Should You Learn Italian in 2023?

On this video we'll find out whether it's a good idea learning Italian for you in 2023. I hope you like this video and let me know if you have any questions in the comments.
#language #italian #study

[@SubliminalKings]

I don't care if Italian is not as "useful" as other more commonly spoken languages. I love how Italian sounds and I am happy I started learning it.

[@aris1956]

Exactly ! Many in the world, as I have often seen on KZbin in various comments, want to learn Italian simply because they find it a beautiful language. They simply fall in love with the Italian language. And that I believe is one of the most beautiful reasons. Kind of like seeing a beautiful object inside a store window and saying.... I have to do anything, but I have to get to possess that object. Even just to put it on top of a table inside the house and admire it, even though you know it's something you don't need every day.

[@StaraptorEagle]

This is exactly how I feel about Norwegian! And Italian is one of my favourite languages. Period.

[@mariaeus3694]

​@@aris1956 Gli angeli parlano italiano. Così scriveva il premio nobel della letteratura Thomas Mann. Saranno le doppie, le finali con le sole vocali e i generi che collimano (non sempre, le eccezioni ci sono dovute dal latino) tra aggettivi e nomi. Ritmo e armonia afferma un mio conoscente cinese.

[@aris1956]

@@mariaeus3694 A volte qui in Germania, qualche collega, nella scuola dove io insegno, mi sente parlare italiano con dei ragazzi e si ferma semplicemente per ascoltare anche se non capisce niente (conosce magari solo così qualche parola). Mi dice….. continuate tranquillamente a parlare. A me piaceva solo ascoltare il suono della vostra bella lingua che per me sembra musica.

[@mariaeus3694]

@@aris1956 Anche I miei amici francesi. 🤗

[@jacqueschouette7474]

I started learning Italian because I was 1) single, 2) wanted to meet Italian women and 3) I happened to be spending lot of time in Italy. I eventually met and married an Italian woman from Piemonte. For me, learning Italian wasn't all that hard mainly because I already spoke French and had taken many German classes in college.

[@LucaDiRuggiero]

PIEMONTE MENTIONED RRAAAAH🦅🇨🇭🦅🇨🇭🦅🇨🇭🦅🇨🇭WTF IS A DISH WITHOUT GARLIC🦅🇨🇭🦅🇨🇭🦅🇨🇭🦅

[@LeNguyen-cf5nw]

My native language is German but I also grew up speaking Vietnamese. My Vietnamese isn't great, though. I speak English fluently and I'm currently studying Italian at university. I hope to become truly fluent in Italian and Vietnamese in the near future. Italian is a really beautiful language and I will learn the language no matter what. It doesn't matter how practical or unpractical it may seem. I sometimes struggle with which language I use to study Italian - German or English. German has more grammatical equivalents compared to English, but English has more cognates. Anyway, great video, Metatron! Maybe do some videos in Italian for us poor underappreciated Italian learners? :D

[@lewiitoons4227]

This is an interesting question, I learned Spanish using English resources but the goal is to move on to resources in your target language as soon as possible in my opinion, as native speakers used Italian to learn Italian. But I’d never considered if I wanna learn Italian it would be wise to use Spanish resources

[@nein7564]

German is much more difficult then English, but it's definitely worth it. You can do beautifully things with it and it helps structuring thoughts. I am German and I can easily depict the core of complex matters. Of course I always took that for granted. Now, I am learning French and I realize that some things in this language are so weired and twisted that it becomes difficult to follow that straight line of thoughts.

[@legrognard7827]

I’m a Frenchman who started to learn Italian in high school. Now I’m applying for a master’s degree in Rome. It’s a very pleasant language to speak and I hope to be fluent one day

[@lucianorosarelli-xr5lr]

chapeau m.

[@allsop91]

It still feels strange not being called a Noble One. I learnt a little Italian a few years ago. I started with tourist stuff and was working towards casual conversation. It is such a beautiful language, the way it rolls of your tongue and one word flows into another, you can almost taste it - it feels so nice to speak. Learning Italian may not fill your pockets, but it will fill your heart and your soul - especially when you tie that in with the culture, history and art.

[@lucianorosarelli-xr5lr]

80 % of world arts are made in Italy i desagree that he said about the goals who started for learning italian 2nd in italy we had a lot visitors every years, a lot of yunghers english spekers and an universal translater better than google ( shits), ours hands learn hands lenguage of italians and u solve 50 % of your translation without problem of pronunce

[@Abensberg]

"hello noble ones" at 0:13

[@simonepunzo4890]

Bravo 👏🏻. Infatti in italiano i suoni si fondono tra una parola e l'altra. La mia lingua è molto bella è vero, ma sono pure avvantaggiato per confluire nella comprensione di altre lingue romanze.

[@marcocarlson1693]

Yes, Italian is of high importance in the field of Music. Also so in Law, and Medicine, due to it's frequently used Latin terms, that of course Directly correlate to Italian.

