ITALIANO! The Italian Language is Amazing

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This video is all about the Italian language, both its history and its features! ITALIANO!
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The song accompanying Paul's life-changing jokes: “Sax Attack” by Dougie Wood.
Main: "Sunrise Drive" by South London HiFi
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КОМЕНТАРІ: 6 500
@Langfocus
@Langfocus 4 роки тому
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@RuggiWafer
@RuggiWafer 4 роки тому
Ciao
@ItalianMaps
@ItalianMaps 4 роки тому
E vabbé, allora io adesso mi metto a insegnare coreano 😂
@joespeedyfrankage24
@joespeedyfrankage24 4 роки тому
io sono originario di sicilia e parlo italiano. l'inglese non mi piace. io ho 13 anni
@dastoks9750
@dastoks9750 4 роки тому
@@joespeedyfrankage24 io vivo a catania XD
@PaoloA7X
@PaoloA7X 3 роки тому
@@anna18691 sicuramente non ci sarà lui ma uno che la conosce
@Teo2300
@Teo2300 4 роки тому
Utente italiano guarda questo video "Mio Dio, ma sta parlando di me"
@benitorossi1076
@benitorossi1076 4 роки тому
Ahahahahaha
@helloyou2253
@helloyou2253 4 роки тому
Vero hahaha
@tommasofilippetti9483
@tommasofilippetti9483 4 роки тому
Hahahha ma vogliamo parlare di "comedia"
@riverino4989
@riverino4989 4 роки тому
Che bello usare i Meme italiani in un video inglese che parla di italiano 😂
@llendlesshate6037
@llendlesshate6037 4 роки тому
😂
@damycityrocker
@damycityrocker 4 роки тому
"Nowadays, virtually all Italians are fluent in Italian" Luca Giurato:
@thundergoat_1
@thundergoat_1 4 роки тому
Chiedo scudo
@Anze4
@Anze4 4 роки тому
AHAHAHAHAH
@Shalalacls
@Shalalacls 4 роки тому
Grazie per questo commento. A pra foco.
@Zennon7289
@Zennon7289 4 роки тому
ahahhahaha
@aleesposito724
@aleesposito724 4 роки тому
Ahahhahahaa
@psigh8161
@psigh8161 2 роки тому
There's a very tiny mistake most non- Italians make when reading Italian words: when a G is followed by an I, most of the time the I is actually silent, so the name Giovanni actually sounds more like Jovanni (same thing with the C, it's more like Boccacho)
@friedchicken1
@friedchicken1 Рік тому
Boccaccho XD sto morendo XD XD grazie
@psigh8161
@psigh8161 Рік тому
@@friedchicken1 bisogna un po' venirsi incontro lol
@lucanfx
@lucanfx Рік тому
Giovanni Is pronounced as Djovànni
@psigh8161
@psigh8161 Рік тому
@@lucanfx true, I was using a rough English transliteration rather than phonetic, which I'm not too familiar with either so it was probably best in order to reach more people. In this case the second example would probably be more accurate as Bokkatcho I believe, right?
@giuseppebruno3921
@giuseppebruno3921 2 роки тому
As a native Italian speaker, watching this video makes me realize how complex my language can be for a foreigner. I have a lot of respect for those who decide to learn it, despite everything! And I'm very proud to read, in the comments, that so many people from all over the world love my country and my language ♥!
@belle_pomme
@belle_pomme Рік тому
You mean it's complicated, because every language is complex to be functional
@lilylovesitaly3932
@lilylovesitaly3932 Рік тому
Giuseppe Bruno I’m learning Italian because I fell in love with the song “L’italiano” by Toto Cutugno. It’s a beautiful, melodic language and Italy is the most beautiful country in the world.
@giuseppebruno3921
@giuseppebruno3921 Рік тому
@@lilylovesitaly3932 ❤️
@joseortizvlogs
@joseortizvlogs Рік тому
Im from mexico and Im currently learning your beautiful language along side Swedish
@giuseppebruno3921
@giuseppebruno3921 Рік тому
@@joseortizvlogs enjoy studying 😊!
@gerardsapple843
@gerardsapple843 4 роки тому
hearing Italian words in an english speech feels like Trenitalia announcing the next train in English. We're arriving in: vEnEziA sAntA LucIa
@jiminsapplebottomjeans3945
@jiminsapplebottomjeans3945 4 роки тому
Gerard's Apple i feel you ahahah
@fungo1196
@fungo1196 4 роки тому
Mi hai ricordato il video di cartoni morti ahahah
@gerardsapple843
@gerardsapple843 4 роки тому
@@fungo1196 in effetti un mezzo riferimento c'era :'')
@Lucky79_
@Lucky79_ 4 роки тому
Oltre alla sentire la gente che si lamenta del ritardo di 14 giorni intendi
@MRHEY
@MRHEY 4 роки тому
Cartoni morti
@albertomolina8908
@albertomolina8908 4 роки тому
"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse" Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
@maxx1014
@maxx1014 4 роки тому
I'm glad he didn't speak English
@Valagh
@Valagh 4 роки тому
Ahahahah true. Masterpiece
@brandongradosgardois7651
@brandongradosgardois7651 4 роки тому
Why french to men?
@maxx1014
@maxx1014 4 роки тому
@@brandongradosgardois7651 because back in the days French was the language of the royal courts in Europe
@brandongradosgardois7651
@brandongradosgardois7651 4 роки тому
@@maxx1014 oh true! I remember in that time fench was the internationsl language for diplomatics and stuff similar, almost as a la lingua franca. Thanks for your apport. Greetings from Lima, Perú!
@ChineseSingerCeciliaCai
@ChineseSingerCeciliaCai 2 роки тому
I started studying Italian in college as I started learning classical singing. The Italian language is the most natural and perfect language to sing as all the syllables/vowels are spoken in the resonance, not to mention it aligns perfectly with musical phrasings. Simply beautiful.
@Nufeneguediz
@Nufeneguediz Рік тому
That's because it was created and it's not something it slowly evolved from Latin. The video Paul says that it comes from Tuscany's dialect, but this is just the first part of the story. The language Dante used wasn't just his dialect: he modified it adding words from other dialect (both from Italy and France) and also from Latin. Also he and the other poets that came after him modified the language following one simple rule: does it sounds good? Almost all of the irregularities or randomness in the words are so because otherwise they wouldn't sound as good.
@jaengen
@jaengen 10 місяців тому
Agreed it’s best for opera, but for rock and blues it’s not. English is best for those.
@peeweesprincess89
@peeweesprincess89 2 роки тому
Italian is such a cool language. My dad speaks a little, as he was over there when he was in the Army. I was inspired to learn Italian because one of my fave bands, Eiffel 65, is Italian.
@Soulssl4yer
@Soulssl4yer 2 роки тому
A true man/woman of culture 🎉
@peeweesprincess89
@peeweesprincess89 2 роки тому
@@Soulssl4yer haha yep!
@lucarutigliano6539
@lucarutigliano6539 2 роки тому
Bro you're dad is a fucking king
@simon3tor
@simon3tor Рік тому
@@peeweesprincess89 io so l' Italiano perché sono Italiano ahahhah
@Zarsan000
@Zarsan000 Рік тому
Bravo! (Good)
@nicoladc89
@nicoladc89 4 роки тому
English: hell Italian: inferi, ade, inferno, oltretomba, averno, regno dei morti, ecc...
@Refref1990
@Refref1990 4 роки тому
English: i'm inevitable Italian: IO sono Ineluttabile, inevitabile, ineludibile, inesorabile, ecc...
@francescohu5856
@francescohu5856 4 роки тому
Ma cos’è L averno?
@kxppamo5943
@kxppamo5943 4 роки тому
lol
@filipposimone2854
@filipposimone2854 4 роки тому
@@francescohu5856 indovina
@andresmaldonado5277
@andresmaldonado5277 4 роки тому
También en español xd
@susannabianchin525
@susannabianchin525 4 роки тому
As an Italian I’m really impressed by the amount research he has put onto this video. Good job!
@mccardrixx5289
@mccardrixx5289 4 роки тому
@Miguel Espejel Mujica Paul is awesome :D
@HinnStormur
@HinnStormur 4 роки тому
Sono fatti molto basici, in realtà, e purtroppo ci sono vari svarioni...
@JonathanArcher100
@JonathanArcher100 4 роки тому
Also, as an Italian, I'm impressed by how Italian could actually be hard to pronunce for foreigners. Stuff that you take for granted when you're a native speaker.
