意大利语学习第一课

Lesson 1

This Week's New Words:

ciao - hello, goodbye (familiar)

salve - hello

addio - goodbye

bene - well

egli - he (literary)

lui - he (common speech), him

ella - she (literary)

lei - she (common speech), her

esso - it (masculine)

essa - it (feminine)

essi - they (persons or things)

loro - them (persons or things), they (common speech, persons)

grazie - thank you

spiacente - I'm sorry

noi - us, we (plural)

signore - sir, mister, mr.

signora - madame, mrs.

signorina - miss

tu - you (informal)

voi - you (plural, formal and informal)

io - I

Numbers 1-10

0 zero

1 uno

2 due

3 tre

4 quattro

5 cinque

6 sei

7 sette

8 otto

9 nove

10 dieci

Pronunciation

The Italian alphabet is fairly similar to our own (English, or depending on where you're from, American). The letters K,J,W,X,Y occur only in foreign origin words. Each lesson will explain a few more letters. This week, I'll explain the interesting letters (or combinations thereof) from this week's words (above).

gli

The gli (followed or not by another vowel) in Italian is pronounced more or less as ll in Spanish