Italian Hand Gestures PART 1

Many people don't know that 50% of the Italian language is spoken, while the other 50% is communicated through a specific code of hand gestures..watch this video to find out!
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[@NaniNyan101]

cool. i'm learning Italian. this might be useful for me when i go to my trip to Italy

[@ralbers8516]

cool, we wait for you!

[@petralik]

To all the italians commenting: what the f++k is your problem? Why are you offended by this? We DO use hand gesture: someone use them less, someone use them more; and yes, in these videos they can be a little bit exagereted, and we certainly don't constantly do hand gestures like if we were deaf, but you CAN'T say these are stereotypes. I think you don't even realize you use them while speaking. We use them to underline the concept we're talking about, to enfatize a sentence, to communicate in a crowded place or in silence without being heard. And i'm from Rome, that is neither south or north Italy, neither countryside, neither a small city. Relax people, take it easier, there is nothing offending in this.

[@MyFarandAway]

Love the clip Nada!! I knew some of them, and learned a few new ones. Can't wait to try them out in October!

[@chiarenzaproduction]

I'm Italian and I use these gestures and many more every day. Is it really so strange?

[@alaamohammed353]

nooo actually it's awesome... i like to use it alot in my italian class.. :)

[@francesvansiclen3245]

chiarenzaproduction- no !

[@marcg3923]

it's stupid, unless you are talking to a deaf person who cannot read lips

[@pipebomber04]

Damn right it is strange you better get rid of it now and repent your ways

[@catscats5844]

@@marcg3923 it's not stupid cause people don't do it on purpose. Hand gestures come naturally and automatically, you can't really control it

[@TheKsashia]

Thanks for the video! Living in Naples, you definitely notice how the nonverbal form of communication here goes hand in hand with the spoken language. Beautiful country and wonderful people.

[@FaithAeryn]

I absolutely love this video--I come from a large Italian-American family (da Roma) and this video cracked me up. So fun!

[@annalisabuontempo3269]

I loved the video (I'm italian), but I read the comments and saw that some italians don't agree. Thing is, Italy is a small country but there are so many differences between each region. These gestures are more commonly used in south Italy for example.Just think about the fact that we have a lot of dialects in the same region: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialetti_d%27Italia

[@bruhjale]

I love this!

[@tassiagomesbentz4838]

We use a lot of these gestures in conversation here in Brazil too.I think some are pretty clear and it's probably used in many places around the world.

[@rkappra]

My favorite was "Madonna mia!" - my mom said that all the time!

[@domet80]

yes, we can understand without talk! greetings from Italy..

[@CTGirl1500]

Very cool. Although I can't remember them all, but I can start to see that their gestures do mean something! Very nicely done!

[@lalaland829]

it s a very useful video, thank you Nada!!!

[@kseniamik]

Good job!!! GRAZIE MILE!

[@Leleislove]

Do more videos like this!!!!!! with words and stuff! out of all the videos this is the one i learned most!!!

[@fangchen2820]

Complimenti per i gesti ,di cui io non sapevo vivendo in Italia da 20 .mi avete fatto fare una risata,perché li trovo molto divertenti ed espressivi！😄

[@tomaotgirl]

bellissimos! i love those gestures!

[@albertfinney1328]

Splendid, thank you.

[@lucreziaoddone]

I'm Italian and I actually do not make all that gestures while I'm talking...!!! If you want to check out my videos, I teach Italian language here on youtube ;) All the best to you all xx

[@KikiCorallie]

i love ittt please dont ever change

[@artinpoetsoulnature]

Bellissimo! Grazcie!

[@francesvansiclen3245]

Very cute! I think I will start using some !!!!

[@dominichenderson9458]

you are a great person

[@myconerd]

LOVE from Turkey!! I love that hand thing!

[@actressnicky]

My nonna and papa use these gestures all the time ^-^ now I'm trying to learn Italian. And this helped:]

[@Hisgirlforever1012]

lol i'm American Italian This video mad me smile. Some of the video remind me of my great grandparents and grandma. thank you for the memory i love it

[@moltomoltomoltobene]

I'm going to Italy in 3 weeks, and this video is so helpful!! And the phrases are useful ones, too! XD

[@colorado34ful]

i want to go there so bad. italy looks like so much fun!

[@Harvey142009]

very cool indeed! italys 1 of my fave european countries i love how yall speak yer language and do all the hand gestures and live y'all's culture so passionately !! auguri dagli Stati Uniti!! Mi piacerebbe andare in Italia molto presto in futuro e imparare la lingua voi tutti!

