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@RuggiWafer

4 жыл бұрын

Ciao

@ItalianMaps

4 жыл бұрын

E vabbé, allora io adesso mi metto a insegnare coreano 😂

@joespeedyfrankage24

4 жыл бұрын

io sono originario di sicilia e parlo italiano. l'inglese non mi piace. io ho 13 anni

@dastoks9750

4 жыл бұрын

@@joespeedyfrankage24 io vivo a catania XD

@PaoloA7X

3 жыл бұрын

@@anna18691 sicuramente non ci sarà lui ma uno che la conosce

Utente italiano guarda questo video "Mio Dio, ma sta parlando di me"

@benitorossi1076

4 жыл бұрын

Ahahahahaha

@helloyou2253

4 жыл бұрын

Vero hahaha

@tommasofilippetti9483

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahha ma vogliamo parlare di "comedia"

@riverino4989

4 жыл бұрын

Che bello usare i Meme italiani in un video inglese che parla di italiano 😂

@llendlesshate6037

4 жыл бұрын

😂

hearing Italian words in an english speech feels like Trenitalia announcing the next train in English. We're arriving in: vEnEziA sAntA LucIa

@jiminsapplebottomjeans3945

4 жыл бұрын

Gerard's Apple i feel you ahahah

@fungo1196

4 жыл бұрын

Mi hai ricordato il video di cartoni morti ahahah

@gerardsapple843

4 жыл бұрын

@@fungo1196 in effetti un mezzo riferimento c'era :'')

@Lucky79_

4 жыл бұрын

Oltre alla sentire la gente che si lamenta del ritardo di 14 giorni intendi

@MRHEY

4 жыл бұрын

Cartoni morti

There's a very tiny mistake most non- Italians make when reading Italian words: when a G is followed by an I, most of the time the I is actually silent, so the name Giovanni actually sounds more like Jovanni (same thing with the C, it's more like Boccacho)

@friedchicken1

Жыл бұрын

Boccaccho XD sto morendo XD XD grazie

@psigh8161

Жыл бұрын

@@friedchicken1 bisogna un po' venirsi incontro lol

@lucanfx

Жыл бұрын

Giovanni Is pronounced as Djovànni

@psigh8161

Жыл бұрын

@@lucanfx true, I was using a rough English transliteration rather than phonetic, which I'm not too familiar with either so it was probably best in order to reach more people. In this case the second example would probably be more accurate as Bokkatcho I believe, right?

As a native Italian speaker, watching this video makes me realize how complex my language can be for a foreigner. I have a lot of respect for those who decide to learn it, despite everything! And I'm very proud to read, in the comments, that so many people from all over the world love my country and my language ♥!

@belle_pomme

Жыл бұрын

You mean it's complicated, because every language is complex to be functional

@lilylovesitaly3932

Жыл бұрын

Giuseppe Bruno I’m learning Italian because I fell in love with the song “L’italiano” by Toto Cutugno. It’s a beautiful, melodic language and Italy is the most beautiful country in the world.

@giuseppebruno3921

Жыл бұрын

@@lilylovesitaly3932 ❤️

@joseortizvlogs

Жыл бұрын

Im from mexico and Im currently learning your beautiful language along side Swedish

@giuseppebruno3921

Жыл бұрын

@@joseortizvlogs enjoy studying 😊!

"Nowadays, virtually all Italians are fluent in Italian" Luca Giurato:

@thundergoat_1

4 жыл бұрын

Chiedo scudo

@Anze4

4 жыл бұрын

AHAHAHAHAH

@Shalalacls

4 жыл бұрын

Grazie per questo commento. A pra foco.

@Zennon7289

4 жыл бұрын

ahahhahaha

@aleesposito724

4 жыл бұрын

Ahahhahahaa

"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse" Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

@maxx1014

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad he didn't speak English

@Valagh

4 жыл бұрын

Ahahahah true. Masterpiece

@brandongradosgardois7651

4 жыл бұрын

Why french to men?

@maxx1014

4 жыл бұрын

@@brandongradosgardois7651 because back in the days French was the language of the royal courts in Europe

@brandongradosgardois7651

4 жыл бұрын

@@maxx1014 oh true! I remember in that time fench was the internationsl language for diplomatics and stuff similar, almost as a la lingua franca. Thanks for your apport. Greetings from Lima, Perú!

I started studying Italian in college as I started learning classical singing. The Italian language is the most natural and perfect language to sing as all the syllables/vowels are spoken in the resonance, not to mention it aligns perfectly with musical phrasings. Simply beautiful.

@Nufeneguediz

Жыл бұрын

That's because it was created and it's not something it slowly evolved from Latin. The video Paul says that it comes from Tuscany's dialect, but this is just the first part of the story. The language Dante used wasn't just his dialect: he modified it adding words from other dialect (both from Italy and France) and also from Latin. Also he and the other poets that came after him modified the language following one simple rule: does it sounds good? Almost all of the irregularities or randomness in the words are so because otherwise they wouldn't sound as good.

@jaengen

10 ай бұрын

Agreed it’s best for opera, but for rock and blues it’s not. English is best for those.

Amo l'Italia: la storia, gli italiani, la cucina e soprattutto la lingua. abbracci dal Brasile.

@michelemarciano5270

Жыл бұрын

grazie

@danielefasanari4648

Жыл бұрын

GRAZIE CIAOOOOOOO

@mimik554

Жыл бұрын

Grazie, comunque bello il Brasile

@tovemichau4887

Жыл бұрын

Que ótimo barrote!

@user-wp4oh3zn5e

Жыл бұрын

Perché avevate una legge di Getulio Vargas che proibiva l'uso dell'italiano in Brasile.🤔 Io non ho mai sentito di una legge italiana che mette al bando il portoghese: una legge del genere sarebbe ridicola in Italia.

As an Italian I’m really impressed by the amount research he has put onto this video. Good job!

@mccardrixx5289

4 жыл бұрын

@Miguel Espejel Mujica Paul is awesome :D

@HinnStormur

4 жыл бұрын

Sono fatti molto basici, in realtà, e purtroppo ci sono vari svarioni...

@JonathanArcher100

4 жыл бұрын

Also, as an Italian, I'm impressed by how Italian could actually be hard to pronunce for foreigners. Stuff that you take for granted when you're a native speaker.

@ricois3

4 жыл бұрын

@@JonathanArcher100 "R" è difficile da pronunciare per i francesi da Francia, però non per me, perché sono dal Québec e diciamo a volte "R" come gli italiani in nostro accento.

@ricois3

4 жыл бұрын

@@JonathanArcher100 My sentence wasn't perfect, but you get what I mean I guess.

English: hell Italian: inferi, ade, inferno, oltretomba, averno, regno dei morti, ecc...

@Refref1990

4 жыл бұрын

English: i'm inevitable Italian: IO sono Ineluttabile, inevitabile, ineludibile, inesorabile, ecc...

