Stop Learning, Start Speaking: The Complete Italian Course

Welcome to this Italian class by Italian Daily. You will learn some vocabulary, useful phrases and listen to a short story and conversation. Let's get started. This class is all about self-introductions. The goal of this class is that you learn to introduce yourself in Italian. We start with the vocabulary. These are the important words you should remember. Here are some useful phrases that will help to make your introductions in Italian a lot smoother. Here's a story in Italian to boost your listening skills. Can you understand everything? Here's a conversation in Italian for you. See if you can follow it before reading the translations. Were you able to follow this whole conversation in Italian? Let's dive into some grammar. Just as in English, the verbs to be and to have are the most important ones. You see them in the singular forms on your screen. Pause the video to study them a bit longer. Here are some example sentences you can use to introduce yourself. And that brings us back to the goal of this class, which is you can introduce yourself in Italian. Have you reached this goal? Congratulations! You've made it to the end of this Italian Daily class on introducing yourself. Thank you for learning with me today and I will see you in the next class. Welcome to this Italian Daily lesson where you will learn how to greet people in Italian. The goals of this lesson are that you learn common Italian greetings and that you can use them in the right context. Here are the most common greetings in Italian. Ciao. Buongiorno. Buona notte. Buon pomeriggio. Arrivederci. Buonasera. Salve. A domani. A presto. These useful phrases will make greeting somebody in Italian a lot easier. Here's a short story in Italian for you. How does Marco greet the doorman? He greets him with good evening. Let's see if you can follow this conversation. When will they see each other again? Ciao. Paolo. Come stai? Ciao. Giulia. Sto bene. Grazie. E tu? Bene. Grazie. A presto. A domani. They will see each other again tomorrow. In Italian, greetings change depending on the time of day and the level of formality. This greeting is informal and can be used for both hello and goodbye. These ones are time-specific and more formal. This one is only used before sleeping. Here are some example sentences for you. Can you spot all the greetings? Ciao. Come stai? Buonasera. Come sta oggi? Buongiorno. Come va? Buona notte. Dormi bene. And that brings us back to the goals of this class, which were, you know common Italian greetings and when to use them. Have you reached both goals? Thank you very much for learning with Italian Daily. Have a good day and I will happily greet you in the next lesson. Welcome to this Italian lesson by Italian Daily. This lesson is all about family. The goal for this Italian Daily lesson is that you can talk about your family in Italian. We will learn some vocabulary, useful phrases and listen to a story and a conversation. Let's dive right into it. This is the most important vocabulary for this topic. These useful phrases will help you to speak about your family smoothly. Let's see if you can understand this story before reading the translation. Here's a conversation in Italian for you. See if you can follow it. In Italian grammar, there's an important rule to remember. Possessive adjectives must agree in gender and number with the noun, not with the person who possesses it. You can see it in the table on your screen. Here are two examples of sentences in which possessive adjectives are used. And that brings us to the end of this video, in which you've learned to talk about your family in Italian. Thank you very much for learning Italian with Italian Daily and I will see you in the next lesson. Welcome to this dictation exercise by Italian Daily. The goal of this exercise is that you learn how to correctly spell the words and phrases from the lessons one, two and three. Here's how it works step by step. Step one. You see and hear the word or phrase and you see what it means. Step two. Now you just hear the word and you write it out on paper or you type it out. Step three is that you see the word or phrase so you can check how you did. Are you ready? Let's get started. Nome. Piacere. Città. Mi chiamo. Vivo a. These words and phrases come from lesson two. Greetings. Good luck. Ciao. Buongiorno. Arrivederci. Come stai? Sto bene, grazie. These words and phrases come from lesson number three. My family. Sorella. Genitori. Ho un fratello. Questa è la mia famiglia. That was the dictation exercise for the lessons one, two and three. How did you do? If you've already spelled most of the words and phrases correctly, great job. If not, remember that you can practice as much as you want. Thank you very much for learning with Italian Daily and I will see you in the next one. Welcome to this Italian Daily class about the days of the week. The goals of this class are the following. You will learn the Italian days of the week in order and you will learn how to talk about time and scheduling. Here are the days of the week in Italian. These useful phrases