I don't care if Italian is not as "useful" as other more commonly spoken languages. I love how Italian sounds and I am happy I started learning it.

I’m a Frenchman who started to learn Italian in high school. Now I’m applying for a master’s degree in Rome. It’s a very pleasant language to speak and I hope to be fluent one day

I started learning Italian because I was 1) single, 2) wanted to meet Italian women and 3) I happened to be spending lot of time in Italy. I eventually met and married an Italian woman from Piemonte. For me, learning Italian wasn't all that hard mainly because I already spoke French and had taken many German classes in college.

Hi, I'm an Egyptian who speaks both Arabic and English (for obvious reasons) but I've been learning French since I was 4-ish at school (my French is as good as school could make it to be) and I decided to learn Italian about two years ago and my familiarity with French made a significant impact on me in digesting the Italian language, it was almost as learning a variation of French not a whole new language so I would say yes being able to speak a specific romance language definitely makes it easier learning the others. Salam

It still feels strange not being called a Noble One. I learnt a little Italian a few years ago. I started with tourist stuff and was working towards casual conversation. It is such a beautiful language, the way it rolls of your tongue and one word flows into another, you can almost taste it - it feels so nice to speak. Learning Italian may not fill your pockets, but it will fill your heart and your soul - especially when you tie that in with the culture, history and art.

My native language is German but I also grew up speaking Vietnamese. My Vietnamese isn't great, though. I speak English fluently and I'm currently studying Italian at university. I hope to become truly fluent in Italian and Vietnamese in the near future. Italian is a really beautiful language and I will learn the language no matter what. It doesn't matter how practical or unpractical it may seem. I sometimes struggle with which language I use to study Italian - German or English. German has more grammatical equivalents compared to English, but English has more cognates. Anyway, great video, Metatron! Maybe do some videos in Italian for us poor underappreciated Italian learners? :D

1. Opera and great singing culture. 2. Awesome movies. 3. Rich literature starting from Petrarca and Boccaccio to e.g. Umberto Eco. 4. Very historically signifikant country, tons places to visit. Many places to visit.

Because English is such a dominant World Language, us native English speakers are very privileged because we talk to so many people without learning another; but in another sense, we miss out. When you learn another language, it really does open your mind. the more languages that I learn, the better equipped I am to learn any sort of new thing that is a system, be it coding, or a laws, or complex financial translations.

I'm an American in Utah, USA whose family comes from Italy. I love the culture, the cuisine, the history... everything Italian. I just want to speak it for my own pleasure and enjoyment, so I'm sad that there's nobody around here for me to practice with. And a video on Italian dialects would be cool! My family spoke Franco provenzale.

Yes, Italian is of high importance in the field of Music. Also so in Law, and Medicine, due to it's frequently used Latin terms, that of course Directly correlate to Italian.

I was born and raised in Chicago but I am of Italian descent on my paternal side (Polish descent on maternal side). My paternal great grandfather came over in 1901 from Brindisi Montagna (Potenza/Basilicata). I was exposed to some Italian as my grandparents occaisionally spoke it with neighbors in our little Italy neighborhood. My grandmother's parents were from Faicchio (Benevento/Campania). I was always disappointed that the language was not passed down to me and always had a passing interest to maybe learn it someday. But I never thought I would be able to really use it if I did as I figured I could never really leave America. But I do feel somewhat connected to the culture, language aside. My dad even ran an Italian restaurant for a time and made some pretty good pizza (according to a food critic on radio or TV, we once had the best pizza in Chicago as I was once told by my dad in the mid 1970s). Not long after my father died in the early 2000s, I discovered I had a possible claim to Italian citizenship by descent and after many years of geneology research, chasing down vital records, correcting them, getting new versions, translating them, etc... I finally went for it and after a little over 4 year wait (covid delayed everything), the Italian consulate confirmed my Italian citizenship late last year and I got my Italian passport and Codice Fiscale in January! I have no more excuses now to put off learning Italian and very much want to go all the way to C2 level even though I know this will take years. Now that I am an Italian citizen, I want to communicate like one, properly! I am also seriously considering moving to Italy in the next few years or so. I am older now and learn a bit slower but my teenage son is very excited about our good fortune and he is also going to start learning with me. I plan to move soon after he graduates from high school. Hopefully he can go to an Italian university if he gets strong enough with the language. We also want to know more about the dialects spoken in Brindisi Montagna as well as Faicchio. I suspect Napolitano but I would love to confirm from someone who knows for sure! Then, after learning standard Italian, we will try to learn the local flavor of the langauge. Until we got the nod from Italy, I was resigned to remaining in the USA, never realizing I had a path to a new and possibly better life. My whole family is on board with moving to Europe and I hope to re-discover my heritage soon! I plan to visit my ancestral Comune next summer.

