Italian hand speak (Milan)

Still playing around with the Flip HD, here's a bit of Italian hand jive in Piazza Duomo Milan. Music: Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com

[@titaniacrawley3817]

You know you're Italian when you can understand what they're saying based on their hand gestures.

[@irmalair1]

Really? 😍 Then what is each one saying ??

[@irmalair1]

@Cobif Man 😂

[@gabrielaiello9993]

🤌🏻

[@LucaPizzoplus]

@Cobif Man effettivamente non puoi capire il contesto, ma il significato dei singoli gesti è abbastanza chiaro in vari casi. Ad esempio braccio dritto in avanti, palmo rivolto verso il basso e le dita che ruotano puntando tutte in basso significa che c'è qualcosa sotto di nascosto. È una cosa che un italiano capisce subito ma che in realtà non è ovvia. Un altro esempio è a 0:21 che sarà qualcosa del tipo "ma veramente? Roba da pazzi". Poi quando tocca l'indice col pollice e tiene le altre dita tese chiarisce il suo punto di vista in modo diretto e senza giri di parole. Da 0:50 si vede che sta raccontando agli amici una storia in cui probabilmente si è presentato a qualcuno e ha fatto qualcosa di divertente. A 1:10 riesco a sentirlo dire "eh però se succede A, allora è normale che succeda B".

[@damianovercellotti2744]

No, you can't

[@ABenny-gg3hk]

Even if you don’t hear their conversation, you can clearly understand the overall mood of their interaction and the emotive state of each one.

[@pietrovitale9940]

not really, if you are not used to it you would probably overestimate the emotions, most of them are more chilled than you might think

[@ABenny-gg3hk]

@@pietrovitale9940 no one said they are not chilled; indeed to me they are, but this doesn’t imply they are not clearly expressing emotions.

[@Headshot844]

@@pietrovitale9940 says the guy who has a PhD in hand gestures. Shut it guinea

[@pietrovitale9940]

@@Headshot844 well, actually my field is child neuropsychiatry, so I kinda do

[@Headshot844]

@@pietrovitale9940 I didn’t know that when you studied toward your medical specialty you took a class in Italian hand gestures. To say that you understand hand gestures just cause your field is child neuropsychiatry is like saying you can fix a car because you are a mechanical engineer.

[@salvatoresev9125]

I'm Italian and when he said: "👌👐✊👋👏👐" I felt that

[@DafneAstrea]

Italian too here, i know right? Totally relatable!

[@costaskl6589]

🤌

[@stee8854]

🤌🤌🤌

[@simol.176]

ROFL

[@alias_peanut]

wdym

[@ilaria2476]

the funniest thing is that we don't even realize we're doing these gestures until someone tells us about them

[@vrinkee]

I'm not Italian, but I was on a bus with my classmates and suddenly one of them told me, "I like how you kept on using your hands to tell the story." '~' Didn't know how to feel about that. It's very natural to me. I don't even notice people's outfits generally, and even if I did I probably wouldn't say anything about it, so I was taken aback by the fact that he bothered to mention my speech pattern when this was only the third conversation I'd ever had around him.

[@ellenmcdaniel1550]

I remember seeing two Italians go from shouting at each other and literally at each other's throats with their hands, to kissing each other, hugging, then waving goodbye at each other for a LONG time in Milan airport. To this day I have no idea what the heck happened.

[@Luca_86]

Alieni che ci studiano prima di invaderci

[@liial9869]

Mah, hanno messo pure la musica un po' buffa però, sarà come uno di quei video con i cani

[@stradedellabassa-videodica1185]

😂😂

[@giusycavallaro464]

😂😂

[@antusFireNova]

Sti alieni non capiscono la cultura

[@sac-outlet4672]

Come le compilation dei gattini carini

[@jessicaramberti2607]

I'm Italian and never even realised how theatrical these gestures look and how much we tend to do them. Omg.

[@_blank-_]

Never stop ❤️🇮🇹

[@bady96cb]

Studiando storia del teatro il mio professore ci ha spiegato che la gestualità è nata nel teatro nomade nel 1600; i teatranti enfatizzavano i gesti per farsi capire sia dagli italiani che parlavano altri dialetti che da lingue straniere. Quindi sì, è rimasto molto del teatrale nelle nostre gestualità ed è una cosa bellissima

[@giovanniquargentan6198]

Uguale 😳

[@JazzBoiiFGC]

@@bady96cb credevo derivassero dall'epoca di Giulio Cesare..

[@Taricus]

I didn't even realize I did the hand gestures that much, until someone pointed it out to me when I was like 19 or 20 LOL!