@ricois3
@ricois3 4 роки тому
@@JonathanArcher100 "R" è difficile da pronunciare per i francesi da Francia, però non per me, perché sono dal Québec e diciamo a volte "R" come gli italiani in nostro accento.
@ricois3
@ricois3 4 роки тому
@@JonathanArcher100 My sentence wasn't perfect, but you get what I mean I guess.
@unusuariomas2368
@unusuariomas2368 3 роки тому
Hi! I'm an Argentine of Italian ancentry, I came here to learn more about the language of my grand parents and where my surname comes from (it is Dell'Aria). Greetings to all Italians! :)
@cassiobalatore6233
@cassiobalatore6233 2 роки тому
Amo l'Italia: la storia, gli italiani, la cucina e soprattutto la lingua. abbracci dal Brasile.
@michelemarciano5270
@michelemarciano5270 Рік тому
grazie
@danielefasanari4648
@danielefasanari4648 Рік тому
GRAZIE CIAOOOOOOO
@mimik554
@mimik554 Рік тому
Grazie, comunque bello il Brasile
@tovemichau4887
@tovemichau4887 Рік тому
Que ótimo barrote!
@user-wp4oh3zn5e
@user-wp4oh3zn5e Рік тому
Perché avevate una legge di Getulio Vargas che proibiva l'uso dell'italiano in Brasile.🤔 Io non ho mai sentito di una legge italiana che mette al bando il portoghese: una legge del genere sarebbe ridicola in Italia.
@valeriobertoncello1809
@valeriobertoncello1809 4 роки тому
Q. How are you? A. English: It's all good, thanks Italian: 'ttapposto
@shaide5483
@shaide5483 4 роки тому
You shure that's not Neapolitan?
@milo5524
@milo5524 4 роки тому
@@shaide5483 It Is...😁
@shaide5483
@shaide5483 4 роки тому
Just Making shure
@cipollo1000
@cipollo1000 4 роки тому
@@shaide5483 In Italian is: Tutt'apposto, it doesn't change a lot
@justcri
@justcri 4 роки тому
vero
@baltoy7460
@baltoy7460 4 роки тому
I'm Italian, why the hell am I watching this?!
@Langfocus
@Langfocus 4 роки тому
Because you’re the REAL DEAL!
@Ramk0core
@Ramk0core 4 роки тому
I mean, why not? Oh, and Paul noticed you! Congrats!
@blectopest
@blectopest 4 роки тому
because Langfocus knows italian better than italians. ps: è vero, purtroppo
@skipinkoreaable
@skipinkoreaable 4 роки тому
Buongiorno! I bet you'll get something out of it even as an Italian.
@baltoy7460
@baltoy7460 4 роки тому
@@blectopest Si, infatti. XD
@timmurphy2221
@timmurphy2221 3 роки тому
My wife and I spent some weeks in Italy, all in the South. Since she speaks Spanish as her native tongue and for me, Spanish is my second language, we found Italian to be easy to understand and learn. Yet, not knowing the Italian verbs became our greatest difficulty, since many of the cognates to Spanish sound very different and that part needs intensive study. Italian is a fun language to learn and spending any amount of time in Italy to practice is a ginormous fringe benefit.
@tommasogiancaterino8188
@tommasogiancaterino8188 Рік тому
As an Italian I can speak for many of us when I say that this video is incredibly precise and well-structured! Happy to see someone explaining our roots, and the roots of our language, so well to an international audience!
@MariaGuasch
@MariaGuasch 4 роки тому
As a foreigner living in Italy, what I’ve found most surprising and that everyone should know is that what we call “confetti” in English, it’s actually called “coriandoli” in Italian; while the Italian word “confetti” refers to a kind of sweet (dragée).
@abadonservant
@abadonservant 4 роки тому
Confeti is a kind of candy here too. I am a spanish speaker from Bolivia
@brolin96
@brolin96 4 роки тому
@@abadonservant I'm from Honduras, and here the word for "Confetti" is "Confeti" (as in almost any Spanish-speaking country), and the word for the flavor is "Confite".
@volemar
@volemar 4 роки тому
In russian "konfety" with stressed penult means "candy", "sweets" too, while "konfeti" with stressed ending is about celebration splashing thing.
@vickysmile23
@vickysmile23 4 роки тому
I'm Italian and half British on my mother's side. I grew up speaking both English and Italian and I remember I too used to find that confusing, I'd get them mixed up. Even today I must say the English meaning of "confetti" is the first one I think of when I hear that world
@chiaranotreally1162
@chiaranotreally1162 4 роки тому
So you came here in italy and discover just that? 😂😂😂
@den2k885
@den2k885 4 роки тому
English verbs: three paradigms + some special verb. Italian verbs: *REEEEEEEEEEE*
@alexbox8967
@alexbox8967 4 роки тому
O fuck, I am italian and I don’t think nothing like that, but it is so fucking true😂😂
@atti3102
@atti3102 4 роки тому
Article in Ingles (scritto male apposta) :Theeeeeeeeeee
@r3xku
@r3xku 4 роки тому
English articles: The, a, an italian articles: il, la, gli, le, lo, un, una, un', e altri 73467236578658346 articoli
@den2k885
@den2k885 4 роки тому
@@r3xku 6 articles for "the", 3+1 articles for "a". At least we don't have 26 vowels like the Swedes.
@den2k885
@den2k885 4 роки тому
@IronFist 21 tempi verbali per 6 modi rispetto a 6 tempi per 6 modi. Aggiungi le declinazioni maschile/femminile che in Inglese non ci sono e direi che come complessità siamo alle stelle rispetto all'inglese.
@cameronperez839
@cameronperez839 2 роки тому
One thing about Italian is that for one: it's really easy to pronounce, second: it's an awesome language for music overall from pop music to classical music, and finally Italian just sounds beautiful
@giuseppedamora.
@giuseppedamora. 2 роки тому
it's not very easy to pronounce, trust me. It depends on what's your mother tongue.
@Alan_quelloubriaco
@Alan_quelloubriaco 2 роки тому
Emm hey i am Italian at my school There is a czech and she have hard to pronunce the Italian trust me Cameron
@mrjayhawker
@mrjayhawker 4 роки тому
Interesting fact: I’ve come across a lot of people that after several years of intense study and practice have mastered English, Spanish, French, even German, Japanese and Korean, but not Italian. Once you become fluent, it’s like you reach a point where it would take a million years to be taken for a native speaker.
@federicoserri1826
@federicoserri1826 4 роки тому
Fun fact: Italian is still studied in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia at elementary schools and middle schools
@thenightcorevillain369
@thenightcorevillain369 4 роки тому
You guys have schools?
@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN
@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN 4 роки тому
Fun fact, most Italian words end in a vowel
@federicoserri1826
@federicoserri1826 4 роки тому
Casey That’s true!
@federicoserri1826
@federicoserri1826 4 роки тому
TheNightcoreVillain Yes we have😂 And even if you may not believe it Italian schools (or European schools in general) are the toughest in the world!
@didonegiuliano3547
@didonegiuliano3547 4 роки тому
Really? I suppose they are private schools only dough, aren’t they?
@alexandre_pt
@alexandre_pt 4 роки тому
Un saluto dal Portogallo ai nostri amici italiani. 🇮🇹🇵🇹
@FlagAnthem
@FlagAnthem 4 роки тому
Olà! Eu amo a Lisboa!
@pigeon_master_8561
@pigeon_master_8561 4 роки тому
Ciau
@tirannorex8255
@tirannorex8255 4 роки тому
Oh grazie
@TheOliveiradejesus
@TheOliveiradejesus 4 роки тому
Saudações da 🇩🇪 de um Brasileiro 🇧🇷 aos amigos de Portugal 🇵🇹 e Italia 🇮🇹:)
@riccardof1325
@riccardof1325 4 роки тому
Thank you Sono italiano (I'm Italian)
@marilinpuig8562
@marilinpuig8562 3 роки тому
I love Italian.... such a beautiful language.
@marilinpuig8562
@marilinpuig8562 2 роки тому
@Jeremy Renner Ciao, Jeremy. Come stai? Spero bene.
@lucafumagallli
@lucafumagallli 2 роки тому
As Italian, Italian it's very hard, because there are too many verbs and adjectives, exist in Italian an adjective who is "Precipitevolissimevolmente" [Pre/ci/pi/te/vi/lis/sì/me/vo/lme/nte], is like dive from an high place fast.
