Læknir, "chiavato" I would say..
Have we totally derailed this thread? I guess these are useful terms, in a way...
Hey, music-lover, what useful terms do you really want?
Yeah, sono stato chiavato.
If I had said: "no veramente, la communicazione è importante" I would have had some figa. Instead, I remained sfigato.
Damn!
kickycan wrote:Hey, music-lover, what useful terms do you really want?
Ciao, sono music-lover.
Sei bella/o.
Mi piaci.
Vuoi una birra?
Vuoi altra birra?
Andiamo in albergo.
La communicazione è importante.
Mi piace da morire.
Di più. Di più.
Vuoi una sigaretta?
Læknir Scrat wrote:Mi piace da morire.
Ma prima da morire, vuoi una sigaretta?
Just useful sayings like:
hello
goodbye
how are you?
****
and stuff like that
thanks 4 the help at da mo guys!
Hello (informal friendly)=Ciao (pronounced "Chow")
Goodbye (informal friendly)=Ciao
Goodbye=Arrivederci
Good morning=Buongiorno
Good evening=Buonasera
Good night=Buonanotte
How are you? = (informal) Come stai?
How are you? = (formal) Come sta?
Fine, and you? = (informal) Bene, e tu?
Fine, and you? = (formal) Bene, e Lei?
Where are my pants? = Dove sono i miei pantaloni?
cheers kickycan! ur a legend!
A person who lived in Italy for 6 months told me that "Prego" solves everything at first as it has many connotations.
I don't remember any of them though.
Prego ranges from you are welcome to I beg your pardon.
passing through what other expressions?
excuse me, would you mind, and son on, depending on the context.
I see it's usefulness now.
I was told, when I first visited, that 'per favore' would be a good thing to say...
Yes, that's true, joe. It tends to be tagged on to beginnings and ends of tourist sentences, in my experience, but I am not so sure re the regular population. I saw it - to start - as a way of curbing the tourist-in-your-face thing, but it might be worse than being a regular inelegant tourist.
I lie, I didn't see it as anything to start, as I didn't know a thing and someone told us to say "per favore" when asking, say for directions, or for a, heh, cornetto.
It's tricky, as I do think italians are generally more gracious than we in the US are. They are not stupid. I think they apprehend manner before words.
what's a cornetto?
By the way, I've been accepted by my universtity to send an application for a semester transfer to the university in Bergamo. I'm sure there are some good threads about traveling to Europe, are there some particular ones that stand out?
We've a bunch of threads here in the past, Joefx - i dunno, search under Kickycan and Italy and Ossobuco and Italy. Also, loislane17 and italy.
A cornetto, in my small experience, is a croissant, a breakfast pastry.
