What British People Think About Italians | Easy English 85 

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"Southern Italians don't spend time in their homes" Me as southern italian: *sitting all day on the sofa watching youtube*

The intelligence of the two children is astonishing (and also of the other participants, very well educated)

Lovely to hear this. Some nice educated people commenting. Very flattering. I'm of Italian origin but born in England. I respect both great cultures.

I am Italian and I totally love Brits and their culture! ❤️ P.S.: those two kids are so polite and well behaved! Kudos to their parents :))

Italians are great! I love their culture so much that I studied Italian at university and I now teach the language to Brits. We can learn a lot from them, perhaps especially in the areas of good hospitality, presentation skills (dressing well) and eating well.

When I first moved over to England nearly 9 years ago, people were asking me where I was from, as soon as I said Italy, they all went "oh that's lovely! I love Italy and Italians" so I felt super welcomed :) I love living in England, great place to be, loving the open-ness to different countries culture and how foreigns can actually socialise within the local community, something Italy should take as a good example and work on...

I think Italians are fascinating, beautiful people. I love the Italian language as well, it’s truly melodic and wonderful to listen to. Love you Italy ❤️🇮🇹❤️ from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Bosnian citizen here from Sarajevo. Although I started learning Italian in the 80's because of Gaetano Scirea and Juve, I only really started speaking it when I moved to - London! :D honestly, 90% of my friends in London were Italians. Also, if all nations were like Italians, the world would be at peace. Amore. Forza Juve, forza Italia!

I am Italian but I know very well English mentality, and their way of living, as I lived overseas for many years, mainly in English speaking countries. Also I lived in London for 5 yrs. Well I must say that my Best friend for a life time was an English guy. In the beginning he was very distant and not very friendly but, after 1/2 years, we became so close that for me he was like part of the family, as much as I was part of his. He passed away in a tragic circumstance but trust me when I say that when my father died, I didn't cry as much as I did for my beloved Friend's sudden death. I love England I would give up my right arm to retire up there in Dorset. UK always in my mind. Love The Brits. Carus :-)

My husband is Italian and we live in north Italy. That's true about the older generation, they care about what they wear and walking everywhere is never an option it's a must! Nice content Easy English, at first i was worried what is the content all about honesty 😂😂

As an Italian and a human being I must say that these two teenagers have been a blessing to my ears and to this video as well. Such intelligent teenagers who are easily able to perceive the world objectively. Especially the boy was incredible! Mille grazie 🙏🏻

As Italians we will never be able to forget your sacrifice to free our country from the fascist dictatorship. Honor, respect and memory for the British soldiers who fell in Italy for the freedom of our people.

The brits are fantastic people, they have great sense of humor and a rich history of explorers and scientists. Gonna watch the video on the Easy Italian channel and I really hope my compatriots will be just as generous and polite.

I'm Italian but have a deep respect for England. Love the literature, arts, science, music, cities. The people there are so polite and kind to others and welcoming. Always a Thank You and cheers from the people. Very happy and loving people. I love how nice their gardens are. Their cities are cleaner than in Italy and better managed.

I find the more south you travel in Italy the more fun Italians are. I love how they joke and take the mickey out of one another (ribbing one another). Always laughing, smiling and having fun.

I'm American and I love you both. 😍

As an Italian, I can't stress how wrong people are when they think that every Italian dresses up perfectly. We don't lol.

As an Italian, born in Brighton with all my british family living in Saltdean, this video makes me smile in such a big way

Real Criteria , they are elegant, and are obsesed for their food that i also enjoy since i found my italian partner, and if i got tired of it , that will be a new plate to bring me back to acept their food is amazing! Apart of that, even whatever they will say will sound kind or respectful sometime that make me feel english is much fast and proactive but less kind than italian. Over all they are very friendly and caring even of kids or people they dont know.

Italians are so friendly and adorable.

I am English. My beautiful, lovely wife Mária, is Italian. I love Italy, especially her food. The Roman empire, we teach our children. And we always visit Rome. We live in Devon, UK right now 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇮🇹

🇮🇹❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿we love english too!!there are very nice english people as well!we should not fight over football but embrace each others culture!!I'm glad you have a good opinion of us and thanks everyone for the lovely words 😁🙏🇮🇹

I love Italy 🇮🇹 Had the pleasure of driving all over there beautiful country. And holidaying in sorrento .

Can confirm, we adore Italians, we love learning about the culture, we love the food, we love their effortless style, we love how expressive they are. They're everything that we aspire to as Brits but are too repressed to embrace. I'm so in love with Italian people that I started learning the language a few months ago so I can make some italian friends.

All British people in this video are so polite! I have lived in the UK and this brings back memories of their good manners.

I really liked this video! All the answers were really kind! Thanks for sharing it with us 🥰

Beautiful episode! 😁 I have been in the UK so many years ago and I wish I could come back again one day! I spent so many beautiful moments over there! I love brits people and it gives me a lot of proud as an Italian listen so beautiful things from them! Love you all! ❤️

So much politeness together!