@marilinpuig8562
@marilinpuig8562 2 роки тому
@@lucafumagallli I was fortunate to have studied Italian and later lived in Italy for 3 years.
@cosimobrandizzi7922
@cosimobrandizzi7922 2 роки тому
Grazie lo apprezzò
@TheCotton.Candyy
@TheCotton.Candyy 2 роки тому
@@lucafumagallli non penso sia italiano sta parola
@longbeach7623
@longbeach7623 3 роки тому
Unquestionably the most beautiful language, and the most Latin of the five primary, national Romance languages. (Surprised this fact was not mentioned in the video).
@andrea99sims
@andrea99sims 4 роки тому
"Italian may not get as much attention as French, Spanish and Portuguese" *That hurts*
@ea635
@ea635 4 роки тому
NewYork322 they are more “useful” because of colonisation after all. But it’s still extremely popular for a language that isn’t spoken widely.
@Salvo04
@Salvo04 4 роки тому
@@ea635 yeah, ur right.
@alanguages
@alanguages 4 роки тому
The other three have more speakers, but Italian diaspora is fairly widespread in the West. I found out I had a tiny 2% amount of Italian blood, even though I am not Italian, having a connection, which I did not know about was still a surprise. South America and North America have a lot of Italian descendants.
@lissandrafreljord7913
@lissandrafreljord7913 4 роки тому
Actually Italian gets more attention than Portuguese when it comes to learning a second language. There just happens to be more native Spanish, French and Portuguese speakers, because Italy got late into the colonization game. Italy wasn't a unified country when France, Spain, Portugal, Britain and the Netherlands went to seek for colonies in the Americas. Like Germany, it was a bunch of kingdoms, duchies and city states, hence why in Italy and Germany there is still a strong sense of regionalism. But at least their countries are not so centralized politically and economically in one city unlike France with Paris, and the UK with London. Also, another thing to note was that Italy is fully entrapped within the Mediterranean. It has no direct access to the Atlantic Ocean to seek out colonies in the New World, unlike Portugal, Spain, France, Britain, and the Netherlands. The only colonies that it could seek were in Africa (the Middle East was out of question as it was controlled by the Ottomans), but it would have to go through the vast and harsh Sahara Desert, which the Ottomans also controlled the shores. There is also no guarantee what lied within Africa. Africa, despite being an Old World continent, was highly unexplored in the interior by Europeans, hence why they named it the Dark Continent (not because of the natives dark skin). The efforts to go through the entirity of the Sahara for land that does not guarantee valuable resource would be too costly to risk. The best way to conquer Africa would've been by sailing around its West Coast like Portugal did, but it would run into trouble with Spain at the Strait of Gibraltar, as the Spanish ships controlled those waters. So really, Italy was at a heavy disadvantage in the early game of colonization. Along with Germany, it became more active late into the game, after the two countries were able to form their single country by unifying their regions. With a central government, and weakening presence of the other colonial contenders, Germany and Italy managed to get the left over bits of colonies in Africa. Germany got Namibia, Tanzania, Cameroon, and Togo, while Italy tried to get Libya, Somalia and Ethiopia (Ethiopia was a real failure, as it remained the only African country with Liberia to never have been colonized by Europeans). As a result, Italy never really managed to cement its language into the cultures of its colonies. Some Ethiopians and Somolians may speak Italian here and there today, but they are a very small minority of elderly people. Then you also have to consider that most Italians also spoke their regional dialect back then, when the country was recently unified. The Italians did try to leave a mark with the heavy Italian immigration in the US, Brazil and Argentina, but the language has not cemented itself into the official language of the country, because of regional dialects and because immigration tends to be soft power; not to mention most immigrants parents expected their kids to be fluent in the native tongue of their new home, hence, gradually losing the family language generation by generation.
@andyplummer6982
@andyplummer6982 4 роки тому
@@lissandrafreljord7913 Thank you for sharing interesting insights. I love languages of Europe including the bigger ones such as English, French and Spanish, but their colonialism history as the reason for why they are spoken so widely is definitely not something to be proud of. Also, that Italy didn't manage to colonize a half of the world and thus isn't spoken by so many is not something to be ashamed of. It is a beautiful language just as it is.
@Ignacio-MV
@Ignacio-MV 4 роки тому
I’m not a native Italian speaker, but I think it’s weird when English speakers mispronounce the letter E in Italian, specially at the end of a word, like: mascarpone, linguine, Versace, salame, etc.
@KrodinoPOOPS
@KrodinoPOOPS 4 роки тому
As an Italian, I can definitely confirm 😂😂
@joshistyping
@joshistyping 4 роки тому
We generally don't have words in English where you pronounce that sound at the end of the word, and if you do, it sounds like "ei", which is a long vowel, so we approximate it with "i".
@ranelaghm8
@ranelaghm8 4 роки тому
And viceversa: it's painful hard for italian to pronounce "ee", "ea" or "i" in english. We use just the same sound for all these cases - no difference between "sheet" and "shit" :D
@marrobertx
@marrobertx 4 роки тому
We retaliated butchering out our own weird pronunciation for some American brands, like Nike, Colgate...
@limani6837
@limani6837 4 роки тому
@@marrobertx ma noi diciamo nayk quindi è giusto...
@Im_inside_your_Kitchen3709
@Im_inside_your_Kitchen3709 2 роки тому
As an Italian i realy like the amount of work and research that has been put in this video by this guy Bravo :)
@ALEIJADINHOPATRIOTA
@ALEIJADINHOPATRIOTA 3 роки тому
Italian and Portuguese are the most beautiful languages in the world! Portuguese contains more other vocabulary influences (Brazilian Portuguese). Both languages are also very melodic.
@TwentyThrill
@TwentyThrill 4 роки тому
"grande" "venti" "trenta" are all words that we don't use in Italy for coffe sizes, don't really know why Starbucks it's using those words 🤔
@tiffanymarie9750
@tiffanymarie9750 4 роки тому
former sbux barista here: to sound fancy to english speakers. and bc they'd used short and tall already, so when they kept adding sizes after that they wanted to sound super fancy. :T
@keepitprivate3856
@keepitprivate3856 4 роки тому
SB is very correctly, giving grade is very large size and venti is actually 20 ounce the fancy stuff/cup/size is all back to/ based on caffe latte which contain specific ratio on milk to espresso
@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN
@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN 4 роки тому
Coffee isn’t only to Italy so.... grinde is also big in Spanish and used a lot in English.
@voltronhasguns
@voltronhasguns 4 роки тому
When I go to Starbucks, I order "large, medium or small"
@shaide5483
@shaide5483 4 роки тому
TwentyThrill Because Italian is like Portuguese: It sounds sexy & hot, so why not use it to make coffee beautiful & sexy?
@pietromeroni2023
@pietromeroni2023 4 роки тому
I'm a native speaker of Italian and watching this video showed me how really complex my language is. Lots of thing I took for granted are in fact very articulated, I'm surprised by this.
@Heretogasunu
@Heretogasunu 4 роки тому
How are you typing english if you're Italian you fraud
@xoxo-ym5pw
@xoxo-ym5pw 4 роки тому
Same
@matteosartori9349
@matteosartori9349 4 роки тому
I agree. I didn't know about the difference between adjectives before the noun and adjectives after the noun.
@cammarc
@cammarc 4 роки тому
@@matteosartori9349 Io veramente non ci avevo mai pensato. Chi lo poteva dire che un canadese mi avrebbe detto qualcosa della mia lingua che non sapevo?
@paulkolodner2445
@paulkolodner2445 4 роки тому
@@matteosartori9349 It's the same in French, and I think it's also the same in Spanish.
@pitergriffin01
@pitergriffin01 2 роки тому
Italian dialect fragmentation and lack of official language until the mid 19th century means that even today in 2022 I (a Roman) can understand most of dialects in central Italy, but can't understand a word if somebody from northern or southern Italy uses their dialect, which I think is kinda fascinating
@absurdious
@absurdious Рік тому
One curious thing about the whole -are, -ere, -ire verb system is that if we need to invent a new verb, we tend to form it with -are, because it's the most regular
@hagitterkeltoub9517
@hagitterkeltoub9517 4 роки тому
italian is the only language in my opinion that sounds like music when spoken.