[@clarab325]

It's so weird seeing my everyday life documented as if we were a very rare species lol

[@Marcelle99]

L'importante è non essere in estinzione😂 the important thing is not to be an extinct species😂

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@Marcelle99 uP

[@AnuzaVlogz]

nobody else talks with their hands though 😂

[@sweetbutpsycho8163]

No!! not really, I also use my hands while talking , and I am not an Italian.

[@jelenad6367]

@@AnuzaVlogzI will just state the following : Balkans, Turkey, Mediterranean in general is very likely to, some parts of middle east...

[@divelea]

Cute cute cute. Please don't change. Different cultures is an amazing thing and I'm afraid we're losing that. I visited Italy in 2018, I dream of visiting again. I visited Bologna and then San Giorgio di Piano, then found myself in Argelato, id est - got lost. At the time I communicated in 50/50 Spanish/English (neither are my mother tongue) and everyone was smiling at my attempts. Hence the Italian course upon my leaving the country 😂😂 I AM SO IN LOVE WITH ITALY

[@TheItalianWST]

Ahhaahhaha i live near these places and i really wonder why you went to Argelato or San Giorgio😂😂😂😂 You made me laugh a lot. Bella per la bassa bolognese, il meglio d’Italia🤩

[@mmaso_15]

Come here to Sicily it’s the most beautiful if you love nature and food (and hot climate lol)

[@agmagm4968]

BOLOGNAA come back please 😂

[@Noemi_407]

Grazie amico

[@sunnylilacs]

I studied in Florence for half a year, and when I first arrived I kept using Spanish accidentally even though it wasn’t my native tongue either. On one of my first Sundays, I’d just left church and was stopping in a bar to buy bus tickets, but I was accidentally asking for bicchieri instead of biglietti. The men sitting around were laughing so much each time I repeated myself, this girl straight from church asking for glasses of beer lol

[@TheDarkever]

As an Italian, it amuses me that people from other countries are amused by our hand talking. For us it comes naturally, as a way to accentuate a concept we are expressing :) When I travelled to Estonia about five years ago, a friend from there was so surprised that I didn't use my hand that much, but when I finally did (without realizing of course) she was all "OMG, your hands!" "My hands what? Oh!" xD

[@m0ns510]

As an Italian, I just cannot imagine people talking without using their hands. Seriously, how can you do it?

[@micalee8901]

As a non Italian I don’t understand how people don’t use their hands haha. This makes me feel normal La faccia non è abbastanza per comunicazione 🙃

[@gracemaiam3374]

I am not italian and i thought i am normal in using hand gestures a lot. But seems like its only the Italians and @mica lee and I

[@fleurerebeille6109]

Exactly! Every person does that! Isn't it called body language? Even (some) animals express that way.. I am Italian, lived in different countries and saw all kind of people making the same gestures. "It's a language within languages"

[@mossfoobar8322]

Its called speaking with your tongue. I know shocking.

[@fleurerebeille6109]

@@mossfoobar8322 Truly shocking 🤣

[@pablovigano9438]

As an Italian you can actually almost understand what they are expressing and talking about 😂😂

[@pablovigano9438]

@@momowednesday7735 lamoooo *understand 😂😂 sorry autocorrect

[@escalade8025]

We figa il briefing

[@irmalair1]

So what is each one talking about?

[@pablovigano9438]

@@irmalair1 its a 2 minutes video long, and i have to rewatch it and then translate it to you. its a bit tough. perfect this is all i could get. if its not well written or whatever im sorry, i tried my best. btw i have no idea why the two girls at the end kissed on the cheeks 3 times, thats not usual in milan, they probably from bergamo or brescia (two different cities on the north of milan, where is more usual to give 3 kisses rather than the usual 2.

[@irmalair1]

@@pablovigano9438 oops, I don't see any reply ? Did you delete a previous comment? 🤗 It's okay if it's not perfect and maybe not all of them, I'm so curious! 😄

[@fabriziochiodo7771]

noi ci scherziamo ma guardate che e' davvero affascinante sto video.Unico e' affascinante conversare cosi.

[@maxs1sross147]

concordo

[@jessicaramberti2607]

Hahah vero, ma infatti scrivevo proprio prima che sembra tutto così teatrale ma in senso buono. Cioè è affascinante e io non me ne sono mai accorta di quanto spesso lo facciamo, assurdo

[@fabriziochiodo7771]

@@jessicaramberti2607 gia

[@KikiJ1112]

Che poi come fai a parlare senza muovere le mani? Cioè le tengono di lato appese senza usarle ? Quello è strano

[@jessicaramberti2607]

@@KikiJ1112 No vabe, quello è impossibile infatti hahah. Se noti poi, ogni paese gesticola a modo suo, abbiamo tutti un linguaggio non verbale diverso.

