Learn Napoletano with Neapoletan People!

[@OFFICIALAirhornGizmo]

I love that these are just a bunch of old ladies yelling and random things. 😂😂😂. Thank you for these videos!

[@AaroneStefano]

Hahaha :) You're welcome

[@kornelesti6745]

I cannot adequately express how much I appreciate your videos! You guys have already created the most comprehensive video series about Napoletano on KZbin. Please don't ever stop!

[@AaroneStefano]

Kornél Esti We will do our best mate, and thanks 🙏

[@michaelz9604]

3:53 I love the kids accent here. Sounds like how my Italian relatives would speak.

[@johngravante6884]

Ue gualgiune! Thank you so much for these napoletano lessons. It's so hard to find any instructions in this beautiful language in English. I'm a second generation napoletano whose parents were forbidden from speaking in their native tongue when growing up because, then, italians were subject to discrimination. So I've been forced to learn my ancestral tongue via the dearth of information on the internet (and by watching Gomorra and My Brilliant Friend). You guys are the first to offer real instruction in the language (not dialect). The lessons, vocabulary, and especially the verbs and conjugations are invaluable to me. Please do as many of these as you can. And if there's any way I can help or support you, tell me, and I will do it happily. Thanks again. And I hope 'a tutt' apposta!

[@AaroneStefano]

Well that has just really made my day thanks mate, to know your passion and gratitude for our videos!!! We will definitely keep making them as long as people like, and subscribe because we want to do it only if there is some kind of point to our hours of making them. :) grazie 🙏 and we have a Patreon page if you'd like to make a donation towards our channel: www.patreon.com/aaronestefano but only if you feel so happy to do so, either way thanks for your comment and there will be a great new video in a couple of days... speak soon!

[@johngravante6884]

@@AaroneStefano I donated. You guys deserve it. One question: I've always thought that "gi" was pronounced "yuh." So, giornata would be yornata, or mangia as manya. I've even heard that with the hard "g," e.g., gatto pronounced yatta. But I noticed you usually pronounce the "g" as it is in Italian. Am I wrong, or are there just variations in pronunciation?

[@AaroneStefano]

John Gravante Hey John... Speaking as (Aaron) i would have said the same! I hear mangia like manya, but let's see what Stefano says to us all... but thanks for the donation, It really means a lot, as we can continue to make great content, so we thank you so much for that... anyway, here's Stefano...)

[@AaroneStefano]

John Gravante @John Gravante The (yuh / yeh ) sound (as the strong y sound in English) comes from words having j. Some Italian words beginning with the letter g, in Neapolitan they are spelled with j like gatta (cat), giorno (day), gioco (game), that become jatta, juorno, juoco where you pronounce with the j sound. Another thing happens with the g and j sounds when sometimes are pronouced like the v sound or silent (sometimes is spelt with the v or j or the i instead of g). Example: pappagallo (pappavallo or pappajallo, pappaiallo, pappa'allo) or jatta again (pronouced 'atta sometimes). Anyway the yeah sound has been associated with the letter j, so generally when a word has the yeuh sound, it's spelt with j. The rest of them are all variants of the g sound. I hope that I cleared it up a bit. And thank you very much John for your contribution to our Patreon page. We appreciate it very much! And keep on practicing! We are here always here to help. See you soon :)

[@seriekekomo]

These kind of videos, that's what we need. Grazij assaij 'o vero!

[@AaroneStefano]

Don't forget to Like our video, Comment and Subscribe to support us to continue to make new videos for everyone! Thanks! Here is our Patreon page: www.patreon.com/aaronestefano

[@SirNervinJacinto]

I'm from Philippines, and I'm learning Neapolitan

[@AaroneStefano]

Good luck with your journey :)

[@hunterharris4869]

On Wikibooks, there is an incomplete book on Napulitano. It's not as extensive as the other languages. Perhaps you could edit the book and use it as a supplement to your videos. Keep up the great work! en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Neapolitan

[@AaroneStefano]

ahh we have come across that site before, but thanks for the advice really kind of you to mention it!

[@andrewsk6898]

At 4:07 i see the boy using the article "u", but shouldn't it be "o"? Or the definite article in neapolitan has several variants ?

[@AaroneStefano]

Neapolitan articles have some variants: lu, 'u for 'o (singular male form of 'the'), and 'la' for 'a (singular female form of 'the'). These kind of variants are used more in the sub-dialects of Neapolitan but rarely, some Neapolitan speakers from Naples use those variants.

[@andrewsk6898]

@@AaroneStefano grazij p'a riscuntr

[@paxetbonum9019]

Pe favore mettete o' nome dei film affianco.... grazi

[@AaroneStefano]

Li abbiamo messi nella descrizione del video. Ecco a te Benvenuti al sud (2009) Vita, cuore, battito (2016) Troppo napoletano (2016)