si yes no no perfavore please grazie thank you (this can be used after si as well as after no) prego you're welcome! don’t mention it! prego? pardon? (if you want something to be repeated) ‘scusi sorry/excuse me (also used to attract ‘someone’s attention) midispiace —/ am sorry/l beg your pardon come sta? how are you? bene, grazie well, thank you eLei? and you? molto bene, grazie very wall, thank you non troppo bene not too well non c’@ male not too bad (c’® is pronounced as che in cherry) parlare to speak parla inglese/italiano? do you speak English/ltalian? parli pid lentamente speak more slowly vabene OK/all right Learning vocabulary There are several ways of learning vocabulary. Find out the way which works best for you; here are a few suggestions: 1 Say the words out loud as you read them. 2. Write the words over and over again. 3 Study the list from beginning to end, then backwards. 4 Associate the Italian words with similar sounding words in English. Associate words with pictures or situations, e.g. buongiorno, buonasera with shaking hands. 6 Use coloured pencils to underline or group words in a way that will help you to remember them. 7 Copy words on to small cards or slips of paper, English on one side, Italian on the other. Repeatedly shuffle and reverse them so that the words are presented in random order. Give the English word if the Italian is presented and vice versa. 8 If you have the recording listen to it several times and at the end of each dialogue try to imagine the situation of the conversation and see if you can remember what to say. w nok a1 Moy