@francescohu5856

4 жыл бұрын

Ma cos’è L averno?

@kxppamo5943

4 жыл бұрын

lol

@filipposimone2854

4 жыл бұрын

@@francescohu5856 indovina

@andresmaldonado5277

4 жыл бұрын

También en español xd

Italian is such a cool language. My dad speaks a little, as he was over there when he was in the Army. I was inspired to learn Italian because one of my fave bands, Eiffel 65, is Italian.

@Soulssl4yer

2 жыл бұрын

A true man/woman of culture 🎉

@peeweesprincess89

2 жыл бұрын

@@Soulssl4yer haha yep!

@lucarutigliano6539

Жыл бұрын

Bro you're dad is a fucking king

@simon3tor

Жыл бұрын

@@peeweesprincess89 io so l' Italiano perché sono Italiano ahahhah

@Zarsan000

Жыл бұрын

Bravo! (Good)

Hi! I'm an Argentine of Italian ancentry, I came here to learn more about the language of my grand parents and where my surname comes from (it is Dell'Aria). Greetings to all Italians! :)

Q. How are you? A. English: It's all good, thanks Italian: 'ttapposto

@shaide5483

4 жыл бұрын

You shure that's not Neapolitan?

@milo5524

4 жыл бұрын

@@shaide5483 It Is...😁

@shaide5483

4 жыл бұрын

Just Making shure

@cipollo1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@shaide5483 In Italian is: Tutt'apposto, it doesn't change a lot

@justcri

4 жыл бұрын

vero

As a foreigner living in Italy, what I’ve found most surprising and that everyone should know is that what we call “confetti” in English, it’s actually called “coriandoli” in Italian; while the Italian word “confetti” refers to a kind of sweet (dragée).

@abadonservant

4 жыл бұрын

Confeti is a kind of candy here too. I am a spanish speaker from Bolivia

@brolin96

4 жыл бұрын

@@abadonservant I'm from Honduras, and here the word for "Confetti" is "Confeti" (as in almost any Spanish-speaking country), and the word for the flavor is "Confite".

@volemar

4 жыл бұрын

In russian "konfety" with stressed penult means "candy", "sweets" too, while "konfeti" with stressed ending is about celebration splashing thing.

@vickysmile23

4 жыл бұрын

I'm Italian and half British on my mother's side. I grew up speaking both English and Italian and I remember I too used to find that confusing, I'd get them mixed up. Even today I must say the English meaning of "confetti" is the first one I think of when I hear that world

@chiaranotreally1162

4 жыл бұрын

So you came here in italy and discover just that? 😂😂😂

My wife and I spent some weeks in Italy, all in the South. Since she speaks Spanish as her native tongue and for me, Spanish is my second language, we found Italian to be easy to understand and learn. Yet, not knowing the Italian verbs became our greatest difficulty, since many of the cognates to Spanish sound very different and that part needs intensive study. Italian is a fun language to learn and spending any amount of time in Italy to practice is a ginormous fringe benefit.

As an Italian I can speak for many of us when I say that this video is incredibly precise and well-structured! Happy to see someone explaining our roots, and the roots of our language, so well to an international audience!

Un saluto dal Portogallo ai nostri amici italiani. 🇮🇹🇵🇹

@FlagAnthem

4 жыл бұрын

Olà! Eu amo a Lisboa!

@pigeon_master_8561

4 жыл бұрын

Ciau

@tirannorex8255

4 жыл бұрын

Oh grazie

@TheOliveiradejesus

4 жыл бұрын

Saudações da 🇩🇪 de um Brasileiro 🇧🇷 aos amigos de Portugal 🇵🇹 e Italia 🇮🇹:)

@riccardof1325

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sono italiano (I'm Italian)

Sto studiando italiano all'università in Germania da quattro semestri e per me é la lingua piú bella delle lingue romanze! :) I have never regretted that i started learning italian. Very beautiful language!

@lydwac

4 жыл бұрын

Why do I understand this?!

@Nonyaheckinbusiness

4 жыл бұрын

@@lydwac it's pretty similar to english in quite a lot of aspects so it's easier to under than like german.

@juansehernandez4504

4 жыл бұрын

@@lydwac Because english is so latinized, it's almost a romance language, I like it so much because it made me easier the learning in the school.

@kekeke8988

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nonyaheckinbusiness German and English actually have countless cognates. You just need to be aware of the consonant shift to recognize them. water > Wasser ship > Schiff hound > Hund night > Nacht think bite >beißen In German, t from other Germanic languages in the middle of word changes to ss or ß (same sound, I think), English th changes to d like in almost all other Germanic languages, p changes to either f or pf.

@Skadi609

4 жыл бұрын

I'm French and I understood each word 😀

I love Italian.... such a beautiful language.

@marilinpuig8562

2 жыл бұрын

@Jeremy Renner Ciao, Jeremy. Come stai? Spero bene.

@lucafumagallli

2 жыл бұрын

As Italian, Italian it's very hard, because there are too many verbs and adjectives, exist in Italian an adjective who is "Precipitevolissimevolmente" [Pre/ci/pi/te/vi/lis/sì/me/vo/lme/nte], is like dive from an high place fast.

@marilinpuig8562

2 жыл бұрын

@@lucafumagallli I was fortunate to have studied Italian and later lived in Italy for 3 years.

@cosimobrandizzi7922

2 жыл бұрын

Grazie lo apprezzò

@TheCotton.Candyy

2 жыл бұрын

@@lucafumagallli non penso sia italiano sta parola

One thing about Italian is that for one: it's really easy to pronounce, second: it's an awesome language for music overall from pop music to classical music, and finally Italian just sounds beautiful

@giuseppedamora.

2 жыл бұрын

it's not very easy to pronounce, trust me. It depends on what's your mother tongue.

@Alan_quelloubriaco

Жыл бұрын

Emm hey i am Italian at my school There is a czech and she have hard to pronunce the Italian trust me Cameron

"grande" "venti" "trenta" are all words that we don't use in Italy for coffe sizes, don't really know why Starbucks it's using those words 🤔

@tiffanymarie9750

4 жыл бұрын

former sbux barista here: to sound fancy to english speakers. and bc they'd used short and tall already, so when they kept adding sizes after that they wanted to sound super fancy. :T

@keepitprivate3856

4 жыл бұрын

SB is very correctly, giving grade is very large size and venti is actually 20 ounce the fancy stuff/cup/size is all back to/ based on caffe latte which contain specific ratio on milk to espresso

@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN

4 жыл бұрын

Coffee isn’t only to Italy so.... grinde is also big in Spanish and used a lot in English.

@voltronhasguns

4 жыл бұрын

When I go to Starbucks, I order "large, medium or small"

@shaide5483

4 жыл бұрын

TwentyThrill Because Italian is like Portuguese: It sounds sexy & hot, so why not use it to make coffee beautiful & sexy?

