🇮🇹 I Speak ITALIAN in Little Italy, New York City 🇺🇸 

Mi ha fatto piacere che ci sono dei Albanesi li in New York che parlano l'italiano Con gli Italiani si sente come a casa 🇦🇱🤝🇮🇹🤝🇺🇸

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so ignorant interview, not even you you know to speak italian, shame on you

@@mikestante3923senti Mattia abbi un pochino di rispetto

@@Kevin-oj3fm 💩🤡

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🤣🤣 did also said that his mom is Italian?

Lot of Albanian can speak Italian

Mussolini stonks

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Haha... just like in Italy. Where Albanians work at many restaurants.

@@arditbajraktari5631 where?

This is so accurate i'm laughing

Same in germany

Uguale proprio

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bravo! volevo dire la stessa cosa, questi albanesi si hanno capito come progredire nella vita "prendere un barcone e sbarcare illegalmente in Italia", poi si impadroniscono della lingua, della cittadinanza, del passaporto ed a new york, se cerchi qualcuno che parli italiano a little Italy, dovrai cercare un albanese!, bravi geni! (genius)

​@@pRQYifIQywIon0myDHH3qA l'italiano viene studiato e parlato in Albania, e l'immigrazione albanese in Italia è dovuta in parte anche a questo.

@@M_Marco che si tolgano dai piedi/dalle balle, visto che tra l'altro sono arrivate quando tutto era gia stato preparato dall'Italia/era tutto pronto e fanno anche i "superiori" dicendo che gli "Italiani non hanno voglia di lavorare" - era gia' tutto pronto quando sono arrivati senza invito/visto ed illegalmente

Ma ok tutto...ma su Reddit uno ha INSEGNATO italiano(mi diede torto su dei verbi). Il problema degli italo americani è lo stereotipo che portano. Il 90% degli albanesi sono cambiati(vedi un Ermal Meta e Fiona Kakalli, spero di aver scritto giusto il nome di Fiona) idem un italiano medio del sud. E' gente che ha speso tempo per evolversi culturalmente. Un italo americano questo processo non l'ha fatto e portano ideologie vecchie che se le dici in Italia ci insultiamo(tipo "il Fascismo era corretto")!

Then World War 2 hit and it really put an end to teaching it. I wish we learned but honestly if they taught it to us then it would be a (from me) Abruzzese or Sicilian dialect not standard Italian. Family is from South Philly btw.

It's really sad to be ashamed of its culture, language, and identity.

This happened a lot in the south Spanish speaking Texas culture too. A lot of younger baby boomers and gen x-ers don’t speak it for that reason.

My mother was an Italian war bride. To Americanize she named us Ken, Steven and Brian. The youngest got Renato as his middle name. However, she taught us to be proud of our Italian heritage, which we all are. We are also very close to our Italian relatives.

It's sad and I don't like when people are speaking to one another in their native tongue, someone gets offended for them not speaking in english around them.

In italy we have a looooot of albanian people. A lot

Fun Fact. The Italian Mafia sees the Albanian Mafia has brothers, because they have they share the same rules, especially blood oaths.

@@Manu_oRei bullshit

@@Manu_oRei WTF bro

@@SetIsNerd quando "ci rubano il lavoro" anche all'estero 😂

Sembra arrivato da ieri ahahah

Orazio, si sempri u miagghiu! 😁😁😁

Grande Orazio, e pensare che altri italiani migrati in AMERICA che hanno avuto figli non hanno insegnato la loro stessa lingua ed è un peccato!!

Andiamo Brandon! Andiamo Brandon!

Saluti da messina allora

now what if you knew another latin language (spanish in my case) and is currently learning italian?

@@VictoriaInahuazo you’d have an easier time learning it, cause both languages are considered romance, just like french, portugese and romanian. it’s kind of like learning german if you’re dutch and vice versa

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Well said.

No wonder Italy didn´t want them /s.

@@PROVOCATEURSK its because those parts of way to under developed. Just like today

@@PROVOCATEURSK fyi: naples and sicily had been kingsdoms way before italy was invented and people were forced to speak a foreign language. They didn't leave because they didn't want them.

same: Argentina, Australia...

