Northern Italian or Southern Italian? - Accent Challenge

Watch this video, and even if you don't understand a word of Italian you'll be able to understand if a person is from the North or from the South of Italy just by hearing them speak for a few seconds!
And ofcourse if you are a student of Italian you can improve your ability to understand Italian and even choose what pronunciation your want to base your Italian on!
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A curiousity, Rome follows the southern rule as far as the "s" is concerned, but it has an interesting phenomenon of removing doubles even when they are written, which only happens there ;) You don't say :D
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Music:
intro ES_Knights Templar 1 - Johannes Bornlöf
outro ES_Knights Templar 2 - Johannes Bornlöf

[@beatme58]

how did you lose your accent. my dad still sounds like super mario and he has been living in England for 25 years

[@davidnuccioni3174]

in Italy every ittle city has his own accent because in Italy every little city has is own story

[@Ori0987]

In Italy you can literally cross the street and they will have a different accent.

[@paolopizzi5603]

We Romans don't double consonants, we TRIPLE them!! :)

[@JackWiizard]

Every corner of Italy has its own Accent.

[@RealAmazing888]

As a native Spanish speaker, with no prior lessons in Italian, I am amazed that I can understand spoken Italian so much, but I cannot speak it.

[@arlinfeliciano5382]

southern Italian sounds more like spanish

[@alorikkoln]

Well and easily explained. Now explain, which Accent is more original to that spoken by the Romans. PS. as a German and English Speaker, I prefer the southern style Accent. The southern style just sounds nicer. The northern style sounds arrogant.

[@RobertoDonatti]

7 out of seven. But I'm from Argentina, Latin americans say that we are Italians that speak Spanish..

[@IzayahSM]

aaah whether it is in North or South, italian language is pretty <3

[@smarello89]

Il tuo inglese è impressionante! O_O

[@laurignano]

As an Italian-Canadian, I find this very interesting. Although I was born in Canada, I have been blessed to be exposed to many different Southern Italian Dialects all of my life (including Sicilian). My father is Calabrese (from a town near the city of Cosenza, which dialect is closer to Napoli’s dialect) and my mother is Sardinian (which I would argue is its own language completely). I can honestly say I have had such limited experience speaking with anyone with a Northern accent that I would have never known the major differences without this video.

[@bimmerboy87]

the differences in accents are interesting, particularly for the pronunciation of "s". The southern italians pronounce "s" like the spaniards, while the northern italians pronounce "s" like the french. i wonder if thats because the northern italians are closer to france, and the southern italy was part of the spanish empire, and thus had spanish influences.

[@FlexibleFlyer50]

My dad was born in Sicily in a small town not far from Agrigento. He came to the US when he was a year old. His parents both spoke dialect, and it was a very old dialect that few people on the mainland could even understand.

[@StormsRider]

Riguardo i commenti che ho letto sul suo accento, posso assicurare - dall'alto dei miei 54 anni vissuti da poliglotta all'interno di una famiglia poliglotta ove l'inglese è predominante - che il suo accento è più che eccellente, e difficilmente un inglese potrebbe dedurre che non sia di madrelingua, figuriamoci poi un italiano! Ciò che alcuni hanno percepito (da non madrelingua) come "accento italiano" è invece solo "musicalità". Ed effettivamente la sua musicalità tradisce molto la sua italianità (bravo chi l'ha notato anche se l'ha scambiato per accento). Quella è davvero dura da estirpare ma, se non si vive l'apprendimento di una lingua come un'ossessione, ha davvero, ma davvero poca rilevanza.

[@orbital1004]

no need to listen. Squared shirt, jacket, sunglasses glued to their heads or inverted cap ? NORTH (because they're cool, ué figa). Anything else: SOUTH.

[@marcomajonchi9741]

Quando hai dato la spiegazione che in Toscana si differenzia la "S" tra parola e parola ti ho stimato troppo. Essendo di Firenze ho provato a pronunciare alcune delle parole che elencavi durante il video e infatti avevo un miscuglio tra i due tipi di pronuncia.

[@johannak1983]

I'm Greek and I found this video very interesting! I think that Southern Italian accent (concerning the "s") is somehow closer to Greek. Maybe has to do with Greek influence there? I'm just guessing...

[@Synystr7]

My family is from Vicenza (we now live in Canada) and my step-grandfather is from Napoli and when he gets going, I can't understand him lol.

[@YangSing1]

There's the same amount of accents in England. They vary from city to city