"Da dove vengono?"
Translation:Where do they come from?
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Vincenzo is correct....da dove vieni = where are you from......in the sense of asking your previous location....answer .....Vengo da Roma .
Di dove sei ......where are you from......in the sense of asking where you were born/grew up.......Answer....Sono di Roma ...I am from Rome /was born/ spent my childhood in Rome.
I was about to ask the same question. Maybe this is only "where do they come from" in the immediate sense - that is "where are they from" could be asking about their nationality, for example, whereas, "where are they coming from" would be asking where they were immediately before here.
i am totally speculating, though. :/
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It is correct, but extremely old-fashioned. No one would speak that way, unless they were deliberately trying to sound archaic.