@tgemini89
@tgemini89 4 роки тому
@misseli1
@misseli1 4 роки тому
Italian and some accents of Brazilian portuguese
@maryislandmoon9734
@maryislandmoon9734 4 роки тому
Thank you!
@anthonycz7581
@anthonycz7581 4 роки тому
Norwegian is a strong contestant too
@TariqNavabiGaming
@TariqNavabiGaming 4 роки тому
listen to Persian/Farsi and come back to me :)
@TwentyThrill
@TwentyThrill 4 роки тому
"PEPPERONI" IN ITALIAN MEANS SWEET PEPPER (CAPSICUM) AND NOT "SAUSAGE" WHICH IS "SALSICCIA" SPREAD THE WORD!
@atti3102
@atti3102 4 роки тому
@@z1poc wow una persona che ha ragione
@atti3102
@atti3102 4 роки тому
Comunque la pizza con della salsiccia fa vomitare lo stesso vale con la pizza e il ketchup insieme
@mortaccitua347
@mortaccitua347 4 роки тому
Attilio Nucera e ananas?Eww
@lorenzofurnari
@lorenzofurnari 4 роки тому
@@atti3102 Spiegami come la pizza con la salsiccia (che poi pepperoni è un salame) dovrebbe fare schifo 🤷🏻‍♂️
@viv9449
@viv9449 4 роки тому
Eh...no,in italian Sweet Peppers are "Peperoni" not "Pepperoni" 😂
@victorhugoeh974
@victorhugoeh974 3 роки тому
L'italiano è una lingua bellisima! I've become familiar with it just for the sake of my work and my reading comprehension is now at least decent. But I recently started learning it seriously and it's full of expressive hues. I like it a lot. Thanks a lot for the video, you do an excellent work. Distinti saluti.
@eeleectricfuneeral
@eeleectricfuneeral 2 роки тому
Spanish is my native language. I studied Portuguese for many years and now I'm studying Italian, and contrary to my expectations I've found that Italian shares more features with Portuguese than with Spanish, such as the use of article + possessive adjective.
@silvestrien
@silvestrien 2 роки тому
As an Italian I can confirm.
@hydrophobicmilesedgeworth2773
@hydrophobicmilesedgeworth2773 2 роки тому
I'm italian but I've studied spanish and latin, sometimes I understand very well various things written or entire sentences in portuguese even if I don't understand it a lot while hearing it. It is still impressive considering I've never studied portuguese
@Maidenintime86
@Maidenintime86 Рік тому
@@hydrophobicmilesedgeworth2773 Same for me, I'm Brazilian and I can read quite well in Italian though I've never actually studied the language.
@MultiFlash93
@MultiFlash93 4 роки тому
Sto studiando italiano all'università in Germania da quattro semestri e per me é la lingua piú bella delle lingue romanze! :) I have never regretted that i started learning italian. Very beautiful language!
@lydwac
@lydwac 4 роки тому
Why do I understand this?!
@Nonyaheckinbusiness
@Nonyaheckinbusiness 4 роки тому
@@lydwac it's pretty similar to english in quite a lot of aspects so it's easier to under than like german.
@juansehernandez4504
@juansehernandez4504 4 роки тому
@@lydwac Because english is so latinized, it's almost a romance language, I like it so much because it made me easier the learning in the school.
@kekeke8988
@kekeke8988 4 роки тому
@@Nonyaheckinbusiness German and English actually have countless cognates. You just need to be aware of the consonant shift to recognize them. water > Wasser ship > Schiff hound > Hund night > Nacht think < denken bite >beißen In German, t from other Germanic languages in the middle of word changes to ss or ß (same sound, I think), English th changes to d like in almost all other Germanic languages, p changes to either f or pf.
@Skadi609
@Skadi609 4 роки тому
I'm French and I understood each word 😀
@tafua_a
@tafua_a 4 роки тому
One thing you kind of said wrong: in "cio", "cia", "ciu", "gia", "gio", "giu", the i is silent most of the time. When people pronounce the word Giovanni as "gee-ovanni", I die inside.
@Space_Potat
@Space_Potat 4 роки тому
aiooty19 sono, Gee-ornou Gee-ovannah, ho un pianoforte 🎹 Scusa, spero che sei ok und well 😅 Con amore e le scherzi (e cattivo italiano...😬) dalla Russia 🙃
@tafua_a
@tafua_a 4 роки тому
@@Space_Potat 👍 migliorerai
@Space_Potat
@Space_Potat 4 роки тому
aiooty19 ок 👍 C:
@etch-6261
@etch-6261 4 роки тому
the i in italian pronunces like -ee
@tafua_a
@tafua_a 4 роки тому
@@etch-6261 Yes, but in sounds like "cio", "cia" etc. it's not meant to be pronounced, it's meant to mean "this c is pronounced ch and nor k"
@14xx07
@14xx07 4 роки тому
You are so good at this! I found it so interesting how the verb parlare work differently! Thank you for studying the language and understanding how the language progressed! No one has done it so clearly and respectful. Part 2 please.
@chiaranapolitano7605
@chiaranapolitano7605 2 роки тому
You managed to cover in 15 minutes my whole semester-long course program! ;)
@jonmar7759
@jonmar7759 2 роки тому
Ciao piacere di conocirti quanto dura un semestre?
@chiaranapolitano7605
@chiaranapolitano7605 2 роки тому
@@jonmar7759 Il semestre primaverile inizia in febbraio e finisce a fine maggio, ma oramai non lavoro più per la stessa università.
@jonmar7759
@jonmar7759 2 роки тому
@@chiaranapolitano7605 grazie per le informazioni e il tuo aiuto, buona giornata
@misto4189
@misto4189 4 роки тому
Fun fact: We don't only eat pasta and pizza. edit: odd that im receiving most of the replies and likes only now, considering my comment was posted 2 years ago. well...thanks guys! per gli italiani vi si vuole bene
@silverskull7669
@silverskull7669 4 роки тому
We eat insalata mista
@Ginp-
@Ginp- 4 роки тому
@@silverskull7669 .....
@DBGabriele
@DBGabriele 4 роки тому
but also Gelato.
@deibu__
@deibu__ 4 роки тому
But also "cappelletti n'brodo"
@leporex8698
@leporex8698 4 роки тому
beh non mangeremmo solo pasta e pizza ma poco ci manca. Però considerando ciò che mangiano in america, non mi lamenterei AHHAHAHHAHAHA
@languageswithtom2634
@languageswithtom2634 4 роки тому
Bel video! Imparo l'Italiano da 3 anni e la cosa più difficile per me è stata la parola "ci". "Ci sto, ci vuole, ci penso, ci amiamo, non posso farci niente, devi farci sapere, ce l'ho, ce la faccio, ci puoi contare, ci conosce" Mio dio, quanti significati ci sono per una parola? Amo la lingua comunque!
@francescoazzoni3445
@francescoazzoni3445 4 роки тому
And still you're missing out on dialects. There there are words that can be used for everything
@filippofranchini4747
@filippofranchini4747 4 роки тому
Non CI avevo mai pensato
@languageswithtom2634
@languageswithtom2634 4 роки тому
@@francescoazzoni3445 Dialects are one thing I haven't looked into yet. It's not really a problem if you just speak Italian because most people speak it. The only problem I have is when I hear people from Rome, I can barely understand a word they say :D
@alessandrocoppola4642
@alessandrocoppola4642 4 роки тому
@@languageswithtom2634 "IMPARO l'italiano da 3 anni..." si dice "STUDIO l'italiano da 3 anni..." :)
@cyonidee
@cyonidee 4 роки тому
@@languageswithtom2634 i'm from Rome and the thing with Roman is that there is not a clear distinction between Italian and dialect because Roman is not a real dialect. So basically the Roman you hear in tv is very pronounced because that is the Roman of cinema. Being in Rome is another thing. Basically we Italians understand the nuances that make the difference in contest between classes and cultural levels.
@Lizzy_mn
@Lizzy_mn 2 роки тому
I'm Italian and I'm so glad and happy that Italian language is appreciated also in other countries! Ciao!
@bebecaca8374
@bebecaca8374 3 роки тому
What I have found the most funny and cute about Italian is that there are many sayings/phrases literally the same as in my native Polish.
@shark753ac7
@shark753ac7 Рік тому
We also mention Poland in our national anthem ❤🇮🇹🇮🇩❤
@bebecaca8374
@bebecaca8374 Рік тому
@@shark753ac7 😊💗
@ogaansho
@ogaansho 4 роки тому
salve ! Mi chiamo Omar sono dal somalia , amo l'italiano . .. Molto bene .
