Ciao amici benvenuti in questo nuovo video! Today key lesson for your Italian
journey: this lesson is for beginners starting to interact with other people
why do I say that? Clear, watch the video until the end to
find it out! Sigla!
In today's video we're going to be looking at the question words in Italian.
They're very important for your conversation in Italian if you want to
ask for directions, if you want to have a small talk with somebody in Italian,
these are very useful, make sure you learn them! I want to give you a tip
based on my experience: getting comfortable with question words will
also help you to pretend that you are understanding the other person; the other
person maybe is talking to you like: "bla bla bla bla bla domani vado a mangiare una
pizza, non so che cosa ho fatto ieri, ero con questo mio amico, chissà cosa farò domani..."
and then you will just look at him and say: "perchè?". You can basically use the
question words to make the other person feel that you have understood him and
you want to go deeper into what he said. Let's learn the question words in Italian!
First question word is: "DOVE" (where), where? Dove sei?
Dov'è la gelateria? Dov'è la pizzeria? tu pensi sempre alla pizza comunque! Certo. O ai gelati, assurdo!
If you get lost in Italy, "dove" is definitely an essential question
word to get by: "mi scusi, saprebbe dirmi dov'è
questo hotel?", "mi scusi saprebbe dirmi dov'è il
Duomo?" and once you are in Duomo then you can definitely find your way
back to your hotel for example. Very good, now that you have learned how to say
"where is it?" in Italian... you learn it right?! "Dov'è?" Good. We are
ready to go to the second question word which is... "QUANDO". Quando is
"when" in English and it's used guess what... exactly in the same context that you
would use it in English right you use quando when you want to know
when something is happening... to ask for the time for example... right let's see a few examples
with "quando". First example is: "quando ci vediamo?", "when are we meeting". "Quando
inizia la partita di calcio?" this is very important for boys "when does the
football match start". Third question word is "COME", "how" we use "come" in many
context, one of those is asking for direction as well as "dove" as we've
seen before, ad esempio: "come arrivo al Duomo?", "how do I get to the Duomo?".
Another context in which you could use "come" is another way of saying
"why", "come mai?" It's "how come?" Then of course we have "come va?"/"come stai?" "how
are you?". The fourth question word you must learn in Italian is: "quale" quale
in English is "which". Let's see a few examples with quale or qual.
"Qual è il tuo colore preferito?", "Which is your favourite colour?" "Quale" is very important
when you meet somebody for the first time and you want to get to know him; you
can use it to understand more things about the other person: "qual è il tuo
sport preferito?", "which is your favorite sport?" you can also use "quale" as an
alternative to asking what is your name so "come ti chiami?" you could say "qual è
il tuo nome?". A very common mistake also Italian people make is putting the
apostrophe after "qual" in the expression "qual è?". Fifth question word is: "COSA", "what";
"cosa fai?", "what are you doing?"; "cosa ti piace fare?", "what do you like to
do?"; "cosa mangi?", "what are you eating?". if you are a tourist in Italy, if you
just began your trip in Italy, then you can use "cosa" to ask for attractions: "cosa
c'è da visitare?", "what attractions can I visit?". Sixth question word in
Italian is: "CHI" which in English would be "who"; you can use "chi" in examples like "chi
sei tu?", "who are you?"; "I am the policeman, you are under arrest. It was not me. Yes, it was you.". "Non sono
stato io! E chi è stato?". "Chi è stato?", "who was it?" Per colpa di chi chi chi chi, chichichirichi
stanotte voglio stare acceso e dire sempre di sì...
Per colpa di chi chi chi chi chi chi chirichi... I am a Gucci Gucci man, Gucci Gucci man yeah...
Last but not least: "PERCHÈ?", "perchè'?, "why?"; "perchè lo stai facendo?",
"why are you doing that?". If you are on your trip in Italy you can use this to
ask for curiosity: "perchè il Colosseo è rovinato?" who knows... "why is the Colosseum
damaged?" and of course this is a question word that is very common in
your everyday life: "perchè vai lì?", "why are you going there?" in English we
use "why" in the questions and "because" in the answers, in Italian we use "perchè"
in both of them: "perchè vai lì?, "perchè devo comprare delle scarpe."; "why are you going
there?", "because I need to buy some shoes". Okay? That was all from us for
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