[@purringmeow]

as a romanian immigrant in Italy, my relatives back home make fun of me when i gesture like this and i'm like- bro, how can you NOT gesture

[@savesoil3133]

Haha, it happens, I guess! Love and Greetings from Hungary 💓 #SaveSoil #ConsciousPlanet

[@Nome_utente_generico]

I had never noticed! Romanians don't gesticulate. My neighbors, Romanians, have taken the regional accent but they don't gesticulate.

[@eulixprinter8824]

That's why the Romans were so successfully. Communication..

[@lodovicoconrado3297]

Doomed to crumble unless we grow/ And strengthen our COMMUNICATION TURUTUTUMBA TUTUBAMBAMPA

[@AbuAbdillah1428]

@@lodovicoconrado3297 TURUTUTUMBA TUTUBAMBAMPA!

[@antoniomariani7297]

No

[@Cesare123]

@@antoniomariani7297 speaking with the hands didn't exist in the Roman Empire, but It's due to the unification of Italy, infact in the early 900 italian people needed to understand each other because of the variety of languages which changed in every single region.

[@imurt3417]

​@@Cesare123 not necessarily. The developing of a non-verbal communication system takes a long time, and it is difficult to believe that this happened in just over a century or so. It was certainly different from the hand gestures that italians use today, but chironomia was a well known form of art that may be (or maybe not) the precursor to the hand gestures used in territories that were once in the Roman empire.

[@marcolucca6241]

Ci stanno studiando per entrare nella nostra menteeewwww

[@vincenzomarra2469]

marco lucca È tutto un COMBLOTTTOOO!11!1

[@saragarofano9727]

Lol

[@jacebluelies8684]

ahahahaha

[@maryfreegirl2029]

CENTODICIOTTOOOHH

[@jawad.0]

Il 5g nelle orecchie e col vaccino ci iniettano il mercurio nelle veneee... e comunque non capisco perche gli americani sono cosi impressionati dal nostro "gesticolare"

[@SLASHzoneYEAH]

1:27 qui c'è un po' di aumma aumma 🤣🤣

[@valenesco45]

Hahahah

[@jacopoparpajola1175]

ahhahha

[@giulioemme5452]

Esatto 😂😂

[@valeriab-6126]

🤣😂

[@copybook2482]

Ahahhaha

[@SweetJeopardy]

I love that this was filmed in Milan! My husband and his family are Lombard and they actually believe that they don't gesticulate at all, they say that this only applies to people from "the south" being extra. They also swear that *they* don't shout either! 😂🤣🤣

[@28-r8b]

The one thing to unite all Italians - hand gestures!

[@konyvnyelv.]

Lots of the people living in the north are actually from the South. So you are speaking nonsense.

[@danielhuszar2248]

God bless this beautiful nation and their gestures.

[@giyu1195]

Ci stanno osservando nel nostro habitat naturale

[@valeriab-6126]

😂😂😂

[@ongari225]

Vogliono capirci, ma non ci riusciranno maiiii! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@clarab325]

loll

[@ange_006]

mi sento osservata 👁👄👁

[@ameliebyrne2744]

si giyuu si

[@Jarni1979]

with hand gesture you can express complex concepts

[@titanio784]

😂

[@il_vero_saspacifico6141]

Beh no, ma gli enfatizzati molto

[@Rolando_Cueva]

Nah

[@mallelca8342]

Yup, usually called sign language. Italians actually don’t have an official form of it, due to similar handshakes and classifiers being used country-wide.

[@titanio784]

@@mallelca8342 sign language 😂 what bullshit 🤦

[@matteopascoli]

You should record some people hand speaking while at the phone, I’m very sure it’s not rare. *ahem* I do *ahem*

[@hsxenon]

I do that while driving and riding, people look at me so weird for waving my hand around randomly in traffic.

[@mariabasile9961]

I'd do it while typing if I could.

[@mariag5306]

That'S why we like to use earphones so both hands are free to speak.

[@Hamppariranskis]

@@mariabasile9961 lmao y'all are hilarious

[@kpopeditsbyweanah]

Saaame

[@Amen-Magi]

As an Iranian, this also happens in our country. The ancestors (Persians and Romans) tried to talk to each other with this, and because they did not understand each other's language, it led to war. After that, these movements were inherited to us like a disease

[@masterjunky863]

Nice theory 😂

[@28-r8b]

Lol that's defintely bullshit but I believe it.

