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My old friend, Bruce Ketta.

Is Matteo spying on me? How does he know that I am not using the full screen?

True story - I was at an "Italian" restaurant here in America and I ordered bruschetta, using the proper pronunciation " bru-skate-tah" (I used to live in Milano), and the waitress "corrected" me with "brewshettuh"....

As an American I hardly use my mouth at all when speaking… I have build up my muscles for Italian. 💪

Oh no, I have been calling waiters calamari! 6:34

I love your smooth style. It's relaxing and very helpful when learning.

Espresso never has an x. ❤

What I like about Italian pronunciation is that it seems to always follow the rules. Once you've understood them, you can pronounce everything, even if you don't know the word. They even change the spelling of words with foreign language background to follow their pronunciation rules (idk if that's still true for modern Anglicisms).

When the man said 'bicchiere' it sounded like bit-tsyeh-reh. The lady pronounced it as bik-kyeh-reh.

Aiuole (pl.) - all the vowels!

Italian seems so delightfully obvious to read out loud. You actually spell the letters in the word (at least for vowels). For a Finn it's a nice breather from English (and some other languages) where it's a wild west and the written vowels can twist to any possible sound except the one that's written.

Interesting how in the cch words the kk + i actually makes the subtle h sound even though it's mostly silent. It's just not long but short and sharp. One thing that tends to trip me mentally, even though I recognise it and the words where it is, is the gi dropping the i. Like parmigiano becomes parmidz(j)aano.

I have recommended your videos to so many people, I've watched them all because even though my Italian isn't terrible, I've forgotten a lot since I lived there. Now I visit Italy often so going over the basics really helps reinforce my learning and has given me the confidence to use the language more and more ♥grazie mille

holy crap.. first time I've heard Mateo speak english! sounds like a British accent?

I have never heard you actually speaking English! Fascinante!

I'm glad you picked up on the slight again parmigiano

I was just in Firenze, and must say, the caffè was so good.  Everyone was very kind to me despite my  Italiano being not so good.

Pssst... thanks for the tip that helped my focus!  Another fun video, grazie mille!

Three years living in Italy and I still find pronouncing “un euro” nearly impossible haha

As a Romanian I find these words very easy to pronounce.