ASMR | Relaxing Italian Lesson 🇮🇹 Teacher Roleplay • soft spoken • useful commands

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Hello there.

[00:00:02]Welcome to a new Italian lesson.

[00:00:10]Yes, it's been a while.

[00:00:13]I hope you're doing well and I hope you've practiced some of the things we went through in the previous lessons.

[00:00:29]Wonderful.

[00:00:31]So, today we're gonna be looking at some phrases.

[00:00:37]Um, I want to teach you the most common Italian commands that you will hear and use in everyday situations.

[00:00:49]Um, these are essential phrases that will help you navigate Italy like a local. From restaurants to public trans And uh truly they are all very very useful.

[00:01:07]Okay, so pay attention and uh let's get right into it.

[00:01:18]Let's begin. Number one, basta.

[00:01:32]Basta.

[00:01:34]Basta means enough.

[00:01:39]So it's also used to say stop it. So for example, if someone keeps insisting, maybe they want to sell something to you and you're done with it, you can say, "Stop it. Stop insisting."

[00:02:02]You can just say, "Bast non insisted.

[00:02:09]Stop insisting."

[00:02:20]Now, if you want, you can make this um a bit more gentle by adding gratium.

[00:02:32]When would you need that? So, typical situation, if you're eating um at someone's house, um we tend to feel uh we tend to fill our guests plates quite a bit.

[00:02:55]So, it's very typical Italian to keep filling the plate of our guests and um maybe you're really full and you don't want a second serving. Um you can say So adds a bit more gentleness and politeness.

[00:03:31]So bast means this is enough. Thank you.

[00:03:39]Basta.

[00:03:41]So basta is a common command. It can have a very strong effect but you can make it polite by adding.

[00:03:55]Okay.

[00:03:57]Number two, attention.

[00:04:14]Attention.

[00:04:17]This means attention, watch out.

[00:04:24]You can hear this, but you can also read this. For example, let's suppose you're in a public bathroom and you read something like this.

[00:04:50]That means watch out.

[00:04:54]The floor is wet.

[00:04:59]So whenever you hear attention, pay attention, okay?

[00:05:07]They're telling you watch out.

[00:05:12]Number three.

[00:05:17]Uh this one is very helpful when for example you're visiting museums.

[00:05:26]So you could hear this or you made you may need to use this and command the phrase is this means silence.

[00:05:45]So it's used as um be quiet silence.

[00:05:53]For example, if someone is making a lot of noise, uh speaking out loud in a museum or at the movies, you can say means please.

[00:06:26]So be quiet. You can ask people to be be quiet to be quiet in a situation where it's not good to make noise. Okay. Also in school this is used quite a lot by teachers.

[00:06:44]Let's move on to number four.

[00:07:00]literally means forward, but it's used to say come in or next one. For example, if you're lining up or you're waiting outside for maybe a doctor's appointment and um and they're now ready for you to come in, they would say, Come inant.

[00:07:40]Okay. Number five.

[00:07:43]This is the opposite of avanti and it's oato.

[00:07:55]Okupato.

[00:07:58]I know that most people know this as busy. I'm busy.

[00:08:10]But oato for this reason is also very common in a very specific situation when you're waiting outside of a public toilet and you knock on the door and the person inside says so busy.

[00:08:38]Okay.

[00:08:43]So, this is what you want to learn. If you find yourself in that situation, just shout out Okato and you'll be good to go.

[00:08:56]Number six, numero.

[00:09:01]This may surprise you. Number six, numero is I know you're going to be like, "What are you saying?" Means you're welcome.

[00:09:19]We've seen this before. What does it have to do with commands?

[00:09:24]Well, prego is a very interesting word and it can have several meanings. Okay?

[00:09:31]Not just you're welcome.

[00:09:33]It can be used as a command.

[00:09:36]Um, for example, to say go ahead or after you.

[00:09:47]So, let's suppose you're getting inside a place, going inside some somewhere, and there's someone before you and they would be polite towards you saying after you.

[00:10:14]Okay?

[00:10:17]So maybe they would hold the door and say after you. They're not saying you're welcome. They're saying please after you. You go first. Go ahead. Okay.

[00:10:38]So, keep this in mind when it happens and it's quite common.

[00:10:46]So, all these commands are the same for formal and informal situations, okay?

[00:11:05]And they don't change. But the ones I'm going to explain to you now actually have two forms. a formal one, which is the one that you're more likely to hear or use when you're traveling to Italy because you're going to have to do um you're going to have to uh communicate with strangers.

[00:11:31]And there's also an informal version that's going to be uh useful when you're with people who with whom you're familiar with. Okay?