[@Nome_utente_generico]

Persians do it too??

[@tursiopss]

I am from Spain, I lived in Italy some years ago (bellissimo paese!) and when I went back to Spain friends told me I was moving my hands more than ussual when talking... I though they were just joking but now that I see this maybe it actually affected me haha

[@apemayaxx]

😄

[@samiramohammed6506]

0:23, is like... porca miseria✨

[@PatPat-YoutubeSucks]

O un porco.........

[@MrAlebb]

È una bestemmia. Sicuramente la sta pensando, il gesto sconsolato senza aprire bocca secondo me è la prova perfetta,..

[@turecomuerde]

It's the best conversation in the video.

[@MatTeo-ph2iv]

It's like porcodio

[@sergiofacchinetti2954]

No it’s like io ti avevo detto cosa fare e te hai fatto L’incontrario

[@saragarofano9727]

Il bello è che noi sappiamo cosa dicono come nella lingua dei segni, from a distance.

[@irmalair1]

What are they saying then?

[@saragarofano9727]

@Cobif Man il segno affaculo lo conosci?

[@domenicobini1fan534]

@@saragarofano9727 quello è universale

[@MatildeMolinari]

@Cobif Man beh alcuni argomenti si capivano anche la signora che fa il gesto con la mano del tipo “che qualcosa sotto di strano”

[@tuamadreimpanata]

@@domenicobini1fan534 esiste anche il rapporto mano-interno braccio hehe

[@JoaquinWeissUgarteche]

Haha uguale in Argentina. Lo abbiamo ereditato da voi 🇮🇹❤🇦🇷. Non riuscirei a parlare senza muovermi.

[@francescobolis2559]

italiani argentini una faccia una razza

[@ludominguez4176]

no se que dijiste pero same

[@inactive.5680]

@@ludominguez4176 No sabe hablar español bien pero el hombre del commentario dijiste que es igual en Argentina y que es gracias italianos que en Argentina es igual

[@danielburden7373]

Sí son un poco iguales, pero los gestos en Argentina son menos exagerados

[@JoaquinWeissUgarteche]

@@danielburden7373 vivo en Italia y soy argentino, puedo decirte que no es cierto. Depende mucho tu familia. Si sos de Buenos Aires de una familia de origen italiana estoy seguro que te moves como un loco, yo lo hago y así todos.

[@kozagong]

I used to work with an italian and at one point he got annoyed by sth and exclaimed "mamma mia" and threw his hands in the air. I didn't laugh or even smile, that just hit me so hard that I just kinda stood there. Achievement unlocked.

[@mattelanni]

I’m italian, i can definetly understand what their feelings are just by looking at the gestures. This is the power of hands

[@Gal3tti]

as italian i really like this video, here is one reason why we do this: back in the middle age there was not "ITALIAN" as one single language and you could not understand what people say from one city to another, people use gestures that were universally understandable, nowadays even if we have italian as one language people still speak with different accents and use specific terms depending on the location, and so, it can stil be useful to use gestures

[@alessandrotasca3959]

I can't wrap my head about trying to talk to people without moving even a little bit. Who are you non-italian people? Robots? 😳

[@lolymop333]

Bruh, my face isn't even expressive. Everyone thinks I'm either depressed or ticked. I'm typically depressed, but, you know.

[@SurrealShako]

@@lolymop333 Same here. Mine's because of "constricted/blunted affect." I also get people thinking I'm angry, haha

[@danielburden7373]

*"without moving a little bit"* - you people literally invented a whole new concept for body language lmao

[@agustinaluchelli8374]

As an argentinian I thought this was common human behavior too

[@kpopeditsbyweanah]

Yeees, like it must be so boring to not move while speaking

[@phucannn6720]

Am in the only one that think this is so interesting to watch lol

[@LadyBakura92]

non siamo noi che ci muoviamo troppo :D sono gli altri che si muovono troppo poco!

[@tuamadreimpanata]

Un po' di movimento non fa male

[@duelune5349]

Traduction: 0:07 "Preciso, perfetto"! A nice situation 0:23 Ma che stai dicendo? No tu ora mi spieghi" Older man is not happy with the younger about something he did or a situation involving him, wich apparently is calm and under control 0:43 now the older one tries to explain his personal point of wiev about the thing 0:51 the guy started some funny shit that actually worked!!! girls laughing and life is beautiful, "hello my name is Giovanni" 1:02 arguing about something that regards the city, the environment, and the guy with the glass and closed arms is not comfortable and does not like the lady speeching (lol!) 1:17 still explaining ahahaha 1:29 Gossip ladies 1:42 Finishing to describe why the situation is nice 1:50 C'HO PIACERE!

