ITAL 15201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Italian Orthography

• School: Kent State University
• Department: Italian
• Course: ITAL 15201
• Professor: Maria Di Re

Document Summary

Italians always greet each other: when they meet on the street, when they enter a store or a room, when they first wake up in the morning, when they return home in the afternoon. In northern italy, people tend to use buona sera in the late afternoon; in central. Italy and in the south, they might begin using it as early as noon: buon giorno and buona sera may sound formal in english, but in italian, they are routinely used with everyone. Ciao, on the other hand, is considered very informal and is used primarily with family and friends: formal and informal are distinguished, tu: informal, lei: formal. It is very common in italian to greet people by their professional titles: professora, dottore. If you want to introduce yourself, then ask the other person"s name: ciao! Say: e tu, come ti chiami, sussana. E tu: marisa, ciao, piacere, e lei, come si chiama, sussana martinelli.