My great aunt was from the south and didn't speak Italian when she emigrated, just napolitan, her first language.. She learned Italian there.. after spanish 😅

sono d'accordo, lo sto imparando quest'anno, ho 34 anni, sarebbe bene se miei genitori mi l'hanno insegnato quando ero piccolo (I'm only 4 months in, I probably have more mistakes than proper Italian in that sentence lol)

@@AndrewDaniele87 Sentence was fine just one small mistake where you said mi l'hanno when it should have been me l'avessero. keep it up :)

@@Aragonstar thank you!! :)

I grew up in England. My father spoke Italian but we spoke Cumasch an Italian dialect. I doubt if most Italians in NY speak or spoke Italian rather than their native languages

@@youtubeyoutube936 Yes, I get it but nowadays with the advanced technology we have it's not hard at all to get and keep the standard form of any language, although I'd have to say that besides Italian there are also many other languages in Italy which are wrongly considered as Italian dialects.

albanians?

I'm looking for Marco from Trapoja.

Stop with cultural appropriation and acting like Italians

Um, if I saw you walk into a store, my eyes would light up even if you didn't say one word! lol

@@_Mr.D nice one Mr. D. Go get em

@@josemanuelvarelapuig5064 lolol Hey i'ma keep it a buck. She is absolutely stunning! I don't know how it had escaped my attention that Italian women in general were so incredibly gorgeous. But yes, if Gelsomyn was representing Italy for the Miss World competition, she would bring them home the Gold. lol Plus, her comment shows that she has a soft heart, which is where a woman's true beauty is shown!

@@_Mr.Dgo find some black women

Wow! Thank you I have always wondered

What you say is true. I spoke couple of days ago with an albanian girl. I tought she was italian without accent. Perfect.

Esatto, poi si deve anche pensare che (pur troppo) l'Italia ha occupato l'Albania imponendo l'Italiano come lingua.

@@ribaldiluca6566 Questo e successo tanto tempo fa. Il comunismo ha fatto il suo per 45 anni. Comunque ti posso dire che purtroppo sta cambiando ancora, perché i social, i film ecc. sono tutti in inglese.

@@Lyman_Zerga immagino, immagino. Anche qui in italia c'è un'inglesizzazione dell'italiano!

Because most of the words in Albanian are Latin

@@enver_hoxha1908 i didn't know that. Thank you very much

But Albanians are not Italian

@@renaissanceman9168 in facts they're Albanians

@@nelisugnu Yes, but they’re not Italians, who are the best custodians of Italian culture and Italian civilization.

Feels that way. No real Italians left there. Sad

Spitting fax

Yup China town completely took over that area, i was also surprised about how little english they spoke

If u wanna try real italian food just come to italy

yeah, they are using the name of Italian restaurant for prestige

Where in Texas? I'd love to find a good Italian restaurant.

@@tunomatic Little Elm. Name of the place is Roma's.

I have been to 2 excellent Italian restaurants in Perth Asutralia that were run by Indians.

I have found that in the US a lot of Albanians own Italian restaurants

@@JAG214 also in germany, albanians own italian restaurants

Forza Italia sempre 💪🏽🇮🇹❤️

Verità! Saluti da un italiano in Svezia 👋🏽

Un abbraccio sincero a tutti gli Italiani che sono al estero!

This is weird Greetings to all the Rorschac-pic users

@@johnnycarcosa5974 🤎🖤

Era davvero deliziosa, per un attimo mi è sembrato di stare in Italia.

Anche io ho lavorato in un alimentari dietro banco, effettivamente il clima sembrava proprio quello 🙂

Se andate da Di Palo all'angolo di Grand e Mulberry (200 Grand), parlano perfettamente italiano perché la loro famiglia viene dalla Sicilia e dal sud Italia. Sono lì da 120 anni, 4 generazioni, tutti parlano italiano. E importano TUTTO quello che vendono, dall'Italia. Chiedete di Luigi.