[@MrJera.]

ottimo lavoro soldato

[@jelenad6367]

Wow thanks 😍😁

[@gior987]

sì però si dice translation

[@vienkss]

As an Italian I feel like a subject being studied

[@cristic767]

I do like this and I am not even Italian. :)

[@ExclusiveLM]

+Cristi C At 1:46 you see one of the best Italian gestures that most Italians love love love. The guy is talking with another guy and waves then IMMEDIATELY points at the other guy. That means high out of respect to the camera video taping and the pointing the thumb at his friend means...... I don't want to get the attention..... give the attention to my friend because he deserves it. That's why when the guy points at him he smiles because his friend is showing respect and deferring to him in this moment when he the waver could have gotten the attention. That's why you see Italian celebs like DeNiro, DiCaprio and others get upset with the paparrazi because Italians grow up not wanting the attention on them (especially in their personal lives offstage).

[@axelgumilar7141]

@@ExclusiveLM Funny thing is that guy looks exactly like De Niro himself lol

[@aloics419]

@Cobif Man hahahaha giusto😂👍🏼

[@martinomanfredi4648]

@@ExclusiveLM sorry but it's not true

[@valeriab-6126]

@Cobif Man infatti 😂😂

[@Rob46373]

00:54 and that son is how I met your mother

[@Dupstan]

As the italians would say: thats a spicy algorithm

[@dan_thesaint]

But how would you say it with your hands?

[@sac-outlet4672]

@@dan_thesaint un qualche gesto per enfatizzare l’accaduto/la situazione, tipo far girare le mani in un piccolo cerchio, oppure tendere leggermente in avanti le braccia con i palmi verso l’interlocutore. Idk, something to emphasize the situation (that’s for sure) maybe a little swirl with the hands and the forearms, or you could extend a bit the forearms with the palms facing towards the person you’re speaking to

[@dan_thesaint]

@@sac-outlet4672 ci sta tutto

[@TheAsdpolloasd]

@@dan_thesaint 1:04 the blonde woman gesture

[@dan_thesaint]

@@TheAsdpolloasd lol agreed

[@idontknow2453]

Pov: you are looking in the comments for someone that's not italian I am italian

[@LewisNuke92]

It’s not just the Italians that do it, chefs do it too! I’m living proof!

[@daelysian870]

Ci spiano

[@parthenope.]

Francesca Bruno ecco perchè le turiste mi guardavano...😂🤔

[@bokutosaidheyheyhey218]

Un Exo-L ahahah

[@doniaachi1591]

Oh oh ohhh è Xiumin nella foto profilo

[@AugustFreestyle]

Mi piace veramente molto come parlate con le vostre mani. Ormai parlo Italiano da un bel po, ma il modo di parlare con le mani non l'ho mai imparato, nonostante sia una lingua universale. :)

[@bob-uv3ls]

So di essere in ritardo di 6 anni, ma da dove vieni? Il tuo italiano è perfetto

[@Rob46373]

È semplice se vieni in Italia che impari subito, noi italiani parliamo e gesticoliamo contemporaneamente perciò farai presto ad associare i gesti alle parole

[@JohnDoe-dj3lw]

mi associo nel complimentarmi per il perfetto italiano di August (tranne per un apostrofo mancato, ma quella è grammatica e viene dopo la sintassi)

[@PAPICASA]

Basta che tu faccia questo gesto 🤌🏻 e ti capiamo, qualunque cosa tu voglia dire 😂

[@stefanofarrelli4023]

creeproot rip MF DOOM :(

[@Yapper481]

Vivo da un po' all'estero e rientrando a casa mi accorgo che è TUTTO VERO.

[@benhope7121]

in diversi momenti muovono "il minimo indispensabile".. davvero non me ne ero reso conto, dici che all'estero tengono le mani letteralmente ferme? Giù ai fianchi o nelle tasche e stop? Non è per nulla stiloso, trovo che un leggero muovere degli arti risulti persino in una forma più opportuna

[@Tom-bb3fm]

@@benhope7121 gesticolano anche loro ma molto meno

[@EveHyland-in8jb9ti9y]

Beautiful! ❤️ Italians. 🇮🇹

[@francescocandian2708]

How can anyone NOT love this?

[@j.c.n9718]

This is nothing, Nigerians walk with their hands.

[@CriceSqueeez96]

yes! I had a friend from Nigeria who would respond to my hand movements with the same stuff, but double the energy, and also a lot of shoulders/neck movements, which aren't very common in Italy (we mostly use hands). We were always cracking up about that, and the fact that many gestures looked similar but had opposite meanings.

