17 must-know Italian hand gestures 🤌🏼🇮🇹

Did you know that there are approximately 250 hand gestures that Italians use everyday?
I’ve chosen 17 of the most commonly used in Lazio to share with you in this video!

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Ciao e grazie!

[metatronyt]

Complimenti per i contenuti di qualità! Sei adorabile. Ho visto che hai anche video di mitologia, me li vado a guardare subito. E un abbraccio al grande maestro da parte mia.

[JacksonCrawford]

Very informative. It strikes me that this really ought to be Practical Italian 101.

[greekmetalhead]

1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10 (the one with the finger) and 14 are being used by us Greeks as well 😂

Una faccia una razza 🇬🇷❤🇮🇹

[kojak]

Who else watched the whole thing not knowing Italian? :)

[Drahko]

Is crazy how much similarities are between spanish and Italian. I understood half of the dialogue pretty well. I need to take sometime to learn Italian. I tried to learn Brazilian Portuguese but stopped when some Brazilians kinda joke around my accent 😂

[MusaPedestris]

Bucca bucca bucca! 😍 9:50, che bella sorpresa! Bravissimi, è un video molto utile per me per imparare i gesti! E mi piaciono tanto gli outtakes!

[marcogiuliocamurri]

In Italy we have dialects for hand gestures too and they may have slightly different meanings depending on when you come from in the country. I am from the north and I recognise all of these apart from "è morto".
Let me add tha the difference between #1 and #2 (that you somehow mention in words adding "ma") is the difference between "why/what" and "but why... / but wat...". #2 implies disbelief or surprise for something that has already happened, while #1 is a bit more generic.
#3 means that something obvious has happened. It means something close to "perfect", "as expected", "classic!". So the meaning "lo sapevo" comes from "obviously" said in a sarcastic way. (Yes, Italians do hand-sarcasm too). This gesture can also be used for a job well done (in a non sarcastic way)

[Giannis_Sarafis]

How to show 17 hand gestures, using a lot more! Thanks for sharing! Greetings from Greece. Doing the 8th in Greece with two hands, has the meaning of a lot of money, especially if you also say the word "Να, να"! 14th is the same in Greece. 15th one, we use it against "evil eye". We hit a table or something saying "χτύπα ξύλο", which stands for "knock on the wood"!

[adastra]

Il gesto "andare" indica galoppare via❤

[timmaloney]

Tante cose da imparare, abbastanza per finire nei guai . Bisogno da pratica .
Sei un Tesoro, Grazie mille .

[TheSicilianLife]

I learned a few. Thanks for sharing. Bloopers were too funny! 🤣

[jongesiff]

Da pelato posso dire che Luke e' il pelato piu' figo del mondo

[viridianite]

Ma perché quel bravo uomo impara i gesti italiani? Già sa latino.

Bravissimo, Irene e Luke!

[arienlicinius]

Loving the stash Luke. Keep it real! Happy New Year.

[Romanophonie]

Molto ben fatto! Mi è piaciuto tantissimo il video. 👏

[teowiz]

I am italian but 13 to me means to describe something or someone cunning and smart, while number three means "perfect" or fitting something you expected (which can also mean "lo sapevo")

[PsS_]

As a Greek I can understand all of those gestures 😊

[blazenkatkalcevic]

Vi ste prekrasan par. Baš vas je lijepo gledati! Pozdrav iz Hrvatske!

[cerracarmine]

Very nice
Bella
Semplice e divertente

[bingo]

Yes accurate but many other people in Italy 🇮🇹 do have some variations of the same gesture