A common activity when traveling, is experiencing a variety of native dining adventures. If you are visiting Italy and are interested in a recommendation from a local resident, you’ll need to learn how to say where is a good restaurant in Italian. If you are preparing to take a vacation or business trip to an Italian speaking country, it is not necessary for you to be able to speak Italian fluently. However, knowing several popular phrases can make your trip a bit more enjoyable. This page will provide steps that will show you how to efficiently learn to say this Italian phrase.
How to Say Where is a Good Restaurant in Italian
In this video you will learn the proper way to say ‘’Where is a good restaurant’’ in Italian. Not only can this be a useful phrase when traveling to Italy or another Italian speaking country, but it can also be used when interacting with people who speak Italian. To learn how to say the sentence correctly, be sure to play close attention to how the speaker pronounces each word as she breaks down the sentence to translate. This video is one of a series of videos about how to speak italian, which are hosted on the Mahalo.com channel of YouTube.
Step 1: Learn The Italian Translation
The first step to learning how to say any phrase in another language, is to know what the proper translation is. To say Where is a good restaurant in Italian, one would say Dove è un buon ristorante?.http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&q=where+is+a+good+restaurant&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sl=en&tl=it&sa=X&ei=8j1STIn1HMH6lwfg2oDsBA&ved=0CBoQrgYwAA# Dove means where, e un means is, buon is Italian for good and ristorante means restaurant. You can substitute the word restaurant for another suitable term that also refers to a type of eating establishment.http://italian.about.com/cs/food/ht/deciphermenu.htm These may be:
- Autogrill - Roadside snack bar
- Osteria - A restaurant that is not formal
- Trattoria - A restaurant that is generally a medium family run operation
Step 2: Learn To Pronounce The Phrase In Italian
Now that you know what phrase you’ll be learning to say, it’s time to learn how to pronounce it correctly. You can do this in several steps and by using a variety of methods. A popular way to begin learning to speak Italian is to understand the pronunciation of the Italian alphabet. Several letters of the American alphabet are not commonly used in Italian speech. These are the letters J,K,W,X and Y. http://www.cyberitalian.com/en/html/alphabet.html
One method used to learn how to properly pronounce a foreign language phrase, is to listen to the proper pronunciation and repeat it, mimicking the sound that each word creates.
- Listen to the correct way to pronounce the phrase or sentence
- Mimic the pronunciation of the speaker in the video on this page
- Repeat listening and speaking the phrase aloud until you’re comfortable that you can say it properly.
- Continue practicing until the phrase is spoken fluently or without difficulty
Step 3: Additional Italian Dining Phrases
There are several common Italian dining phrases that can help you to enjoy the full Italian dining experience.http://italian.about.com/library/survival/blsurvival007.htm Although there are many Italians that speak English fluently, there certainly are a great deal who do not. In this case, you will need to be able to communicate effectively when dining out or you may find yourself ordering something that you otherwise may not have, had you been able to communicate with your waiter.
Potrei vedere il menù?
May I see the menu?
Cosa ci consiglia?
What would you recommend?
Può portarci il conto, per favore?
May we have the check please?
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Learn how to properly pronounce each letter in the Italian alphabet
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Listen to the phrase pronounced correctly and mimic the pronunciation until you can say the phrase correctly
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Practice the phrase until you can speak it properly