[@laurignano]

I'm definitely interested in a dialect video. I'm Italian Canadian (from the greater Toronto area) and my Nonna & Nonna only spoke to me in Calabrese (Cosenza). Interestingly, my grandparents never had to learn English and they lived in Canada for over 60 years. This isn't an uncommon experience for the Southern Italians growing up in Canada, especially those who's parents immigrated during the 60s and 70s to Canada. My other side of my family is Sardinian and spoke Italian & Sardo, but I unfortunately never learned the Sardinian language. I'd even love to see a video on the Sardinian language. In Toronto and Montreal, due to the major influence of Southern Italian culture here, I would argue that the dialects are used more often than standard Italian. Also, in Toronto, we have a multi cultural / Italian radio station named CHIN Radio that was started by an Italian Canadian in the late 1960s to serve the Italian community. Even today, CHIN radio is still on the air and I even listen to it while I'm driving to keep up my Italian and get hear the local news in Italian. You should definitely visit the Italian areas of Toronto and Montreal one day if you haven't already!

[@surfboarding5058]

I’m Caribbean

[@alexeysaphonov232]

1. Opera and great singing culture. 2. Awesome movies. 3. Rich literature starting from Petrarca and Boccaccio to e.g. Umberto Eco. 4. Very historically signifikant country, tons places to visit. Many places to visit.

[@FlagAnthem]

Nice touch to include Umberto Eco We all miss him so much. Also we all know how Pascoli, *ahem!, was too sweet for Montale's taste

[@moderatedoomer2945]

Because English is such a dominant World Language, us native English speakers are very privileged because we talk to so many people without learning another; but in another sense, we miss out. When you learn another language, it really does open your mind. the more languages that I learn, the better equipped I am to learn any sort of new thing that is a system, be it coding, or a laws, or complex financial translations.

[@77thNYSV]

I'm an American in Utah, USA whose family comes from Italy. I love the culture, the cuisine, the history... everything Italian. I just want to speak it for my own pleasure and enjoyment, so I'm sad that there's nobody around here for me to practice with. And a video on Italian dialects would be cool! My family spoke Franco provenzale.

[@lucianorosarelli-xr5lr]

Franco provenzale ? are your family from italy? are u sure?

[@giulianopisciottano8302]

​@@lucianorosarelli-xr5lrpuò essere della valle d'Aosta

[@lucianorosarelli-xr5lr]

@@giulianopisciottano8302 mi scuso i'm apologize Verificato è parlato anche in italia, my name is luciano and no Wikipedia lol

[@OwenFerguson]

Hey I'm also in Utah trying to learn Italian! Utah County in specific. Hope your studies are going well!

[@matei3880]

I have been considering learning Italian for a while without any real justification besides reading certain Italian literature... I speak Romanian and it's interesting to see the similarities between the two languages

[@thisismycoolnickname]

Non mi importa quanto è utile, l'ho imparato soltanto perché mi piace. È un piacere per il cuore. E poi, dopo l'italiano puoi imparare facilmente lo spagnolo ad esempio che sarebbe più utile.

[@AthanasiosJapan]

Italian is probably the easiest language for Greeks. Those who choose humanities at high school (about one third of all students) also study Latin for 2 years. It is also quite common to study English as a first foreign language and French as a second. I have never studied Italian, but I can understand many Italian words. The pronunciation is very easy and grammar is quite simple (compared to Latin). I recommemend Italian as an easier alternative to English for those who want to learn a major European language.

[@stephanledford9792]

My dad worked in South America for ten years, so from age 5 through 15 I learned and used Spanish outside the home and learned and used English inside the home. Spanish is more than a second language since I learned it at the same time I was learning English. I mention this because I can watch videos in Italian and unless the speaker is talking quickly, I pick up most of what is being said just knowing Spanish. Interestingly, this is NOT as true with Portuguese, which is odd because it is right next door to Spain, nor is it true with spoken French, although I can still follow about 25% of written French.

[@Mand.alor-the-Rebel]

My native language is German and i speak very good English (i learned English in England) and i understand spoken English nearly as good as German (depends on the dialect). I started to lern Italian because i was born in Italy and i'm half Italian (and a big fan of Pizza and Pasta), but i grew up in Germany with my german mother. I want to learn Italian because i have 2 cousins in Italy, 1 in Rome (Valerio) & 1 in Rignano Flaminio (Silvia) and i want to talk with them in Italian (both speak good Engllish). And i like Italy very much, in my chest are two hearts, 1 German and 1 Italian. At the time i speak only a littlebit Italian but i want to get better and i'm working on it.

