Italian for Beginners 🇮🇹 500 Essential Italian Phrases for Business & Work!

welcome to 500 useful phrases in Italian if you remember the last 100 phrases we have done were all about traveling today we're going to focus on work so we're going to talk about the most useful a common phrases that uh you might need when working with someone that is Italian or in an a chalian environment okay so without further hesitation let's get started with this new lesson the first sentence is one of the most useful one and it's pretty useful when you're having your first day of work in a new place so for example you need to say Hello nice to meet you so as you might notice you have several options the first option I'm going to read is the more friendly one okay it's how you should like say hi nice to meet you when talking to someone that you're familiar with or maybe a colleague that is younger than you and in that case you would say chiao if you are talking for example to your boss if you're talking to someone that is older than you if you're talking to someone and you just want to be polite you should use the more formal way to say this sentence and that would be so if you remember I had already mentioned that in Italian when I'm talking to someone that we respect someone that is in a higher position than us Etc we actually talk to them using the subject pronoun she that's a very formal way to talk to someone but it's very common as well so I'm going to show you for different phrases also the options that you might use when talking in a more formal way so the second sentence is is I work here La here is qu okay I remind you that in Italian while talking we do not use subjects I mean you can always use them it wouldn't be a mistake but it's just not that common this is my office please always repeat these sentences after me in order to exercise your pronunciation this is okay to manage the project to attend a meeting meeting is to answer the phone to direct the meaning to direct the meeting we have already seen meeting that is reunion to write letters that literally means so to write some letters to do paperwork one of our beloved activities while working it's a pleasure to finally meet you so here the sentence I'm going to propose you is a formal one pleasure to meet you finally I'm honored to be here that is literally um it's an honor to be here the meeting with start at so the meeting will start in this case in Italian we would use the present the simple present Al and then you just tell the time okay at 5:00 I'm looking forward to working together in that literally means I can't wait to work together I would like to meet with you tomorrow tomorrow is okay can you give me your business card business card ISO visita okay great then let's move to greetings okay they're pretty important as well in a working environment good morning good afternoon good evening awesome let me introduce myself so here I'll I I'm going to propose you two options but um it's not that one is formal the other one is friendly it's just that one refers to a situation where you're going to introduce yourself to one person the second option refers to an introduction to several people so for example if you want to say this sentence uh to just one person you're going to say if you're um telling this sentence to several people then you would use the second option okay then I speak a little Italiano shall we start I can't connect that's a very common sentence he or she is having problems connecting to the meeting as you might have noticed we don't use the sh subjects so um it doesn't really change much like according to the subject in this case because the verb still is the same so if you want for example to really highlight that it's a woman that is having problems you just say l a problem okay but if you're writing this sentence never forget to put the H in front of the a for the verb to have a okay let me think about it please I don't understand that can you repeat it here we have the two options so we have the formal one and the friendly one the formal one is so the verb ends with an O and an accent if you're using the more familiar friendly way to ask this question then you would say okay and then I don't understand that no no capito that's a very important sentence he she has experienc in that a Ino a exper experience inito thank you for your interest in our company so here um I've written two options but just because as we have seen before maybe you're talking to one person or maybe you're talking to several people uh in the first case then you would use you're talking to one person if you're talking to several people then you would say okay then how will our product be used how is how should we manage the payments payments p and manage we have already seen this verb before I'm on it CH that's very common how is your family here once again we have the two options so the formal one and the friendly one let's start with the more formal way to ask this question if we are talking in a more friendly way then we would say okay family te Support Tech to draw up a contract great I work in public relations that's pretty similar to the English language I work in Commerce I work in accounting with an accent at the end I work in banking La in bank bank is literally bank I work in Consulting Consul Consul Consulting I work in exporting exporting and then I work in importing okay then I work in marketing that's easy marketing with who am I speaking or maybe we have the opposite situation who's speaking hold the line please please as we have seen in the previous lesson is can you call back later call back later I will call back he or she cut off that literally means he or she closed the call I can't get through he