I'm part English and part Italian my Italian ancestory came from the mountains around Lake como like both cultures I grew up with more Japanese English traditions since my mum is Japanese and I grew up in England

Wonderful video - thank you - I will share it with my English students here in Rome in this week's newsletter :)

I learn a lot with your vidéos .. thanks for you .

I feel so much love. Grazie!

I need to back home -Italy- already planning to relocate back to the UK, but I'm gonna try to find something down south, just listening to those people took so much edge off. Absolutely well-articulated, charming, respectful... this vid made me dream.

U found amazing person, kind and polite😍... Thx from Italy

Some lovely comments. I'm very proud to be half English and half Italian 😊

I find that the major similarity of British and Italian is the dry humour and the ability laugh at themselves in dire moments. May be many do not agree, but this is what I found in knowing them. They remind me much of the Tuscans in some ways. My first wife was English, we lived 20 years together, I was the one to leave not her. It was hard at the beginning but then we started to understand our different way of thinking and find commonality. It was great, I have never forgotten.

"Italians can cook and they are very well dressed". So I'm not a real Italian. 😅

Love it. I've lived in the UK for a few years now, and I have to say, most of the british people i've been in touch with have always been so nice, and friendly.

I enjoyed this a lot, I lived in the UK 🇬🇧 ( London ) and it changed my life, I will always be grateful to that city, I have English friends and i really like them, always have, they re open minded and they know how to have fun in life, they invented football too so thumbs up 👍

The two kids were really smart! Amazing! Hugs from Italy 🇮🇹

Loved this interview. These people are so nice 😊 (I’m 🇮🇹) Ps the second man story got me so into it ! That sounded like it come from a movie/novel

Saluti dall’Italia, it’s a pleasure to hear these things about my country. I love Great Britain and bis people.

A cultural difference. Banter is such a big thing in Britain, and yet not fully understood by some 🇮🇹. In my opinion of keen observer who lived in England, banter is a way of accepting people into a social group, whether it be friends or peers at work. Normally the 🇬🇧 are from polite to over polite to strangers, but when the banter begins, usually when you get a nickname, be sure you moved from simple acquaintance to friend. The reason must be due to the self-deprecating humour (banting back is fine and well accepted), as well as a way to check your personality by your reaction. Btw, my nickname at work was Mr. RP. Why? Because, in order to be more accepted and totally adapted in a new enviroment, I used to stick to the received pronunciation I had forced myself to learn and practice for months on end as a student before getting the job, with awkward results. A foreigner who speaks unnaturally posh, in connected speech, and uses subjunctive forms when not strictly necessary😂. Eventually I got what I expected. Like, "Mr. RP, get some work done today, will you? No Italian two-hour lunch break, d'ya understand me, mate?"😂🇬🇧👏

I LOVE ITALY!!! I know it can be crazily caotic in its government but...the people, art, beauty, style, joy, ...a blessed and very well loved country! Viva L'Italia! Being dominican, I think italians are the closest to dominican people I will ever get! Passion for life is what we both have!!!

Love this. ❤️

Very nice episode! I am italian and I thank you for that..I will also watch the italian version of this episode. I found all the answers nice and sincere but I like to mention the two little guys, I think they were very mature for their age, especially when they spoke about football and about italians opinion about brits :)

very funny and interesting! well done!

I loved listening to this video and can only reiterate what my previous commentators have just said, all of the people were very educated. I live in UK almost 7 years and I love the country and there people. More of this videos...

Excellent video,

Really nice video! I'm italian (or, better, half italian and half french) but I love british culture, british history, british music and british football (yes, even if we have won the Euro). And, mostly, I love Saltdean and all Brighton & Hove district where I have been for three years of my life. :)

you interviewed very nice lovely people! Grazie dall'Italia!

That's so wonderful to hear that.. Im italian and I didn't expect people to see us like that, thank you

I'm an Italian who's been living in the UK for nearly three years now and I find it extremely interesting to see how people view us as 'Italians', I genuinely wouldn't have thought that there is so much respect for our culture and behaviours. Great video.

I'm very glad to hear all those nice things about italians.

I'm Italian and I have to admit the British comments were so much nicer and accurate than those of the Italian ones. On top of this, the two children are extremely well educated, congrats to their parents

I've been to Italy quite a few times and love it. I have known many Italian people who have lived in the UK and have stayed friends with many of them. I think our two countries compliment each other well. I have always enjoyed travelling to other countries and meeting folks and I must say that I have been made to feel welcome. I hope that they feel welcome when visiting my country. I have a particular affection for Italy though, the history and art are fantastic but the chaotic Italian roads are pretty scary.

Lovely video!!! I personally envy your accent 😊 Love from Milan

As Italian I love British culture, country and people. Brits are so polite and I love the british accent.

Wow, I'm Italian and I'm surprised to hear such beautiful words from British people. I've always felt like our cultures and attitude were extremely different, like British being calm, sophisticated and composed people, Italians being completely opposite like genuine and loud. That's why I really didn't expect such good reactions! By the way I love Britain and British culture, I really hope to go visit England one day ❤️

Lovely. Thanks :)

I'm Italian and I love the British. The pubs are cozy and safe. The music and I fish and chips

Next time you visit Italy be sure to visit Runco, is such a magical place

cool report!

