Languages · course 84 of 105
Travel Italian From Buongiorno to Bancomat
Handle a trip to Italy in Italian: greetings, ordering without the caffè latte trap, the bill, tickets, taxis, directions, the hotel, shops, the Bancomat (cash machine) and emergencies.
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Preview
What it teaches
Enough Italian to get through a trip to Italy: hello and please done right (buon giorno, buona sera, the polite lei, per favore), what to say when you’re stuck, then ordering (including the caffè latte trap), asking for the bill, train tickets, taxis, directions, the hotel, shops, the cash machine (Bancomat), and emergencies; reading the signs you’ll meet (push, pull, exit, closed) and understanding directions; and saying and hearing prices from 20 to 99. The AI asks 3 questions, places you, shows a short card, then gives you one situation, sign or price at a time.
How long
80 items. About 60-90 rounds for a beginner, less with some school Italian, plus a 9-item final: 2 sessions (estimate, not timed with a real student). Trip mode is about 40 rounds (33 trip-set items, each right once, plus repeats). The tutor gives a one-line save code at the end of each session.
The modules
4 modules, drilled one item at a time.
- M0
Core
Hello, please, thank you, lei and rescue phrases
- M1
Say it
Say it: type the Italian for a situation
- M2
Understand
Understand a sign or a reply
- M3
Numbers
Prices in Italian numbers
Before it teaches, it asks
- 1When is your trip, and how much Italian do you have: none, a few words, some school Italian, or you can get by?
- 2Three quick ones, type what you’d say in Italian, best guess is fine: (a) ask the waiter for the bill, (b) ask how much something costs, (c) say you don’t understand.
- 3CHIUSO
What’s exact, and what isn’t
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Straight from the course’s own notes.
- Two sources must agree on every phrase (C12, Non parlo italiano, has the phrasebook line only)
- Each item is tied to a line of Wikivoyage’s Italian phrasebook (every word of its Model is on that line, plus per favore or a listed fill word), and to English Wiktionary (an English phrase entry translated as that phrase, or the Italian word’s own entry with that meaning).
- Numbers
- Every drilled number checked against its own Wiktionary entry and two pieces of code (one builds the words, one reads them back) that agree on 20-99; the tens and 21-23 are from the phrasebook.
- Sourced
- 6 short quotes from the phrasebook (the polite lei, signora, caffè latte, Bancomat), matched word for word on the live page 2026-10-11.
- Checked by rule (the tutor's reading)
- What you type in M0 and M1: right meaning + the key words + polite on requests. Small slips pass with a Fix; accents, capitals and punctuation are never graded. Correct Italian that isn’t listed counts as right: a judgment call.
- Honest limits
- Typed only: it can’t hear you or say anything aloud. Polite (lei) forms throughout, as the phrasebook gives them. A few Models join two of the phrasebook’s lines (e.g. Mi porti all’aeroporto = “Take me to...” + “the airport”).
- Not in it yet
- Role-plays with a waiter or a clerk (the phrasebook gives the traveller’s lines, not theirs), times and dates, pronunciation.