I’m not a native Italian speaker, but I think it’s weird when English speakers mispronounce the letter E in Italian, specially at the end of a word, like: mascarpone, linguine, Versace, salame, etc.

@KrodinoPOOPS

4 жыл бұрын

As an Italian, I can definitely confirm 😂😂

@joshistyping

4 жыл бұрын

We generally don't have words in English where you pronounce that sound at the end of the word, and if you do, it sounds like "ei", which is a long vowel, so we approximate it with "i".

@ranelaghm8

4 жыл бұрын

And viceversa: it's painful hard for italian to pronounce "ee", "ea" or "i" in english. We use just the same sound for all these cases - no difference between "sheet" and "shit" :D

@marrobertx

4 жыл бұрын

We retaliated butchering out our own weird pronunciation for some American brands, like Nike, Colgate...

@limani6837

4 жыл бұрын

@@marrobertx ma noi diciamo nayk quindi è giusto...

Unquestionably the most beautiful language, and the most Latin of the five primary, national Romance languages. (Surprised this fact was not mentioned in the video).

Interesting fact: I’ve come across a lot of people that after several years of intense study and practice have mastered English, Spanish, French, even German, Japanese and Korean, but not Italian. Once you become fluent, it’s like you reach a point where it would take a million years to be taken for a native speaker.

I'm Italian, why the hell am I watching this?!

@Langfocus

4 жыл бұрын

Because you’re the REAL DEAL!

@Ramk0core

4 жыл бұрын

I mean, why not? Oh, and Paul noticed you! Congrats!

@blectopest

4 жыл бұрын

because Langfocus knows italian better than italians. ps: è vero, purtroppo

@skipinkoreaable

4 жыл бұрын

Buongiorno! I bet you'll get something out of it even as an Italian.

@baltoy7460

4 жыл бұрын

@@blectopest Si, infatti. XD

I'm a native speaker of Italian and watching this video showed me how really complex my language is. Lots of thing I took for granted are in fact very articulated, I'm surprised by this.

@Heretogasunu

4 жыл бұрын

How are you typing english if you're Italian you fraud

@xoxo-ym5pw

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@matteosartori9349

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. I didn't know about the difference between adjectives before the noun and adjectives after the noun.

@cammarc

4 жыл бұрын

@@matteosartori9349 Io veramente non ci avevo mai pensato. Chi lo poteva dire che un canadese mi avrebbe detto qualcosa della mia lingua che non sapevo?

@paulkolodner2445

4 жыл бұрын

@@matteosartori9349 It's the same in French, and I think it's also the same in Spanish.

Italian and Portuguese are the most beautiful languages in the world! Portuguese contains more other vocabulary influences (Brazilian Portuguese). Both languages are also very melodic.

Spanish is my native language. I studied Portuguese for many years and now I'm studying Italian, and contrary to my expectations I've found that Italian shares more features with Portuguese than with Spanish, such as the use of article + possessive adjective.

@silvestrien

2 жыл бұрын

As an Italian I can confirm.

@hydrophobicmilesedgeworth2773

2 жыл бұрын

I'm italian but I've studied spanish and latin, sometimes I understand very well various things written or entire sentences in portuguese even if I don't understand it a lot while hearing it. It is still impressive considering I've never studied portuguese

@Maidenintime86

Жыл бұрын

@@hydrophobicmilesedgeworth2773 Same for me, I'm Brazilian and I can read quite well in Italian though I've never actually studied the language.

Fun fact: Italian is still studied in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia at elementary schools and middle schools

@thenightcorevillain369

4 жыл бұрын

You guys have schools?

@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN

4 жыл бұрын

Fun fact, most Italian words end in a vowel

@federicoserri1826

4 жыл бұрын

Casey That’s true!

@federicoserri1826

4 жыл бұрын

TheNightcoreVillain Yes we have😂 And even if you may not believe it Italian schools (or European schools in general) are the toughest in the world!

@didonegiuliano3547

4 жыл бұрын

Really? I suppose they are private schools only dough, aren’t they?

English verbs: three paradigms + some special verb. Italian verbs: *REEEEEEEEEEE*

@alexbox8967

4 жыл бұрын

O fuck, I am italian and I don’t think nothing like that, but it is so fucking true😂😂

@atti3102

4 жыл бұрын

Article in Ingles (scritto male apposta) :Theeeeeeeeeee

@r3xku

4 жыл бұрын

English articles: The, a, an italian articles: il, la, gli, le, lo, un, una, un', e altri 73467236578658346 articoli

@den2k885

4 жыл бұрын

@@r3xku 6 articles for "the", 3+1 articles for "a". At least we don't have 26 vowels like the Swedes.

@den2k885

4 жыл бұрын

@IronFist 21 tempi verbali per 6 modi rispetto a 6 tempi per 6 modi. Aggiungi le declinazioni maschile/femminile che in Inglese non ci sono e direi che come complessità siamo alle stelle rispetto all'inglese.

As an Italian i realy like the amount of work and research that has been put in this video by this guy Bravo :)

L'italiano è una lingua bellisima! I've become familiar with it just for the sake of my work and my reading comprehension is now at least decent. But I recently started learning it seriously and it's full of expressive hues. I like it a lot. Thanks a lot for the video, you do an excellent work. Distinti saluti.

I have been studying italian for three years and my favorite part about the language is that words sound exactly how they are written (unlike in English or French). Also, italian has been useful for me at work, since it is relatively close to Spanish. If I speak Italian to a native Spanish speaker, we have an easier time communicating than when I speak to them in English.

@GiuseppeM1990

4 жыл бұрын

I am Italian and the fact that words in most languages doesnt sound how they are written TILTS me a lot. And that's why I decided to study Japanese and I hate English (as u can easily see from my grammar LUL)

@anonimous8457

4 жыл бұрын

@@GiuseppeM1990 well japanese is nice until you have to learn kanji, that's the true anti phonetic system.

@GiuseppeM1990

4 жыл бұрын

@@anonimous8457 honestly im fine with kanji and I found them really intresting

@Aditya-te7oo

4 жыл бұрын

Liz Lessard I also love Italian but my favourite is French, and I'm learning it. It just sooo beautiful, both spoken and written. I love everything about this language, its silent letters, verb conjugations, everything. Whenever I listen to or read this language I just think "how come I don't know this language, why can't I understand this language, I want to understand it, I want to understand it". In Romance languages my favourite is French and the second is Italian.

@Aditya-te7oo

4 жыл бұрын

@@GiuseppeM1990 Me too. I also love Kanji man.

"PEPPERONI" IN ITALIAN MEANS SWEET PEPPER (CAPSICUM) AND NOT "SAUSAGE" WHICH IS "SALSICCIA" SPREAD THE WORD!

