182: What do little Italian words like allora and anche mean?

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

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_You need Italian words like "allora" and "anche" in most everyday conversations. You'll see how they work so you can use them and speak more naturally. _

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Today's Italian words:
Per fare il tour prima devi prenotare = To do the tour, first you have to book
Vorrei una pizza come la tua = I’d like a pizza like yours
Prima vado in bagno = First I’ll go to the bathroom
Devo anche mandare un’email = I also have to send an email
Poi mi preparo = Then I’ll get ready
Allora… sono di Napoli, ma vivo a Roma = So… I’m from Naples, but I live in Rome
Vorrei un cappuccino. Anzi, due = I’d like a cappuccino. Actually, two
Parlo italiano e anche francese = I speak Italian and also French

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0:00.0	Ciao, just a quick note before we get started, we wanted to let you know that doors to our online Italian school are opening very soon.
0:07.0	We'd love to see you there, so if you think you might like to join us, click the link in the description to find out more.
0:15.0	There are these little words that Italians say all the time, words like allura and anke. Although they're
0:25.4	very useful, they're not always the first words that you learn in Italian, so you might hear
0:29.6	them constantly but not yet know what they mean, which can be really frustrating. Or when you do
0:35.9	look up the meaning, you often just get a translation not an
0:41.0	explanation on how Italians use them in real life so in this episode we show you
0:47.2	exactly what they mean so you can understand them and start using them yourself. Hello, and welcome to learn Italian with Joy of Languages.
1:09.0	When you're first learning Italian, it's normal to speak in shorter sentences like
1:14.3	Mi Giamo Matteo. My name's Matteo. Vivo a Milano. I live in Milan.
1:24.3	But as you start to learn more Italian, you'll want to speak in a more natural way.
1:29.3	So instead of saying lots of separate sentences, staccato style, you want to start linking your sentences together with the words that you use all the time in your own language, like but, so and also.
1:43.3	Before we get started on some of these useful words, can we ask you a quick
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1:58.3	our podcast grow so that we can keep making free lessons like
2:01.5	this one.
2:02.6	Grazie.
2:04.4	Today, you'll hear a conversation between Katie and I where we talk about getting ready
2:10.2	to go out.
2:12.0	We use lots of the common little words that Italians would use in this kind of everyday
2:16.4	situation.
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