@KrodinoPOOPS
@KrodinoPOOPS 4 роки тому
* “Salve! Mi chiamo Omar, vengo dalla Somalia (or “sono somalo”) e amo l’italiano”. This is the correct sentence, nice job anyway 🙂
@ogaansho
@ogaansho 4 роки тому
@@KrodinoPOOPS Grazie mille
@IlGab02
@IlGab02 4 роки тому
@@ogaansho Quante persone parlano ancora l'italiano in Somalia?
@ogaansho
@ogaansho 4 роки тому
@@IlGab02 this video former Somali President siad barre speaking italian ukposts.info/have/v-deo/p5mphm-Ri4NitYE.html
@_iam.pierfraa_6229
@_iam.pierfraa_6229 4 роки тому
@@IlGab02 penso poche, la maggior parte saranno sicuramente vecchi, essendo stata colonia fino al 1946 e poi fino al 1956 come protettorato, ma penso anche che ancora l'italiano sia la seconda lingua ufficiale
@Thezellofamily
@Thezellofamily 4 роки тому
I have been studying italian for three years and my favorite part about the language is that words sound exactly how they are written (unlike in English or French). Also, italian has been useful for me at work, since it is relatively close to Spanish. If I speak Italian to a native Spanish speaker, we have an easier time communicating than when I speak to them in English.
@GiuseppeM1990
@GiuseppeM1990 4 роки тому
I am Italian and the fact that words in most languages doesnt sound how they are written TILTS me a lot. And that's why I decided to study Japanese and I hate English (as u can easily see from my grammar LUL)
@anonimous8457
@anonimous8457 4 роки тому
@@GiuseppeM1990 well japanese is nice until you have to learn kanji, that's the true anti phonetic system.
@GiuseppeM1990
@GiuseppeM1990 4 роки тому
@@anonimous8457 honestly im fine with kanji and I found them really intresting
@Aditya-te7oo
@Aditya-te7oo 4 роки тому
Liz Lessard I also love Italian but my favourite is French, and I'm learning it. It just sooo beautiful, both spoken and written. I love everything about this language, its silent letters, verb conjugations, everything. Whenever I listen to or read this language I just think "how come I don't know this language, why can't I understand this language, I want to understand it, I want to understand it". In Romance languages my favourite is French and the second is Italian.
@Aditya-te7oo
@Aditya-te7oo 4 роки тому
@@GiuseppeM1990 Me too. I also love Kanji man.
@tyrantabyss
@tyrantabyss Рік тому
Maybe this has already been mentioned, but a few Italian verbs don't end in are/ere/ire in their infinitive form: a few examples are produrre, condurre, tradurre, and more; as you can see, they end in "rre".
@theitalianstallion312
@theitalianstallion312 4 роки тому
As a learner, I've come to love that when you know how to say something, you'll always know how to spell it. I love how Italian is very phonetic.
@tibet1977
@tibet1977 4 роки тому
So true, no spelling class in Italian whatsoever. I was struck when I moved to the States to see that we actually had hours of teaching spent only on remembering how to write a word correctly. All those "gh" you cuould simply sub with "te": light - lite, night - nite, brigth - brite LOL
@LeonidasArg2021
@LeonidasArg2021 4 роки тому
As a Spanish speaker I just love Italian because of the similarities with Spanish. Saludos a los italianos!!!
@kaiserdavii1151
@kaiserdavii1151 4 роки тому
Gracias Amigo are you from Argentina
@Floral_Green
@Floral_Green 4 роки тому
Honorary paesano, if so
@sergiocovelli
@sergiocovelli 4 роки тому
You are not Spanish speaker, you are Lunfardo speaker. Argentinian is different from Spanish
@gabrielepoma1141
@gabrielepoma1141 4 роки тому
Spanish is easier
@valdirnoziglia3224
@valdirnoziglia3224 4 роки тому
parlare lo spagnolo di Argentina è un grande vantaggio per imparare questa lingua perché noi argentini parliamo così orribile lo spagnolo che sembra l'italiano
@canzonisumisuradifabiodand6210
@canzonisumisuradifabiodand6210 2 роки тому
This is really impressive. Perfect, clear and concise, congratulations! I will use this as a starter for all of my friends who want to start learn Italian.
@riccardocaroli4111
@riccardocaroli4111 2 роки тому
As an italian i can say that this video Is the most complete i've ever seen about italian language, you have made a great job, i can see the study you have put in this video 👍.
@ItsallGreektome
@ItsallGreektome 4 роки тому
One of the things that I like in the Italian language is the fact that almost all Greek words retain the original Greek pronunciation, for example: pseudonimo (psevthonimo) whilst in English: pseudonym (ˈso͞odn-im).
@Leo-vo1xt
@Leo-vo1xt 4 роки тому
Think that in Calabria and Puglia, Southern Italy, there are many communities of people who speak a "dialect" that is a mix of Greek and Italian.
@thebenis3157
@thebenis3157 4 роки тому
Actually, the u in Italian is never pronounced as a v, not even in Greek words. Using Greek letters, pseudonimo in Italian is pronounced "ψε-ου-δονιμο". At least, if the δ in modern Greek is pronounced as an English d
@ItsallGreektome
@ItsallGreektome 4 роки тому
@@thebenis3157 I should say almost or approximately 😄
@thebenis3157
@thebenis3157 4 роки тому
@@ItsallGreektome Well, the funny thing is that the Italian pronunciation of that word is actually closer to the Ancient Greek pronunciation
@valenesco45
@valenesco45 4 роки тому
@@ItsallGreektome I'm italian but I was raised watching, reading and dreaming of greek culture. I also studied a bit of ancient greek grammar in my past years of high school, it's definitely a fascinating language although I dont fully understand the directional change of your language in terms of alphabet and sound. Why do you read 'β' as a V instead of B, which is now something like a diphthong (μπ), or (ευ) read as (ε+β) instead of (ε+ου) and also 3 different *i* sounds, like 1 wasn't enough (η/ι/υ)
@TheRavenir
@TheRavenir 4 роки тому
I studied Italian for a few years in high school here in Switzerland (I live in the German-speaking part) and I've always found it a really cool language. I also often go to Ticino, where Italian is spoken. Mi piace molto la lingua italiana. La trovo molto bella!
@gadgetspool7626
@gadgetspool7626 4 роки тому
ah ok va bene amico
@heavenly4298
@heavenly4298 4 роки тому
@noxis93
@noxis93 4 роки тому
I've always wondered. How does it work with you in Switzerland? What do you speak when you go to Ticino? Or Geneva?
@TheRavenir
@TheRavenir 4 роки тому
@@noxis93 Well, it's very much like Canada in that it's separated by region. In the German-speaking region (e.g. Zurich, Bern, Basel) you only speak German, in the French-speaking region (e.g. Lausanne, Geneva) you only speak French and in Ticino you only speak Italian. Sure, people have to learn at least one of the languages that are spoken in the other regions in school, but that doesn't mean that everyone can speak it. I know from experience that e.g. Swiss German speakers tend to be pretty bad at speaking French and since Italian is only spoken by 8.2% of the population, most Swiss German speakers rarely bother learning it. I did learn it because there was a choice between learning Spanish and Italian in school, and I could already speak Spanish, so I chose to learn Italian, which I couldn't speak at all by that point.
@simob.1918
@simob.1918 4 роки тому
@@TheRavenir Aaand... A sure thing is that here in Ticino, we have a lot of difficulties with German. I think is a very hard language to learn, really different from Italian (and French of course). I have a question for you. In the German side of Switzerland, you talk more in German or in dialect (Schwizerdüch, sorry 4 mistakes)?
@yunalee13
@yunalee13 Рік тому
I'm Greek and I can understand Italian language a little because at high school we learn Latin language. Every summer I really enjoy listening to Italian tourists talking! Also, my dad has Italian friends and I can say that Italians and Greeks have many things in common.
@flyvez2303
@flyvez2303 Рік тому
I'm Italian and Greek is my favourite foreign language because it sounds like romance but it actually isn't. Greetings!
@user-gg3nm4xm6r
@user-gg3nm4xm6r Рік тому
Italian "intellectual" high schools ("classical lyceums") have always centered on a.Greek and Latin. Etruscans and Greeks were the Latin "tribes" immediate ineighbours on the peninsula, "ab Urbe Condita".
