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Benvenuti!
When you arrive in Italy...or to Italian class... it might be useful to have a few common greetings in your toolbox. Just in case you want to, well, talk to someone... !
To practice greetings, I like these three useful youtube videos (by Travelinguist).
Level 1 is slowest, and gives ample time to both hear the pronunciation and repeat. It says the word in Italian several times, leaves time to repeat, and shows you the word in print.
Level 2 is quicker and says and prints the English followed by the Italian (once). You must do your repeating a little more quickly.
Level 3 says and prints the English, but only says the Italian (you will not see the word in print). Try working your way through the three over time!
Level 1 Greetings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QurMuJmKtlU
Level 2 Greetings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcYO8gReECA
Level 3 Greetings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmf3xrwUnwA
To go along with the greeting theme, here is a song called "Bella Ciao"-- although you'll see from it's history that it is anything but cheerful and carefree as the title implies.
Here is the artist Milva (one of the three most popular female singers in 1960s Italy- and still to be seen on stage and TV programs today) singing this song with its original lyrics on RAIUNO in 1971:
And, if you care to read along, here is a link to the lyrics that go along with the song:
And, if you are super curiosi, here is the Wikipedia page that tells the story of this WWII era anti-fascist partisan song, along with an alternate version of the lyrics.
Buone studie!
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