Italian conversation: do students of Italian have to learn dialects? (subtitled) 

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Thank you for you feedback, Joe! I am glad to hear that you enjoyed the video and found it easy to understand. Lucrezia and I will definitely work on some more videos together. Stay tuned :)

@Alexandra Nota Grazie, Alexandra. This is so meaningful to read! Usually I feel weird knowing a dialect rather than the standard, but you're right it is a really special connection to share with my grandmother and my heritage. I hope my children will share an interest in learning!

Julia, what's dialect do you family speak? I'm brazilian and i start to learn italian. For me is easy because i speak portuguese and learn spanish too.

How funny. My parents are from Abruzzo as well. When I finally visited my extended family there, and thanked them in Italian for the wonderful party they had thrown me and my husband, they all were so pleased that I was speaking Lancianese, or the local dialect. I never knew it as a dialect. Only what my family spoke.

@@calise8783 What a beautiful story, thank you for sharing! I've never heard the name "Lancianese!"

Lancianese = the dialect of Lanciano.

Bisogna salvare tutte le lingue regionali del mondo! Il lombardo sta morendo come moltri altre lingue in Italia.

Yes, Steven.

Ciao

Thank you for your feedback, Alex! Lucrezia and I will definitely work on some more activities together, thanks for your suggestions :)

Yes, that makes absolute sense :)

Grazie, Nelson! Sono contento che ti piacciono i nostri video in coppia, ora io e Lucrezia penseremo ad altri possibili video insieme. Vi terremo aggiornati :)

No. Only the languages of linguistic minorities. I think you are from germany. German dialects are not thought at scool. And all local varities in italy except for the languages of linguistic minorities are dialects of italian.

I mean regional languages like Sardinian, Sicilianu, Neapolitan, Venetian, Ligurian etc.

@@stefanreichenberger5091 they are dialects of italian. All local linguistic varities except for the languages of linguistic minorities are dialects of italian. You say that they they are languages because they are not mutually inteligible with stabdard italian. But all local varieties in france,germany,netherlands,denmark,sweden,croatia and china are not mutually inteligible with their standard national languages but except for the languages of linguistic minorities the other ones are not protected,they are assimilated and they are called dialects of their national languages. It is the same in italy. So why should italy be different? Do you consider bavarian,alemannic and all local lunguistic varities of germany as languages? No. You consider only frisian,lusatian and danish as languages. And the other varities as dialects of german. So you should no consider sicilian,venetan or neapolitan as languages. Also,only when spoken in the purest form they are not mutually inteligible with standard italian but the purest forms are not the most commonly used. The most commonly used are forms that are influenced a lot by standard italian. And in the case of venetan even the purest form is mutually inteligible with standard italian. And the other forms even more.

@@stefanreichenberger5091 you dont consider bavarian as a language. So you shouldnt consider neapolitan as a language.

Bavarian is a High German dialect and mutually intelligible with Standard High German. However, the almost extinct dialects of Northern Germany (Plattdeutsch) belong to Low German, which is a separate language. Anyway, almost all dialects in Germany are in rapid decline.

jajaj absolutamente TODO!

Da vero?

@@Fercitohuchiha Da vero, nunca eh estudiado italiano y aún así entendí todo o prácticamente todo xD Es la ventaja entre los que hablamos alguna lengua romance.

​@@hineraable L'italiano , lo spagnolo ed il portoghese sono simili fra loro al 90%, quindi già parli italiano al 90% ;)

Sí, aún más que el portugués

Grazie, Samuel! Però non ho fatto un corso di dizione :)

Ho fatto anche questo esempio.

Voi veneti siete fortunati rispetto a noi lombardi

I have a question for you Italians, is Sicilianu a dialect or a language? I suspect 'dialetto' in Italian is not dialect in English.

@@tofoletdecastalia2253 Italian dialects are languages (linguistically speaking). Mostly Romance languages, like Catalan etc

Italy, when it comes to local languages, is governed centrally and, like France, and unless this changes the dialects to die out. The alternative is recognizing them and teaching them like Catalan in Spain or even Welsh in Wales which both have better recognition and official protection than any Italian dialects do.

@@tofoletdecastalia2253 Every italian "dialect" is a language. The only real dialect is the roman dialect.