters Sound Example Word

c followed by o, a or u hard c cosi

c followed by consonants hard c clemenza

other than c

c followed by i or e soft c città

c followed by h hard c Pinocchio

c followed by i and additional vowel soft c, pagliaccio

silent i

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Personal Introductions

1. How are you today?

Come stai oggi?

Koh-meh stahy ohj-jee?

2. What’s your name? (formal)

Posso sapere il tuo nome?

Pos-soh sahpehre eel tuoh no-meh

3. What’s your name? (informal, friends)

Come ti chiami?

koh-meh tee kyah-mee

4. My name is (first and last name)......

Il mio nome è (nome e cognome)......

eel meeoh no-meh eh (no-meh e ko-nyo-meh)

5. I’m pleased to meet you! / Nice to meet you!

Felice di conoscerti!/ Piacere di conoscerti!

Feh-ly-ceh diyh koh-noh-skehr-teeh!/ pyah-cheh-reh deeh koh-noh-skehr-teeh!

6. Glad you came

Sono contento che tu sia venuto

Soh-noh kohn-teh-ntoh cheh tuh syah veh-nuh-toh

7. It was a pleasure meeting you

È stato un piacere conoscerti

Eh stah-toh oohn pyah-cheh-reh koh-noh-skehr-teeh

8. This is my friend John

Lui è Il mio amico John

Loohy eh eel meeh-oh ah-meeh-coh John

9. John, this is my sister Helga

John, lei è mia sorella Helga

jeeohn, leheeh eh myah soh-rehl-lah Hehlgah

Everyday Phrases & How to Address Italians

10. Thank you very much!

Grazie mille!

grah-tsee-eh meehl-leh!

11. All okay

Tutto bene

Tooth-toh beh-neh

12. No thanks

No grazie

Noh grah-tsee-eh

13. You are welcome

Sei il benvenuto

She-eeh eel behn-veh-noo-toh

14. Excuse me, please