@@cjay2 a natale del 2001, con ancora il fumo delle twin towers in aria, sono venuto a NY a casa di un amico che una sera ha avuto il colpo di genio di fare una cena a sorpresa: "cucina lui che è italiano".. premesso che io cucino da almeno 40 anni, ragione per cui al 95% delle cene mi ritrovo in cucina.. a NY non sono riuscito a trovare un solo ingrediente come dico io. Non parlo di ingredienti di nicchia che capisco non si trovino ma, il pomodoro ne aveva solo la forma, l'aglio era meglio non usarlo, il basilico era solo verde, la pasta aveva tre tempi di cottura: al dente, giusta, liquida.. mi sono vergognato come un politico.. anzi.. quelli non conoscono vergogna. il bello è che erano entusiasti.. Se solo avessi saputo di Luigi :)

@@mrmetalzeb4596 figa bianka 2001

Sad story 🥲

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Vivo da 61 anni in Olanda e sono sempre Italiano con passaporto Italiano.

Ha emozionato pure me che sono milanese

Concordo

Vero e grandissimo chi sa se ci sono anche rumeni negli usa

Un mito il giarrese davvero! Adesso sappiamo dove mangiare la vera mozzarella italiana, a New York!!!!

Malgrado quando si pensa, italiani e albanesi sono popoli fratelli. È giusto così! 🇮🇹🇦🇱

@@astrofficialchannel1987 indubbiamente la connessione etnico-culturale esiste, soprattutto per il sud italia essendo stato oggetto di numerose migrazioni durante gli ultimi due millenni dall'epiro al sud italia, inoltre grazie al mio test del dna ho scoperto di avere molti parenti lontani italiani del sud italia

@@testadelcomputer1839 Certamente nei secoli ci sono sempre stati scambi commerciali e culturali, siamo vicinissimi geograficamente. Non mi intendo di navigazione, ma penso che da Lecce a Valona ci sia un oretta appena di nave, è forse il punto in cui l'Adriatico è più stretto.

Guarda che cousine significa cugina 😅. Cuisine se vuoi dire cucina 😉

È lo stesso discorso dei ristoranti giapponesi gestiti da cinesi qui. La cucina italiana come quella giapponese sono di voga e il popolo di queste cucine non essendo interessate a far questo di mestiere lasciano la nicchia vuota per altri da colmare

Questo spiega tutto 😂

I would have spitted straight on the floor of this guy. JUVE MERDA PER SEMPRE

and you support All Boys hahahah

O cidadão é da sicilia e torce pra Juve. Que tristeza.

Leva il gagliardetto della Juventus e metti quello del giarre calcio o del Catania

Every latin language is older than italian 😂

@@MrPontMeyer but italian is still derived from Latin

@@MrPontMeyer yes but Latin originated in modern day Italy, and the modern Italian language is the “most Latin” in its lexicality than any of the other Romance languages, except Sardo (Sardinian).

@@longbeach7623 modern italiam take a lot of words from spanish. Even sicilian and napoletano has more spanish words since spain rule southern italy so long

@@infolibertad_1 actually it’s quite the contrary. Spanish words that end in a vowel that do not contain a J, X, or Y, have Italic origin. This accounts for a significant amount of the vocabulary. Only Napoltano and Sicilanu absorbed forms of Spanish words. And as far as modern Italian goes, it has a lexical similarity coefficient of 82%, predominantly due to Roman conquest as both languages are rooted in Vulgar Latin. Italian is actually *more Latin* than Spanish. This is textbook university study.

Very true! Sad, but true.

Yes, this sad fact is forgotten. The prejudice against Italians (and other ethnic white groups) caused the children of these immigrants to be discouraged form speaking their language.

Asians don't assimilate

That's 100% not true. American born Chinese suck at speaking Chinese. Losing your language abilities is normal for all ethnic groups and is inevitable more or less with each generation that lives in the diaspora

Actually, only the ones who immigrated after 1960 when there was another large influx. The really old ones, the over 80's never really learned. They were encouraged to be "real americans." Maybe a few of them did have parents who never spoke English well like a cousin of mine who would be in his 90's if he were alive but he even married a non-Italian and I doubt if any of their kids learned, especially since he died when they were young and she remarried another non-Italian. I have to wonder how much of their Italian heritage those kids even knew, especially growing up in Princeton where we were not the most beloved people in the world.

