ITALIANO! The Italian Language is Amazing

This video is all about the Italian language, both its history and its features! ITALIANO!

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Special thanks to Vanni Rosini for his Italian language samples!

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Music

The song accompanying Paul's life-changing jokes: “Sax Attack” by Dougie Wood.
Main: "Sunrise Drive" by South London HiFi
Outro: "Sunny Morning" by Bruno E.

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[Langfocus]

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[gerardsapple]

hearing Italian words in an english speech feels like Trenitalia announcing the next train in English. We're arriving in: vEnEziA sAntA LucIa

[damycityrocker]

"Nowadays, virtually all Italians are fluent in Italian"

Luca Giurato:

[Teo]

Utente italiano guarda questo video
"Mio Dio, ma sta parlando di me"

[giuseppebruno]

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 ♥!

[susannabianchin]

As an Italian I’m really impressed by the amount research he has put onto this video. Good job!

[MariaGuasch]

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).

[pietromeroni]

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.

[psigh]

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)

[valeriobertoncello]

Q. How are you?
A. English: It's all good, thanks
Italian: 'ttapposto

[baltoy]

I'm Italian, why the hell am I watching this?!

[albertomolina]

"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse" Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

[ChineseSingerCeciliaCai]

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.

[alexandre_pt]

Un saluto dal Portogallo ai nostri amici italiani. 🇮🇹🇵🇹

[MultiFlash]

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!

[ogaansho]

salve ! Mi chiamo Omar sono dal somalia, amo l'italiano . .. Molto bene .

[unusuariomas]

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! :)

[denk]

English verbs: three paradigms + some special verb.

Italian verbs:

[federicoserri]

Fun fact: Italian is still studied in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia at elementary schools and middle schools

[Ignacio-MV]

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.