@atti3102

4 жыл бұрын

@@z1poc wow una persona che ha ragione

@atti3102

4 жыл бұрын

Comunque la pizza con della salsiccia fa vomitare lo stesso vale con la pizza e il ketchup insieme

@mortaccitua347

4 жыл бұрын

Attilio Nucera e ananas?Eww

@lorenzofurnari

4 жыл бұрын

@@atti3102 Spiegami come la pizza con la salsiccia (che poi pepperoni è un salame) dovrebbe fare schifo 🤷🏻‍♂️

@viv9449

4 жыл бұрын

Eh...no,in italian Sweet Peppers are "Peperoni" not "Pepperoni" 😂

You managed to cover in 15 minutes my whole semester-long course program! ;)

@jonmar7759

2 жыл бұрын

Ciao piacere di conocirti quanto dura un semestre?

@chiaranapolitano7605

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonmar7759 Il semestre primaverile inizia in febbraio e finisce a fine maggio, ma oramai non lavoro più per la stessa università.

@jonmar7759

2 жыл бұрын

@@chiaranapolitano7605 grazie per le informazioni e il tuo aiuto, buona giornata

Italian dialect fragmentation and lack of official language until the mid 19th century means that even today in 2022 I (a Roman) can understand most of dialects in central Italy, but can't understand a word if somebody from northern or southern Italy uses their dialect, which I think is kinda fascinating

Fun fact: We don't only eat pasta and pizza. edit: odd that im receiving most of the replies and likes only now, considering my comment was posted 2 years ago. well...thanks guys! per gli italiani vi si vuole bene

@silverskull7669

4 жыл бұрын

We eat insalata mista

@Ginp-

4 жыл бұрын

@@silverskull7669 .....

@DBGabriele

4 жыл бұрын

but also Gelato.

@deibu__

4 жыл бұрын

But also "cappelletti n'brodo"

@leporex8698

4 жыл бұрын

beh non mangeremmo solo pasta e pizza ma poco ci manca. Però considerando ciò che mangiano in america, non mi lamenterei AHHAHAHHAHAHA

Bel video! Imparo l'Italiano da 3 anni e la cosa più difficile per me è stata la parola "ci". "Ci sto, ci vuole, ci penso, ci amiamo, non posso farci niente, devi farci sapere, ce l'ho, ce la faccio, ci puoi contare, ci conosce" Mio dio, quanti significati ci sono per una parola? Amo la lingua comunque!

@francescoazzoni3445

4 жыл бұрын

And still you're missing out on dialects. There there are words that can be used for everything

@filippofranchini4747

4 жыл бұрын

Non CI avevo mai pensato

@languageswithtom2634

4 жыл бұрын

@@francescoazzoni3445 Dialects are one thing I haven't looked into yet. It's not really a problem if you just speak Italian because most people speak it. The only problem I have is when I hear people from Rome, I can barely understand a word they say :D

@alessandrocoppola4642

4 жыл бұрын

@@languageswithtom2634 "IMPARO l'italiano da 3 anni..." si dice "STUDIO l'italiano da 3 anni..." :)

@cyonidee

4 жыл бұрын

@@languageswithtom2634 i'm from Rome and the thing with Roman is that there is not a clear distinction between Italian and dialect because Roman is not a real dialect. So basically the Roman you hear in tv is very pronounced because that is the Roman of cinema. Being in Rome is another thing. Basically we Italians understand the nuances that make the difference in contest between classes and cultural levels.

One curious thing about the whole -are, -ere, -ire verb system is that if we need to invent a new verb, we tend to form it with -are, because it's the most regular

You are so good at this! I found it so interesting how the verb parlare work differently! Thank you for studying the language and understanding how the language progressed! No one has done it so clearly and respectful. Part 2 please.

italian is the only language in my opinion that sounds like music when spoken.

@tgemini89

4 жыл бұрын

@misseli1

4 жыл бұрын

Italian and some accents of Brazilian portuguese

@maryislandmoon9734

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@anthonycz7581

4 жыл бұрын

Norwegian is a strong contestant too

@TariqNavabiGaming

4 жыл бұрын

listen to Persian/Farsi and come back to me :)

salve ! Mi chiamo Omar sono dal somalia , amo l'italiano . .. Molto bene .

@KrodinoPOOPS

4 жыл бұрын

* “Salve! Mi chiamo Omar, vengo dalla Somalia (or “sono somalo”) e amo l’italiano”. This is the correct sentence, nice job anyway 🙂

@ogaansho

4 жыл бұрын

@@KrodinoPOOPS Grazie mille

@IlGab02

4 жыл бұрын

@@ogaansho Quante persone parlano ancora l'italiano in Somalia?

@ogaansho

4 жыл бұрын

@@IlGab02 this video former Somali President siad barre speaking italian kzread.info/dash/bejne/oZ2stJuThLCXhLA.html

@_iam.pierfraa_6229

4 жыл бұрын

@@IlGab02 penso poche, la maggior parte saranno sicuramente vecchi, essendo stata colonia fino al 1946 e poi fino al 1956 come protettorato, ma penso anche che ancora l'italiano sia la seconda lingua ufficiale

What I have found the most funny and cute about Italian is that there are many sayings/phrases literally the same as in my native Polish.

@shark753ac7

Жыл бұрын

We also mention Poland in our national anthem ❤🇮🇹🇮🇩❤

@bebecaca8374

Жыл бұрын

@@shark753ac7 😊💗

I'm Greek and I can understand Italian language a little because at high school we learn Latin language. Every summer I really enjoy listening to Italian tourists talking! Also, my dad has Italian friends and I can say that Italians and Greeks have many things in common.

@flyvez2303

Жыл бұрын

I'm Italian and Greek is my favourite foreign language because it sounds like romance but it actually isn't. Greetings!

@user-gg3nm4xm6r

Жыл бұрын

Italian "intellectual" high schools ("classical lyceums") have always centered on a.Greek and Latin. Etruscans and Greeks were the Latin "tribes" immediate ineighbours on the peninsula, "ab Urbe Condita".

As a learner, I've come to love that when you know how to say something, you'll always know how to spell it. I love how Italian is very phonetic.

@tibet1977

4 жыл бұрын

So true, no spelling class in Italian whatsoever. I was struck when I moved to the States to see that we actually had hours of teaching spent only on remembering how to write a word correctly. All those "gh" you cuould simply sub with "te": light - lite, night - nite, brigth - brite LOL

"Italian may not get as much attention as French, Spanish and Portuguese" *That hurts*

@ea635

4 жыл бұрын

NewYork322 they are more “useful” because of colonisation after all. But it’s still extremely popular for a language that isn’t spoken widely.

@Salvo04

4 жыл бұрын

@@ea635 yeah, ur right.

@alanguages

4 жыл бұрын

The other three have more speakers, but Italian diaspora is fairly widespread in the West. I found out I had a tiny 2% amount of Italian blood, even though I am not Italian, having a connection, which I did not know about was still a surprise. South America and North America have a lot of Italian descendants.