Lovely video =)

We are two different cultures for sure but that doen't mean that one is better that the other... Obviously both have pros and cons. I love your approach to it and the open mind your interviewees have had.

I’m from Torino West Side and I go very often to Ventimiglia

Yes, you're certainly coconuts! I used to live in London, came back to Italy and after 10 years and I had a child: all my English friends sent him a small present and either came to see him or invited us to England so that they could meet him. Can you think of anything more charming? Having them over in our holiday home for a short vacation is one of the highlights of our summers... unfortunately Covid has put this little pleasure of ours on hold, but we'll both get over it. Also in my opinion bith Brits and Italians have a good sense of humour... even though ours is way less subtle.

Loved the kids !!!

some of the people being interviewed here are so well-spoken! didn't expect that from a beach interview

I am italian and I have to be honest- I didn’t expect this 😔🖐🏻💕 you let me cry now, how come I didn’t know about this 💕😭 this ppl are just so pure, imma take them with me >:)

Nice video! I'm obviously Italian but I live and work in the UK. My daughter was born here. My heart belongs to both cultures.

That was really nice to watch. I was born in England of Italian parents, we spoke Italian at home, all my English friends were welcome & my parents always insisted they stayed for a bite to eat.

Such nice words from the people..we are very family orientated.Something that Italy and britain have in common is that in every region (even within the region and within villages and aerias towns it changes) there are different accents and dialects and you can automatically tell where that person is from..there are hundreds if not thousands of dialects in Italy..i live in a small villaggio in south Italy...and you call even tell from what area of the village the person Is from by the way they speak..Its soo interesting but crazy...i like to hear the different British accents very beautiful and interesting.Very true about the waiters..they are very professional and skilled..its and art and there are rules..but then again i have never been to UK to see how they are at the fortnum and maison or Ritz..probably very good waiters there. Something not too true i am italian but i hate to cook...it too Is an art and skill you acquisto with time..i do appriciate our food and like to learn where each region recipe derived from originaly.. In Calabria we have something simalar to black pudding and haggis like the scottish wich is interesting..probably something that the Romans brought to us or vice versa.

Thank you very match Grazie molte/mille. English brothers 🙏 🙂

Brits people are honestly amazing. I remember when I was a child that some british tourists who was friends with my parents and grandparents (my family owns two agriturisms) and I think I never met more generous people they sometimes gifted me with some books and toys when they came visit us, I feel sorry that I couldn't speak well english when I was little

Some of the best customers I ever had in Sicily where Brits. I'm missing them very much sincerely. I hope We will all have less restrictions for traveling in the future. 🙏

all the nations are a must have to the earth to show the variety ....

I'm surprised. Nice video. I'm from Sicily.

I am Italian and I like the music you put in this video, ahah! :)

I'm a Italian- and I am in UK school and they are nice to me! 🇬🇧 ❤ 🇮🇹

I'm impressed by how many well mannered people you packed together, thanks for kind words 🇮🇹🤗👍

I’m a Brit and I love the Italians, I’m loud, passionate and speak with my hands so my friends say I was Italian in a past life lol I truly love how passionate Italians are and obviously love the food.

The second one is 100% accurate!

Big hi from an Italian living in the UK! Lovely to hear so many nice people, we love British culture too (especially the brilliant literature and comedy/sense of humour!).

Great video im italian living in england since 1989...

I'm Italian - very polite people in this video, thank's for all the compliments, i appreciate - i really like UK as well - we have to stay always in good relationships and you're always welcome to visit Italy

i'm an italian. and from the 3rd man's description, I CAN SAY THAT IS DAMN ACCURATE LOL

im italian and can confirm..we respect older people and family is all for us..its something they tell you since your small..respect the older people

I am Italian I spent 1 year of my life 50 kn far from London. I miss UK and luckily I will come back in 1 week 😍🇮🇹🇬🇧

2:57 LOL, always sunny outside: the record of the hugest snowfall in a town is in Southern Italy....

As the woman in blue said "what I think about Italy is food" and I can't be more agreed with her !!!

Ciao Easy English!❤️ I am an italian girl from Roma 🇮🇹 and i think this video is bellissimo! I love english tea 😜 and i love London and the second man interviewed (the very tanned man) is amazing he could actually pass as italian he reminds me of a fashion designer i don’t know why

amazing people brits and italians as well, of course

On a side we have a silly football game separating 2 beautiful countries, on the other side we have this video reuniting them for good.

I'm Italian, I love Italy so much that I'd like to move in England! Or somewhere over there...where things works well and citizens do care for the environment.

Amo l'ironia inglese

If you have to go to Italy, go to Firenze (Florence). That city is simply beautiful. LOT of traffic, but mamma mia the city itself is gorgeous

The two ladies at 4:19 , very funny . Best interview ever.

You all people sounds so cute ❤️❤️