Speaking english in Italy?

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mr. no

I've been living there 3 years and it's quite simple to make others understand u. I learnt italian so I'll give u some key phrases.

1. What time is it? Italian: Che ore sono?
2. Where is the nearest bank? Italian: Dove Ã¨ la banca piÃ¹ vicina?
3. Is there any public transport near here? : C'Ã¨ qualche mezzo pubblico qui vicino?
4. I'd like a room with a bathroom. Italian: Vorrei una stanza con bango.
5. Please/ Thank u/ Where?/ When?: Per Favore/ Dove? /Quando?
6. Where is the hospital? : Dov'Ã¨ l'ospedale?

EMERGENCY NUMBER
113 Police
112 Police ( It's a diffrent group but u can call it anytime )
118 Ambulance
115 Fire-brigade

U SHUOLD BE ABLE TO SPEAK ENGLISH WITH THESE NUMBER but if u aren't here's some key phrases.

1- I need an ambulance, I'm ( address )./ A man here is hurt.
Ho urgente bisogno di un ambulanza, Sono ( adress )./ C'Ã¨ un uomo ferito qui.
2- I need help, there is a man in my house.
Ho bisogno di aiuto, c'Ã¨ un uomo in casa mia.
3- THere is a fire!
C'Ã¨ un incendio ( specify the place on fire )

Now I'll tell u some key phrases that u might need anytime.

1. Is breakfast included? La colazione Ã¨ inclusa?
2. I'd like some bread and some water please. Vorrei del pane e dell'acqua per favore.
3. Could u help me with this map? Potebbe aiutarmi con la mappa?
4. How are u? Come stai?
5. What's your name? Come ti chiami?
6. I'm american and I'm here on holyday. sono americana e sono qui in vacanza
7. May I have my room key please? Potrei avere la chiave della mia stanza per favore?

I hope I've helped u and for any further infos here's my email msn: arturo.charmedshop@hotmail.it

mand

- in Rome, I was customarily addressed in English (I'm Italian and I don't think I look that "foreign")
- in Venice, in the local dialect (which I luckily understand, since part of my family originates from a nearby city), but it's a very touristy city, so you shouldn't have any problems with English
- in Reggio Emilia, Italian. It's small and not touristy city, so don't expect shopkeepers to know English, not even the basics.

renato g

Millions of tourists visit Italy evrey year and so Italian are used to deal with them and to speak english, expecially those involved in tourism. English is normally studied at school, so you should have no problem.
If you buy a good guide to Italy you'll find a chapter dedicated to the most important italian sentences to know.

la_creativa

We speak english but not everybody! The young people study english to the school but is not a very good english.

edwardsluv

Most people actually understand english so it's not too hard.

Kindofblue

Italians don't speak a good english usually, but unlike some other people (I won't say wich ones to be diplomatic lol), we do everything to understand people who don't speak our language, plus we have excellent not-verbal language skills, so you won't have problems. You could find some little problem just if you go in some small village far away from the typical tourist places.

letizia

turists are welcomed in italy, people try to help as much as possible and in hotels and some shops they speak fairly good english. english is quite difficult for us, teachers insist on grammar but not on pronunciation and knowledge of words, so we know how to write a text but can't speak properly.

italiacharlotte

I' am italian.
we not speak english but I speack italian and ours dialets.
The proprietors of hotels and bars speack english.

Stan

It is almost a given that shop keepers (in the cities anyway), those that sell things that tourists want, speak enough English to get around. If you do something unusual for a tourist - like get your hair cut - then you might have a language barrier. People who are employed (not shop keepers) like grocery clerks don't speak much English. But if you are buying leather in Florence or ceramics in Siena you aren't going to have a problem.

Learn how to count in Italian.

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if you go to the main city you dont have a lot of difficulty...the clerks of central shop of city like Florence, Rome, Milan talk in english to Italians too!! That cities have the mania of being international and so they always talk in foreign language, english, french...you can find difficulty if you go to small town...people are ignorant, they can speak only their dialect there...there are a lot of distrust unfortunately...I live in a small town (fano, just for mention it) and I hate that racist and distrustful people...so, you can see, i am a little more brond-minded, i try to better my mind, i try to speak english...but...sorry for my language, i try to better my english too, i know...

redhead27

its easy... I did it a few years ago and didn't speak a lick of Italian. Just take the subway, in Rome the subway is free... I was in venice also and its full of tourist so you will run into a lot of Italians that speak english also. You will be visiting very touristy cities, so you will not have a huge problem with the language because alot of the Italians speak a little english for the tourist sake....

Only thing to watch out for is the pick-pocketers and theft... in these big cities the Italians know when you are a tourist and they will try to steal from you alot... it happened to me a few times, though they never stole anything I noticed them honing in on me though.

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