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Well done!

Grazie, very useful info, I am going to Italy soon to visit my Italian partner's family and it is good to remember these basic rules

Grazie

Please stop with the rolling "r"s. Not so.

Have been reading your book, very informative, really enjoying it, gives you a great perspective of the Italian culture

This is great. Glad comments are now open. Been following quite a few videos. Does vorrei serve as the translation to the English proper of "may I have...?"

Nice!

Agree!!!! Thank you! :0)

The last time I was in Italy - not long ago - a shopkeeper said this to me - Grazie lei (It was in the extreme North in Piemont). Another time we were staying in a flat at the top of a small appartment building in Rome near the Via Aurelia. I'm originally from the UK, but I live in France and all my family are French, so we were all coming down the stairs at the beginning of the day about to go out visiting the city and a very nice lady whom we met on the stairs said (in French) bonjour to us. I corrected her because we were about to spend a whole day out by saying - bonne journée. She immediately understood the nuance and replied to show that she had understood - Buona giornata.

Being polite is universal. It doesn't matter the country you're in.

The problem for American travelers to Italy is lack of diversity in food choices. I don't like I like eating Italian food for 10 days straight.

Great advise man! Once a time was usually the workers' first choice, also for big family or when you don't wanna cook at home being back late night, making takw away. Just one tip to get right experience: pls, try to find the "real Italian" rosticceria/gastronomia/tavola calda that you can, runned by Italians: for many reason. Then avoid touristic places, too cheap or not good looking/greasy food. Last, also great choices in many Alimentari/Osterie/Bistro-Vineria/Pizza al taglio with great selection of dishes, fair priced, table and drink to enjoy; or take away. Many covered markets having lot of food stands/carts with instant cooking and tables. Ciao 🙂

Thank you. I have found around that world that polite expressions, even if that is the limit of one's knowledge in that language, work wonders. You come across and both polite and trying (in the good sense).

I'll be traveling to Italy in 2 weeks! I've been watching many of your helpful videos. We're only staying in Airbnbs specifically to save money on eating and laundry. Thank you for this video in particular; I can't wait to try ordering "questo, quello, and una porzione per favore"

for croissants you can just call them croissants if you want and they will get it. Otherwise "cornetto" (lit "small horn") is the correct name. Brioche is actually a different thing... but they only have it in the south. That's why there will be no problem with calling a croissant "brioche" in the north whereas in the south this would end up with you receiving a completely different thing. Also very good and you may want to try it but just know it's not the same thing. Also about sandwiches. We have the word in Italian, you can get in a bar and order a "sandwich". But it's not a "panino" - it's a specific kind of "panino" (specifically the one that uses sliced bread). The actual translation of that would be "tramezzino" while there is no real translation for a "club sandwich" so a sandwich that uses more than two slices. If this is what you want, order a sandwich. If you want the one with the real bread order a "panino". Sometimes bars have sandwiches made with different things instead of bread - in that case you may ask for that specifically (eg "focaccia" or "focaccia ripiena" or "panino con la focaccia" ("con" means with but in this case it would mean "made with" and not "filled with" as it usually would)) Anyway, saying "panino" lets you choose, saying "sandwich" indicates a specific kind. Also "toast" is a sandwich made with toasted slices of bread or a sandwich that then gets toasted. If you want plain toast ask for some "pane tostato".

Great stuff, 👍 grazie

Sperlonga: those look like some mighty nice beaches for the kids.

Well done!... But why do you pronounce SperlongO and not SperlongA?. SperlongA is correct.

Great video

You videos are so informative!

Thanks Patrick, just bought your book

The thing with the pizza left over has changed. In many restaurants nowadays you get a cardbox to bring the left overs home. At least here in northern Italy.

OMG! 😂 I'm here in Vicenza in northern Italy the dress code here is more like a damn religion (everybody must be dressed in black, grey or white, like at a funeral or something, otherwise your seen as oddball or homosexual or lesbian), it's like their gonna die if they even go outside of their own house door in the countryside without dress clothes and elegant shoes on because their scared their neighbor might see them. Then for conversations wow another point to make, most Italians here act like conversations with strangers even in a mall is flirting or most are just outright terrified about being seen in a public space talking to someone they don't know like their significant other or the palpac**zzi is watching their every move and interaction, maybe it's because I'm black IDK? 😂😅 I personally haven't been further down then Rome but already in Emiglia Romagna or Rimini people are way more friendly and chatty even towards foreigners colored or not.