@lissandrafreljord7913

4 жыл бұрын

Actually Italian gets more attention than Portuguese when it comes to learning a second language. There just happens to be more native Spanish, French and Portuguese speakers, because Italy got late into the colonization game. Italy wasn't a unified country when France, Spain, Portugal, Britain and the Netherlands went to seek for colonies in the Americas. Like Germany, it was a bunch of kingdoms, duchies and city states, hence why in Italy and Germany there is still a strong sense of regionalism. But at least their countries are not so centralized politically and economically in one city unlike France with Paris, and the UK with London. Also, another thing to note was that Italy is fully entrapped within the Mediterranean. It has no direct access to the Atlantic Ocean to seek out colonies in the New World, unlike Portugal, Spain, France, Britain, and the Netherlands. The only colonies that it could seek were in Africa (the Middle East was out of question as it was controlled by the Ottomans), but it would have to go through the vast and harsh Sahara Desert, which the Ottomans also controlled the shores. There is also no guarantee what lied within Africa. Africa, despite being an Old World continent, was highly unexplored in the interior by Europeans, hence why they named it the Dark Continent (not because of the natives dark skin). The efforts to go through the entirity of the Sahara for land that does not guarantee valuable resource would be too costly to risk. The best way to conquer Africa would've been by sailing around its West Coast like Portugal did, but it would run into trouble with Spain at the Strait of Gibraltar, as the Spanish ships controlled those waters. So really, Italy was at a heavy disadvantage in the early game of colonization. Along with Germany, it became more active late into the game, after the two countries were able to form their single country by unifying their regions. With a central government, and weakening presence of the other colonial contenders, Germany and Italy managed to get the left over bits of colonies in Africa. Germany got Namibia, Tanzania, Cameroon, and Togo, while Italy tried to get Libya, Somalia and Ethiopia (Ethiopia was a real failure, as it remained the only African country with Liberia to never have been colonized by Europeans). As a result, Italy never really managed to cement its language into the cultures of its colonies. Some Ethiopians and Somolians may speak Italian here and there today, but they are a very small minority of elderly people. Then you also have to consider that most Italians also spoke their regional dialect back then, when the country was recently unified. The Italians did try to leave a mark with the heavy Italian immigration in the US, Brazil and Argentina, but the language has not cemented itself into the official language of the country, because of regional dialects and because immigration tends to be soft power; not to mention most immigrants parents expected their kids to be fluent in the native tongue of their new home, hence, gradually losing the family language generation by generation.

@andyplummer6982

4 жыл бұрын

@@lissandrafreljord7913 Thank you for sharing interesting insights. I love languages of Europe including the bigger ones such as English, French and Spanish, but their colonialism history as the reason for why they are spoken so widely is definitely not something to be proud of. Also, that Italy didn't manage to colonize a half of the world and thus isn't spoken by so many is not something to be ashamed of. It is a beautiful language just as it is.

I'm Italian and I'm so glad and happy that Italian language is appreciated also in other countries! Ciao!

As an italian i can say that this video Is the most complete i've ever seen about italian language, you have made a great job, i can see the study you have put in this video 👍.

un saludo desde España a nuestros primos italianos 🇪🇸❤️ 🇮🇹

@chaos4395

4 жыл бұрын

@Chechux Chechu un saluto anche a voi fratelli spagnoli! 🇮🇹❤🇪🇸

@fabriziospadi9478

4 жыл бұрын

No somos primos... Somos hermanos 😉!!! 🇮🇹❤️🇪🇸

@dlevi67

4 жыл бұрын

@Russell Richards Cosís diventas difficiles pers tuttis es dues? It seems more like Catalan, which is kind of in the middle... so you may have something there.

@pulse4503

4 жыл бұрын

Hola hermano! 😎 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 Italia y espana latin sisters

@pulse4503

4 жыл бұрын

@@dlevi67 portuguese and catalan are closer to the italian language for sure 😎

As a Spanish speaker I just love Italian because of the similarities with Spanish. Saludos a los italianos!!!

@kaiserdavii1151

4 жыл бұрын

Gracias Amigo are you from Argentina

@Floral_Green

4 жыл бұрын

Honorary paesano, if so

@sergiocovelli

4 жыл бұрын

You are not Spanish speaker, you are Lunfardo speaker. Argentinian is different from Spanish

@gabrielepoma1141

4 жыл бұрын

Spanish is easier

@valdirnoziglia3224

4 жыл бұрын

parlare lo spagnolo di Argentina è un grande vantaggio per imparare questa lingua perché noi argentini parliamo così orribile lo spagnolo che sembra l'italiano

PROUD of being ITALIAN 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

Oh my god, amazing! I am Italian girl and I work as barman. I meet many English people and nowan speak Italian, I have started to think you English don't speak my language... And today I find that vidio, It is very accurate, I hope that many can see it, too ... because in Italy it is difficult to find people who speak English

Ecco l'ennemiso commento fatto da un italiano che solo noi italiani capiremo

@aleletag1063

4 жыл бұрын

Eccerto

@tommy9433

4 жыл бұрын

Eccccccerto

@kingskelethon2256

4 жыл бұрын

Ma è normale

@pivotv829

4 жыл бұрын

E gia siamo unici al mondo 😂

@galtrian

4 жыл бұрын

Ma dovresti saperlo che loro si sono evoluti e ora sanno usare Google traduttore anche per tradurre

I studied Italian for a few years in high school here in Switzerland (I live in the German-speaking part) and I've always found it a really cool language. I also often go to Ticino, where Italian is spoken. Mi piace molto la lingua italiana. La trovo molto bella!

@gadgetspool7626

4 жыл бұрын

ah ok va bene amico

@heavenly4298

4 жыл бұрын

❤

@noxis93

4 жыл бұрын

I've always wondered. How does it work with you in Switzerland? What do you speak when you go to Ticino? Or Geneva?

@TheRavenir

4 жыл бұрын

@@noxis93 Well, it's very much like Canada in that it's separated by region. In the German-speaking region (e.g. Zurich, Bern, Basel) you only speak German, in the French-speaking region (e.g. Lausanne, Geneva) you only speak French and in Ticino you only speak Italian. Sure, people have to learn at least one of the languages that are spoken in the other regions in school, but that doesn't mean that everyone can speak it. I know from experience that e.g. Swiss German speakers tend to be pretty bad at speaking French and since Italian is only spoken by 8.2% of the population, most Swiss German speakers rarely bother learning it. I did learn it because there was a choice between learning Spanish and Italian in school, and I could already speak Spanish, so I chose to learn Italian, which I couldn't speak at all by that point.

@simob.1918

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheRavenir Aaand... A sure thing is that here in Ticino, we have a lot of difficulties with German. I think is a very hard language to learn, really different from Italian (and French of course). I have a question for you. In the German side of Switzerland, you talk more in German or in dialect (Schwizerdüch, sorry 4 mistakes)?

This is really impressive. Perfect, clear and concise, congratulations! I will use this as a starter for all of my friends who want to start learn Italian.