Most Italian immigrants in New York City are elderly, and many of them, my parents included, do not speak Italian, they speak Italian regional languages and very few learned any English. So, we all speak our language. Little Italy ceased to be an Italian neighborhood decades ago, whereas Chinatown is an immigrant neighborhood and Chinese are the largest foreign born population in New York City. But, don't kid yourself, children or grandchildren of Chinese immigrants are not more likely to know Chinese than children or grandchildren of any other immigrants. Nothing special going on here.

@@BotanicalJourney Well I grew up in NJ right across the river and yes, most of them spoke the regional languages like Neapolitan and Sicilian predominantly but I would say 90% of my grandparents (born in the 1880's) generation learned English. Maybe not polished and gramatically perfect but they knew it. Most of the ones who are elderly, that would be me, got educations. College wasn't as common back then but there were paraprofessional jobs that required some post high school study to be able to do well. Women who went to Secretarial schools could write and speak better than a lot of college graduates do now. I disagree with you about the Asian kids. They learn. They may not like to speakthe language but they learn it because it is very beneficial for their future careers given the geo-political climate we're in.

It's not only a joke because they act as characters from Martin Scorsese's movies. :-)

Where did u get the balls?? Lol

@@paolomainotti8958 Martin Scorsese's movies depict Italian Americans of South Italian ancestry, hardly an Italian from say Tuscany or Lombardy. LOL

To be honest they act as Italian Americans of S.Italian ancestry mostly.

Ma invece di stare qua a commentare su youtube vai a calciare rigori 8 ore al giorno. Dovevi solo segnare uno contro la Svizzera ed eravamo primi nel girone 😑 (SCHERZO)

Che io correggerei in "tifa udinese, grande!" 😎

Detto da un siciliano che tifa Juve.. fa ridere

eccoci, eccoci 😂 non deludete mai

Lot of Albanians grew up watching our italian television so they can speak often very well. They are our closest brothers in Europe along with the spanish, maybe. More then french people, often so far by italian lifestyle.

Republic of Venice (la repubblica di Venezia) stretched along the coast all the way to Cyprus. ( Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Cyprus) I think that since then, there was no actual connection between Albania and Italy. A part of Croatia, City of Rijeka and Istra peninsula, on the other hand, were part of Italy until 1947.

@@luckystrike656 The story is much more intertwined than that... The connection between Illyrians and the ancient Apulian peoples, Epiro, Skanderbeg, the immigration of the Albanians to Italy after the arrival of the Ottomans and etc. In any case, the Albanians have never known Italian, it's since TV was born that they began. Once the communist regime forbade contacts with foreign countries, Italian TV was the only source.

@@ltubabbo529 big drugs affairs between italy and albany,thats all

@@alemaz91 Abbastanza limitata come visione

Timidone

Stop being so shy lmao why would someone speaking Italian to you shock you?

Loooool I swear it caught me off guard and it really took a moment to realise😂 but before I could do anything about it I had been “mandato a fare in c***”😂😅

I know just how you felt, for I too have been caught off guard, and couldn't reply, though in quite other circumstances. I think it's the unexpected context that throws one off guard, without a repertoire for it, at least for that moment. And then we realize, and feel bad... My condolences!

@@houstonswisha143 omg, whats the problem of being shy, calm down😭🤣

Una faccia

Ha, ha, ha - I used to hear "Una faccia, una razza" all the time growing up in Australia. My heritage is Spanish but all the Greeks and Italians would ask you where you were from because you look "Mediterranean"....love it!

Ciao Youssef, grande!

@@WhatashameMaryJane ciao carissima sono innamorato con la vostra lingua

san gennaro is a famous napoletano saint

Robert DeNiro is from Greenwich Village but interestingly his Italian surname is mostly a coincidence. He's bohemian Village, not Italian Village. His parents are prominent, college-educated painters, mom a WASP from Berkeley CA and dad an Irish-Italian from upstate. I think DeNiro Jr did later in his childhood try hanging out in Little Italy to kind of learn to be an Italian kid. That's actually pretty quintessentially New York. Since everything is here, you can kind of choose your crowd to some extent if you don't like what you were born into. It's not fully genuine, but the kids who try it make a better go at it than kids in the suburbs!