@giorgiaduronio
@giorgiaduronio 2 роки тому
PROUD of being ITALIAN 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
@matteosaottini930
@matteosaottini930 4 роки тому
This video is freakin' accurate. Source: I am Italian and I went to school.
@ilpatriz
@ilpatriz 4 роки тому
ahah sources are important. Good job mentioning it! (cmq concordo)
@fabiosvetoni7155
@fabiosvetoni7155 4 роки тому
I don't think "trenta" or "venti" for coffee is right😂
@dartgerry
@dartgerry 4 роки тому
@@fabiosvetoni7155 not at all, still the translation is on point
@franznarf
@franznarf 2 роки тому
Quanti Gi o vanni conosci?
@antusfirenova6426
@antusfirenova6426 4 роки тому
Ecco l'ennemiso commento fatto da un italiano che solo noi italiani capiremo
@aleletag1063
@aleletag1063 4 роки тому
Eccerto
@tommy9433
@tommy9433 4 роки тому
Eccccccerto
@kingskelethon2256
@kingskelethon2256 4 роки тому
Ma è normale
@pivotv829
@pivotv829 4 роки тому
E gia siamo unici al mondo 😂
@galtrian
@galtrian 4 роки тому
Ma dovresti saperlo che loro si sono evoluti e ora sanno usare Google traduttore anche per tradurre
@donniecatalano
@donniecatalano 2 роки тому
You make excellent content and also present it very nicely. Thanks!
@parsifal40002
@parsifal40002 4 роки тому
I love Langfocus very informative, however, at times your analysis can get too complicated technical for me to fully understand. Paul, you are an extremely skilled linguist. I had a good grasp of English grammar in elementary school but not as skilled as you. Thank you for your channel. BTW, the Italian language is fun to learn! As a opera singer in training, I learned to read and pronounce Italian with the proper inflections and emotions even though I had no idea of what I was saying! Still, it was fun!!
@chechuxchechu7757
@chechuxchechu7757 4 роки тому
un saludo desde España a nuestros primos italianos 🇪🇸❤️ 🇮🇹
@chaos4395
@chaos4395 4 роки тому
@Chechux Chechu un saluto anche a voi fratelli spagnoli! 🇮🇹❤🇪🇸
@fabriziospadi9478
@fabriziospadi9478 4 роки тому
No somos primos... Somos hermanos 😉!!! 🇮🇹❤️🇪🇸
@dlevi67
@dlevi67 4 роки тому
@Russell Richards Cosís diventas difficiles pers tuttis es dues? It seems more like Catalan, which is kind of in the middle... so you may have something there.
@pulse4503
@pulse4503 4 роки тому
Hola hermano! 😎 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 Italia y espana latin sisters
@pulse4503
@pulse4503 4 роки тому
@@dlevi67 portuguese and catalan are closer to the italian language for sure 😎
@FulvioPresutto00002
@FulvioPresutto00002 4 роки тому
If you're learning Italian, then good luck with the "Congiuntivo"; even some italians can't use that in the right way
@jsil_
@jsil_ 4 роки тому
Like some English speakers don't know the difference between "finished" and "have finished". It just takes a bit more effort to understand its intention.
@paolodigualtiero3251
@paolodigualtiero3251 4 роки тому
"se potrei"
@newt6988
@newt6988 4 роки тому
@@paolodigualtiero3251 se potrebbi
@chevoool7827
@chevoool7827 4 роки тому
* risata nervosa *
@Marco-hl6gz
@Marco-hl6gz 4 роки тому
Io sarebberei
@harumikimura6897
@harumikimura6897 2 роки тому
Oh my god, amazing! I am Italian girl and I work as barman. I meet many English people and nowan speak Italian, I have started to think you English don't speak my language... And today I find that vidio, It is very accurate, I hope that many can see it, too ... because in Italy it is difficult to find people who speak English
@brummiesalteno-81
@brummiesalteno-81 Рік тому
Paul is so detailed in his videos. He clearly does a lot of research. I love listening to Italian. At the moment I'm learning French and Portuguese but would love to one day learn Italian. It should hopefully not be too difficult as I speak Argentinian Spanish which many say is Spanish with Italian intonation.
@TijmensAviation
@TijmensAviation 4 роки тому
0:42 UK removed. I’m so excited about the comments!
@paulandrewpongase9418
@paulandrewpongase9418 4 роки тому
I saw it too!
@paulandrewpongase9418
@paulandrewpongase9418 4 роки тому
28 minutes ago, 28 likes. Seems legit.
@Langfocus
@Langfocus 4 роки тому
I'm not early. The politicians are late! (Not that I want them to leave, I just thought they were going to by the end of October).
@Jellygamer0
@Jellygamer0 4 роки тому
@@Langfocus New rule in the UK: never predict when we leave, at all, it has already been shifted 3 times, it'll be shifted again...
@TijmensAviation
@TijmensAviation 4 роки тому
Langfocus I thought 31 October was the date as well.
@lc5698
@lc5698 4 роки тому
As a french guy who has been studying latin language during high school, I feel like Italian is kind of a perfect combination between both languages. We have so many in common such as a massive history that bequeathed us an astonishing amount of historical monuments, a gastronomy addiction in a certain way (we do eat so many pasta, pizza, and coffee time is a religion for many people but I'm pretty sure it isn't only a french thing), each one has his city of romance, and even our values and flag are quite the same! Definitely the language I wanna learn first by the time I will be fluent in English.
@italiangirl231
@italiangirl231 4 роки тому
There are so many squabbles between Italy and France. I'm always amazed by the positive comments from French people.
@lc5698
@lc5698 4 роки тому
@@italiangirl231 I'm not sure to undestand truly what you mean. But let's forget politics. In a nutshell if you are thinking about ww2 and Mussolini, keep in mind that France also largely collaborated with German people and we try to hide this quite shameful face of our history nowadays. If you think about more recents events with Salvini, If we had to face immigration as Italy is doing, the power would probably be held by similars people (I'm more criticizing Salvini himself than his ideas) from far right mouvements in France. Anyway sadly hate and rejection of différents culture are more likely to lead the world in the following decades so let's forget all the politicians and let's think about other country through their people and their culture only :)
@tonyhawk94
@tonyhawk94 4 роки тому
I"m French and i learn Italian, it's quite easy to understand and even the grammar rules are the same, also the basics are the same too : - Parler -> Parlare - Manger -> Mangiare - Prendre -> Prendere - Faire - Fare ...
@tonyhawk94
@tonyhawk94 4 роки тому
@@italiangirl231 As a French i've never met hater of Italians, it's a weird Italian belief, in France no one see the Italians as enemy it's even the contrary. The traditional enemies of France are England and Germany. But on the contrariy i've noticed many Italian always spitting on France for some reason...
@alessandro3298
@alessandro3298 4 роки тому
wow your english really is a thing.
@Debrydelys-Deeberdeyn
@Debrydelys-Deeberdeyn Рік тому
😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 You are really very knowledgeable in this sector (I live in this country, and I confirm everything you say). You must have studied a lot and the results repay you for all your efforts. Great video, well worked.
@d.dominik1995
@d.dominik1995 2 роки тому
Very clear introduction to our language. Thank you 😉
@92xhqi88
@92xhqi88 4 роки тому
For all the not-italian people: The name "Giovanni" must be say like "Djovanni", because the "i" is silent
@FAnd-bn8wv
@FAnd-bn8wv 4 роки тому
The "i" is not silent, it is WRITTEN , but you write it "j" lol
@FAnd-bn8wv
@FAnd-bn8wv 4 роки тому
@Leonardo Lupi non capisco, è scritta subito dopo la D...solo che noi scriviamo "i", loro con l'alfabeto fonetico scrivono "j"... Cant understand. It IS written just after D...but we use to write "i", they write "j" cuz using phonetic alphabet....
@MacKlaus71
@MacKlaus71 4 роки тому
Giovanni, il secondo nome di Django! :D
@onewingedren2228
@onewingedren2228 4 роки тому
Giorno Giovanna
@giovannirubino7808
@giovannirubino7808 4 роки тому
Grazie
@matytuan9281
@matytuan9281 4 роки тому
When you are Italian and you realize you've never known there was a reason why to choose lo instead of il and you have always went with the flow and it just came naturally.
@ilpatongi
@ilpatongi 4 роки тому
It's a basic concept they teach you in elementary school... Are you sure you're Italian?