Paul is so detailed in his videos. He clearly does a lot of research. I love listening to Italian. At the moment I'm learning French and Portuguese but would love to one day learn Italian. It should hopefully not be too difficult as I speak Argentinian Spanish which many say is Spanish with Italian intonation.

One thing you kind of said wrong: in "cio", "cia", "ciu", "gia", "gio", "giu", the i is silent most of the time. When people pronounce the word Giovanni as "gee-ovanni", I die inside.

@Space_Potat

4 жыл бұрын

aiooty19 sono, Gee-ornou Gee-ovannah, ho un pianoforte 🎹 Scusa, spero che sei ok und well 😅 Con amore e le scherzi (e cattivo italiano...😬) dalla Russia 🙃

@tafua_a

4 жыл бұрын

@@Space_Potat 👍 migliorerai

@Space_Potat

4 жыл бұрын

aiooty19 ок 👍 C:

@etch-6261

4 жыл бұрын

the i in italian pronunces like -ee

@tafua_a

4 жыл бұрын

@@etch-6261 Yes, but in sounds like "cio", "cia" etc. it's not meant to be pronounced, it's meant to mean "this c is pronounced ch and nor k"

I decided to study Italian in college because my heritage is Italian, and I fell in love with it! The history and literature of the Italian peninsula is just remarkable, and the Divine Comedy is among the greatest pieces of literature ever written. I really love learning it. Grazie mille per questo video!

@Xiumaa

4 жыл бұрын

Fidati che dopo un po' di tempo che studi storia e geografia italiana ti rompi ps sono italiana🇮🇹🇮🇹

@zaqwsx23

4 жыл бұрын

@@Xiumaa Perché sei ancora molto giovane. Pure io "mi rompevo" a scuola. È tutto più interessante quando non ci sono interrogazioni, compiti e tempi da rispettare.

@brainyskeletonofdoom7824

4 жыл бұрын

@@Xiumaa Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza

Io sono italiano e sono impressionato dalla tua pronucia😀 Translation: I am Italian and I'm impressed from your pronunciation👏👏 Saluto tutti gli italiani che stanno guardando questo video👍

As a french guy who has been studying latin language during high school, I feel like Italian is kind of a perfect combination between both languages. We have so many in common such as a massive history that bequeathed us an astonishing amount of historical monuments, a gastronomy addiction in a certain way (we do eat so many pasta, pizza, and coffee time is a religion for many people but I'm pretty sure it isn't only a french thing), each one has his city of romance, and even our values and flag are quite the same! Definitely the language I wanna learn first by the time I will be fluent in English.

@italiangirl231

4 жыл бұрын

There are so many squabbles between Italy and France. I'm always amazed by the positive comments from French people.

@lc5698

4 жыл бұрын

@@italiangirl231 I'm not sure to undestand truly what you mean. But let's forget politics. In a nutshell if you are thinking about ww2 and Mussolini, keep in mind that France also largely collaborated with German people and we try to hide this quite shameful face of our history nowadays. If you think about more recents events with Salvini, If we had to face immigration as Italy is doing, the power would probably be held by similars people (I'm more criticizing Salvini himself than his ideas) from far right mouvements in France. Anyway sadly hate and rejection of différents culture are more likely to lead the world in the following decades so let's forget all the politicians and let's think about other country through their people and their culture only :)

@tonyhawk94

4 жыл бұрын

I"m French and i learn Italian, it's quite easy to understand and even the grammar rules are the same, also the basics are the same too : - Parler -> Parlare - Manger -> Mangiare - Prendre -> Prendere - Faire - Fare ...

@tonyhawk94

4 жыл бұрын

@@italiangirl231 As a French i've never met hater of Italians, it's a weird Italian belief, in France no one see the Italians as enemy it's even the contrary. The traditional enemies of France are England and Germany. But on the contrariy i've noticed many Italian always spitting on France for some reason...

@alessandro3298

4 жыл бұрын

wow your english really is a thing.

La lingua più bella del mondo. The most beautiful language in the world. I speak Italian fluently, but I'm Brazilian, Italian just for my origins.

@morriscolenbrander1395

4 жыл бұрын

Brazilian portuguese is also beautiful!

@ShinryuZensen

4 жыл бұрын

Hello brother!

@tgemini89

4 жыл бұрын

obrigado, amigo. deus te abençoe. o portugues es uma lingua muito linda tambem (ho scritto bene, vero? :) )

@edubenazzi

4 жыл бұрын

@@tgemini89 Sì, hai scritto bene e altrettanto. Grazie mille per aver provato scrivere portoghese. Un abbraccio dal Brasile.

@marcopensant3

4 жыл бұрын

Que legal o portugués brasilero! Un saluto dall'Italia!

You make excellent content and also present it very nicely. Thanks!

I'm italian and I'm impressed, that video is fantastic... good job!!

One of the things that I like in the Italian language is the fact that almost all Greek words retain the original Greek pronunciation, for example: pseudonimo (psevthonimo) whilst in English: pseudonym (ˈso͞odn-im).

@Leo-vo1xt

4 жыл бұрын

Think that in Calabria and Puglia, Southern Italy, there are many communities of people who speak a "dialect" that is a mix of Greek and Italian.

@thebenis3157

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, the u in Italian is never pronounced as a v, not even in Greek words. Using Greek letters, pseudonimo in Italian is pronounced "ψε-ου-δονιμο". At least, if the δ in modern Greek is pronounced as an English d

@ItsallGreektome

4 жыл бұрын

@@thebenis3157 I should say almost or approximately 😄

@thebenis3157

4 жыл бұрын

@@ItsallGreektome Well, the funny thing is that the Italian pronunciation of that word is actually closer to the Ancient Greek pronunciation

@valenesco45

4 жыл бұрын

@@ItsallGreektome I'm italian but I was raised watching, reading and dreaming of greek culture. I also studied a bit of ancient greek grammar in my past years of high school, it's definitely a fascinating language although I dont fully understand the directional change of your language in terms of alphabet and sound. Why do you read 'β' as a V instead of B, which is now something like a diphthong (μπ), or (ευ) read as (ε+β) instead of (ε+ου) and also 3 different *i* sounds, like 1 wasn't enough (η/ι/υ)

I've been waiting for this video for a long time! I'm Italian and I love my native language. It's so beautiful and rich and you can communicate a lot of connotations and subtle meanings if you can use the language properly. I'd also like to share that we use a variety of suffixes to describe additional meaning instead of adjectives. Una casa = A house Una casetta = A small house Una casuccia A small cute house Una casaccia = A bad-looking, better-to-avoid house... ...and there are more developing in slang languages, for example "paninazzo" = "panino + azzo" = an indecently big and fat, yet highly desirable sandwich.

