San Pietro was made by Italians, but it's owned by the Vatican. Unfortunately...

Very clear, Tom. Thhank you.

Helpful! Thanks!

Americano assolutamete

Here in France, the French have a preference for British English in general. But, also in general, the French never learn to speak English well enough to have an accent than one could call American or British :) Whether or not they know it, their accent usually sounds more American than English, probably because the British R and many of the British dipthtongs are harder to pronounce than the American equivalents. Most French can pronounce an American monosyllabic "No," for example, far better than the British "No," with up to 3 or for different vowel sounds!

Sei dimagrito Tom?

Wish someone would write a book analogous to the classic book for (English-speaking) Spanish learners called: Breaking Out of Beginners Spanish (where of course the word ‘beginners’ should be replaced by the word ‘intermediate’). For some reason, for Italian (compared to other comparable ‘popular’ 2L languages) there’s currently just not enough a) upper intermediate/advanced and b) colloquial materials, in either book form or on KZbin …

Un argomento veramente eccellente .. I am inspired to talk about this to my own students of Italian here in Delaware! Grazie mille, Tom!

"In tutti i luoghi e in tutti i laghi" non è una vera espressione italiana per ora, ma va bene come citazione scherzosa della canzone, per quelli che la conoscono.

Gergo = slang

gergo - /ˈdʒɛr.ɡo/

Hey Tom, nice to see you again!🤗 I’ve been following you for close to 10 years. Back then, I wanted to learn Italian when I was planning to travel around Europe. I was so glad that I discovered you. The Italian that I learned from you was enough for my trip. I just want to let you know how much I appreciate the work that you have done. It helped me a lot. I enjoy listening to you and repeating after you, that’s how I learn from you. Your voice is really pleasant to listen to, and you speak with such clear enunciation. Your pace and style make it feel so relaxing and enjoyable. Listening to you is a real pleasure, learning different languages is fascinating on its own, but learning Italian with you is especially enjoyable. Thank you so much, Tom! Thank you for your unwavering efforts over all these years. You deserve many many more subscribers. I wish you happiness and great success in life!🙏😊

Thankyou so much that was great…. Your pronunciation is awesome❤👌

Here in 2024 Tom- still having those lightbulb moments at your explanations ti ringrazio 🫰

Grazie, Tom! Come sempre, lo hai spiegato bene..

Grazie Tom.. Sei come una boccata d'aria fresca 🍻

Native English speaker here. Gradually learned Spanish over time because of family and lots of people around my neighbor mostly speaking natively Spanish. I am not sure I think I am between a B1 and B2 in Spanish, due to the fact that I can speak the language well, but I am not the greatest writer in Spanish. Anyways, I am now learning two languages at the same time. Started learning Greek about a month and a half ago and afterwards began learning Italian. Love Greek but the experience can be painful when learning, it's a beautiful language but it's complicated and takes lots of time to wrap around your brain. Italian on the hand I am finding to be easy, Italian feels like a cloned language of Spanish. So, I think picking a hard language and an easy language helps out a great deal especial if they are both very different. Thank you for the video!

Thanks a lot Tom❤

Hey thanks a lot for this video (that we see like a podcast😂)❤

Hi , i 'd like to know if the CHE is placed in the Main clause or in the Depenent clause as it's a Realat. Pron. ?? THNX

Grazie come sempre per il video interessante e utile, il nostro mito! A proposito di miti… haha non sto scherzando, hai messo la voce di Adriano Celentano nella mia testa quando hai detto ``…e così quando viene quella occasione quando ci troviamo in italia…’’, un ottimino prima di dodici minuti. In particolare, ascolta alla cadenza con cui hai detto la parola ``O- cca - siooo-NE!’’ e dimmi che non è la stessa di Celentano quando canta ``O - pass - ioNE!’’ nella canzone ``Ad Un Passo Da Te’’ hahahaha Penso che l’abbia ascoltata un sacco di volte, come io! :)

Your videos are very useful for me❤!!!!! - A Chinese girl who live and work in Milan who need to improve English and Italian both😂

Your pronunciation of French was on point

Thank you so much for this video! It really is extremely helpful to listen to you speaking. Thank you for helping us all!😸

complimenti per il tuo italiano. il congiuntivo e il condizionale lo adoperi meglio della stragrande maggioranza degli italiani! 👌

Grazie mille... Sei semplicemente bellisimo ❤

Very good french indeed and, as my italian teacher said, you start to be fluent in italian when you start to use your hand when you spoke. ;-) for myself, it is the "verbi reflessivi" or the pronominali one that are causing me problems

Mio bueno

Thank you so much! Very helpful video. The view of an Italian street makes it even 10 times better.