[@BobMazzo]

Italians are beautiful !!!!!! I love you Italy !!!

[@somebdythere]

Thats really true !!!!! They always do it ..Was living there for past 6 years !! I luv that place

[@blobboflava]

Ciao ragazzi! I like it. It makes me happy...

[@LoveGimnastics]

Quando ho fame non faccio quel gesto, e sono italiana... When I'm hungry I don't do that gesture, and I'm Italian...

[@VictorMSpiga]

HAH, idem. Quando ho fame mi alzo e vado a cucinare o a mangiare, ovunque mi trovo e con chiunque io sia ^_^

[@giulianorivieri2806]

Beh però c'è chi lo usa. E non dirmi che non lo conoscevi?

[@LoveGimnastics]

@@giulianorivieri2806 no, non ne ero a conoscenza. E a sei anni di distanza dal mio commento posso confermare di non aver mai usato/mai visto qualcuno usare quel gesto ahahah forse non è una cosa comune dalle mie parti

[@420joeisdead]

PROUD OF MY ANCESTORS ,VIVA ITALIA!!!

[@ashleyburns6752]

Man I miss Italy, I didnt think it was possible to miss a language but yep I miss that to.

[@pekebrull]

molto buonno !!! Grazie Millie da São Paulo / Brasile !!!!

[@cheekyale]

Bellissimo!

[@andreazumpano8006]

I knew I knew those streets and doors! I studied in Cortona too! Miss it so!

[@EthanRom]

This is such an amazing culture. I use my hands a lot when I am talking and my friend told me about how Italians do the same thing. I decided to look it up

[@90Mademoiselles]

i laughed my ass off reading this lol

[@Meyouletsgo]

We use so many of these hand gestures in Tunisia as well lol, not all of course but about maybe 80% of them

[@Lemonjessy]

la mia famiglia è italiana ma viviamo in Australia e usiamo ancora questi gesti delle mani!!

[@jayd4ever]

very nice it is sad that what not being in Italy can do to your identity

[@yabento9902]

awesome!

[@Peppinen]

Great!

[@Ares293]

great video...when was it shot, actually?

[@Jassycandyful]

ahahahaha I'm Italian but I've never seen 3 or 4 of these gestures before! I didn't know they even exist XD

[@briansmith9439]

My Italian language instructor, from Naples, explained the hand gestures as being integral to conveying the meaning of the spoken word such that, for example 'over here' and 'over there' are spoken the same and it is only with the use of a hand gesture that the meaning is transmitted. I had no grounds to question his premise but always wondered if it was accurate as he maintained it was for the Neapolitan language.

[@Emaxmagnus]

it's common in all Italy

[@careri196]

no,over here and over there it's not spoken the same,of course :)

[@superborgy]

Is usually used with the meaning "Go away. ASAP." But in italy we make some gesture while we speak, just to emphasize some sentence...we don't speak with hands. And some of the things showed in this video are never used.

[@zhajipai]

Unlike other Italian hand gestures videos, this one is really well done. Freddie88 below gives some good hints and of course not all Italians use all these gestures but the ones I've seen in this video are known by everyone so non-Italians can hve fun using them when visiting Italy and be sure they'll be understood;)

[@jchisholm1968]

Yeh we have allot of hand gestures in England to. :-)

[@Mandinko23]

i love to learn italian i wish i was living there for a while.

[@CeceeAcuna]

Proud Italian!

[@AmarokSaga]

Wow I discovered that in Mexico we do use some of those hand gestures! Looks like we do share more than just same flag colors, romance tongue origin, good cuisine and warm people.

[@marvinsilverman4394]

hahaha

[@amberfur5750]

Mi avete fatto veramente ghignare, grazie!!! :D It is amazing how I do that unconsiously!

[@panda33531]

i love the Italian accent!

[@jbello1968]

NADA, YOUR FRIEND WITH THE GLASSES IS A LITTLE CUTIE !!! LOL

[@Maniaclaughter]

Wow, that's a different way of thinking of it.

[@animegirl506]

omg...the "what are you doing gesture" and "madonna mia" gestures my host mother did those to me all the time..haha

[@danixxxxx88]

dovresti fare più video, sono molto divertenti :D

[@Drowfan]

They are soooo funny! :)))

[@dzrenchkokadyrovsky5649]

learned enough Italian for the day

[@fa23had]

Also in arabic we use the same gestures

[@flipballaz93]

Fahadnho Assire i noticed italians look arabic too haha

[@TurqouiseTapioca]

fantastico, lol i love this video, lol my nonna and my dad use their hands a lot.