@marioloja96

4 жыл бұрын

Same in Spanish. Casa Casita (small house) Casoplón (big house) Casucha (an ugly-horrible house) Caseta (is another type of house)...etc. Italian and Spanish languages are nearby brothers. I studied your language and it's the best language I've never studied. Un abbraccio dai vostri fratelli mediterranei e Viva l'Italia, per sempre nel cuore 🍷🍇🇮🇹❤️

@angelostefano7464

4 жыл бұрын

Same in Portuguese too: casa = house casinha = small house casarão = big house

@manuzzolino695

4 жыл бұрын

casona casupola casina casettina ... and more...

@manu-ox4fe

4 жыл бұрын

So in spanish and most languages. Una casa , Una casita , una casucha, Una casona.(a big house)

@luizabraga7464

4 жыл бұрын

@@marioloja96 Same in Portuguese Casa Casinha (small house) Casona/Casarão (big house) Casinha can be used as a poor or ugly house, but it's not that common.

I love Langfocus very informative, however, at times your analysis can get too complicated technical for me to fully understand. Paul, you are an extremely skilled linguist. I had a good grasp of English grammar in elementary school but not as skilled as you. Thank you for your channel. BTW, the Italian language is fun to learn! As a opera singer in training, I learned to read and pronounce Italian with the proper inflections and emotions even though I had no idea of what I was saying! Still, it was fun!!

Maybe this has already been mentioned, but a few Italian verbs don't end in are/ere/ire in their infinitive form: a few examples are produrre, condurre, tradurre, and more; as you can see, they end in "rre".

I'm from Argentina, descended from Northern Italians. I've been to Italy last January and I found out that I could understand spoken and written Italian quite well, despite the fact I've never studied that language. Our slang incorporates many Italian words and the language similarity between Spanish and Italian does the rest. Beautiful language and beautiful country. I love being connected to it family-wise.

@jorge6594

4 жыл бұрын

And also, Italians are funny people.

"sopra la panca la capra campa,sotto la panca la capra crepa"

@leonardopiccolo9365

4 жыл бұрын

Il tuo Nick è *ARTE*

@friskotty8544

4 жыл бұрын

@@leonardopiccolo9365 grazie grazie

@petribus

4 жыл бұрын

Madonna sto scioglilingua 😂

@Laurelin70

4 жыл бұрын

Trentatré trentini entrarono a Trento, tutti e trentatré trotterellando. Se l'arcivescovo di Costantinopoli si disarcivescovicostantinopolizzasse, vi disarcivescovicostantinopolizzereste voi?

@AndreaDeLeonibus

4 жыл бұрын

Sotto la panca di pelle di pollo la capra crepa di crampi

Superb video. Thanx. I finished whole duolingo in Italian and I was not aware there are so many tenses :).

Very clear introduction to our language. Thank you 😉

This video is freakin' accurate. Source: I am Italian and I went to school.

@ilpatriz

4 жыл бұрын

ahah sources are important. Good job mentioning it! (cmq concordo)

@fabiosvetoni7155

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think "trenta" or "venti" for coffee is right😂

@dartgerry

4 жыл бұрын

@@fabiosvetoni7155 not at all, still the translation is on point

@franznarf

2 жыл бұрын

Quanti Gi o vanni conosci?

I wish I was Italian the most beautiful language in the world, thank you Italians for this beautiful language

@lorenzomilani9611

4 жыл бұрын

❤

@Kanal7Indonesia

4 жыл бұрын

I want to be italian too...

@urmomoldchannel1768

4 жыл бұрын

As an italian mastering the language is equal to mastering the art of speaking to cats fluently. It's not gonna happen

@Antonio-il1zm

4 жыл бұрын

i’m italian and want to be fluent in english, LET’S TRADE

@adisylearn8716

4 жыл бұрын

@@Antonio-il1zm plsss and am indian am fluent in English and hindi and I love ur language I want to speak bt I can't 😭

I'm an italian. Thank you for this video we really appreciate your work.

Great video! If you allow me to do that, I just want to tell you something that you may find useful: actually, Pietro Bembo never based his researches on Dante, he always preferred Petrarca and Boccaccio and their linguistic philosophy, which was called "monolinguismo" due to the fact that it involved a specific type of linguistic register. Dante always used different types of Italian, from the most "rude" one to the most "elegant" one.

Dico sempre che amo le persone e la lingua gentili italiane e tutto ciò che riguarda l'Italia, il mio paese preferito nel mondo da curdo🌹

@legioxinvicta

4 жыл бұрын

Rispetto e libertà per il popolo curdo 💘

@historicus9817

4 жыл бұрын

Libertà al popolo curdo!

@alexbox8967

4 жыл бұрын

siete gli ultimi eroi del medio oriente, sono adirato per il fatto che quel idiota di trump vi abbia abbandonati, combattete per la vostra libertà e contro la minaccia dei turchi! Libertà al kurdistan!!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹💓 Avete diversi sostenitori della vostra causa in Italia!

@gabrielelobello792

4 жыл бұрын

LIBERTÀ AL POPOLO CURDO 💚🤍❤️

@cristianogiambrone3535

4 жыл бұрын

W il Kurdistan libero

0:42 UK removed. I’m so excited about the comments!

@paulandrewpongase9418

4 жыл бұрын

I saw it too!

@paulandrewpongase9418

4 жыл бұрын

28 minutes ago, 28 likes. Seems legit.

@Langfocus

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not early. The politicians are late! (Not that I want them to leave, I just thought they were going to by the end of October).

@Jellygamer0

4 жыл бұрын

@@Langfocus New rule in the UK: never predict when we leave, at all, it has already been shifted 3 times, it'll be shifted again...

@TijmensAviation

4 жыл бұрын

Langfocus I thought 31 October was the date as well.

Very interesting!!! I've been checking latin recently and I noticed that english has a lot on common as well, do you have any video talking about it? I like your videos!!! Thumbs up!!!

Admirable presentation of the Italian language, thank you.

If you're learning Italian, then good luck with the "Congiuntivo"; even some italians can't use that in the right way

@jsil_

4 жыл бұрын

Like some English speakers don't know the difference between "finished" and "have finished". It just takes a bit more effort to understand its intention.

@paolodigualtiero3251

4 жыл бұрын

"se potrei"

@newt6988

4 жыл бұрын

@@paolodigualtiero3251 se potrebbi

@chevoool7827

4 жыл бұрын

* risata nervosa *

@Marco-hl6gz

4 жыл бұрын

Io sarebberei

"Libertà va cercando, ch'è sì cara come sa chi per lei vita rifiuta" most beatiful verses in Italian poetry, by Dante .

@nu.bee13

4 жыл бұрын

"e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" è il mio verso preferito dell'inferno e penso anche di molte altre persone

@ducciocolombi7729

4 жыл бұрын

@@nu.bee13 "L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle" è per me la rappresentazione verbale dell'altezza intellettuale che può raggiungere un essere umano nella propria vita

@nu.bee13

4 жыл бұрын

@@ducciocolombi7729 per me il verso che ho scritto rappresenta la capacità delle persone di riscattarsi/cambiare qualunque situazione negativa

@thattommino8982

4 жыл бұрын

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, che la dititta via era smarrita, e sono pure toscano

@zucc_8051

4 жыл бұрын

Oppure (sempre di Dante) Per me si va ne la città dolente, per me si va ne l’etterno dolore, per me si va tra la perduta gente.

