Popular foods: Popular Italian food
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Key Phrases
Posso avere la pizza?
Can I have the pizza?
Adoro il gelato.
I love gelato.
Dov'è l'olio d'oliva?
Where is the olive oil?
Skills You'll Learn
Ordering food in a restaurant
Ordinare cibo in un ristorante
Expressing food preferences
Esprimere preferenze alimentari
Asking for specific ingredients
Chiedere di ingredienti specifici
Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases
Pizza
PEET-sah
Pizza
Spaghetti
spah-GEH-tee
Spaghetti
Lasagna
lah-ZAHN-yah
Lasagna
Risotto
ree-ZAWT-toh
Risotto
Focaccia
foh-KAH-chah
Focaccia
Bruschetta
broo-SKEH-tah
Bruschetta
💬 In [bruschetta], [sch] before [e] or [i] sounds like hard [sk], not [sh]: (broo-SKET-ta). The same pattern shows up in [pesche] and [tedeschi].
See breakdown →Gelato
jeh-LAH-toh
Ice cream
Tiramisu
tee-rah-mee-SOO
Tiramisu
💬 [Tiramisù] is written with an accent on the last vowel because the stress falls there: (tee-rah-mee-SOO). Italian often marks final stress this way, as in [caffè].
See breakdown →Cannoli
kan-NOH-lee
Cannoli
💬 [Cannoli] is plural; one is [cannolo]. A lot of Italian food names change [o] to [i] for the plural, like [panino] → [panini].
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