[@PaulFromCHGO]

I was born and raised in Chicago but I am of Italian descent on my paternal side (Polish descent on maternal side). My paternal great grandfather came over in 1901 from Brindisi Montagna (Potenza/Basilicata). I was exposed to some Italian as my grandparents occaisionally spoke it with neighbors in our little Italy neighborhood. My grandmother's parents were from Faicchio (Benevento/Campania). I was always disappointed that the language was not passed down to me and always had a passing interest to maybe learn it someday. But I never thought I would be able to really use it if I did as I figured I could never really leave America. But I do feel somewhat connected to the culture, language aside. My dad even ran an Italian restaurant for a time and made some pretty good pizza (according to a food critic on radio or TV, we once had the best pizza in Chicago as I was once told by my dad in the mid 1970s). Not long after my father died in the early 2000s, I discovered I had a possible claim to Italian citizenship by descent and after many years of geneology research, chasing down vital records, correcting them, getting new versions, translating them, etc... I finally went for it and after a little over 4 year wait (covid delayed everything), the Italian consulate confirmed my Italian citizenship late last year and I got my Italian passport and Codice Fiscale in January! I have no more excuses now to put off learning Italian and very much want to go all the way to C2 level even though I know this will take years. Now that I am an Italian citizen, I want to communicate like one, properly! I am also seriously considering moving to Italy in the next few years or so. I am older now and learn a bit slower but my teenage son is very excited about our good fortune and he is also going to start learning with me. I plan to move soon after he graduates from high school. Hopefully he can go to an Italian university if he gets strong enough with the language. We also want to know more about the dialects spoken in Brindisi Montagna as well as Faicchio. I suspect Napolitano but I would love to confirm from someone who knows for sure! Then, after learning standard Italian, we will try to learn the local flavor of the langauge. Until we got the nod from Italy, I was resigned to remaining in the USA, never realizing I had a path to a new and possibly better life. My whole family is on board with moving to Europe and I hope to re-discover my heritage soon! I plan to visit my ancestral Comune next summer.

[@rc1982]

Brazilian Portuguese is easier than European Portuguese for one simple reason: Brazilian Portuguese has VOWELS. European Portuguese doesn't. hehe

[@danielmeier8321]

As a bavarian who is currently learning italian, one nice thing i noticed is that you italians use the word „quasi“ exactly like we bavarians do 😄 also some sayings correspond with english nicely, where german doesnt. In italian, like in english, the saying „even though“ bzw. „anche se“ is very Common, but in german it isnt. So i guess if you already speak a Second language on a higher Level, it certainly will help you out recognising patterns etc. more easily. Dopo italiano vorrei imparare francese e secondo me é vero, che italiano é la lingua dellˋamore. Edit: fun fact: in german you can and it is Common to do so, to use the Word stark = forte exactly like italians do in your example.

[@ChadKakashi]

“Reading in Italian is easy” I noticed. Since Italian pronunciation is really close with Turkish for some reason. Whenever I see an Italian word, the way I would say it in my native language almost always sounds really close. Turkish is really easy to read too.

[@FlagAnthem]

I guess the alphabet reform did the job right.

[@wonko69]

Learning Italian is of no use UNLESS you want to penetrate deep in the culture of this country. And, believe me, the trip is worth the price.

[@igorvoloshin3406]

Італійську мову варто вивчити вже просто за те, що вона надзвичайно красива! Така ж мелодійна, як моя рідна українська. Дякуємо прекрасній Італії за постійну підтримку України! ✌😁🇺🇦🤝🇮🇹😎👍

[@chrystals.4376]

English Speaker. There’s peer reviewed Archaeological, History, etc works out there still only in Italian, Folkloric and Cookbooks-especially professional literature about the Culinary Arts, as well as Goth & Ethereal acts sometimes only covered by publishers & websites in languages not in English. I’m less interested in speaking it but reading for Knowledge but if I manage to be at least a semi coherent speaker of it that’ll be a nice bonus for me.

[@chrystals.4376]

Continued, there’s a fair amount of Modern Languages that are not English that have loads of Lit including Academic that will never be translated into English and sometimes it’s not even properly, I am fascinated with Ancient Magic and Religions but the English speaking world is very behind on, and sometimes you need to learn another language just to learn other more obscure languages

[@mateuspereira9911]

In Brazil we have many communities of italian speakers, I think in the most regions you may found at least older speakers. Because our immigrant policy changes with the years (in the 1940 was proibihited speak e and write in public spaces languages other than portuguese) and the social dynamics of Brazil we don't have too many "little italies". And we have two types of imigration from Italy, one of workers to the industry and coffee plantations in São Paulo (Mooca, Brás, Bexiga, Barra Funda are the name of some neighborhoods), others immigrants stay some time in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, or Porto Alegre, and bought or were received land to live in the areas not populated in south Brasil, here you will find italian speakers too. If you speak italian and portuguese with them, you will be the celebrety of the town! haha Great video!!

