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Hello hello, it's been a while. Life has been busy unfortunately and motivation was out of the window. Today however I decided to get back to it, albeit slowly.

January - Gennaio ❄️

February – Febbraio ♥️

March – Marzo 🍀

April – Aprile ☔️

May – Maggio 🏖

June - Giugno ☀️

July - Luglio 🎇 🎆

August - Agosto 🏫 ✏️

September - Settembre 🍁

October - Ottobre 🎃

November - Novembre 🦃

December – Dicembre 🎄

So well, first something for fans of probably the hottest and the most famous italian band currently.

#1 Basic Italian , to understand ... YouKnowWhat (ufff scream in Maneskin )

“Zitti e Buoni “-Maneskin

“Buonasera signore e signori”

So well, first something for fans of probably the hottest and the most famous italian band currently.

Buonasera- good evening (some people also use ‘Sera  but better pay attention with who you use )

Signore – señoritas. , ladies :)

E- italian and , no complication.

Ciao a tutti! 

Welcome to my blog! I am Claudia and this is So Italian!

Today we are going to learn how to ask and answer how are you in Italian.

How to ask:

Of course there are different options, most of which use the word come (how). 

One of the most frequently used is come stai? Where stai is a declination of the verb stare* (scroll to the bottom to see the whole declination). 

Another very common alternative is come va? Declination of the verb andare. It corresponds to how is it going? Its longer version would be come va la vita? (how is life going), but it is barely used. Another version is come vanno le cose? (how are things going).

Then we can say tutto bene? Which is the shorter version of va tutto bene? (is everything ok?). To this one you can just answer with a yes or a no.

How to answer:

Tutto bene?

Sì, tutto bene (Yes, everything is ok) No, non proprio (No, not really).

Whereas the answers to the other questions can be:

Come stai? / Come va? 

(Sto/Va) bene, e tu/a te? (I am good and you?)  Insomma or Così così (So so) Non (sto/va) molto bene (I am not very good) (Sto/Va) male (I feel bad/Things are going badly).

You can omit the parts in brackets!

So, these were the most common questions and answers for how are you in Italian.

I hope it was helpful, let me know what you think!

See you soon, ciao ciao!

 Claudia

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*Stare in Italian usually means to stay, in this case though it means to be

Verbs declinations:

Stare - Presente indicativo

1st person singular: Io sto

2nd person singular: Tu stai

3rd person singular: Lui/Lei sta

1st person plural: Noi stiamo

2nd person plural: Voi state

3rd person plural: Loro stanno

 Andare (To go) - Presente indicativo

1st person singular: Io vado

2nd person singular: Tu vai

3rd person singular: Lui/Lei va

1st person plural: Noi andiamo

2nd person plural: Voi andate