I'm definitely interested in a dialect video. I'm Italian Canadian (from the greater Toronto area) and my Nonna & Nonna only spoke to me in Calabrese (Cosenza). Interestingly, my grandparents never had to learn English and they lived in Canada for over 60 years. This isn't an uncommon experience for the Southern Italians growing up in Canada, especially those who's parents immigrated during the 60s and 70s to Canada. My other side of my family is Sardinian and spoke Italian & Sardo, but I unfortunately never learned the Sardinian language. I'd even love to see a video on the Sardinian language. In Toronto and Montreal, due to the major influence of Southern Italian culture here, I would argue that the dialects are used more often than standard Italian. Also, in Toronto, we have a multi cultural / Italian radio station named CHIN Radio that was started by an Italian Canadian in the late 1960s to serve the Italian community. Even today, CHIN radio is still on the air and I even listen to it while I'm driving to keep up my Italian and get hear the local news in Italian. You should definitely visit the Italian areas of Toronto and Montreal one day if you haven't already!

I have been considering learning Italian for a while without any real justification besides reading certain Italian literature... I speak Romanian and it's interesting to see the similarities between the two languages

Definitely would like to see a video about whether it's worth learning Italian with so many dialects, especially for those planning to move to Italy.

My most general thought? If you like to learn any language and you have time for that, do it; don’t overthink, who cares if that language is useful or not, you like it? Well then, go ahead and learn it. Don’t listen to what other people will be telling you, do what you like if you can, because if you don’t I can assure you that you’ll regret it

In Brazil we have many communities of italian speakers, I think in the most regions you may found at least older speakers. Because our immigrant policy changes with the years (in the 1940 was proibihited speak e and write in public spaces languages other than portuguese) and the social dynamics of Brazil we don't have too many "little italies". And we have two types of imigration from Italy, one of workers to the industry and coffee plantations in São Paulo (Mooca, Brás, Bexiga, Barra Funda are the name of some neighborhoods), others immigrants stay some time in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, or Porto Alegre, and bought or were received land to live in the areas not populated in south Brasil, here you will find italian speakers too. If you speak italian and portuguese with them, you will be the celebrety of the town! haha Great video!!

Italian is one of the most studied languages in the world in spite of the fact that is not even among the top 20 most spoken.

My dad worked in South America for ten years, so from age 5 through 15 I learned and used Spanish outside the home and learned and used English inside the home. Spanish is more than a second language since I learned it at the same time I was learning English. I mention this because I can watch videos in Italian and unless the speaker is talking quickly, I pick up most of what is being said just knowing Spanish. Interestingly, this is NOT as true with Portuguese, which is odd because it is right next door to Spain, nor is it true with spoken French, although I can still follow about 25% of written French.

As a bavarian who is currently learning italian, one nice thing i noticed is that you italians use the word „quasi“ exactly like we bavarians do 😄 also some sayings correspond with english nicely, where german doesnt. In italian, like in english, the saying „even though“ bzw. „anche se“ is very Common, but in german it isnt. So i guess if you already speak a Second language on a higher Level, it certainly will help you out recognising patterns etc. more easily. Dopo italiano vorrei imparare francese e secondo me é vero, che italiano é la lingua dellˋamore. Edit: fun fact: in german you can and it is Common to do so, to use the Word stark = forte exactly like italians do in your example.

Learning Italian is of no use UNLESS you want to penetrate deep in the culture of this country. And, believe me, the trip is worth the price.

Yes please, I'm very interested in a dialect video!

That background is absolutely amazing 🤩

For the Italian dialect video question: Yes! I would very much be interested in that.

My native language is German and i speak very good English (i learned English in England) and i understand spoken English nearly as good as German (depends on the dialect). I started to lern Italian because i was born in Italy and i'm half Italian (and a big fan of Pizza and Pasta), but i grew up in Germany with my german mother. I want to learn Italian because i have 2 cousins in Italy, 1 in Rome (Valerio) & 1 in Rignano Flaminio (Silvia) and i want to talk with them in Italian (both speak good Engllish). And i like Italy very much, in my chest are two hearts, 1 German and 1 Italian. At the time i speak only a littlebit Italian but i want to get better and i'm working on it.

I'm German and have been a fan of Ancient Rome since childhood. I studied Latin in school and in university and have a so called Latinum, a German certificate for "knowledge of Latin". Our Spanish teacher at school taught us a little bit of Italian too, which was so much fun. For years I wanted to go to Italy, especially Rome, to visit all the ancient sights. Two years ago I finally managed it. Before it, I learned a little conversational Italian. It's pretty easy for me because of my Latin and Spanish knowledge. We were going by car and the street signs were easy too. This year I'll visit Rome for the second time and I want to study even more Italian. Maybe I can have a very basic conversation with some Italians. 😅

Italian is probably the easiest language for Greeks. Those who choose humanities at high school (about one third of all students) also study Latin for 2 years. It is also quite common to study English as a first foreign language and French as a second. I have never studied Italian, but I can understand many Italian words. The pronunciation is very easy and grammar is quite simple (compared to Latin). I recommemend Italian as an easier alternative to English for those who want to learn a major European language.

