177: Question Words in Italian: The 8 You Need

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

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_Learn key Italian question words like “dove”, “quando”, and more to help you get the info you need while traveling in Italy. _

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Today's Italian words:
Quand’è l’ultimo treno? = When is the last train?
Perché il supermercato è chiuso? = Why is the restaurant closed?
Che cosa c’è in questo piatto? = What is there in this dish?
Dov’è la stazione? = Where is the station?
Chi è la guida? = Who is the guide?
Quanto costa? = How much does it cost?
Quale treno va a Firenze?= Which train goes to Florence?

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0:00.0	In Italy, you'll probably have plenty of questions, like which train goes to Florence or what's in this dish.
0:07.4	In this episode, you learn how to ask questions like these in Italy using really important question words.
0:25.6	Music Ciao all and welcome.
0:27.6	Hi everyone and welcome to learn Italian with Joy of Languages.
0:31.6	In today's episode we're going to look at common question words in Italian.
0:36.6	And once you learn a question word you can reuse
0:38.9	it in lots of situations so for example if you know how to ask where is you can just change
0:45.6	the place to ask where's the train station or where's the nearest pizzeria that last question is
0:52.8	very important to help you learn these question words, we're
0:57.0	going to play a bit of Italian trivia. So I'll ask Matteo if he knows some fun facts about Italy.
1:04.6	And as you listen, you can see how many words you already know. And after each trivia question,
1:14.0	we'll also give you some example questions that will be useful to you in Italy, kind of like having a mini-phrasebook.
1:20.0	Okay, so the first question is,
1:23.5	Quale Cita is Famauga and Julietta. Is that how it's pronounced in Italian?
1:30.7	Romeo and Julietta.
1:31.8	Romeo and Julietta.
1:34.8	Which city is
1:41.7	Famousa?
1:43.1	Famous for Romeo and and Juliette.
1:53.0	I want to just say that there are no answer written some anywhere, guess or I didn't read it and my answer
2:05.9	is Verona.
2:08.2	Facile.
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