DO YOU SPEAK ABRUZZESE (UASTAROLE)?

This video is a present to all our fans with Abruzzo roots. Watch this short video with many common sayings and proverbs that may let you remind your grandparents. We filmed it in different locations (especially in #Vasto): retired people club, Bocciodromo, fruit, salami, cheeses and fish market, piazzas and so on.

Many thanks to our local community !

Fabrizio and all your Abruzzo friends

Join us on a 7-day Italian cultural and culinary vacation in Abruzzo, one of the most stunning and culturally rich regions in Italy.

Read, watch and share your passions, interests & experiences:

[bobreda]

This makes me cry. My grandparents were both from the area around Chieti. Grandpa was a shepherd before he came over. My father wouldn't let me learn to speak the dialect because he said, "We live in America now, so we must speak American!" I studied Italian in college for two years but that is, of course, nothing like Abbruzzese.

[guilhermefabrizio]

I’m from São Paulo, Brazil and my grandparents are from Torino di Sangro. When I saw this video, I can see my grandpa playing bocce in 90s with his pals from The Circolo Abruzzese di San Paolo… I’m missing him so much… this video it’s a good remember for me

[nicolasdorlando]

Man I grew up in abruzzo and when i was 12 years old i moved to prague and lost most of the abruzzese and its very sad for me because i love abruzzo

[rinamauro]

Sono abruzzese amo la. Mia terra da morire!! Ho capito tutto il dialetto è molto particolare e bello. Io lo parlo sempre. Mio padre lo parlava benissimo. Non potrei vivere in nessun altro posto le mie radici sono qui nel chietino, il mare la montagna e tutte le sue bellezze naturali le nostre tradizioni, la nostra cucina. E poi siamo forti e gentili, tipicamente abruzzesi ❤❤❤

[iac]

My Mom was from Castel Di Sangro, and I recall her dialect.
But this is deep !

[Louisianish]

This video makes my heart so happy!! While I’m a Louisiana francophone on my dad’s side and am very connected to that side of my heritage, I’m rediscovering my mom’s Italian side. Her grandparents were from Sant’Angelo del Pesco (Isernia), just southwest of Villa Santa Maria, across the border in the historical region of Molise [insert "il Molise non esiste" joke here]. I’m trying to learn standardized Italian, not only because I like the language but also because I’m actually eligible for Italian citizenship 😁🤗 ...but what I REALLY want to learn is Abruzzese (or at least general Neapolitan due to the fact that there may be more resources for it), because I’ve only recently discovered that, although Sant’Angelo del Pesco is in Molise, according to linguistic maps, the variety of Neapolitan that my great-grandparents would have spoken is actually Abruzzese, and not Molisano, as I had previously thought.

[RenzoColameoIrlanda]

Beautiful... 🙂Quanti ricordi... Nato in Abruzzo; ma dove ho vissuto meno. Fortuna che torno spesso a Vasto; perche' ho ancora una sorella (altri al nordo) e diversi nipoti. Piu' parenti (tanti) nella zona.
Dopo quasi 30 anni al nordi, e 25 in Irlanda; da pensionato ho deciso di vivere in Umbria (come da foto). C U there next Summer !!! Goodbye, goodluck & God Bless everyone:
Amen *

[alessandroviaggi]

Abito a Roma
a poche centinaia di km di distanza
E NON CAPISCO UN CAZZO !
😁😁😁😁
W l 'Abruzzo !

[sgiovangelo]

My paternal grandparents were from the Province of Chieti, Torino di Sangro al mare; my cousins live in that lovely city, Vasto! I visited the home town once many years ago when I was in my 20s. Hearing that dialect made me teary eyed because I haven't heard it in decades; Grandpa died at age 98 in 1976. In Abruzzo the family and their friends were all so kind to me and spoke 'proper' Italian because that's what I had studied and I couldn't understand the dialect but listening to it was amazing.

[Mr]

Ciao un saluto dai immigrati
Abruzzese dall' Belgio
Io sono di Tortoreto lido

[bobselbert]

my grandparents are from Aielli Stazione (Bartolo Mazzulli and Assunta Rosati). I'm very proud of my Italian heritage, Viva l'Italia!!!

[jfg]

Sono di Abruzzo anche! L'Aquila, Paganica/Onna. Vivo negli Stati Uniti adesso!

[unapologetically_me]

I can, I am first generation Italian American. It was my first language…I learned English with friends.

[DIAVOLOGIALLO]

Sono del nord della puglia(foggia) ma capisco perfettamente o quasi tutto quello detto nel video...è proprio vero che i pastori abbruzzesi emigrarono tanti anni fa in Puglia...

[gabriellaprosperi]

🤗montesilvan piscar, so da 51ann chi viv a montreal Quebec a lu Canada ting 66ann.e non ci sta mi jurn chi non parl abruzzese .pur quand park frances ci met la bruzzese , vi cui bene atut l abruzz ciav

[ciampolieric]

many thanks, I only knew about it that a far remote relative wrote a couple of books in this languages, I could hardly read them, but didn't know how it sounds like. Great !

[carlomanfra]

Qualcuno potrebbe gentilmente dirmi qual è il nome della traccia audio usata per questo video? 🙏🏻
PS: so' nat' a l'Uast! Dove mi sono anche sposato l'anno scorso. ❤

[drewgarrison]

Grandmas favorite saying when complaining about Grandpa: A vola di l'asino

"He says the donkley flies" aka What he says goes.

Spoltore, Pescara

[marivi]

Yo tengo cuatro bisabuelos abruzzeses. De Chieti. Ortona Mare, Crecchio, Orsogna.

[Ockap]

This is the language of the great pro wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino, R.I.P