Survival Phrases
The exact phrases you need for real life abroad — with practice dialogues and audio, for every level.
Practice pronunciationEating & Drinking Out
Restaurants, cafés, bars, and ordering food.
Making a Restaurant Reservation
Use these phrases to call a restaurant, book a table, and handle questions when you arrive.
Making a Restaurant Reservation
Use these phrases to confidently book a table, specify dietary requirements, or make changes to an existing reservation at an Italian restaurant.
Ordering at a Restaurant
Essential Italian phrases for arriving at a restaurant, ordering a meal, and paying the bill without using complicated grammar.
Ordering at a Restaurant
These everyday phrases will help you comfortably get a table, order your meal, and ask for recommendations in an Italian restaurant.
Ordering at a Restaurant
These essential phrases will help you navigate a restaurant in Italy with confidence, from claiming your reservation to paying the bill.
Ordering Coffee at a Café
These phrases will help you confidently order coffee and pastries at an Italian bar like a local.
Ordering Coffee at a Café
Use these essential phrases to confidently order and pay for your drink at an Italian café.
Allergies & Dietary Needs
Use these phrases to safely navigate restaurants in Italy and clearly communicate your dietary needs.
Allergies & Dietary Needs
Essential phrases for navigating restaurants and social situations in Italy when you have allergies or dietary restrictions.
Sending Food Back & Complaints
Use these phrases to politely but firmly address problems with your order or the food itself, while maintaining the respectful formal register expected with service staff.
Paying & Splitting the Bill
Essential phrases for finishing your meal, asking for the bill, and paying at an Italian restaurant or café.
Paying & Splitting the Bill
Essential phrases for finishing your meal, asking for the bill, and paying in Italian.
Paying & Splitting the Bill
Essential Italian phrases for paying the bill, splitting costs with friends, and handling card payments at a restaurant or café.
Ordering Drinks at a Bar
These phrases will help you navigate a busy Italian bar, from ordering your first drink to setting up a tab and settling the bill with friends.
Ordering Drinks at a Bar
Use these phrases when ordering drinks, buying rounds, and managing a tab at an Italian bar or cafe.
Takeaway & Delivery
These phrases will help you confidently place orders for takeaway or home delivery, ask about fees and wait times, and handle payments or missing items.
Takeaway & Delivery
Use these practical phrases to confidently order food to go or request delivery directly in Italian.
Takeaway & Delivery
These phrases will help you order food for takeaway or delivery, ask about times and fees, and sort out any missing items.
At a Fast-Food Counter
Use these phrases to confidently order your favorite fast-food meal without hesitating.
At a Fast-Food Counter
Use these phrases to confidently order a meal, customize your food, and pay at a fast-food counter in Italy.
At the Bakery & Deli
Use these essential phrases to order bread, deli meats, and pastries naturally at an Italian bakery or deli.
At the Bakery & Deli
Use these essential phrases to confidently order bread, pastries, and deli items at a typical Italian bakery or deli.
Buying Street Food
Use these practical phrases to confidently order street food, ask about ingredients, and handle payment like a local.
Buying Street Food
Use these practical phrases to confidently order street food, ask about ingredients, and pay in Italian.