and perhaps that is the reason, why people of southern Europe and Arabic cultures speak so LOUD;) if you are afraid of not being understand , you often speak louder...
This also explains why Arabic people use hand gestures too; Arabic has tons of dialects, because it is spoken throughout lots of countries, so hand gestures make communication easier
Nope, almost every Arab country can understand each other. Well, except for Morocco and Darija in general. Other Arab countries find this language (dialect) a bit hard to understand. Due to the reason being influenced by other language, European languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese. And Tamazight.
@@Der_Connormaybe I just lack comprehension skills but as an Egyptian it took me 8 years in the Middle East to finally understand peninsular Arabic. Darija is harder for me to understand than Spanish and I do not speak Spanish.
A lot of what you call dialects in Italy are really different languages with their own grammar. This is why sometimes you will not understand those from different districts.
I love how happy Italians become when you try to learn Italian. There are some countries that are extremely negative about hearing foreigners "butcher" their language, like the French or the Danes. But Italians are so usually supportive and happy when they hear foreigners speak Italian. Im not really one who likes to generalize, but I have made those observations. I stopped learning Danish because of it.
Because Germany has not been a land of conquests as much as Italy. this means that the Germans have less difficulty in understanding each other than we do. the Italian dialects all derive from Latin but have changed from it thanks to the contributions deriving from the languages of the conquerors. (Spanish, French, Arabic...) We, as italians, are not better of germans, our land is just located in the middle of the Mediterranean and taking possession of it, meant having control over the Mediterranean.
@@marilenabarsanti6939 Do you think that in the middle ages there was a common Italian awareness and solidarity? Would let's say people from Sardinia consider Catalans more "foreign" than Romans, Venetians, or Genuans? I was also thinking that Italians were for a long time a nation of sailors and traders. This required the ability to communicate easily with foreigners and maybe this also stimulated the development of the language of gestures. Do you think it makes sense?
prova a capire i napoletani quando parlano dialetto o in generale le persone del sud se sei del nord come me, se invece sei del sud prova a capire un piemontese o un veneto. beh ovviamente parlo di dialetti, non accenti sennò è ovvio che ci capiamo:)
He's not saying people from all different regions cannot understand each other but as with any language and country there's people with thicker accents in certain places, so of course, there's some people who undertandably can't understand each other, especially when they speak closer to their local regional dialect even when speaking Italian.
As an Italian, I completely agree! I'm from Rome and when I visited Venice I could not grasp people's accent, same goes for southern regions' dialects such as Puglia or Sicilia. Great video!
Germany was also divided in even more small states in the past and hadn’t developed body language so I doubt that it is the real reason for using it in Italy.
Amazing how late 'standard Italian' was made official. Is that really perfetto, or, rather eccellente? Or even 'just' competent or understandable 😂😍 Preferably also polite. Ahem
It goes back to an ancient form of sign language used between those who traded, worked with various groups of people, militaries, etc. in order to communicate. (Side note; there are similar sign languages that were/are used for a similar reason by Native Americans in the USA and beyond). The Romans utilized this as well during public speeches, where various hand gestures meant/represented various points of view, emphasis, and phrases. There is an a full, ancient, fascinating history of arm/hand symbolism in Italy that trickles down to the present day!
Makes no sense ... Then why others, let's say Scandinavians didn't develop hand gestures ???? Even not just Italians, everyone south Europe, Balkan , Mediterranean, Turkey and others use a tons of hand gestures , signs and signals .. South Europeans , we are more expressive kinda , we use whole body to express our feelings and similiar. Also we are very loud for North European standards..In the same time North Europe is more cold, calm and collected.
What for sure makes no sense is some intrinsic and obscure feature of southern europeans that pushes them to use more hands for no reason. Also this is not something happening since forever.
You forgot to mention that especially in south, where i live, we had lots of different interactions in the mediterranean area, lots of business since before Christ years, i live in the "heel" and here we had arabs, spanish, french, greek, North African, Turkish and so on. Some words of my dialect comes from greek, french and spanish.
I like so much a teacher who's taking it that easy, Italian can look like a big mountain to climb with it's 21 conjugation, but keep moving and you'll be fine, as Italian i appreciate so much every little try foreigners did with me, thanks
C’mmon, Ollie! That’s (pardon my French!) BS! Italians are just animated people. And they are not the only people in the world using hand gestures while they speak. And if different and mutually unintelligible dialects were the cause of hand gestures, then please explain why Germans do not use as much body language when they speak. Otherwise, the histories of both countries are quite similar. As a country, German states also unified very late around the same time as Italy did. German dialects are even more notoriously different and mutually unintelligible among themselves than Italian dialects are. Standard German did not become commonplace until well into the 20th century. And yet, that didn’t cause any animation among its speakers.
I like the way you say "perfetto" very uncommon from an English native. I wouldn't say that Italians cannot understand each other and btw Italian gestures are not used in the same exact way in different regions. The mystery is not solved 🤔
My experience of the upper northwest is not true. Friulans and upper Veneto. Perhaps thats changed over the last 20 years. My parents and relatives never used hand gestures. Nor did i see it in the towns or villages. They were vibrant but limited gestures.
All correct, even if i may add, italian isn't made of hand gestures more than other languages, just think of the US english, among gang hand signs, rap culture, plus a certain attitude and mindset which include hands as bond to the spoken comunication, it's just a cliche that we are the first country in the world using hands to communicate, along as many others like the fact that we are believed to just eat pizza and spaghetti all the time, that we all sing, play mandolin, we all are part of the mafia, extc.
I once spent an evening with an Italian. We had no common language but he spoke mainly with his hands and I understood him well most of the time. I didn't learn much from my brief fling with a sign language, but it taught me how to use my hands more purposefully for communication in general.
not really, u confuse emphasis with a set of hand gestures that have a specific meaning... example: im from north Italy and i can barely understand the meaning of sentences in some southern dialects (if spoken in their strict form) but we share the same "code" of gestures... what you talk about is just emphasizing your sentence by moving your hands, not the same
@@kingofracism as i lived in Birmingham for 3 years (also Oxford and Stratford upon Avon for a shorter period) i understand what you mean but trust me when i say its not the same. Im not saying it out of spite or cause Italians are "special". It just is what it is. Agree to disagree
Such as China and India, neither of which are historically homogeneous. They are to this day multi lingual and multicultural. A decent theory, but ultimately conjecture.
Some informations are not accurate. Italian is the official language at least since 1952 with italian costitution. Anyway it already was official during fascism and in 1861 tuscan was the official language, that is the dialect from which italian comes