What a great and informative video. All perfect. You did a very accurate job. Congratulations.

Studio italiano. Una lingua molto elegante. Mi piace l’accento Italiano quando parlano inglese. The one funny world in Italian for me is - certamente. I don’t no why (maybe because it sounds funny in Russian). I even not sure that Italians use it. Usually I hear - certo.

@jumix134

3 жыл бұрын

Estudo italiano. Uma língua muito elegante. Me perdoe pelo sotaque italiano quando falo inglês....(We also have certamente)

When you are Italian and you realize you've never known there was a reason why to choose lo instead of il and you have always went with the flow and it just came naturally.

@ilpatongi

4 жыл бұрын

It's a basic concept they teach you in elementary school... Are you sure you're Italian?

@matytuan9281

4 жыл бұрын

@@ilpatongi not in my school apparently. I was never taught that. I always thought there wasn't a clear reason, just use the one that sounds better. And yes I'm sure I'm Italian

@ilpatongi

4 жыл бұрын

@@matytuan9281 Davvero non ti hanno insegnato che Il, lo e la si usano in contesti di genere?

@matytuan9281

4 жыл бұрын

@@ilpatongi mi hanno insegnato che il e lo si usa con il maschile e la col femminile. Ma non mi hanno mai insegnato quando si usa lo e quando si usa il.

@ilpatongi

4 жыл бұрын

@@matytuan9281 Azz

For all the not-italian people: The name "Giovanni" must be say like "Djovanni", because the "i" is silent

@FAnd-bn8wv

4 жыл бұрын

The "i" is not silent, it is WRITTEN , but you write it "j" lol

@FAnd-bn8wv

4 жыл бұрын

@Leonardo Lupi non capisco, è scritta subito dopo la D...solo che noi scriviamo "i", loro con l'alfabeto fonetico scrivono "j"... Cant understand. It IS written just after D...but we use to write "i", they write "j" cuz using phonetic alphabet....

@MacKlaus71

4 жыл бұрын

Giovanni, il secondo nome di Django! :D

@onewingedren2228

4 жыл бұрын

Giorno Giovanna

@giovannirubino7808

4 жыл бұрын

Grazie

Nice video! As an Italian I would like to add that, even though there are many people in Italy that can't speak in their dialect, every Italian speaks the standard language with a very identifiable accent (also the person in the video). If you have come in contact with a large enough number of Italians you can tell from the way they speak what region they are from, and in some cases also the city (the accent actually differs from city to city within the same region).

As an italian i appreciate the accurate explenation of our language, congratulazioni per il video.

I have been learning Italian my whole life, and while I speak it relatively well, I am still not fluent! It's a labor of love to learn and speak this beautiful, musical language!

@lorenzopippia5257

4 жыл бұрын

Volere è potere! Ce la farai, vedrai :)

@genebigs

4 жыл бұрын

@@lorenzopippia5257 Grazie mille!

@ledues3336

Жыл бұрын

Grandissimo! Ti auguro il meglio. Di dove sei?

@genebigs

Жыл бұрын

@@ledues3336 Grazie per gli auguri! Sono dagli Stati Uniti.

Salud desde España para nuestros mejores vecinos - los Italianos

@Francescomonti60

4 жыл бұрын

Gracias hermano.

@chiaranotreally1162

4 жыл бұрын

I think spain is the only country in europe that italian doesnt hate lol

@mydick7846

4 жыл бұрын

@@chiaranotreally1162 it's true lmao

@mrsarcastic89

4 жыл бұрын

@@chiaranotreally1162 And Portugal and Greece

@omarmernissi3958

4 жыл бұрын

@@chiaranotreally1162 cazzo hai ragione

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 You are really very knowledgeable in this sector (I live in this country, and I confirm everything you say). You must have studied a lot and the results repay you for all your efforts. Great video, well worked.

So cool to hear the name of our tiny Canton Ticino mentioned in such a popular channel! 🇨🇭

I really like the way Italian flows and sounds, it's very expressive and positive. You just WANT to express yourself when you speak Italian.

@gs7828

4 жыл бұрын

It's even better when spoken naturally. Those samples were really controlled, so to say. They felt a little metallic, not round enough.

@maya_707

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I think italian is a language made to be spoken: we (I'm italian) use a lot of adjectives, synonyms, antonyms, we enrich sentences and are very specific... grammar is very difficult but once you have learn it, you will be so satisfied! That's why its a perfect language for essays and poems too

4:10 Giovanni: The 'i' after 'G' is mostly silent. It's only written to 'soften' the G.

@Srga91

4 жыл бұрын

I was just about to say that. It just palatalizes the 'g' and the 'c' sounds. But I wouldn't call it "silent". It's more like a 'j' sound, when it is placed befor a vowel, like in "io" (1st person personal pronoun).

@Astronometric

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. In this instance “Gi” is pronounced more like Jon or Jacob.

@armitagehux8190

4 жыл бұрын

He even explains the pronunciation later on ...

@keptins

4 жыл бұрын

Haha i noticed it immediately. It almost sounded as Gee.ovanni .... really odd

@fabiosahadewabrigida9053

4 жыл бұрын

The "I" is only a diatritic. It is not pronounced at all

When you read preferito, instead of thinking about it at favourite, i find it helpful to read it as "of preference/of my preference" which helps visualise sentence structure

I speak Italian, this was very accurate thank you for informing others. :)

Italian is my favorite language. Arrivederci ragazzi.

@ferrariserena

4 жыл бұрын

Just two "z".. "ragaZZI".

@silva3658

4 жыл бұрын

Bella raga

@giovannil8244

4 жыл бұрын

Se bro

@92xhqi88

4 жыл бұрын

@@silva3658 baa raga

@xRobPoop

4 жыл бұрын

is this a jojo reference?

For those who try to learn Italian: "lasciate ogne speranza, o voi ch'intrate" from Dante's Inferno. Just kidding, you'll make it

@nadiauwu8606

4 жыл бұрын

Well, if you wanna learn the grammar it's gonna be very tough, its hard for us italians too ;A;

@sofiamilanese6091

4 жыл бұрын

@@nadiauwu8606 yea i know...

@emanuelebarba7949

4 жыл бұрын

Lasciate ogni speranza o voi ch'entrate

@gabrielevirtuoso8906

4 жыл бұрын

M3M3 _06 veramente Dante scrisse ogne

@antongiuliochessa3685

4 жыл бұрын

@@emanuelebarba7949 No, ha scritto bene lei/lui, la frase giusta è con ogne e intriate

Great enjoyable intro to Italian!

I'm italian and this is actually a pretty good introduction to italian language, good job ^-^