How to Learn Italian FAST When You Don't Have Time

This is so helpful. Could you may be do separate video on possible chunks ?

I remember taking an online Italian course and my instructor kept saying Allora... Figured out in the context it was like she was saying so/ok

I need to learn thousands of new italian worlds - because im russian. All sentances are not-readable for me. I have spend 20 years to get A2 english lvl and write this message with huge grammar mistakes. I guess i need to spend more time on practice writing and speaking. Not reading only

Your feedback is incredibly helpful; it helps me to believe that I can actually do this! Grazie!

Very complicated 😊

YouTube is full of people claiming to be able to teach you how to or boast that they too were able to learn something in a week/month/90 days. I call BS on this. You can’t be fluent in a language in 90days. If you claim to be able to then your definition of fluency might be a tad broad.

what books or textbook was it at 12:36??? please lemme know

I aporeciate your explanation. I seriously want to learn Italian, I already speak Vietnamese.

"Camera" in Russian meas "photo camera" OR a "prison", so when I've seen this word in Duolingo with ANOTHER meaning, I was quite confused. But it's also was very funny. Just imagine than a teen is decorating his bedroom in goddamit prison with no reason

SPOILER ALERT: You can’t learn any language fast. It takes time and patience more than anything. However, you can learn BAD Italian fast 🇮🇹🍕😅

If someone asks if I want to accompany them to the cinema and I say "magari" how do I ensure they understand that I mean "maybe" and not "I wish"?

So, I've been living in Moldova for 4 years now, going back to the States to work in the summers. I'm learning both Romanian and Russian bc they are both used here. It was just yesterday that I learned when to use doi/doua for 2. I never knew and was always being corrected. It has become natural to use the correct one by just speaking and being corrected. So, now, after 4 years, I learned the grammar lesson that it deals with masculine/feminine. I have learned some of the Russian grammar that way as well. I really enjoy watching your channel.

3:20 yea and "restare" means to stay not to rest

FYI, I tried subscribing for the story but the link is broken.

if it doesn’t need endless hours of study can you tell me what does it mean “Piano” in italian?

Olly, this is spot on. Italian isn't just a tool for communication; it’s a gateway to a specific way of seeing the world. I always say that you don't truly learn a word until you feel the history and the 'sprezzatura' behind it. Learning through culture and beauty makes the language stick in a way that dry grammar never can. Grazie per questo video ispiratore! 🏛️🍷

Easier : "ti va un caffè ?"😊 grazie mille !

As someone who speaks five languages ( English France Turkish Italian and Spanish ) I can say that Spanish and Italian just so similar. I was able to learned and understand Spanish faster because of the Italian language

As an Italian native speaker, I've found this very interesting. Can you now do the flip side, and talk about Dutch and/or German? Being English a Germanic language which has borrowed half its vocabulary from Latin/Romance sources, it might be interesting doing the same kind of analysis just with another Germanic instead of a Romance language.

If I say to my Italian friend that using the subjunctive is not urgent for me I think I am going to get 😡😡😡😡😡 in reply!! 🤣🤣

I’ve been trying to learn for three years, as I’ve been living here. These things have been stopping me up so much! Just passed an A2 exam however mostly because I just overthink so much when speaking. After this video I’m going to improve much faster now

6:04 in this case "so" means "allora" in Italian

The only thing, about past tenses, the difference between passato prossimo and imperfetto is not about WHEN things happened, passato prossimo is not the past for things happened in the recent past and finished. Passato prossimo is the past for something that happened only once and for a shortish time, a point in the past. Imperfetto is the past translating "I used to", the one for repetitive actions and habits, and things happened for a longish time, it is a line in the past. Both of those past tenses can refer to something happened just a minute ago or a century ago, it is nothing to do with recent versus old events.

I have realised how little I know about names of English grammar when I started learning Italian.
also I struggle to speak about alone

I think this is a great idea to initially focus on phrases you will use a lot, and then you can tell a story about yourself, your family, travels and so on. I’m heading to Italy for a holiday later this year, so this is a useful tip! Grazie.

I'm working on my German, but also catch Italian cooking shows, my hobby, and can figure out the cooking stuff visually.

The combination has me picking up phrases without trying.

It doesn't work with German as well. Most folks enjoy Italian cooking more as well.😊

Thank you for so many tips. However, I respectfully disagree when it comes to grammar. I think it is crucial to learn how to build a sentence and not memorize it by heart. Think about it: if you don't know how exactly those articles or conjugations work, you will continuously make mistakes. This may not be relative for people who are surrounded by native speakers but I still think the boring grammar part is essential. Buona giornata!

Very interesting. I'm on that same journey of learning italian, and I totally agree with everything that you said. I'm using a personal technique which consists in listening to a 20-minute podcast in Italian, like a small biography, for example. Then I use internet tools to transcribe the audio into text, and then I use ChatGPT to rewrite the whole story in sentences of 80 to 90 characters, self-sufficient sentences that make sense, that are easy to understand and that are useful grammatically. So I have those small sentences that I focus on. I look at the translation for the words I don't know. I go through the whole story like this. This allows me to pick up patterns and words. And then I listen again to the podcast, and what's interesting is that it's not the exact same text that I've been studying, yet I understand most of it, it feels familiar but it's not boring...

"grammar tends to stick when it solves a problem you already have." Well said!

I'm familiar with some of your videos and short story book so should have known this was a video for beginners, but the title of the video didn't indicate that at all. Clicked on it as a more advanced intermediate learner that's really trying to work hard on my Italian before a trip to Italy at the end of April, so was happy to see a video on learning it fast when crunched for time, only to find out it's tips for beginners to make the language feel more approachable. Wish the video was labeled differently so I didn't spend the 20 minutes on this! Just some constructive feedback

This is truly the best explanation into beginning to understand Italian with practice!! Something switched in my brain when thinking of how I will now learn myself, thank you!

I am happy to report this is already what I have been doing because I knew most of this as an ESOL instructor

Nice video, but please give credit to @ThePasinis for their content you put in at 7:28

I didn't want to study Italian as I speak French, Spanish and Portuguese. I said basta, no more Romance languages. However after a couple of trips to Italy with a friend who's sister is married to an Italian and living in Italy I said why not, can't be that hard with the language I already know. Plus it's such a nice language. So, I've been studying Italian. Unfortunately it takes away from my German studies at times, but that's ok or not. Why German, in part because it's not a romance language so though related to English in some ways it's different for me and much more of a challenge.

Popped up on my feed, thought I knew that name... I have a couple of your short stories books! Really like reading them on a daily basis.

"Camera" means room, not bedroom.

I have been living in Italy for the last 41 years and I still mix masculine and feminine verbs and obedients, and the article to put together with them, if you want to speak Italian perfectly it is not that easy. 😅 the fact that in English there are Italian or Latin words helped me a lot when i arrived here where nobody spoke English in 1984, also hand gestures helped 😀.

Hello! I appreciated your interesting video, also I was wondering if you were interested in learning a new language? I offer online courses in semitic and slavic language

My Italian teacher one time said dai! Dai! Dai! At his computer but everyone thought he was saying Die! Die! Die!

camera is room. camera di letto is bedroom.

Do you have a study guide?

When we moved from Italy to the UK, anytime my sister didn’t know how to say something in English, she would say the italian word (minus the last letter) and hope for the best 😂😂😂

There's a SoundCloud playlist from Language Transfer that teaches this beautifully