[@rul787]

I can only think about Toquinho when relating Italy and Brazil. Acquarello is one of my favs of all time

[@caiogrimaldi5145]

I'm not sure if they are all actually speakers of the Italian language (as a second language), but in the city of São Paulo (Brazil), there are 13 million descendants of Italians (with the majority holding dual nationality). There's even a popular saying that there are more Italians in São Paulo than in Rome. [Non sono certo che siano tutti effettivamente parlanti della lingua italiana (come seconda lingua), ma nella città di San Paolo (Brasile) ci sono 13 milioni di discendenti italiani (la maggioranza con doppia cittadinanza). Esiste addirittura il detto popolare che ci siano più italiani a San Paolo che a Roma.]

[@giannifois8948]

My most general thought? If you like to learn any language and you have time for that, do it; don’t overthink, who cares if that language is useful or not, you like it? Well then, go ahead and learn it. Don’t listen to what other people will be telling you, do what you like if you can, because if you don’t I can assure you that you’ll regret it

[@HyperManSP]

That bit of trivia about "forte" being used the same way as "cool" is very "forte", lol! Does "molto forte" work, is that something that gets said?

[@biobomb93]

It would work, but i'd use "fortissimo"

[@HyperManSP]

@@biobomb93 Grazie!

[@rufiohaspan]

I know Brazilian portugués is closer to Spanish bc Portuguese in portugal had a phonetic shift later on

[@felipegonzalez1934]

Italian is one of the most studied languages in the world in spite of the fact that is not even among the top 20 most spoken.

[@franciscofunari2343]

Hi I am from São Paulo Brazil, here we have one of the biggest Italian communities in the world, we have a mall dedicated only for Italian products. Some would say that the pizza from here is the best besides Italian pizza

[@HelmutQ]

Imparare l'italiano non ha nessun senso economico se non si vuole vivere li. Una ragione per impararlo è perché è facilissimo. Sono arrivato ad un livello operativo entro tre mesi. La grammatica è facile ma non facilissimo. Ma la velocità di apprendimento deriva dalla fonetica molto limitata. Solo cinque vocali e consonanti presenti anche in altre lingue. Niente aperti e chiusi, dittonghi. Avendo parecchi dialetti gli italiani capiscono anche variazioni e pronunce approssimative. È banale riconoscere le parole nel flusso di un nativo e riprodurrle a sua volta. Arrivando da una lingua europea molte parole "latine" sono indovinabili. Io amo la lingua, l'ho imparata per ragioni personali. Ma dovendo scegliere una lingua a tavolino sceglierei lo spagnolo. È quasi altrettanto facile ma sono molto più persone ch parlano. Molto più utile. Un vantaggio collaterale dell'italiano è ch si capisce parecchio lo spagnolo al primo impatto. Ma e ancora più vero al incontrario. Gli spagnoli capiscono meglio l'italiano perché ha un vocabolario quasi esclusivamente latino mentre lo spagnolo è "inquinato" da lingue iberiche ed arabo che un italiano non può indovinare.

[@scotiadrake4245]

My first language was Italian, and then Dutch and English when I was four. Six years of Latin and two years of French later we moved back to Italy and I realized how lazy my Italian had become. As for Sicilian, I spoke it as a child when my grandmother was alive, but I honestly can't remember much. So perhaps Sicilian would be nice to relearn.

[@Drudolo]

Start with "Aiu a minghia ca marriva na vucca" (a common sicilian greeting)

[@victxbr]

I'm Brazilian, and speak Portuguese and English relatively well. My grand grandfather was Italian, so I want to learn Italian to travel to Italy, and maybe live there

[@veritasardens6547]

I am from Asia, a Tamilian from India to be exact and since I already knew English from my school days and later I learnt French and can communicate fluently in it, absorbing Italian was not so much of a difficulty for me and before long, I became conversant in it, I did 4 levels of Italian at the Italian Chamber of Commerce of my hometown Chennai. As for my motivation for wanting to learn Italian, I love Italian food and I also have a background in music, also I thought and I still think that the language is beautiful like French, so I picked up a learn Italian in 30 days book as I was strolling through a book exhibition in my city many years ago and seriously started pouring over its pages prior to my Italian classes under a native Italian teacher from Venice, overall the journey of having learnt Italian is a lot of fun and I can use it with other non-native Italian speakers at work and be understood by speakers of other Romance languages like Spanish (which I speak as well as well as Portuguese) who would give me occasional glances when I use it with someone who speaks Italian. While my love for Italian spurred me on to learn it with my background in French, my love for French pushed me to learn Latin which I also speak and practise with circles of Latin learners from various countries as the situation would allow it.

[@torelly]

I'm a Brazilian who holds Italian citizenship. My mother speaks Italian, but I tried to learn Venetian, the language of my great-grandfather. Although we have some towns where people spokes Talian( a local dialect of Venetian), I realized I had nobody to speak with. So then I started to learn Italian, and now I get fucked by false cognates all the time.