[@corinnejoness]

@@CriceSqueeez96 you haven’t seen a mad Italian yet

[@ces9984]

@Marco Nava im pretty sure they didn't mean it in the literal sense

[@Su33oProduction]

Another level bro

[@ces9984]

@@twentytwo138 using gender neutral pronouns isn't disrespectful at all

[@bertmatt]

As an Italian, I can literally understand their personalities

[@Ryuk0]

@Elio Kim oh, come ti sembra l'Italiano? È difficile da studiare? Essendo la mia lingua madre non me ne rendo conto, ma penso sia veramente difficile da studiare partendo da zero.

[@yashsvidixit7169]

Mattia s🅱️inballa

[@vew3977]

They kinda look like a crowd of NPCs having NPC conversations lol

[@luceliasilva4458]

The Sims lol

[@4evrmind]

nah we have passion

[@FixedFace]

you have to be 13 years old to be allowed to comment on youtube

[@mattthelearner2797]

Omg!!! People having a conversation irl, sooo NPC

[@ElderSwamp]

That's the contrary... You look like robots while we are for sure emotive human beings! Hahah 😁🇮🇹🇮🇹❤️

[@awangchanda9082]

it's beautiful and unique at the same time

[@francaspini4938]

Gesture helps to think better, to concentrate, to fix important concepts in the memory and are essential to convey thoughts and knowledge. The most remembered phrases are those accompanied by significant gestures. Scientific studies have shown that 70-80% of information reaches the brain through the eyes, confirming how gestures are an important - if not fundamental - element of communication.

[@marcovezzari7436]

They speak the language of the gods !

[@mondutti9802]

If you'd hold their hands, they wouldn't be able to speak 😂

[@L-S]

Ah joke on you we also use our face and feet.

[@kasandramendoza4764]

I like Italian guys. You are very handsome guys

[@roccosiffra]

Here I am! Thanks 😂

[@filipporubino4163]

Thanks!!

[@giulia7000]

Thanks kind person

[@SayahNox]

Thank you🙃

[@gorgest781]

Fucking false lmao, ever been to Rome?

[@youreadthisinyourmindright2604]

I feel like these hand gestures make the person look more friendly and excited about the things they are talking about

[@occhialcielo.Occhialcielo]

This is absolutely normal! What is not normal is KZbin pushing this video 12 years later 😅😂

[@cardboardbox9119]

As an Italian, I can understand the type of conversation they are having just by the hands. It may looks goofy af, but it's a really powerful "tool"

[@lolymop333]

My hands are usually full

[@eugeniopalladino5793]

0:44 "Oh feega, ma stai bene? Cioè non si fa mica cosi eh?"

[@bovvsette7996]

🧐👌

[@Elchan555]

PLS LE BORLA GIÓ

[@federicobonini4225]

For the ones that want to know what they are saying, as an italian i can say that i can understand what they are talking about in a general way, i mean that the hand gestures are usually used in different and specific situations so, if you are italian, you are at least able to understand the general scenario of the discussion. Example: the hands movement at 1:40 means that he is describing something, or at least he's trying to make the friends understand what he is talking about, obviously dont know what in specific but he's doing it; even 1:12 is a really good example, that movement is usually used while talking about general stuff in a friendly way (mybe they are talking about friends, people that they know, things happened in their town...)

[@slaveNo-4028]

I mean, aren't all those gestures used to describe something and make a friend understand what you're talking about? lol, but nice comment

[@danieln9226]

yeah obviously had gestures are used to describe something 😂 you literally added nothing informative with that long comment

[@fernandojaviercastrosappia6245]

Here in the Rio De Plata in South America both we Argentinians and Uruguayans have Italian roots ...and we speak by using the hands ..the same way as shown in this video...Cannot imagine to speak without doing this ...

[@JunkyardDaveArchive]

My girlfiend is Italian (I'm Canadian) and this video is amazing. xD I love how much she talks with her hands. I remember asking her one time if I held her hands down as she was talking if it would bother her that she couldn't talk with her hands, and she said yes. xD Amazing to see it "everywhere" like this. :D

[@danaargie2437]

Speaking with hands is a beautiful skill, saludos de Latinoamérica

[@mattiafatali6474]

Film people in Naples doing hand gestures, then we can talk about it 😂😂😂😂

[@richardthepastamancer6619]

They don't talk Italian tho

[@ManubibiWalsh]

I’m Italian and went to London once with a bunch of friends, none of whom could speak English and I was the only one who could, but I came down with a really bad fever so they had to go out on their own (mind you, without knowing a word of English)... they still managed going around, asking for information and buying stuff for my fever, presumably just by using gestures.

