Ciao, mi chiamo Gianluca e ho 29 (ventinove) anni. E tu come ti chiami? Quanti anni hai?
Sono un professore di italiano per stranieri. E tu che lavoro fai?
Vengo da un piccolo paese vicino a Brescia, nel nord d’Italia. Il mio paese si chiama Vestone. E tu da dove vieni?
Adesso abito in Romania ma ho abitato in Francia, Kazakistan e Turchia. E tu dove abiti?
Mi piace leggere i libri (adesso leggo un libro di Murakami) e mi piace guardare i film.
Mi piacciono la pizza, i croissant, gli spaghetti, lo sport, le serie thriller, come Breaking Bad. E a te cosa piace? Qual è il tuo piatto preferito? Il mio preferito è la pizza margherita
English version
Hi, my name is Gianluca and I am 29 years old.
What is your name? How old are you?
I am a teacher of Italian for foreigners. What is your job?
I come from a small village near Brescia, in Northern Italy. My village is called Vestone. Where are you from?
I am now living in Romania but I lived in France, Kazakhstan and Turkey. Where do you live?
I like reading books (I am now reading a book by Murakami) and I like watching movies.
I like pizza, croissants, spaghetti, sport, thriller series like Breaking Bad. What do you like? What is your favorite dish? My favorite dish is pizza margherita.
Vocabulary
- As you noticed, we often don’t write or say the subject of a sentence because the verb itself tells us who is doing the action
- Mi chiamo : it’s a reflexive verb where we have a pronoun “mi” and the verb in the first person singular “chiamo of the verb “chiamare” (to call)
- Ho 29 anni : it literally translates into “I have 29 years”. We use the verb “to have” and not the verb “to be” for age
- Paese : it both means “village” and “country”
- Mi piace leggere / mi piacciono i croissant : the verb “piacere” doesn’t work like “to like”, where the subject is the person that likes something. In Italian, the verb subject of the verb “piacere” is the thing that we like. For this reason, the verb changes according to the number of the thing (lei / lui piace : third person singular / loro piacciono)