[@edenromanov]

A very fun video as a Native Spanish speaker I always felt Italian was easier to understand than Portuguese but written I could understand more Portuguese than Italian, also our poor Romanian cousins always getting left out of conversations like these, though honestly I'd say their language is probably the hardest to understand of the Romance languages 😅

[@Gelu345]

Why do you bother to understand the romanian language? Clearly, you don't like it. You still can drink beer and watch TV. It is much more comfort in knowing fewer things. Remember: mediocrity is bliss! Peace!😊

[@fixer1140]

Portuguese grammar is quite similar to spanish, that's why it's so easy to grasp, but the pronunciation takes a little bit of time. When it comes to Italian, the pronunciation is super easy for us ( yo hablo español ) but the grammar, take some aspirin because Italian has a whole bunch of exceptions.

[@jancovanderwesthuizen8070]

I think Switzerland has a lot more than 3 “cantoni”

[@miguelluissousadias1371]

hi, I am a native speaker of portuguese from portugal. In general, I would say portuguese people have a easier time understanding Italian than Italians have portuguese from portugal. Barring a few words, portuguese can also be easily understood to a degree by Italians just by changing our style of pronunciation. By sounding more Italian a portuguese can communicate with Italians by adding a few Italian words to portuguese. If a Italian speaks Italian to us barring a few words we would acceptably communicate. however, a different situation happens when portuguese people speak the native variety of portuguese from portugal. It is described as sounding like Russian to some people and we also "eat letters" basically we dont pronounce necessarily always the same as written. so there Italians would understand a bit less. This however still doesn't change the fact that portuguese and Italian are cousin languages, although French and Italian are closer, I think portuguese has a 75 percent similarity with Italian being a descendant of latin. so even with all of this your bound to find an Italian with little or no difficulty speaking portuguese. Thanks for the video Metatron.

[@bhutchin1996]

To me it sounds like 3 buddies from Poland, France, and Iceland went to Brazil, got drunk, and tried to speak the local language. Icelandic for the conjugated estar + a + INFINITIVE construction. French for the R sounding like an H, not to mention all the French loan words. Russian doesn't really have any nasal sounds, but Polish certainly does. I can understand most of European Portuguese because I'm fluent in Brazilian Portuguese, and European Portuguese is a very charming language. Unfortunately, Portugal doesn't have quite the entertainment influence that Brazil has through movies/filmes, TV shows, and music, so Brazilian Portuguese gets taken as the standard.

[@miguelluissousadias1371]

@@bhutchin1996 cool comment, yes portuguese from Portugal is a bit different. I am glad you like it, friend.

[@zaqwsx23]

Italian and Portuguese have 80% of lexical similarity. Italian is the only Romance language that reaches at least 80% (to a maximum of 89%) of similarity with the other 3 Western national Romance languages (Portuguese, Spanish and French) and it has the highest shared percentage with Romanian (77%). The language reflects geography.

[@sebastienlopezmassoni8107]

Brazilian Portuguese is the closest language to Spanish language is easier to understand compare to European Portuguese. I am a native French speaker from Belgian and I have Spanish origin also.

[@stansargeant]

È una lingua bellissima! Non posso usare tranne in Italia, ma...

[@redneckroy8947]

No. I shouldn't. I have no need to know Italian.

[@vatsmith8759]

I hesitate to criticize but speaking over background music doesn't make it any easier to listen to your words.

[@Mode-Selektor]

11:40 After studying Italian for a bit I've noticed that there are some words that I don't know in Italian that you can sort of guess at as an English speaker. Of course its far from a 100% success rate but, with words that have certain sounds and suffixes there can be a surprising level of accuracy with your predictions... or should I say, predizioni?

[@areswalker5647]

That may be because being a romance language a lots of words come from latin obviously but English also have many words like that so some Italian words are similar to English ones (especially if you consider the spelling)

[@mathieu1866]

Swiss here so just a small correction (well not really but kinda) what we call ''canton/cantoni/kanton(I think) are the swiss states not the linguistic regions (3: French, German and Italian as you said). there are 26 cantons although some are half-states, that's why there is only 23 stars on 5 francs pieces. great video though

[@ToaRahkshi]

I'm a Latino who was born and raised in USA. English my first lang, and Spanish second. I've been teaching myself Greek following your tips and has been a fun experience so far. I just LOVE how cool sounding it is! I mean, "Ηημερολόγιο" (Ime-ro-lóh-gio) sounds like a beast name, but it's just "calendar" 😂 - seriously, everything sounds cool in Greek. Thanks for all the tips you share, they've been a huge help! I just wish I knew other Greek speakers around me, but they don't exist in my area 😅

[@bhutchin1996]

Modern Greek uses the same phonemes that European Spanish does. As you know, a lot of Greek words came into Latin and its Romance children languages. That'll help.

[@cahallo5964]

@@bhutchin1996 yeah phonetically there is no challenge but the language is hard

[@veritasardens6547]

Your Pseudonym made me think whether you were an Indian.

[@SenorGuina]

You're not a Latino, you're an American with a Latin American background

[@barrysteven5964]

@@SenorGuina I find that the term Latino isn't really used much outside of the USA. If you ask people from various countries in Latin America to identify themselves they'll usually say 'soy uruguayo, venezolano, peruano, colombiano etc'.