[@wilfredv1930]

Im learning italian and this kind of video help me a lot to speak better, thank you. I need to use more my hands. Ciao ragazzi e ragazze.

[@fabbri2183]

This video printed a big smile on my face. Grazie! 🤭

[@emanuele2542]

I’m Italian and I gotta say.....I understand everything, for real I’m not joking. And that is amazing Is like having a different and secret language

[@markthompson8246]

"Hand talking" seems to be common among all Latin people for some reason.

[@PP-vp2fu]

Romans used hand gesturs a lot

[@Elichan88]

Also the Mediterranean was a marketplace for all kind of people that spoke different languages and gestures were a way to understand each other. I met with an Egyptian guy and he did and could understand most of the Italian gestures I usually do! :)

[@gagauddas7010]

You are the mistake

[@PP-vp2fu]

@@gagauddas7010 ?

[@felicepompa1702]

Italians are not latins... Colombians are, we are in the romantic language family with french, spanish, portuguese and romanian

[@ch3rry833]

I miss so much being in public with all these people and don't worry about social distance.

[@daze.d5462]

Is this just an Italian thing? I've seen Filipinos do this as well and the hand gestures make it really an entertaining experience.

[@NaiefThegoony]

Wow it's been a long ass while since i've been to italy it's way more beautiful than I remember it to be I remember running in the middle of that place to scare the pigeons away like in movies

[@lucafavero3828]

are you serious? you filmed every people you saw in streets that were doing hand movements, you are incredibly genius😂😂😂

[@enricacantori2984]

Ma è legale?

[@BetseyTrotwood]

@@enricacantori2984 in teoria no

[@darioclb1363]

I am italian and I live in germany and I use my hands to speak a lot, honestly how do people not use their hands while speaking? It feels so much better to express yourself using your hands

[@pololikikuju]

What surprises me even more is the fact that nobody has a smartphone, and people were actually talking to each other and having nice social talks... I guess smartphones hadn't caught on by then. Those were better times

[@giulianoilfilosofo7927]

They were indeed, although people here in Italy tend to be more sociable on an average than in Anglo or Nordic countries, but unfortunately the rude practice of fixing your eyes on the screen also while being outside with people, has planted roots even here.

[@josedaniel5568]

Well, I didn't searched for this, but I'm glad I found it, HAHAHAA.

[@MrBetterBlues]

ppl from other nations can't even understand the variety that we have in italy, gestures came from the theatre, we have thousands of dialects completly different each other,the food is changing every city u go, the art, the architecture, we use metaphors for everything.

[@r-h4rd824]

bro hai commentato sto video 11 anni fa, come passa il tempo...

[@samuelvieira645]

everyone does it: meh italians do it: OOOOOOOMGGGGGGGGGGG LOOK AT HIS HAAAANDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[@takeyat8840]

Um... no

[@blanco7726]

@@takeyat8840 isnt it interesting how a simple meme has got you guys so captivated and passionate about simple hand gestures🤣

[@milena39]

There is a difference between speaking with your hands and moving your hands while speaking. I, as an Italian, was able to understand, just by looking at their hands and expressions, what they were talking about.

[@americoranalletta3131]

però vedendo questo video hanno ragione...

[@melaniemanson4379]

Si ma é anche un nostro modo di conversare, almeno a me viene spontaneo gesticolare XD

[@americoranalletta3131]

è vero federica x noi è spontaneo,anche se per altri nn sempre comprensibile

[@silviaparmigiani5352]

Federica Bajo considerando che noi l'abbiamo sempre fatto per me è normale gesticolare. Mi viene direttamente. Cioè non lo controllo

[@americoranalletta3131]

Vabbè mo me lo scrivo...

[@americoranalletta3131]

non c è offesa e dolo nel fare battute.Poi ognuno può pensare ciò che vuole.Anche se la penso un pò diversamente cmq rispetto il tuo pensiero.

[@Alex_SHX]

0:33 : in this specific situation, judging by the lady's expression, this gesture probably means something like "do you remember that person? The one we (example) met a long time ago..." This is a very common gesture in my country

[@asmitachatterjee5146]

Italians have my heart ❤

[@__skyrleikur2318]

sono greco - facciamo anche questo una faccia, una razza 🇬🇷❤️🇮🇹

[@manuelaspecchia5791]

We are brothers :)

[@lorenzoromito7735]

You guys were here before the Romans, maybe they took the hand gestures from you

[@melinamuleiro8001]

im from Argentina and we definitely inherited the hand movements from italy :)

[@arabecomunista7402]

I'm brazilian from São Paulo, here, there were a great immigration of italians and here we speak with hands to.

