175: Advice for Speaking Italian (and not getting Englished)
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🗓️ 4 March 2025
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Summary
Want to avoid getting replies in English when you’re speaking Italian? Here are our tips and key phrases to keep the conversation going!
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Today's Italian words:
In italiano, per favore! = In Italian, please!
Sono principiante = I’m a beginner
Vorrei provare in italiano, mi aiuta? = I’d like to try in Italian, can you help me? (formal)
Vorrei provare in italiano, mi aiuti? = I’d like to try in Italian, can you help me? (informal)
Grazie per la pazienza = Thank you for the patience
Cos’è questo? = What is this?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you're in Italy and you're really excited or probably also a bit nervous to put your Italian into practice. |
| 0:08.1 | So you use your best Italian accent to order a coffee saying, I'd like a cappuccino, please. |
| 0:15.5 | Then you hear? |
| 0:21.6 | That's okay, thank you so much. |
| 0:23.6 | You just got Englished. |
| 0:24.6 | Don't worry if you have. |
| 0:26.6 | It's completely normal. |
| 0:28.6 | We'll help you blend in a bit more so you can actually practice the Italian you've been learning |
| 0:34.6 | instead of getting an automatic English reply. |
| 0:56.8 | Hi everyone and welcome to Learn Italian with Joy of Languages. In this episode, you'll hear our advice to help make your conversations flow in Italy. They're the phrases that can help you |
| 1:04.4 | not get a reply in English, but we'll also help you in general if you get stuck when trying to say |
| 1:09.9 | things in Italian. |
| 1:11.9 | But before we get started, we'd like to ask for a quick favor. |
| 1:17.2 | If you're listening to this on your podcast app, could you just hit the subscribe or the follow |
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| 1:22.4 | This way you'll get notified when we release a new episode. |
| 1:25.7 | And you'll also help our podcast grow so that we can keep making |
| 1:28.4 | free lessons like this one. Grazie. Italians sometimes reply to you in English because they think |
| 1:37.1 | you might appreciate your help or they might just want to practice their English. They're often not |
| 1:43.5 | expecting you to speak Italian either, |
| 1:46.0 | although for that same reason when you do, |
| 1:48.0 | it's often a really nice surprise for them. |
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