[@HyperManSP]

For the Italian dialect video question: Yes! I would very much be interested in that.

[@Psychoveliatonet]

That background is absolutely amazing 🤩

[@metatronacademy]

Glad you like it!

[@mrtrainee]

Yes please, I'm very interested in a dialect video!

[@hardworker645]

My native language is Serbian and Romanian but i speak also italian almost as a native(speaking /writing) plus i speak good English Spanish, Bulgarian and Russian,,,,, God knowledge in French Portuguese polish and Czech,,,, regarding italian language i just want to say that i know also following italian dialects,,,,, bresciano, bergamasco, napolitano, siciliano, veneto, some basics in Hungarian and greek language,,,,,,,,, God bless you all worldwide,,,,,, I am happy speaking all this languages because doing so no one can screw me up

[@rstartup4081]

Definitely would like to see a video about whether it's worth learning Italian with so many dialects, especially for those planning to move to Italy.

[@mariaeus3694]

L'italiano diciamo standard lo si parla al nord e al centro. Al sud i dialetti sono più radicati. Io sono di Milano e il milanese lo parlano solo gli anziani. È un peccato perché il milanese è uno spasso. Piacevole e vicino al francese.

[@celine9322]

Is there any statistic for the percentage of lexical similarly between spanish, french and italian? (All three that is)

[@zaqwsx23]

Italian-French 89% Italian-Spanish 82% French-Spanish 75%

[@nebucamv5524]

I'm German and have been a fan of Ancient Rome since childhood. I studied Latin in school and in university and have a so called Latinum, a German certificate for "knowledge of Latin". Our Spanish teacher at school taught us a little bit of Italian too, which was so much fun. For years I wanted to go to Italy, especially Rome, to visit all the ancient sights. Two years ago I finally managed it. Before it, I learned a little conversational Italian. It's pretty easy for me because of my Latin and Spanish knowledge. We were going by car and the street signs were easy too. This year I'll visit Rome for the second time and I want to study even more Italian. Maybe I can have a very basic conversation with some Italians. 😅

[@lucianorosarelli-xr5lr]

if u stop your vist in alto adige , bolzano, (bozen in german lenguage) ill can be more easier trhough the common roots of native speakers altoatesini u speak german dialect or austrian variant ,you can improve your italian quikly 'cose altoatesini spek boot italian and german

[@thato596]

In all honesty. italian is limited to italy and a small part of switzerland. With other languages you can actually go to Africa , north and south america and talk those languages to the whole countries. Among western european languages spanish, portuguese and french, italian is the least important. But people can still learn italian or any italian language from italy .

[@aris1956]

There are people in the world, as I have often seen on KZbin in various comments, that want to learn Italian simply because they find it a beautiful language. They simply fall in love with the Italian language.

[@gabe82]

Imparo l'italiano per divertimento. Thanks for your video!

[@Nkrlz]

Here in Argentina not very many people speak Italian but the amount of Italian descendants is staggering (and was for much of the XXth century, we might not have had as many immigrants as Brazil and the US but our country had a very small population so the Italian % shoot through the roof). Amongst the newer generations this number is steadily declining but until the 80s and early 90s in some places the population could be 70% plus pure Italian descendant (unfortunately, like in Europe, Italian descendant peoples stopped having children so the numbers have sharply declined).

[@familyandfriends3519]

The biggest ancestry in Argentina is Spanish

[@WinstonSmithGPT]

All I can say is it’s pretty hard to hold onto a language if you have no one to speak it with. I see all sorts of people in the US taking a few semesters if Italian, maybe hiring a tutor or joining a club after college, then being surprised at how little they remember on their vacation to Florence five or ten years later.

[@sneezy3233]

I used to go to music school, so I studied musical Italian, I have to say that lately I find music sheets with either English, or my native language instead of Italian, quite disappointing.

[@El_Caballero_Rosa]

I'm from Venezuela so Spanish is my native language but my family is from Portugal, even tho I don't speak Portuguese I understand it very well, Brazilian accent is indeed easier to understand also people always say that Portugal's accent is closer to slavic languages. I would love to learn Italian so I can go there and talk with local people and of course eat some local food and be able to order it in Italian.

[@playdoughmaster808]

Debunk Finnish please

[@tarvos_trigaranvs]

I would really love to see a video about italian dialects!

[@EVPaddy]

Switzerland has 26 ‘Cantoni’, not 3 and not 3 language regions, but 4. You’ve forgot Rhaeto-Romanic. The reason you don’t get far with Italian in the (Swiss)German speaking part is, that we all have to learn French there, but Italian is voluntary.

[@mendicus3601]

im half romanian and half french, so i decided to learn italian becaused it should be kinda easy and because i like italy. I can confirm that by having the 2 oddest romance languages as native thongs, learning italian is a lot easyer to learn.

