Italian · Work and office
“Hai il microfono spento”, “La scadenza è venerdì”, “Sto condividendo lo schermo” – office Italian for the call.
Listen to Italian and read along
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English
The meeting starts at ten.
Italian
La riunione inizia alle dieci.
Listening helps you recognize phrases. Fluency still comes from real input – especially reading.
Work Italian is short routines: in a meeting, remote, please forward. Beginner ciao does not cover that. This session reads meeting and mail lines.
Your language once, Italian on repeat. You hear “scadenza” and “verbale” before the next meeting runs in Italian.
Camera, mute, screen, cancelled, overtime, done for the day, holiday. Clear office Italian, with fewer English loans than you will hear on site.
“Cartella” is the folder. Those office words sit better heard than as a vocabulary list labelled office.
Italian emails use formulas beyond the list. Heard scadenza and inoltrare prepare you to read them.
LingoGist shows the phrase in the sentence. The Italian guide leads from the player to a text.
Press play. Each sentence appears large, first in your language, then in Italian.
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.
The list mixes tu in the team and Lei when forwarding. On the job, follow what others use.
It is standard Italian. You will hear more English loans on site; the structures stay.
Breaks, corridors, and local mail often stay Italian. Then you need “microfono spento”, not another Come stai.
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.
“Un tavolo per due”, “Cosa consiglia?”, “Da asporto” – restaurant Italian that sticks better by ear than from the menu alone.
“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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