will help you to talk about the days of the week and activities to do on different days. Oggi è lunedì. Domani è martedì. Lavoro dal lunedì al venerdì. Il sabato vado al mercato. La domenica riposo. In this story Lucia describes what she does on the different days of the week. What does she do on Saturday? Lucia inizia la settimana con molte energie. Lunedì va in palestra. Martedì studia italiano. Mercoledì lavora fino a tardi e giovedì cena con gli amici. Venerdì guarda un film. Sabato fa una passeggiata e domenica si rilassa a casa. She goes for a walk on Saturday. See if you can follow this conversation. What does she do on Sunday? Ciao Lucia. Cosa fai domani? Domani è sabato. Vado al parco. E domenica? Domenica She stays home and reads a book on Sunday. The days of the week are not capitalized in Italian. Most days have the same form for singular and plural. The exceptions to this rule are Saturday and Sunday. Il lunedì. I sabati. Le domeniche. Here are some example sentences. Can you spot the difference between the plural forms that are unique and the ones that stay the same? Il lunedì lavoro sempre. Il giovedì vado in palestra. I sabati ceniamo con gli amici. Le domeniche andiamo al parco. And that brings us back to the goals for this class. You should now be able to name the days of the week in order in Italian and you should be able to use common expressions for scheduling and talking about time. Have you reached both goals? Thank you very much for learning the days of the week with Italian Daily and I will see you in the next class. Welcome to this Italian Daily class about the house. The goals of this class are that you can name rooms and objects that are inside a house and that you can describe where you live. Let's dive into the vocabulary. These are the most important words to remember when speaking about a house in Italian. Casa. Camera da letto. Cucina. Bagno. Soggiorno. Tavolo. Sedia. Letto. Finestra. Here are some useful phrases that will make it a lot easier to describe what your house looks like. In this story Elisa will describe her house. See if you can form an image of what it looks like. Try to follow this conversation without reading the translations. Good luck. Here are the most commonly used prepositions in Italian. Pause the video to view them a little longer. Here are two example sentences where the prepositions are being used. And that brings us back to the goals for this class. They were you can name rooms and objects in a house and you can describe where you live. Have you reached both goals? This is the end of this Italian Daily class about the house. Thank you so much for learning Italian with me and I will see you in the next class. Welcome to this Italian Daily lesson in which we learn to describe people's appearances in Italian. The goal for this class is that you learn to describe somebody's appearance mentioning their hair, face and physical features. Let's go. Here's the key vocabulary you can use to describe what somebody looks like. Il viso. I capelli. Gli occhi. Lunghi. Corti. Biondo. Castano. Riccio. Liscio. These useful phrases will help you to describe how people look. Lei ha i capelli lunghi. Lui ha gli occhi azzurri. Lei è alta e magra. Lui ha i capelli corti e ricci. Lei ha un bel sorriso. Try to follow this story about the girl in class. What color are her eyes? Oggi in classe c'è una nuova ragazza. Si chiama Chiara. Ha i capelli lunghi e castani. E gli occhi verdi. È alta e ha un sorriso molto gentile. Tutti vogliono parlare con lei. Her eyes are green. The two classmates are talking about the new girl. Does the girl like her? Hai visto la nuova ragazza? Sì. Ha i capelli lunghi e castani. E gli occhi verdi. Vero? Sì. È molto simpatica. She likes the new girl. In Italian, adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they describe. Masculine singular. Biondo. Lui è biondo. Masculine plural. Biondi. Loro sono biondi. Feminine singular. Bionda. Lei è bionda. Feminine plural. Bionde. Loro sono bionde. Here are some example sentences that describe people's appearance. Ha gli occhi azzurri. Ha i capelli corti. Lei è anziana. Ha gli occhi marroni. Let's see if you've reached the goal for this class. You should now be able to describe people's appearance in Italian. Can you do that now? Thank you so much for learning with Italian Daily and See you in the next lesson. Welcome to this Italian Daily Dictation Exercise. The goal for this class is that you can correctly spell words and phrases from the lessons 4, 5 and 6. Here's how it works step by step. Step 1. You see and hear the word or phrase and you see what it means. Step 2. Now you just hear the word and you write it out on paper or you type it out. Step 3 is that you see the word or phrase so you can check how you did. Are you ready? Let's get started. That was the dictation exercise for the lessons 4, 5 and 6. How did you do? Did you already spell a lot of the words and phrases right? Great job! If not, you can practice as much as you want. Thank you very much for learning with Italian Daily and I will see you in the next one. Welcome to this Italian Daily lesson about the