[@Ploddingalong67]

I have begun my new languages with Italian. It should provide a great basis for romance languages and I am fascinated by the culture. I'm visiting Italy in September. That'll be the first real test of my skills!. My first language is English.

[@Patrick_Bard]

About 9:37, I'm pretty sure that the majority of descendants from Italian immigrants in Brazil live in the south states. São Paulo being the biggest city in the country it pretty much has a little of everything, but when it comes to immigrants, São Paulo is more well know for its Japanese descendants, while Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina are well known for Italian and German descendants.

[@familyandfriends3519]

Go back to Germany

[@cahallo5964]

Brazilian Portuguese uses the gerund, Portuguese from Portugal doesn't use it, which is one of the reasons why Brasilian is easier to understand. Another argument is nasal sounds, the Portuguese are much more adamant with those sounds, in Brazil they even just skip it sometimes. Also lexically; at least for Spanish, it's the closest foreign language (so not considering other Spaniard languages like aragonés or something like that)

[@murilocaruy]

9:40 mentions São Paulo, shows a picture of Rio :D

[@hashcosmos2181]

While I wait for your video about standard and regional Italian, may I point out that “dialect” isn't the right term when it comes to the regional languages of Italy? Ofc I'm just pointing this out respectfully

[@galaplacidia4698]

Por supuesto que hay que aprender italiano, es un idioma precioso.

[@danielefabbro822]

What about the other Italian Languages? Sardinian, Neapolitan, Furlan?

[@leakanddestroy]

Great video. But as a New Yorker, I would not recommend Little Italy for Italian food (or speaking Italian). My partner is Italian and we typically try different places for speaking. Here's a few: Piccola Cucina (Sicilian joint, tops the list in terms of quality and value, lots of Italian staff and most customers are French/Italian) Fiaschetteria Pistoia (Tuscan joint, at both locations, every single employee was from different parts of Italy, a bit pricey though) Dough Vale (odd place in north Brooklyn, chef is a crazy Sicilian alcoholic who smokes and drinks with us, food is ridiculously good) Norma (also Sicilian, good quality) But even in my backwoods hometown in the South, I can find an Italian restaurant with a Veronese owner and practice speaking with him. He even taught me some polentone dialect!

[@Bobthemax]

Unfortunately - I got things in my mind that I try to prioritize than learning Italian. But Italian would be one of my must-learn languages. My reasons: 1. It sounds great 2. I would like to enhance my visits to Italy 3. Writen Italian looks great = and it suits me since I am learning calligraphy in my spare time. 4. I know some french, so it would make it a bit easier. 5. Latin. 6. Their Food culture 7. I have been told, it could be used in my field. (Marine Engineering)

[@miguelluissousadias1371]

Italian is one of the coolest Romance languages, I am a Portuguese speaker and I also somewhat speak spanish. so of course I like portuguese a lot but I definitely still appreciate Italian. Sardinian is also cool as one of latins most conservative children.

[@franciscofunari2343]

Concordo plenamente

[@FlagAnthem]

Picture Asterix romans speaking with Nico's thicc sardinian accent instead of romanesco: AJÓ! CIVIS ROMANUS SUM! Porca di quella troja!

[@edwinentertainment5063]

I've got Spanish and English, but I would come in handy another back-up to keep forward. Italian will cover that back.

[@PC_Simo]

Of course, the ”lexical similarity” number tells you nothing about pronunciation, grammatical structures, etc. So, the Italian ”acqua” and the French ”eau” would count as ”lexical similarity”. If the Romance languages were a family, French would probably be the one that got kicked out of the household, in infancy, and went to live with a surrogate family, where one parent was Celtic, and the other one was a Frank. 😅

[@DevlogBill]

I am stuck. I would like to learn either Italian or German. My native language is English, and I know Spanish which is at a B2 level. At the moment I am learning Greek which I am loving so much despite the fact that it is painfully hard. Maybe this isn't a good enough reason, but I like Italian cause I think I can learn it within a year since I have a good understanding of Spanish. But at the same time, I tried out German and I also like this language and I am finding it easy since it is so similar to English. I guess my question would be which language has a better selection of literature and if you are in the United States I am trying to figure out which has a larger community where you can find people to speak with in that language? I would love to hear your personal point of view, thank you.

[@jamessheffield4173]

I am a typical third generation American. My grandmother could read, write, and speak Italian, my mother could speak it, and I know only English. Ciao.

[@bandawhat33]

Italian is cool. Beautiful sounding language and culture. I like it WAY more than Spanish. I ended up going with French though because it will be more useful in general and I also love the French language.

