🇮🇹 Italian
Italiano • Latin
Politeness & formality (sound respectful fast)
Formality is one of the fastest ways to sound natural in many languages.
What matters most
Lei is often used for polite singular.
- When in doubt, choose the more polite form.
- Memorize one polite question pattern and reuse it everywhere.
Come ti chiami?
What’s your name? (tu)
Come si chiama?
What’s your name? (Lei)
Parlo un po' d'italiano.
I speak a little Italian.
Parli inglese?
Do you speak English? (informal)
Mini challenge
Say your ‘Do you speak…?’ sentence in the polite form, then in the casual form (if your language has both).
Mini‑quiz
Mini-quiz
1/8 • Score: 0
Which sentence matches “What’s your name? (tu)”?