Italian Accents & Dialects - Beginner Italian Course: Lesson 23

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[IlGattonero]

Thanks, Manu, for introducing this important subject in your beginner course and for the clear explanation! Accents and dialects can be very daunting for new learners, especially as they seek out sources for listening, and your reassurance is so helpful. I grew up listening to my grandparents’ Sicilian dialect (“picciridda!”), and hearing it again when I traveled to Sicily a few years ago made me terribly emotional. In my experience, most Italians are proud of their own particular dialect and use it not only to communicate with family and close friends but also when they want to express themselves more vehemently and colorfully! Grazie ancora; un caro saluto a te.

[jhlfsc]

Thank you for gracefully acknowledging dialects as simply being "regional languages" rather than looking down on them as if they were bastardized, or poorly understood versions of "standard Italian".
The idea of Italians being naturally bilingual is not only a beautiful way to put it, but it is also true so thank you for addressing this topic like a true Italian gentleman. 👏

[cdeweijer]

Erg interessant om verschillende uitspraken te leren die voortkomen uit dialecten. Leuk om onderscheid te kunnen leren maken waar mensen vandaan komen op basis van hun accent. Dat fascineert me en voegt zoveel charme. Dialecten verbinden ons met onze voorouders, dat is iets om te koesteren. Dank voor deze bijzondere les!

[ondinefinn]

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[LCSummer]

I love and appreciate all your YouTube videos! My Italian side of my family is Calvi from the Piedmonte Region.

[nged]

A very interesting lesson! In Germany it's kind of the same - I am from the north and speak clear german but can also understand most of northern dialects. But I have some problems to understand if I go the south and try to understand their dialect. But as in Italy - most people in Germany can switch to clear german, only some older people from villages can't.

[whychromosomesmusic]

I think the dialects are very interesting. Awhile back I found a really good video which went into detail about the various dialects and they had little sound clips to go with them from radio or television, etc. Some places to me had a lot of sounds like "Shway, shway, shway." Others had French words or more French pronunciation of Italian words. Still others had German words in them. The presenter stated that Piemontese (my own ancestors' dialect) had a lot of words from Sicilian because a large number of Sicilians moved there.

I asked my mother if she ever heard her grandmother (my great grandmother) whom we all called Nonna, speak any Piemontese. And she said the only thing she remembers is that Nonna called little girls [spelling the best I can] "bella cita" [CHEE-TA] and little boys she called "bella (bello?) boccia" [BO-CHA].

[glenbellefonte]

Amico mio viva in calabro. Noi parliamo ogni giorno fra 3 anni. Lui ha detta dialletto di Naples, Puglia, Calabro e sicily e la stessa. Ma accento differente. Ci simu capiti? Sono di Florida. Grazie, Manu!

[giovanna]

Trovo la lezione di oggi molto interessante 😀

[EphemeralProductions]

Makes sense how dialects were described. In America in the south, they say “coke” for a fizzy/soft drink. Coke in other parts of the USA actually means coca cola. In the south it means ANY fizzy drink. lol

[nged]

Hey Manu, what other languages do you speak or learn?

[sanjaykarthicks]

For immersion, can I view Italian videos for kids?
Because they may be basic and understandable for non-italian speakers like me
But would they use dialects in those videos?

[annarae]

My fiance was born in Torino, but his grandparents were from the south so he anf his mother never learned Piemontese. Being close to France, it sounds a lot like French fromwhat I have heard.

[carolc]

In Florence they don’t pronounce the C. Took me awhile to tune my ear to it. In Rome, I understand them.

[Siegbert]

That's funny how similar it is to German. Well at least it used to be... Nowadays most of Northern Germany speaks standard German with a slight accent but not their native dialect which is low German. In Southern Germany you will still hear full blown dialecta (Swabian and Bavarian) except for bigger cities. Those people will understand standard German but aren't as fluid in it.

[lastchance]

In Albania too! Dialects are so confusing and I can barely understand someone who also speaks albanian but in another dialect

[skzanagate]

Ciao Manu. Does Giorgia Meloni the Italian prime minister speak standard Italian? I love listening to her even though I just started learning Italian. She caught my attention when she started lashing out on Macron.😂

[tillybinkieking]

I am from England. I am English. We do Not have States in England. Please recognise that although the English language is very similar to the American tongue it is not the same. Pronunciation, Construction and Words are often used very differently.

[Alansubocz]

So when I say “daje” people know where I’m from 😂