[@giangio8970]

I slept so many time in the morning on the duomo’s stairs in the morning during my high school period. So poetic. Better than school.

[@shambalaua3968]

Other people: Learning how to incorporate hand gestures with their speech for better communication Italians: Look what they have to do, to mimic a fraction of our power

[@nahlam.salama9066]

We “Egyptians “ have same energy I never knew its weird to other people!!

[@ErPuglia]

1:28 "Aumma aumma". C'è qualcosa che bolle in pentola, signori... Che sian affari loschi?

[@Daniela-wg9nz]

Potrebbe anche significare "in zona", "nell'area", no?.

[@Sim0sama]

@@Daniela-wg9nz si aumma aumma io direi che è accompagnato dall’occhiata e dalla spalla un po’ alzata , la testa che annuisce o l’occhiolino 🤔 sembra più un “quella gente lì” o “quella zona lì” oppure “che poi circa è così” 😂😂😂

[@sgrizzo48]

Maneggia maneggia ;)

[@golden_starlight_]

it's funny because i don't understand what they're saying but i can guess the mood of the conversation and the dynamic between the people talking

[@tonkinthehanoian1843]

The bgm maked this looks like what the old documentaries would look like if they're modern.

[@rindfleischetikettierungsu8041]

It took me a long time to realise that people were not mad at something I said, it's just their way of having a conversation

[@ulisescarrillo2373]

Que bello era la vida antes de la pvta plandemia, podíamos darnos de mano,abrazarnos y hablar cerquita de los que más queremos, son cosas que más extraño .

[@valenesco45]

Vero, speriamo che tutto torni alla normalità

[@elyromaa]

@@valenesco45 tornerà alla normalità però, ci pensi? non ci sentiremo forse mai più come prima, a nostro agio fra la gente, a parlare con un amico

[@valenesco45]

@@elyromaa È certamente possibile quello che dici tu, ovvero essere un pó piú sociofobici rispetto a prima. Nel mio caso poco cambia, sono sempre stato germofobico anche prima del covid ma ció non mi impediva di sporcarmi o di socializzare con tanta gente. L'importante per me è sempre stato tenere le mani pulite, per il resto ci pensa il mio sistema immunitario.

[@Valentina-wc5sb]

As an argentine: wait, isn't this the norm?

[@love-dk7ii]

As an Indian I CAN RELATE 👀

[@Kevin-fj5oe]

If you are someone that lack conversation skill, using hand helps you pace and keep track on what you're talking about.

[@Wellshem]

Ironically, this is actually great. As someone who stutter, this was my way of breaking out of it.

[@larocdokarnap3227]

0:06 translation: "I open and closed the box, then i picked him by the nipples and shoved him down the stairs."

[@martiumeton]

3 kisses are not common usually we give one kiss (informal/young people) or two (more formal/older people). My aunt use to kiss 3 times only on birthdays

[@andersongeorgia4229]

Martina Umeton Jesus!!! Tiring! I rarely give a kiss or hug! Especially for the family! I rarely behave so to them! :)

[@bob-uv3ls]

I usually give 2 kisses to everyone

[@kriss581]

3 kisses froms left to right is the way we do in Switzerland, it's probably swiss tourist

[@vikingbaguettebratwurst8619]

In the Netherlands we give three kisses always.

[@mikatu]

Yes, but in this case was a girl from Ticino, not from Italy.

[@wobasabana8271]

- Stranieri che non capiscono il significato di cultura e comunicazione non verbale. Il Linguaggio Gestuale Italiano è parte integrante del patrimonio mondiale e voi lo sfottete... 👏 - Foreigners who do not understand the meaning of culture and non-verbal communication. The Italian Gestural Language is an integral part of the world heritage and you make fun of it... 👏

[@federicosala9865]

Ma dove sfottono?e fattela una risata!

[@wobasabana8271]

@@federicosala9865 Il pezzo di pianoforte usato è volutamente ridicolizzante. E non parlo solo del contesto del video, ma di ciò che accade a livello internazionale ogni giorno, con il LGI considerato ridicolo o volgare.

[@cazimirouge]

More amazed by the lack of smartphones than the gestures! Great capture of a lost period!

[@helpfulcommenter]

wtf "lost period" there's literally people on phones in the videos JFC

[@FatBoySlim696]

It's like every conversation is a debate or trying to a point. Or complaining about something.

[@siddharthnandi8567]

who else is on a binge watching italian hand gesture videos