weather. The goals for this class are that you know some basic vocabulary related to the weather and that you can describe current weather conditions in Italian. We start with the vocabulary about weather conditions. These are the most important words to remember. Sole, pioggia, neve, vento, nuvola, caldo, primavera, freddo, inverno. These useful phrases will make it a lot easier to describe the weather in Italian. Let's see if you can understand this Italian story about the weather. What is the weather like in the story? It was a beautiful spring day with clear blue skies. Can you follow this conversation about the weather? What are they planning on doing today? Ciao, oggi fa caldo e c'è il sole. Si, volentieri. Andiamo al parco. They want to take a walk in the park because it's a hot and sunny day. In Italian, these two words are often used to describe the weather. Fa caldo. C'è il sole. Here are some example sentences you can use to describe the weather. Fa caldo oggi. Fa caldo. Let's see if you have reached both the goals. The first one is that you know some vocabulary related to the weather. The second is that you can now describe the current weather in Italian. Have you reached both goals? That brings us to the end of this Italian daily class about the weather. I hope you can enjoy a nice sunny day and I will see you in the next class. Welcome to this Italian daily class about nationalities. In this class you will learn how to speak about different nationalities in Italian. Here are some different nationalities and how to name them in Italian. Americano, italiano, britannico, francese, spagnolo, tedesco, giapponese, cinese, canadese. These useful phrases will make it easy for you to talk about nationalities in Italian. Io sono americano. Lei è italiana. Tu sei britannico? Vengo dalla Spagna. Di dove sei? Here's a story about meeting somebody from a different country. What have they spoken about? Ieri ho incontrato un ragazzo tedesco in un caffè a Roma. Si chiama Lucas e viaggia per l'Italia. Abbiamo parlato delle nostre nazionalità e delle città che abbiamo visitato. È stato molto interessante. They spoke about their nationalities and which cities they have visited. Let's see if you can follow this conversation in Italian. Where is the woman from? Ciao, di dove sei? Sono americana, e tu? Io sono italiano, di Milano. Piacere di conoscerti. Piacere mio. She's from the United States. In Italian, nationalities change depending on gender and number. Nationalities are not capitalized in Italian, unlike in English. Masculine singular. Americano. Masculine plural. Americani. Feminine singular. Americana. Feminine plural. Americane. Here are some example sentences with nationalities. Lui è italiano. I miei amici sono spagnoli. Lei è francese. Le mie amiche sono tedesche. And that brings us back to the goals of this class. They were that you can name different nationalities in Italian and make sentences describing them. Have you reached the goal? And that was the Italian daily class on nationalities. Remember that no matter where you're from, we're all citizens of the world. Thank you for learning Italian with Italian Daily and I'll see you in the next class. Welcome to this Italian daily class about our most loyal friends, animals. In this class, we will learn the names of common animals and we will practice some sentences to use when speaking about them. We start by learning how to name these common animal species in Italian. Il cane. Il gatto. L'uccello. Il cavallo. La mucca. La pecora. Il pesce. Il topo. La farfalla. These useful phrases will help you to speak about your furry friends. Ho un cane. Mi piacciono i gatti. Il cavallo è grande. Dove sono le pecore? Ho visto una farfalla nel giardino. Here's a story about animals in Italian. Which animals are mentioned in the story? Ieri sono andato al parco con mia sorella. Abbiamo visto un cane che correva felice. Poi abbiamo incontrato una mucca e una pecora vicino al fiume. Alla fine, una farfalla colorata è volata sopra di noi. The animals mentioned are a dog, a cow, a sheep and a butterfly. Let's see if you can follow this conversation in Italian. How does the boy describe his dog? Ti piacciono i gatti? Sì, ma preferisco i cani. Anch'io, ho un cane che si chiama Max. Che bello, è grande o piccolo? È grande e molto affettuoso. He says the dog is big and very affectionate. And now for some grammar. In Italian, nouns change ending in the plural. Masculine nouns ending in O change to I. Il gatto e i gatti. Feminine nouns ending in A change to E. La mucca e le mucche. Nouns ending in E, either gender, change to I. Il pesce e i pesci. Here are some examples of sentences with plurals in Italian. Can you spot which are the masculine plural and which feminine? I libri sono sul tavolo. I ragazzi giocano a calcio. Le case sono grandi. Le ragazze studiano italiano. And that brings us back to the goals of this lesson. You should now be able to name common animals in Italian and you should be able to describe them. Have you reached both goals? Thank you for learning with ItalianDaily and give an extra treat to your pet if you have them. See you