I'm Italian and I use these gestures and many more every day. Is it really so strange?

cool. i'm learning Italian. this might be useful for me when i go to my trip to Italy

I loved the video (I'm italian), but I read the comments and saw that some italians don't agree. Thing is, Italy is a small country but there are so many differences between each region. These gestures are more commonly used in south Italy for example.Just think about the fact that we have a lot of dialects in the same region: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialetti_d%27Italia

Love the clip Nada!! I knew some of them, and learned a few new ones. Can't wait to try them out in October!

I'm Italian and I actually do not make all that gestures while I'm talking...!!! If you want to check out my videos, I teach Italian language here on youtube ;) All the best to you all xx

I love this!

Thanks for the video! Living in Naples, you definitely notice how the nonverbal form of communication here goes hand in hand with the spoken language. Beautiful country and wonderful people.

it s a very useful video, thank you Nada!!!

Complimenti per i gesti ,di cui io non sapevo vivendo in Italia da 20 .mi avete fatto fare una risata,perché li trovo molto divertenti ed espressivi！😄

To all the italians commenting: what the f++k is your problem? Why are you offended by this? We DO use hand gesture: someone use them less, someone use them more; and yes, in these videos they can be a little bit exagereted, and we certainly don't constantly do hand gestures like if we were deaf, but you CAN'T say these are stereotypes. I think you don't even realize you use them while speaking. We use them to underline the concept we're talking about, to enfatize a sentence, to communicate in a crowded place or in silence without being heard. And i'm from Rome, that is neither south or north Italy, neither countryside, neither a small city. Relax people, take it easier, there is nothing offending in this.

I absolutely love this video--I come from a large Italian-American family (da Roma) and this video cracked me up. So fun!

yes, we can understand without talk! greetings from Italy..

My favorite was "Madonna mia!" - my mom said that all the time!

Very cool. Although I can't remember them all, but I can start to see that their gestures do mean something! Very nicely done!

Good job!!! GRAZIE MILE!

bellissimos! i love those gestures!

Do more videos like this!!!!!! with words and stuff! out of all the videos this is the one i learned most!!!

Very cute! I think I will start using some !!!!

i love ittt please dont ever change

Splendid, thank you.

We use a lot of these gestures in conversation here in Brazil too.I think some are pretty clear and it's probably used in many places around the world.

lol i'm American Italian This video mad me smile. Some of the video remind me of my great grandparents and grandma. thank you for the memory i love it

My nonna and papa use these gestures all the time ^-^ now I'm trying to learn Italian. And this helped:]

you are a great person

Ciao ragazzi! I like it. It makes me happy...

I'm going to Italy in 3 weeks, and this video is so helpful!! And the phrases are useful ones, too! XD

Bellissimo! Grazcie!

LOVE from Turkey!! I love that hand thing!

This is such an amazing culture. I use my hands a lot when I am talking and my friend told me about how Italians do the same thing. I decided to look it up

great video...when was it shot, actually?

awesome!

i want to go there so bad. italy looks like so much fun!

molto buonno !!! Grazie Millie da São Paulo / Brasile !!!!

Bellissimo!

Mi avete fatto veramente ghignare, grazie!!! :D It is amazing how I do that unconsiously!

Great!

i laughed my ass off reading this lol

ahahahaha I'm Italian but I've never seen 3 or 4 of these gestures before! I didn't know they even exist XD

Quando ho fame non faccio quel gesto, e sono italiana... When I'm hungry I don't do that gesture, and I'm Italian...

very cool indeed! italys 1 of my fave european countries i love how yall speak yer language and do all the hand gestures and live y'all's culture so passionately !! auguri dagli Stati Uniti!! Mi piacerebbe andare in Italia molto presto in futuro e imparare la lingua voi tutti!

I knew I knew those streets and doors! I studied in Cortona too! Miss it so!

dovresti fare più video, sono molto divertenti :D

very nice it is sad that what not being in Italy can do to your identity

Yeh we have allot of hand gestures in England to. :-)

fantastico, lol i love this video, lol my nonna and my dad use their hands a lot.

Wow, that's a different way of thinking of it.

Wonderful

very interesting

Thats really true !!!!! They always do it ..Was living there for past 6 years !! I luv that place

Man I miss Italy, I didnt think it was possible to miss a language but yep I miss that to.