Indeed

The "Italian Americans" use our culture, the best food in the world. The stereotype of Italian production, from super cars to electronics, fashion, perfumes, elegance, a way of dressing .. sports brend of any different subject. I'm pissed off. with this New Generetion that knows nothing, but knows how to take from the Dolce Vita

@@andreagiambrone6642 It's not that deep dude. No need to get triggered and pretentious over something so minimal. Calm down.

@@hits_different Because Italian culture is so famous in the U.S, it also makes it easy for Italians to become successful in the U.S. I am originally Turkish, been living in the U.S for 20 yrs. I had to work my butt off. But I have a buddy from Napoli, met him playing football 15 years ago. We did all kinds of crazy shit together. Life has been very easy for him. He can easily find a job as a waiter in a top Italian restaurant. Work 5 hours and make $200-500 with tips. Why? Because he is the only Italian guy in the Italian restaurant lol. And he can easily meet girls just by saying he is Italian. The girls are like...WTF, I never had Italian. Will find out if he is good lover or not. His dad is worse than him. He is like 55 years old and tries to hook up with 20 year olds. His usual tactic: He pretends to talk with someone on the phone on the street, he is talking italian. Then he asks the girl who is passing by, if she speaks italian. Also, he sells fake italian leather goods in beverly hills that he buys from a jewish guy :))

@@semprefidelis76 Laugh the fuck out loud!!!!!!!!

Ahah I wonder how many people among my widely international audience would be able to follow me!

@@WhatashameMaryJane truth though

Mary Jane speaks the universal language of sincere goodwill and charm. She gets along very well with others, A++.

@@richardkluesek4301 ah that’s straight flattery! ☺️

@@WhatashameMaryJane You deserve it for making the world a nicer place. Hope that your "significant other" cherishes and appreciates you, stay happy and well.

Thank you Ralph ❤️

Grazie Claudio :)

Infact they are not anymore Italian and have lost all of their connections with Italy, but people still keep on thinking Italian Americans as the yardstick of what is Italian, especially movies from Hollywood. Not to mention that almost all Italians Americans are originally from the deep South of Italy and culturally and even phenotypically wise they are not very similar to central and north Italians either.

Infact they are not anymore Italian and have lost all of their connections with Italy, but people still keep on thinking Italian Americans as the yardstick of what is Italian, especially movies from Hollywood. Not to mention that almost all Italians Americans are originally from the deep South of Italy and culturally and even phenotypically wise they are not very similar to central and north Italians either.

@@alessandrom7181 The same is true of every immigrant group. The people who immigrate retain the culture of their native country. The first generation has one foot in the old country, one in the new. The second generation may learn a little of their heritage from grandparents. The 3rd generation has completely melted in the American melting pot.

Actually I did. If you go to Chinatown they speak Chinese and dialects, both Chinatowns in ny and San Francisco. And if it's not so , don't open " italian restaurant "or shops if you don't know shit of Italy or Italian culture or worse don't identify yourself as an Italian.

@@francesco7604 Apples and oranges. There has been/continues to be a big influx of mainland Chinese/Taiwanese people over the past 30-40 years. When they get here, they are much more comfortable living in US Chinese enclaves. (Just as newly emigrated Italians gravitated towards “Little Italy”). Working in a Chinese restaurant is a first job for many of them, since they get by with very little English. My Irish-Italian son is married to a first generation Chinese girl. Her parents emigrated from Beijing, still live in a Chinese neighborhood of Oakland, did menial work their whole lives. Mandarin is the primary language spoken in their home. On the other hand, my daughter-in-law is fluent in English and Mandarin,. She graduated from Berkeley, then dental school in SF. It’s likely her children will never be even proficient in Mandarin.

Yep the migration to Canada happened much later

Im italiano in montreal

Migration to Toronto was happening at the same rate as the USA for Italians.

That's why the mob is still in Montreal

I will take a wild guess that they did not have to drive at any point during their visit. Ha! Sorry Italians; some stereotypes are true and you know it! 😆

Everyone I meet loves Italy or Brazil, even if they were robbed or had a bad experience, lol.

Ciao Francesco!