Fellow KZbinr here, it would be nice if the mic were lower so it's not so prominent in the video.

Thank you Tom, this is exactly my problem. When I started learning I would speak freely and be unaware of the errors I was making, but I was understood well enough. Now I understand much more grammar I become paralysed with the fear of making errors, or I slow down to a stop whilst I process all of the grammar!

I miss your videos like this. Grazie mille for doing this one.

Proprio ispirazione.. Il tuo italiano è fiorito!

Mi piace davvero tanto che tu faccia video sia in italiano che in inglese. È estremamente utile. Spero solo che non diventi noioso dire le stesse cose due volte. Grazie, Tom!

Great job Tom!!

Proprio così, Tom. Prima che parlare bene, si deve parlare. Gli errori, esitazioni e, a volte, le sostituzioni in Inglese sono le mattonelle con cui costruiamo il sentiero.

Thank you, Tom. I started watching your videos years ago but they were mostly in inglais so I started watching another chanel. Now you do videos tutti in Italiano. Thank you for everything you do to help us. 👍👍👍👍😊

Buongiorno Tom! Grazie per questo video ✝️🙏🏼🌹

I have been teaching myself, on and off over the past 10+ years but got serious during Covid. I found a once a week teacher for about 2 years. I speak English and I live in Pennsylvania, USA. Ho 77 anni.

welcome back to ur native land and native continent )

I'll say it in english so everybody understands. YOur english is just perfect and what amazed me even more is your pronounciation. If I didn't know you are italian I would say this is an american guy. AMazing, I'm wordsless. You're just great. With this being said, I would like to say that in your interesting videos, you rightly talked about dialects, but you never mentioned the LANGUAGES. Like my Genovese, like Napolitan, Like Sardinian (the closest to Latin!) The Friulian, the Venetian, etc etc etc. AND their dialects. So their varieties, example for Liguria, where there is Genovese Ligurian, Ventimiglioso, Sanremasco, Monegasco, the language of Monaco, which on the other side it's very close to Sanremasco, etc etc. Long live the dialects don't get me wrong. But possibly even more the languages, that with "italian" they have all developed locally from MEdioeval LAtin. And they have / they should have the same identical dignity of "national" Italian, but on the contrary we are losing them. And we are losing an IMMENSE RICHNESS. You are doing a great job!

Great distinctions for using proprio and making it your own. Thanks, Tom.

Great video. Animated, informative, fun to watch and learn from. Thanks, Tom. Nicola

Tom, I can’t believe you are in London!!! Gennà

Tom you are such an inspiration. I'm also taking Rocket Italian, but it tends to be too heady where your podcast are delightfully entertaining, instructive, and conversational -- all at the same time. You have great gifts! Thank you. Father Nicholas

Una spiegazione molto chiara ! Grazie !

Bellissima poesia. Ti tocca tradurla in inglese ed italiano perché è troppo difficile da comprendere 😅😅😅. Comunque te la cavi benissimo anche con il napoletano!!!

Ciao. "Ci equilibriamo" in realtà non si usa comunemente. In riferimento, poi, alla pronuncia, è ottima, per la perfezione basta accentuare la "q" che tendi a pronunciare leggermente più come una "c" che come una "q". Comunque è una sfumatura.

Grazie, mi piace molto il tuo video

Well, I only use the Passato prossimo if the past event is still influencing the present (the prof has written something on the board - and it is still there), if I mention a time frame that is not over yet (e.g. today, this year) or if I say that I have not done something yet. In other cases, I would always use the Passato remoto. Why? Because I find the Passat prossimo very boring since I do not want to repeat always the auxiliary verbs avere and essere...