Unlike other Italian hand gestures videos, this one is really well done. Freddie88 below gives some good hints and of course not all Italians use all these gestures but the ones I've seen in this video are known by everyone so non-Italians can hve fun using them when visiting Italy and be sure they'll be understood;)

thanks i like

Me la stavo facendo sotto dalle risate!! Bellissimo (anche se un po' esagerato)

Hahaha friend of mine is italian 😂 and this is accurate .. I've been seen it all lol

i love the Italian accent!

Omg I'm Saudi Arabian and we have the same hand gestures!!! Not all of them but most of them

Bella questa! La mostrero' ai miei studenti principianti.

I love the location

i love to learn italian i wish i was living there for a while.

My Italian language instructor, from Naples, explained the hand gestures as being integral to conveying the meaning of the spoken word such that, for example 'over here' and 'over there' are spoken the same and it is only with the use of a hand gesture that the meaning is transmitted. I had no grounds to question his premise but always wondered if it was accurate as he maintained it was for the Neapolitan language.

NADA, YOUR FRIEND WITH THE GLASSES IS A LITTLE CUTIE !!! LOL

Italians are beautiful !!!!!! I love you Italy !!!

omg...the "what are you doing gesture" and "madonna mia" gestures my host mother did those to me all the time..haha

learned enough Italian for the day

Lovely

this helps me understand my husband more. lol he's pure Italian and sometimes he does somethings I don't understand CX this makes sense now.

I'm starting Italian next semester.

What happened if they are taking over the phone. do they still use the hand gestures?

They are soooo funny! :)))

We use so many of these hand gestures in Tunisia as well lol, not all of course but about maybe 80% of them

Proud Italian!

PROUD OF MY ANCESTORS ,VIVA ITALIA!!!

la mia famiglia è italiana ma viviamo in Australia e usiamo ancora questi gesti delle mani!!

We having many yes of these gesturas similar in Mexico.

Come mai a Cortona? Just curious to know how you chose the location and the people in the video - because I lived in Cortona for 8 months and recognize both the location and some of the people! Really cute video, thanks - i shared it on facebook.

In Spain a lot of these are used. Not all the time, just sometimes. Still though, I got most of them.

Hahahahaha. Oh my gosh, I'm part italian and I ALWAYS get made fun of for talking with my hands! This is great!

Oh Gosh! It's like learning sign language and verbal language at the same time.

Wow I discovered that in Mexico we do use some of those hand gestures! Looks like we do share more than just same flag colors, romance tongue origin, good cuisine and warm people.

Love that during the come here\go away bit the other guy just moves both arms and shoulder,which is another gesture! :) I don't even know how to express that in english.this is like:"I don't understand,I don't know what to do about it!" but it isn't quite correct.These vids are quite useful anyway!brava! :)

im italian and i use my hands a lot when i talk but i dont use them the way this video shows

bene nada i love you vids

my family is from naples, and they have used about half of these gestures, but yes, as most people said, they come naturally while we speak. some of them I have never heard of .....

the gesture that they indicate as "sorry" it doesn't mean simply sorry, more specifically it means "there is nothing left" "I have no more"

I love being Italian.....we are hysterical!

Italians are impressive.❤

Living in Argentina, in a few months I was "talking" like this 🤣

i'm brazilian, but my mom's family part is italian, because of them i use these gestures everyday lol

marco in a box has 60 italian hand gestures he teaches and also italian proverbs. check them out. my granddmother, maria bartollota ledt itsly and moved in america thru ellis island. she had an older sister vincenta and her parents were salvatore and maria. Is there any place to search for recorda of my family. my mother ; not my mothers mothwr saod she was from aicoly but i dont think that adccurare.

Sono tutti gesti molto veri anche se enfatizzati :D Ho sempre pensato che chi non gesticola ha un difetto di comunicazione, quindi avete fatto bene a insegnare anche agli stranieri un modo di comunicare più "completo" :D

remember my grandparents doing all these hand jestures

mind if i share this video with my mom???

Also in arabic we use the same gestures

Just remember that gestures are really, really informal. REALLY.

Can u tell which exactly are true?

Where was that filmed? Nice town.

when i watch Italian videos i dont need to turn on the volume

nice

i like the leave & go away one...even though i don't really get it lol :D

i just luv italy :D