or she is coming would you like to leave a message this is the answering machine Tonica is answering machine please leave a message after the tone that's a long sentence in Italian I know and that is seriously like the standard sentence you will have dear sir and then you write the name okay so uh Senor it's sir but normally for example in letters or in emails you just write the short version so s with a full stop I don't know uh Mario okay car Sor Paulo dear s so if you're talking if you're writing to several people then you actually do the same you just have to put the sentence in a plural form K the short version of senori is s i and double g with a full stop and then as as I pointed out before you just need to write the names dear madam carora the short version for Sora is s i g full stop R A and then of course you need to write the name of the mam Yours Faithfully is in fed in fed but actually this expression in is not really common um most of the times you will find we will use use actually regards regards in Italian is cord Sal and that's how you close an email Okay C Sal when knowledge received of then with reference to in referent with regard to your letter from August 5th with regard to your letter from a 5th with regard to our phone conversation Ino with regard to our phone conversation please find enclosed in alato that literally means uh you will find attached we have to call a meeting they scheduled the appointment for tomorrow appointment is he or she confirmed his or her attendance a conf and this sentence is always the same either if you're talking about a man or a woman okay in a way in this case Italian is easier than English attendance is Pres could you reserve the conference room don't worry everything is settled here once again we have the two options so the more friendly one and the formal one so if you're um talking to someone that you're familiar with then you're going to say if you're being formal then you will say okay I would like to present the project Pro you have the floor once again we have the fr friendly option that is and the formal option this sentence literally means the word is yours I don't share your opinion once again friendly alternative formal alternative op it was a small misunderstanding Malino is misunderstanding the last meeting contains lots of great ideas the last meeting in the last meeting actually in Italian they're keeping the strategy in mind when do we sign the contract when is to sign dear colleagues k k when you see G and H the sound is always okay don't hesitate to contact me I look forward to your response once again friendly option in formal alternative okay kind regards you can actually say cord Sal as we have seen before but you can also say cord okay we are a little bit old fashion when we're closing emails could you resend me that email me email is mail but you can actually say also email everything everyone will understand I'll copy you in once again friendly way inop formal alternative accounts payable or depending to your activity it could also be for if there are some people that are providing you with some material and you need to pay them cash flow liquid liquid with an accent at the end I need help please I need a is help and we already know please that is per send an email to send an email actually but you can also say Mand email no problem can you speak more slowly and this is more formal okay if you want to ask this question in a more friendly way you just need to conjugate differently the verb so we actually talked more in depth about the grammar and the conjugation in the corresponding curse of Italian for beginners we accept your terms with the following adjustments once again here we have two options but as we have already seen before one refers to the situation where you you're talking or you're writing to one person the second one refers to a situation where you're talking or writing to several people so let's see the first option so the case that you're talking to one person long sentence I know if you're writing or talking to several people then you would say Okay demand is linked to supply laand demand a is linked to supply aler what's your job the that and this is actually um in a friendly way okay because normally you wouldn't ask this question to someone that you're not familiar with do you want to get a coffee here once again we have the friendly option and the formal one so talking about the friendly alternative um do you want to get a coffee in Italian isafe Cafe formal option leafe leafe and that is very common I have an offer for a lower price so lower is P Price ISO are you authorized to send this contract today and this is a formal question because normally you're not very familiar to the person uh to whom you asking this question I have to write the contract write to write is okay have to I have to read the contract so here we have to write and here we have to read my Italian is bad but even if you think so do not ever feel ashamed in talking about talking in Italian because that's a huge effort and everyone will appreciate it and it's going to help you with the language Ito pessimo everyone makes mistakes while talking in a different language so don't worry too much about it what's your name so here is the formal question I'm sorry pardon me mezy me szy where are you from formal option and finally I'm going to sign the contract v a great awesome compliment congratulations you have just finished our second group of 100 sentences in Italian so I'm really hoping that this sentence will be useful in your job and uh I really hope that you're proud of your progress so far so have a great day and thank you for being with me I'm looking forward to the next lesson ciao aesto