in the next lesson. Welcome to this ItalianDaily class about one of the most typically Italian topics, cooking. The goals of this class are that you learn vocabulary about cooking in the kitchen and that you can use sentences to talk about food preparation. Get your pans out and let's start cooking. Here's the key vocabulary related to cooking. La cucina. Il coltello. La forchetta. Il cucchiaio. La pentola. La padella. Il piatto. La ricetta. Cucinare. These useful phrases will help you to speak about cooking. Ho fame. Possiamo cucinare insieme. Questa ricetta è facile. Mi piace cucinare la pasta. Dove sono i piatti? Here's a story in Italian for you. What is she cooking? Stasera Lucia cucina a casa. Segue una ricetta semplice di pasta con pomodoro. Usa la pentola per l'acqua e la padella per il sugo. Dopo 20 minuti, la cena è pronta. Gli amici arrivano e tutti mangiano insieme. She is cooking pasta with tomatoes. Let's see if you can follow this Italian conversation. Is the recipe hard to cook? Hai fame? Sì, molto. Cosa cuciniamo? Possiamo fare una pasta veloce. Bene. Hai la ricetta? Sì, ed è molto facile. The recipe is easy to cook. Italians use a different way of saying that they like something than the English. The subject of the sentence is the thing liked, and the person who likes is expressed with an indirect object pronoun. Mi piace. Ti piace. Here are some example sentences about liking things. Mi piace cucinare la pasta. Ti piace la ricetta? Le piace la cucina italiana. Ci piace mangiare insieme. And that brings us back to the goals for this class. You should now be able to speak about cooking and food preparation. Thank you very much for learning with Italian Daily. Remember that daily practice is one of the key ingredients to a nice plate of language mastery. See you in the next lesson. Welcome to this Italian Daily class about school and work. The goal for this class is that you can recognize and use basic vocabulary related to school and work in Italian. Let's start the lesson with the vocabulary. This is the key vocabulary for this lesson. These useful phrases will take your Italian to the next level. See if you can understand this story without reading the translation. Giulia lavora in un ufficio moderno. Ogni giorno si sveglia presto, fa colazione e prende il tram per andare al lavoro. In ufficio saluta i colleghi e accende il computer. Giulia partecipa a due riunioni e scrive molte email. Dopo il lavoro, torna a casa e si rilassa guardando un film. Let's check if you can understand this Italian conversation about work. Ciao Elena, dove lavori? Lavoro in una scuola. Sono insegnante. Ti piace il tuo lavoro? Sì, moltissimo. E tu, cosa fai? Io studio all'università. Here's some grammar about articles. In Italian, nouns typically need an article. Pause the video here to read these rules. Here are some example sentences so you can see the grammar rules in practice. Il computer è nuovo. Il libro è interessante. La penna è rossa. La sedia è comoda. L'amica è simpatica. L'uomo è alto. And that brings us back to the goal of this lesson, which is, you can recognize and use basic vocabulary related to school and work in Italian. Have you reached this goal? Thank you for learning Italian with ItalianDaily and I will see you soon in the next lesson, or in beautiful Italy. Welcome to this ItalianDaily video in which we take a look at the 20 most commonly used words in Italian. The goal of this video is that you get to know the 20 most commonly used words in Italian. First you'll see the words and after that a sentence that features the word. Per. Questo regalo è per te. Su. Salgo sull'autobus. Come. Come stai? Con. Vado a scuola con Maria. Loro. Loro sono studenti. Essere. Voglio essere un insegnante. A. Vivo a Roma. Uno. Ho uno zio simpatico. Avere. Voglio avere una bicicletta. Questo. Voglio questo gelato. Da. Vivo qui da due anni. Di. La casa di Luca è grande. Caldo. Oggi fa caldo. Parola. Questa parola è difficile. Did you know most of these words? Or were there a lot of new ones for you? Either way, you're doing great by taking the time to learn Italian. Thank you for joining Italian Daily and I will see you in the next one. Welcome to this extra challenging dictation exercise for the lessons 1, 2 and 3. The goal of this exercise is that you can spell the words and phrases from lesson 1, 2 and 3 without seeing them first. This dictation exercise is extra challenging because you don't get to see the word first. Step 1 is that you hear the word or phrase and you write it down or type it. Step 2 is that you see the word on your screen so you can check if spelled it correctly. Are you ready for this challenge? Let's get started. These words and phrases come from lesson 2. Greetings. Good luck. Come stai? Sto bene, grazie. These words and phrases come from lesson number 3. My family. How did you do on this dictation challenge? Were you already able to spell most of the words and phrases without seeing them? If not, don't worry. Just keep practicing and you'll improve every time. Thank you very much for doing this challenge with Italian Daily and I will see you in the next one.