@matytuan9281
@matytuan9281 4 роки тому
@@ilpatongi not in my school apparently. I was never taught that. I always thought there wasn't a clear reason, just use the one that sounds better. And yes I'm sure I'm Italian
@ilpatongi
@ilpatongi 4 роки тому
@@matytuan9281 Davvero non ti hanno insegnato che Il, lo e la si usano in contesti di genere?
@matytuan9281
@matytuan9281 4 роки тому
@@ilpatongi mi hanno insegnato che il e lo si usa con il maschile e la col femminile. Ma non mi hanno mai insegnato quando si usa lo e quando si usa il.
@ilpatongi
@ilpatongi 4 роки тому
@@matytuan9281 Azz
@marcinekpomaranski
@marcinekpomaranski 3 роки тому
Superb video. Thanx. I finished whole duolingo in Italian and I was not aware there are so many tenses :).
@damianocalzarini6412
@damianocalzarini6412 2 роки тому
I'm italian and I'm impressed, that video is fantastic... good job!!
@danielec.8386
@danielec.8386 4 роки тому
I've been waiting for this video for a long time! I'm Italian and I love my native language. It's so beautiful and rich and you can communicate a lot of connotations and subtle meanings if you can use the language properly. I'd also like to share that we use a variety of suffixes to describe additional meaning instead of adjectives. Una casa = A house Una casetta = A small house Una casuccia A small cute house Una casaccia = A bad-looking, better-to-avoid house... ...and there are more developing in slang languages, for example "paninazzo" = "panino + azzo" = an indecently big and fat, yet highly desirable sandwich.
@marioloja96
@marioloja96 4 роки тому
Same in Spanish. Casa Casita (small house) Casoplón (big house) Casucha (an ugly-horrible house) Caseta (is another type of house)...etc. Italian and Spanish languages are nearby brothers. I studied your language and it's the best language I've never studied. Un abbraccio dai vostri fratelli mediterranei e Viva l'Italia, per sempre nel cuore 🍷🍇🇮🇹❤️
@angelostefano7464
@angelostefano7464 4 роки тому
Same in Portuguese too: casa = house casinha = small house casarão = big house
@manuzzolino695
@manuzzolino695 4 роки тому
casona casupola casina casettina ... and more...
@manu-ox4fe
@manu-ox4fe 4 роки тому
So in spanish and most languages. Una casa , Una casita , una casucha, Una casona.(a big house)
@luizabraga7464
@luizabraga7464 4 роки тому
@@marioloja96 Same in Portuguese Casa Casinha (small house) Casona/Casarão (big house) Casinha can be used as a poor or ugly house, but it's not that common.
@HotelPapa100
@HotelPapa100 4 роки тому
4:10 Giovanni: The 'i' after 'G' is mostly silent. It's only written to 'soften' the G.
@Srga91
@Srga91 4 роки тому
I was just about to say that. It just palatalizes the 'g' and the 'c' sounds. But I wouldn't call it "silent". It's more like a 'j' sound, when it is placed befor a vowel, like in "io" (1st person personal pronoun).
@Astronometric
@Astronometric 4 роки тому
Yes. In this instance “Gi” is pronounced more like Jon or Jacob.
@armitagehux8190
@armitagehux8190 4 роки тому
He even explains the pronunciation later on ...
@keptins
@keptins 4 роки тому
Haha i noticed it immediately. It almost sounded as Gee.ovanni .... really odd
@fabiosahadewabrigida9053
@fabiosahadewabrigida9053 4 роки тому
The "I" is only a diatritic. It is not pronounced at all
@Maya_Ruinz
@Maya_Ruinz Рік тому
Definitely my favorite sounding Romance language, the regional dialects are just *chefs kiss* 😘
@riccardovaccari327
@riccardovaccari327 2 роки тому
Great video! If you allow me to do that, I just want to tell you something that you may find useful: actually, Pietro Bembo never based his researches on Dante, he always preferred Petrarca and Boccaccio and their linguistic philosophy, which was called "monolinguismo" due to the fact that it involved a specific type of linguistic register. Dante always used different types of Italian, from the most "rude" one to the most "elegant" one.
@Nick-pt6sl
@Nick-pt6sl 4 роки тому
I decided to study Italian in college because my heritage is Italian, and I fell in love with it! The history and literature of the Italian peninsula is just remarkable, and the Divine Comedy is among the greatest pieces of literature ever written. I really love learning it. Grazie mille per questo video!
@Xiumaa
@Xiumaa 4 роки тому
Fidati che dopo un po' di tempo che studi storia e geografia italiana ti rompi ps sono italiana🇮🇹🇮🇹
@zaqwsx23
@zaqwsx23 4 роки тому
@@Xiumaa Perché sei ancora molto giovane. Pure io "mi rompevo" a scuola. È tutto più interessante quando non ci sono interrogazioni, compiti e tempi da rispettare.
@brainyskeletonofdoom7824
@brainyskeletonofdoom7824 4 роки тому
@@Xiumaa Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza
@jorge6594
@jorge6594 4 роки тому
I'm from Argentina, descended from Northern Italians. I've been to Italy last January and I found out that I could understand spoken and written Italian quite well, despite the fact I've never studied that language. Our slang incorporates many Italian words and the language similarity between Spanish and Italian does the rest. Beautiful language and beautiful country. I love being connected to it family-wise.
@jorge6594
@jorge6594 4 роки тому
And also, Italians are funny people.
@sidneifaustino6235
@sidneifaustino6235 3 роки тому
Very interesting!!! I've been checking latin recently and I noticed that english has a lot on common as well, do you have any video talking about it? I like your videos!!! Thumbs up!!!
@BracchiAlessandroFineArt
@BracchiAlessandroFineArt 4 роки тому
It's amazing the variety of the dialects , and how much are used. When we talk to friends or family members is mostly dialect or a mixture of dialect and italian, if we talk with unknown people automatically we speck italian. I also found very interesting the impact of other languages you can find in the dialects , and not in italian.
@friskotty8544
@friskotty8544 4 роки тому
"sopra la panca la capra campa,sotto la panca la capra crepa"
@leonardopiccolo9365
@leonardopiccolo9365 4 роки тому
Il tuo Nick è *ARTE*
@friskotty8544
@friskotty8544 4 роки тому
@@leonardopiccolo9365 grazie grazie
@petribus
@petribus 4 роки тому
Madonna sto scioglilingua 😂
@Laurelin70
@Laurelin70 4 роки тому
Trentatré trentini entrarono a Trento, tutti e trentatré trotterellando. Se l'arcivescovo di Costantinopoli si disarcivescovicostantinopolizzasse, vi disarcivescovicostantinopolizzereste voi?
@AndreaDeLeonibus
@AndreaDeLeonibus 4 роки тому
Sotto la panca di pelle di pollo la capra crepa di crampi
@belandino
@belandino 4 роки тому
The word "ciao" comes from Venetian slang, if I recall correctly: "Sciao tuo" means "I am your slave" or even "At your service".
@fedenepi
@fedenepi 4 роки тому
Yeah, that's from Venice. It differs from the standard Italian use of "sc", which can be pronounced either /ʃ/ or /sk/, but in this case of Venetian dialect (Venice), "sc" is pronounced as /stʃ/. Then Venetian dialects are a looooot and quite different from each other.
@sikeman
@sikeman 4 роки тому
Anche scia'vo mi sembra di aver letto.
@wildocado5376
@wildocado5376 4 роки тому
We know
@francesco8983
@francesco8983 4 роки тому
Il tuo nome è meraviglioso
@itsmattzed
@itsmattzed 4 роки тому
Its not sciao but sćiavo
@tess4823
@tess4823 4 роки тому
Nice video! As an Italian I would like to add that, even though there are many people in Italy that can't speak in their dialect, every Italian speaks the standard language with a very identifiable accent (also the person in the video). If you have come in contact with a large enough number of Italians you can tell from the way they speak what region they are from, and in some cases also the city (the accent actually differs from city to city within the same region).
@flbellman
@flbellman 7 місяців тому
What a great and informative video. All perfect. You did a very accurate job. Congratulations.
@LittleSparrow.
@LittleSparrow. 4 роки тому
Dico sempre che amo le persone e la lingua gentili italiane e tutto ciò che riguarda l'Italia, il mio paese preferito nel mondo da curdo🌹
@legioxinvicta
@legioxinvicta 4 роки тому
Rispetto e libertà per il popolo curdo 💘
@historicus9817
@historicus9817 4 роки тому
Libertà al popolo curdo!
