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Today I want to talk about a simple concept that sometimes can be very hard for Italian language learners because it might be something that does not exist in your language… i’m talking about formal and informa speech.

What do I mean by that? Obviously also in English and in many other languages that do not grammatically distinguish between these two ways of speaking there are options that allow for you to be more or less formal, you might be able to use different words or maybe address people by their last name or calling them with Mr or Mrs. In Italian like in many other European languages like French and Spanish we use a specific verb conjugation form to express formality or informality.

Let me explain what I mean…

ok so you know that the subject pronouns in Italian are

• Io (I)
• Tu (You)
• Lui / lei (He / she)
• Noi (We)
• Voi (You)
• Loro (They)

In order to create the formal and informal versions of speech you need to focus on

• TU and on LEI

TU is the second...

In this video you will learn how to say in Italian that you are not feeling well or that some part of your body hurts. If you need to review the vocabulary on body parts please also check out this video:

Learn Italian - Vocabulary on Body Parts (with a free download)

Let’s start with the most common sickness or symptoms of illness that you could probably have or feel: a basic cold.

To say that you have a cold you will say

Ho il raffreddore (I have a cold)

The typical symptoms of a cold are

• A sore throat and to say this you will say:
  • Ho il mal di gola / Mi fa male la gola

MALE - means that something hurts and GOLA mean throat

• You might have a headache… in this case you will say
  • Ho il mal di testa / Mi fa male la testa

once again… MALE - means that something hurts and TESTA means head

One of the first symptoms that I usually have when I have a cold is a runny nose.

In Italian the nose doesn’t run but it “drips”

• So you can say: ...