When you are meeting some friends, for instance, be it morning or evening, you can say ‘ciao’ both when you meet and when you say goodbye. Since ‘ciao’ is an informal greeting you only use it in conversations with friends or family or people you know very well. Avoid using it with people of high social importance such as police officers, doctors, your boss or a teacher.
The origins of ‘ciao’ are rather interesting too with its roots in the Venetian dialect. The original phrase was ‘scia’o vostro’ which literally meant ‘I am your slave’. This phrase was typically used to say ‘I am there if you need me’. Similar to https://hookupdate.net/tr/interracialdatingcentral-inceleme/ the English ‘at your service’, it was an expression or promise of goodwill among friends.
Nowadays, ‘ciao’ is one of the most popular greetings not only in Italy but in the whole world. Languages around the world have adopted ‘ciao’ as one of the ways to say hello and/or goodbye. In Germany, for example, it can be spelled ‘ciao’ or ‘tschau’, in French it’s ‘tchao’ in Czech it’s spelled ‘cau’, in Greek it’s ‘????’ and in Spanish it’s ‘chau’. And that’s just to name a few!
However, if you don’t want to repeat the same word all the time or need something more formal, here’s a formal Italian greeting you can use. Read More
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