@alexbox8967
@alexbox8967 4 роки тому
siete gli ultimi eroi del medio oriente, sono adirato per il fatto che quel idiota di trump vi abbia abbandonati, combattete per la vostra libertà e contro la minaccia dei turchi! Libertà al kurdistan!!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹💓 Avete diversi sostenitori della vostra causa in Italia!
@gabrielelobello792
@gabrielelobello792 4 роки тому
LIBERTÀ AL POPOLO CURDO 💚🤍❤️
@cristianogiambrone3535
@cristianogiambrone3535 4 роки тому
W il Kurdistan libero
@genebigs
@genebigs 4 роки тому
I have been learning Italian my whole life, and while I speak it relatively well, I am still not fluent! It's a labor of love to learn and speak this beautiful, musical language!
@lorenzopippia5257
@lorenzopippia5257 4 роки тому
Volere è potere! Ce la farai, vedrai :)
@genebigs
@genebigs 4 роки тому
@@lorenzopippia5257 Grazie mille!
@ledues3336
@ledues3336 Рік тому
Grandissimo! Ti auguro il meglio. Di dove sei?
@genebigs
@genebigs Рік тому
@@ledues3336 Grazie per gli auguri! Sono dagli Stati Uniti.
@fabio311269
@fabio311269 2 роки тому
I'm an italian. Thank you for this video we really appreciate your work.
@KevinCasasola2006
@KevinCasasola2006 2 роки тому
Very good video , it's nice to see foreign people interested in our language and the explanation about the Italian language origin was also good. And as an Italian I can confirm that , yes , Dante Alighieri is the father of the Italian language. And yes , promessi sposi is the most famous novel. Italian is also spoken by 3000 people in Libya and a lot of people in Ethiopia and Eritrea. In the capital city of Asmara , Eritrea , Italian is still taught in some schools and universities as a second language like some dialects are taught in elementary schools in Italy as third language after Italian and English. I know this because back in 2015 my sister's elementary school organized private lessons of friulan , Wich is the dialects of Friuli Venezia Giulia , my region.
@Mira-zs2ri
@Mira-zs2ri 4 роки тому
I wish I was Italian the most beautiful language in the world, thank you Italians for this beautiful language
@lorenzomilani9611
@lorenzomilani9611 4 роки тому
@Kanal7Indonesia
@Kanal7Indonesia 4 роки тому
I want to be italian too...
@urmomoldchannel1768
@urmomoldchannel1768 4 роки тому
As an italian mastering the language is equal to mastering the art of speaking to cats fluently. It's not gonna happen
@Antonio-il1zm
@Antonio-il1zm 4 роки тому
i’m italian and want to be fluent in english, LET’S TRADE
@adisylearn8716
@adisylearn8716 4 роки тому
@@Antonio-il1zm plsss and am indian am fluent in English and hindi and I love ur language I want to speak bt I can't 😭
@edubenazzi
@edubenazzi 4 роки тому
La lingua più bella del mondo. The most beautiful language in the world. I speak Italian fluently, but I'm Brazilian, Italian just for my origins.
@morriscolenbrander1395
@morriscolenbrander1395 4 роки тому
Brazilian portuguese is also beautiful!
@ShinryuZensen
@ShinryuZensen 4 роки тому
Hello brother!
@tgemini89
@tgemini89 4 роки тому
obrigado, amigo. deus te abençoe. o portugues es uma lingua muito linda tambem (ho scritto bene, vero? :) )
@edubenazzi
@edubenazzi 4 роки тому
@@tgemini89 Sì, hai scritto bene e altrettanto. Grazie mille per aver provato scrivere portoghese. Un abbraccio dal Brasile.
@marcopensant3
@marcopensant3 4 роки тому
Que legal o portugués brasilero! Un saluto dall'Italia!
@paulphelps7809
@paulphelps7809 Рік тому
Admirable presentation of the Italian language, thank you.
@Dabeast238
@Dabeast238 8 місяців тому
When you read preferito, instead of thinking about it at favourite, i find it helpful to read it as "of preference/of my preference" which helps visualise sentence structure
@ggarzagarcia
@ggarzagarcia 4 роки тому
Una lingua magnifica. Greetings from Mexico. 🇲🇽 Rumored ancestry also found in Italy (although majority from Spain), but even going back to Roman Empire.
@andreadebortoli6069
@andreadebortoli6069 4 роки тому
"Libertà va cercando, ch'è sì cara come sa chi per lei vita rifiuta" most beatiful verses in Italian poetry, by Dante .
@nu.bee13
@nu.bee13 4 роки тому
"e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" è il mio verso preferito dell'inferno e penso anche di molte altre persone
@ducciocolombi7729
@ducciocolombi7729 4 роки тому
@@nu.bee13 "L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle" è per me la rappresentazione verbale dell'altezza intellettuale che può raggiungere un essere umano nella propria vita
@nu.bee13
@nu.bee13 4 роки тому
@@ducciocolombi7729 per me il verso che ho scritto rappresenta la capacità delle persone di riscattarsi/cambiare qualunque situazione negativa
@thattommino8982
@thattommino8982 4 роки тому
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, che la dititta via era smarrita, e sono pure toscano
@zucc_8051
@zucc_8051 4 роки тому
Oppure (sempre di Dante) Per me si va ne la città dolente, per me si va ne l’etterno dolore, per me si va tra la perduta gente.
@astriiqs163
@astriiqs163 2 роки тому
I speak Italian, this was very accurate thank you for informing others. :)
@nelsontheone1
@nelsontheone1 3 роки тому
Hello Paul, i have been following you for a few years. i stumbled across your page when i was seeking information on the history and makeup of the Romanian language/s. i was pleasantly surprised to learn that it was 70% latin. (which explains why i understood so much as it was similar to my parents’ mother tongue Italian. I want to tell you i utterly love watching and learning from your videos. you are remarkably talented and engaging and i’d like to thankyou for sharing your (obvious) passion with us! Mille grazie, cok tesekuler, efharisto’, obrigado, gracias and THANKYOU for your efforts. My best regards, Elvira
@adonissherlock
@adonissherlock 4 роки тому
>thirty ounces of coffee is a heart attack *laughs as I drink my cento*
@tonytomato100
@tonytomato100 4 роки тому
But as is tradition, that must be cento espressi e no un cento di l'acqua sporca
@tonytomato100
@tonytomato100 4 роки тому
@Dominik Ławniczak kinda, l'acqua sporca directly translates to dirty water, it refers to "regular" or "American" coffee, sometimes its called drip coffee. It's a bit of a derogeoty term to certain coffee methods
@marco-elia
@marco-elia 4 роки тому
@Dominik Ławniczak And Poland is in the italian anthem! (almost) "Son giunchi che piegano le spade vendute: già l'Aquila d'Austria le penne ha perdute. Il sangue d'Italia, il sangue Polacco, bevé, col cosacco, ma il cor le bruciò"
@luarn9176
@luarn9176 4 роки тому
@@marco-elia To be honest, though, it's not part of the ‘common anthem’. It's part of the original song, but nobody knows it exists, nowadays.
@marco-elia
@marco-elia 4 роки тому
@@luarn9176 mhhh, I'm pretty sure that that's part of the anthem, it simply isn't sung before match etc because we cannot spend 4 minutes straight to show our beautiful anthem.
@everf5564
@everf5564 4 роки тому
Italian is my favorite language. Arrivederci ragazzi.
@ferrariserena
@ferrariserena 4 роки тому
Just two "z".. "ragaZZI".
@silva3658
@silva3658 4 роки тому
Bella raga
@giovannil8244
@giovannil8244 4 роки тому
Se bro
@92xhqi88
@92xhqi88 4 роки тому
@@silva3658 baa raga
@xRobPoop
@xRobPoop 4 роки тому
is this a jojo reference?
@ivanvolpe4423
@ivanvolpe4423 2 роки тому
Hi guyss, i'm italian and Lang you explained very well the structure of the verbs and all, also there are some other thing to know in italian like the sound CE CIE, GE GIE ecc. but you did really great job (And there's an amount of other thing... so much verbs..) here a phrase: SEI STATO MOLTO BRAVO A SPIEGARE L'ITALIANO ALLE PERSONE INGLESI, CONTINUA COSì :)
@LoneStarRKW
@LoneStarRKW 2 роки тому
Really good one, Paul!
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