[00:11:47]So, friends, family, but I'll show you both forms. Okay? So, formal expression and the informal one. So, if you make friends in Italy, you can also use the informal one. Okay?

[00:12:07]So the reason why we have two different forms is because these commands use the imperativo which is a specific verb conjugation that we use for commands like in English.

[00:12:28]So since it's a verb conjugation we will have two forms which is the informal and um the formal one which is le we uh we saw this in one of the first lessons. Okay.

[00:12:53]So let's see these commands.

[00:12:58]Okay. So the first one number seven and it's how you say wait and it's this is the formal one. So for example, let's suppose you would want to call someone's attention.

[00:13:33]Um you would say maybe you forgot your keys and someone shouts out, "Wait, you forgot your keys." Okay. So this is used with strangers the formal form.

[00:14:01]So okay now how do we turn this into the informal form? Simply changing the last letter. So the informal form of aspet is aset as with friends and family with a stranger. Okay, let's do number eight.

[00:14:47]And it's stop.

[00:14:52]How do you say stop in Italian if you're saying it to a person?

[00:15:08]That's because we use the reflexive form.

[00:15:17]So the C is a reflexive pronoun.

[00:15:24]So if you want to say to taxi driver, please stop here, you would say, Please stop here. Okay.

[00:15:55]Now, let's see the informal version of This means stop but for uh people you are familiar with.

[00:16:22]Okay, friends and family.

[00:16:26]Let's see number nine.

[00:16:29]So what if you want to what if you want to tell someone tell me. If you want to ask someone to tell you something, this can be stronger or more gentle depend depending um on how you phrase your sentence, but in Italian it would be formal.

[00:17:01]So, means tell me.

[00:17:05]For example, this is something that many people use in stores, shops, uh when you come inside the shop and the the the person inside would say, "Tika, so tell me what you need.

[00:17:32]or the the phrase would be tell me what you need.

[00:17:42]Okay.

[00:17:44]So um is the formal way of uh asking someone what they need to tell you what they need. How do you turn this into informal? It would be dim.

[00:18:24]This is something you may hear a lot when you practice your Italian with family or friends or with your teacher.

[00:18:33]When you're talking to them and you're about to tell them something, they may encourage you by telling you.

[00:18:45]Okay. Okay. Let's see. Number 10.

[00:18:52]And this is not very common anymore, but it's worth knowing because sometimes people still use it. And then there's an alternative that's much more common. Um, this is when uh the waiter comes to take your order.

[00:19:16]And in the past, the common expression uh would be command, which means command, like command your order, command, but it's not that common anymore.

[00:19:32]So what we may use instead is which means ready to order.

[00:19:49]If you're more than one, they may say plural.

[00:20:00]Let's see. number 11, which is how to say go away.

[00:20:08]And you may you may need it unfortunately.

[00:20:12]And it would be via go away.

[00:20:20]Maybe someone keeps trying to sell you something.

[00:20:25]You can say I'm not interested. Okay. So now for this one I I showed you the formal the informal form. This is the informal one probably probably because if someone is annoying you they are not showing you respect.

[00:20:58]So you don't show them respect either.

[00:21:02]So you use the informal form. Okay. Via.

[00:21:09]You can also use the this for maybe stray dogs.

[00:21:16]Via and the dog will most likely go away.

[00:21:24]Okay.

[00:21:26]Now let's see the last one and this is uh used for traveling in a group actually two phrases.

[00:21:42]So the first one would be let's start and it's we actually have two forms.

[00:21:54]So or they both mean let's start.

[00:22:13]Okay. So same meaning.

[00:22:18]So let's notice the pattern. In Italian we don't have um let's form. So we say the same thing by using the noi form of present tense. So init and both mean we begin or we start but in English it would be let's start.

[00:22:50]So for example, let's start the tour, the guided tour.

[00:23:04]Okay, let's see the last one.

[00:23:12]This won't be a surprise probably. And it's how to say let's go. Okay. And for the same reason I just explained, we say in Italian, we go and it would be and let's go.

[00:23:34]Let's go.

[00:23:38]How would you say let's go to the restaurant?

[00:23:48]Okay.

[00:23:50]So, let's all go to the restaurant.

[00:23:54]Okay.

[00:23:58]Now, these were the commands, commonly used commands used in Italian, but remember that these commands are essential for daily life in Italy. And now you know exactly how to use them.

[00:24:15]Okay, I hope you found this lesson helpful and I encourage you to practice these commands on your own and in the next lesson we'll be looking at some new phrases. Okay, it was a pleasure.

[00:24:38]Have a good day.