[@ilpatriz]

My friend, people haven't been saying "forte" meaning cool since the '90s where I live🙈 Ahah anyways your videos are great and I really like following you

[@historypunkwargames4760]

I'm stuck in Italian 101 lol trying to get myself somewhat interested lmao

[@brandonpurpleproductions8183]

I need to Lrean Italian I'm a Canadian Half Italian With Italian Grandparents and Italian Family Members in Italy and me and my Mom are going to meet our Family in Italy in 2025 And I want to Lrean Italian to be a Translater for my Family and I'm finding it a bit hard to Lrean with everything I'm useing to Lreaning Italian

[@EsTaDuLhOoOoO]

Yeah, I need to start speaking italian. I mean as a European Portuguese speaker, I can understand a quite a bit of italian though the italians actually don't understand jack of what I say in portuguese. If I speak slowly though, they might correlate a couple of words with italian and some degree of comunication can be established. Same issue with the spanish, we can understand what they saying, but because both pt and es are phonetically different, they end up scratching their heads and looking awkward at us. x)

[@franktaylor7978]

I live in North Beach San Francisco and I get opportunities to speak Italian almost daily.

[@danielrebecca9049]

I want to learn it since I’m getting the passport by descent and I like the language but I do feel Spanish is more useful in the USA. I’ve been studying for a year now and can understand anime but struggle speaking

[@marcocarlson1693]

Yes, Italian is of high importance in the field of Music. Also so in Law, and Medicine, due to it's frequently used Latin terms, that of course Directly correlate to Italian.

[@noamto]

Since you were talking about the language of love... how do you some "Omelette du Fromage" in Italian?

[@jammydodger222Xxd]

I'm studying to be a game developer so it's not a necessity for me in terms of career. It might be useful when creating a translation for a game in another language but definitely not a requirement. I do have a very serious reason for wanting to learn Italian though... I want to be able to play Assassin's Creed 2 in the Italian language 🤣

[@GabrielfoBR]

I'm a Brazilian who loves Italy and I took 1 year of Italian classes. I'm planning to go back to it soon. Also, I'm available if you want to make a video testing how much you can understand of Brazilian Portuguese. As a long time subscriber, It would be a dream come true. 😀

[@FlagAnthem]

only answer is: Sì!

[@WinstonSmithGPT]

Portuguese sounds, oddly enough, more like Greek than another Romance language.

[@JordanPost-zd6eb]

Looks like you’re going to summon the devil with that sigil behind you.

[@lauradekeyzer1945]

Si, credo che si debba imparare l'italiano. È una lingua bellissima e la lingua dell'amore. So anche parlare il francese ma non è certamente una lingua romantica. Quest'idea è una pazzia dei francesi! Auguri del Belgio!

[@3rdand105]

I hate to do this (not really), but Romanian is the Romance language almost everybody forgets. Having friends there, I've given Romanian a brief glance, and I noticed that when reading it, it works very similarly to Italian, particularly the letter "c". I've also noticed the influence Italian, French, and Russian have had on it, so if you speak Romanian, you may find Italian a little easier to pick up. Then again, I'm no expert.

[@superdivemaster]

Io amo italia ... Per questo ragione ho imparato bene il italiano ... Imparando italiano e parlando con le persone in italia e cosa molto speciale !!!

[@Kinotaurus]

With regards to places someone could utilise Italian, you forgot to mention Corsica.

[@charlottestormie2739]

I'm Norwegian, I have decided to stick to Europe in my life instead of seeing the entire world, and Italy is my first choice. I'm planning of studying art there for half a year as a foreign exchange student to start out, I started learning Italian a year ago. Now I'm trying to write a motivation letter in Italian. It's pretty difficult, I'm trying to limit my use of google translate as much as possible for this. I'm going to have a native speaker look over it before I consider sending it. I did not speak any Romance language beforehand. Pronunciation is relatively easy for me, but the grammar is challenging.

[@mariaeus3694]

La grammatica italiana è complessa ma non difficile. Fin dalle elementari ci hanno insegnato l'analisi grammaticale e la logica. Quest'ultima aiuta a costruire frasi e preposizioni. Ore e ore di analisi grammaticale e di logica. Ancora oggi quando ho un dubbio ricorro al sistema della logica.

[@Omar-tc6oz]

My first language is Arabic. so.. Italian is so easy for me because I'm Arab.

[@mexusH]

Spanish is my first language and French is my third

[@peterwesson7324]

I am lucky enough to live near London which has over the years attracted many people from across Europe. My reason for trying to learn other languages is just that it's nice to be able to speak a little of someone's language. I would like to go to Italy but would want to speak enough Italian not to come across as arrogant or rude by just speaking English. I am getting there but the more I learn the more there is to it for example formal and informal pronouns and greetings.

[@pandakicker1]

The way you describe the use of “forte” as a slang word for cool reminds me of Americans who say “tight” to mean the same thing. Tight refers to the strength of a bond of some kind, so it has to do with strength. I use it sometimes. lol

[@MarkLee-u2y]

I learned Italian simply because it is a beautiful language and I love the culture I don't care if it's not as common as other languages interestingly enough I know more people who have learned Italian just because they like it versus out of necessity then any other language

[@flioink]

The French are violently snuffing out their cigarettes after that "language of love" statement 🥖🥖🥖