I didn't know you also had this channel until KZfaq recommended it on my feed! I'm very looking forward to learn Italian this year. I'd also like to see that video about regional Italian and standard Italian that you spoke of at the end.

The amount you upload here makes me super happy you are the best man on youtube

Alright mate. Yeah a video on local Italian languages/dialects would be very interesting. Cheers for the work.

I'm Brazilian, and speak Portuguese and English relatively well. My grand grandfather was Italian, so I want to learn Italian to travel to Italy, and maybe live there

Le informazioni e la spiegazione che dai in questo video sono corrette quanto interessantissime, Raffaello. Gran bel video, come al solito

I would really love to see a video about italian dialects!

I am from Asia, a Tamilian from India to be exact and since I already knew English from my school days and later I learnt French and can communicate fluently in it, absorbing Italian was not so much of a difficulty for me and before long, I became conversant in it, I did 4 levels of Italian at the Italian Chamber of Commerce of my hometown Chennai. As for my motivation for wanting to learn Italian, I love Italian food and I also have a background in music, also I thought and I still think that the language is beautiful like French, so I picked up a learn Italian in 30 days book as I was strolling through a book exhibition in my city many years ago and seriously started pouring over its pages prior to my Italian classes under a native Italian teacher from Venice, overall the journey of having learnt Italian is a lot of fun and I can use it with other non-native Italian speakers at work and be understood by speakers of other Romance languages like Spanish (which I speak as well as well as Portuguese) who would give me occasional glances when I use it with someone who speaks Italian. While my love for Italian spurred me on to learn it with my background in French, my love for French pushed me to learn Latin which I also speak and practise with circles of Latin learners from various countries as the situation would allow it.

those interactions with italian-americans was super cool and super heartwarming and wholesome. i love those stories

I'm a Latino who was born and raised in USA. English my first lang, and Spanish second. I've been teaching myself Greek following your tips and has been a fun experience so far. I just LOVE how cool sounding it is! I mean, "Ηημερολόγιο" (Ime-ro-lóh-gio) sounds like a beast name, but it's just "calendar" 😂 - seriously, everything sounds cool in Greek. Thanks for all the tips you share, they've been a huge help! I just wish I knew other Greek speakers around me, but they don't exist in my area 😅

Your example with "forte" was eccellente. 👌

Here is by far the best reason to learn Italian: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7mbdbN0sM-6oY0.html

“Reading in Italian is easy” I noticed. Since Italian pronunciation is really close with Turkish for some reason. Whenever I see an Italian word, the way I would say it in my native language almost always sounds really close. Turkish is really easy to read too.

Imparo l'italiano per divertimento. Thanks for your video!

I've been on and off trying to learn Italian for a while now, but I plan to really get down to it and make the language a part of my life. I've always just been unsure if what I'm studying or doing to learn the language is an effective use of my time, but tomorrow I'm going to begin trying to just get right into it full send and just start my daily grind from there.

Learn whatever language makes you happy! Italian makes me happy. ❤

I'm a Brazilian who loves Italy and I took 1 year of Italian classes. I'm planning to go back to it soon. Also, I'm available if you want to make a video testing how much you can understand of Brazilian Portuguese. As a long time subscriber, It would be a dream come true. 😀

Hi I am from São Paulo Brazil, here we have one of the biggest Italian communities in the world, we have a mall dedicated only for Italian products. Some would say that the pizza from here is the best besides Italian pizza

This is a great video, I'm an Italian speaker (not natively) but it was still very interesting. Would you be interested in any conlanging videos in the future?

Por supuesto que hay que aprender italiano, es un idioma precioso.

Im trying to learn Italian because its beautiful. I used to love when our local city got overun with young Italians for 2 or 3 weeks per year attending the summer language school (making use of university facilities when the students were on summer breaks). The Italians were louder but a lot more fun on mass than the other nationalities that took part. I think it was the language, the over the top style and their sense of fun. I also love opera - mainly baroque and classical era, most of which is sung in Italian and hope learning modern Italian will allow me to understand the libretto and grasp the nuances of what is being sung. I really appreciate all of your output in relation to language learning, so please, keep up the good work.

My first language was Italian, and then Dutch and English when I was four. Six years of Latin and two years of French later we moved back to Italy and I realized how lazy my Italian had become. As for Sicilian, I spoke it as a child when my grandmother was alive, but I honestly can't remember much. So perhaps Sicilian would be nice to relearn.