[@Airmaster167]

I'm starting Italian next semester.

[@reesescupbrandy1]

Oh Gosh! It's like learning sign language and verbal language at the same time.

[@BunxBunstudios14]

this helps me understand my husband more. lol he's pure Italian and sometimes he does somethings I don't understand CX this makes sense now.

[@deelovesdis]

my family is from naples, and they have used about half of these gestures, but yes, as most people said, they come naturally while we speak. some of them I have never heard of .....

[@Silverfenix2456]

In Spain a lot of these are used. Not all the time, just sometimes. Still though, I got most of them.

[@MMNNLL2468]

Omg I'm Saudi Arabian and we have the same hand gestures!!! Not all of them but most of them

[@superborgy]

Just remember that gestures are really, really informal. REALLY.

[@ImperfectGees]

im italian and i use my hands a lot when i talk but i dont use them the way this video shows

[@zaynalsikder9213]

Italians are impressive.❤

[@crosschek4]

Hahahahaha. Oh my gosh, I'm part italian and I ALWAYS get made fun of for talking with my hands! This is great!

[@elainecivi6786]

I love being Italian.....we are hysterical!

[@desireegalassi5537]

Bella questa! La mostrero' ai miei studenti principianti.

[@jareddina95]

I love the location

[@9weda]

Wonderful

[@lulugo]

the gesture that they indicate as "sorry" it doesn't mean simply sorry, more specifically it means "there is nothing left" "I have no more"

[@TheBlandina131]

Quite accurate in my opinion, Italians are very verbal and passionate, they express themselves with their hands as they speak. Deal with it,

[@HunterMann]

We having many yes of these gesturas similar in Mexico.

[@Daisydigal]

very interesting

[@omargonzales3]

As a Mexican I understood some of this and feel like we have a lot in common with italian culture.

[@komangputrardelrey]

Hahaha friend of mine is italian 😂 and this is accurate .. I've been seen it all lol

[@sherlockholmes493]

Me la stavo facendo sotto dalle risate!! Bellissimo (anche se un po' esagerato)

[@TheSeexiestThing]

Living in Argentina, in a few months I was "talking" like this 🤣

[@mikegrit937]

remember my grandparents doing all these hand jestures

[@carolinaisbeast]

Viva Italia!

[@mazza7465]

i'm brazilian, but my mom's family part is italian, because of them i use these gestures everyday lol

[@ansiaaa]

please to whoever will come to Italy.. don't use the gestures showed in all these videos you see on youtube, you would only look like a stupid character out of some movies from the 50's! apart from old people in the south of Italy or someone lost in the countryside, none of us use them so blatantly, we are way way more subtle or not use them anymore at all

[@billadmond9450]

I guess you're from north of Italy, congratulations!!!

[@ansiaaa]

Bill Admond so what's your point?

[@VictorMSpiga]

gestures are for villagers, please NEVER do it!!!!

[@Kenshiroit]

true, we use hand gestures just not so exagerated. All people in IT knows about hand languages, so the wrong movement, you may offend people....ie: you move your hand, somebody get angry, ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?? and then you got problems...lol

[@petralik]

+ansiaaa This is so false. We do use hand gestures; you maybe don't even realize that you use them too. And that sentence: "apart from old people in the south of Italy or someone lost in the countryside", it's almost offending, certainly snob.

[@ant697]

Where was that filmed? Nice town.

[@BlackGuyFromTheValveIntro]

i just luv italy :D

[@Hisgirlforever1012]

mind if i share this video with my mom???

[@maradinacuellarcoila8241]

0:05 the place reminds me of "a vita e bella"

[@ArtTrav]

Come mai a Cortona? Just curious to know how you chose the location and the people in the video - because I lived in Cortona for 8 months and recognize both the location and some of the people! Really cute video, thanks - i shared it on facebook.

[@joshuawaring4180]

‘You’re flexing.’

[@PravoRulja]

@springbabee yes, it does. "knock on wood" is the english equivalent but of course, it's not literally the same because there's no such idiom/gesture in english:)

[@royhsieh4307]

when i watch Italian videos i dont need to turn on the volume

[@Hewhogreetswithfjre]

What happened if they are taking over the phone. do they still use the hand gestures?

[@tryhelp7565]

thanks i like