Italian · Eating out
“Un tavolo per due”, “Cosa consiglia?”, “Da asporto” – restaurant Italian that sticks better by ear than from the menu alone.
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Sentence 1 of 40
English
A table for two, please.
Italian
Un tavolo per due, per favore.
Listening helps you recognize phrases. Fluency still comes from real input – especially reading.
Restaurant Italian sounds fast even when the words look familiar: you know un caffè, not yet “siamo pronti per ordinare” as a tune. This session reads ordering lines.
Your language once, Italian on repeat. You hear double consonants in “tavolo”, “cotto”, and “rubinetto” before staff are at the table.
Reservation, vegetarian, spicy, children’s menu, undercooked, kitchen closes at ten. Polite Lei with per favore, as with staff.
Everyday touches espresso at the bar. Here you stay in eating out: split the bill, outside, another round.
Italian menus name dishes that are not in the list. Heard antipasto and senza glutine make reading easier.
LingoGist keeps the phrase in a review. The Italian guide is the next step to a text.
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Slow the target language, add repetitions, or leave a pause between sentences – all directly under the player.
Once the sentences feel familiar, open real articles with the Chrome extension and meet the same phrases in context.
For a table, an allergy, an order, and paying, yes. Dishes come from the card. Listening only makes asking safer.
The list targets table service (tavolo, antipasto, conto). Bar lines stay shorter – everyday is closer for that.
Lei with staff. Tu with friends at the table. The list stays in the polite register you need first.
Clear vowels, double consonants, polite please – sentences to hear, not only to read.
Platform, single room, delay – sentences for trains, guesthouses, and the centre.
A coffee, the bill, the time – a normal day in spoken Italian sentences.
“Hai il microfono spento”, “La scadenza è venerdì”, “Sto condividendo lo schermo” – office Italian for the call.
“Ho mal di testa”, “Mi serve una ricetta”, “Dov’è la farmacia?” – sentences you want in place before you need them.
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