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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Italian Words handy to know when booking holidays and researching events

Problem
Where's the information I want on the Italian website, the dates?

Answers
Most of it can be read if you take it slowly and pick out key words which sound similar to the English. You can copy a vital section into Google Translate, but it has a word limit. Also, when you have several pages, you need to work out which page, if any, is relevant. Here are some words which may help you. I scanned the titles of pages and worked out that what I wanted was eventi, events. Then I wanted to know the prices and what was included.

ITALIAN - ENGLISH
abito - dress or habit (ie dress code)
accessori - accessories
aperitivo - aperitif / starter / welcome drink
atmosfera - atmosphere
artisti - artists (plural)
ballo - ball
benvenito - welcome
c a r n e v a l e - carnival
cena - meal
cioccolata - chocolate
con - with
di /d' / dell - of (the)
discotecca - discotheque
dolci - sweets
durato - duration
e - and
entrata - entry / entrance
epoca - epoch or time period
evento - event (singular)
e v e n t i - events (i is plural, equivalent to the English s)
Febbraio - February
inclusi - included
info - information
internazionali - international
la  - the
Maestro - master
maschere - masked
mille - thousand? / many (not million)
moderno - modern
ore - hour / time
per - for
persona - person
prezzo - price
privati - private
riservati - reserved
sala - room (like the French word salle and our derived word salon and the American salloon)
specili - special
splendido - splendid
storica - historic / period
tariffe - tarif / price
tipici - typical
tutti - all
Venezia - Venice
veneziani (Venetian objects of Venetian style foods or objects)
vini  - wines
voci - voices

ENGLISH - ITALIAN
carnival - c a r n e v a l e
discotheque - discotecca
events - eventi
February - Febbraio
modern - moderno
of - de
person - persona
the - la
Venice - Venezia

Author
Angela Lansbury
See my other posts on Italian language.

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