A very fun video as a Native Spanish speaker I always felt Italian was easier to understand than Portuguese but written I could understand more Portuguese than Italian, also our poor Romanian cousins always getting left out of conversations like these, though honestly I'd say their language is probably the hardest to understand of the Romance languages 😅

This is my 5th language, I’m learning it for fun and because I really like how it sounds and the culture. I also don’t speak any Roman languages, so it will be a little challenging for me, which I don’t mind. Thanks for the video 😊

I don’t see why not, if you want to go right ahead. I’m also planning on learning it sometime after that.

I’m currently learning Italian because I learnt it at school from age 7 to 12 (shout out to signore crollinni) and then was forced to learn French and got confused and spoke a mix of it. But I’d eventually love to learn a lot more languages and thought that relearning a language I learned when I was young would be the best way (especially after how bad I failed at learning Russian, even when I met someone who was a native speaker and did not understand a word he said)

Growing up in an area with a high Italian immigrant population you will learn some simply by proxy (same with Spanish and Yiddish). Learning Spanish and French in school helped pick up Portuguese and to a lesser degree some Italian. A fun language and helps when going through the the Italian neighborhoods (exchanging some friendly words with the nonnis and local shop owners is always a wholesome experience)

Native English speaker here. My grandparents spoke Italian in their homes growing up and would speak it with each other. They never taught it to the next generation. I desire to learn Italian to bring back this family tradition. I also have distant cousins in Italy we all keep in touch with.

I'm a Brazilian who holds Italian citizenship. My mother speaks Italian, but I tried to learn Venetian, the language of my great-grandfather. Although we have some towns where people spokes Talian( a local dialect of Venetian), I realized I had nobody to speak with. So then I started to learn Italian, and now I get fucked by false cognates all the time.

Hey I’m a native English speaker, I’ve been interested in learning Italian for a long time and I’ve finally decided to pull the trigger and learn it.

Italian is one of the coolest Romance languages, I am a Portuguese speaker and I also somewhat speak spanish. so of course I like portuguese a lot but I definitely still appreciate Italian. Sardinian is also cool as one of latins most conservative children.

My first language is Estonian and I just started to learn Italian. My Latin course in university years (decades) ago provides a little help. Italian pronunciation is easy for me, vocabulary and forming sentences needs more attention.

Worth it 100% if you want to go there on holiday. I always have lots of nice interactions and conversations when I go there. That said, Spanish is one of my native languages so it was really easy to learn.

Please more videos on italian dialects!

I've got Spanish and English, but I would come in handy another back-up to keep forward. Italian will cover that back.

My First language is Spanish, my second is Italian because my parents are Italians and my brothers live in Milano, my third is English(today is the most important), my fourth is French and now i'm studying Hebrew with an ulpam from israel...I'm from Argentina, good video and my like 👍

English Speaker. There’s peer reviewed Archaeological, History, etc works out there still only in Italian, Folkloric and Cookbooks-especially professional literature about the Culinary Arts, as well as Goth & Ethereal acts sometimes only covered by publishers & websites in languages not in English. I’m less interested in speaking it but reading for Knowledge but if I manage to be at least a semi coherent speaker of it that’ll be a nice bonus for me.

hi, I am a native speaker of portuguese from portugal. In general, I would say portuguese people have a easier time understanding Italian than Italians have portuguese from portugal. Barring a few words, portuguese can also be easily understood to a degree by Italians just by changing our style of pronunciation. By sounding more Italian a portuguese can communicate with Italians by adding a few Italian words to portuguese. If a Italian speaks Italian to us barring a few words we would acceptably communicate. however, a different situation happens when portuguese people speak the native variety of portuguese from portugal. It is described as sounding like Russian to some people and we also "eat letters" basically we dont pronounce necessarily always the same as written. so there Italians would understand a bit less. This however still doesn't change the fact that portuguese and Italian are cousin languages, although French and Italian are closer, I think portuguese has a 75 percent similarity with Italian being a descendant of latin. so even with all of this your bound to find an Italian with little or no difficulty speaking portuguese. Thanks for the video Metatron.

I grew up with parents and relatives who speak Mennonite Low German, but they never really spoke it that much to me, so although I understand it pretty well, I can't really speak it, even though I really want to. My main focus at the moment though learning High German, though, as well as Finnish. I also feel like I'm obligated to re-learn at least a little bit of French since it's one of the official languages here in Canada, but my favourite Romance language has always been Spanish. The funny thing is that if I read Italian or Portuguese, I can kind of figure out; I guess I remember just enough high school Spanish and elementary school French to be able to pick up some words.

My native languages are Mandarin and English. I speak Spanish at a pretty advanced level, having studied it for about 5 or 6 years. I still have trouble understanding certain accents (especially when spoken quickly) and TV shows, but I can have extended conversations with native speakers with little difficulty. I speak some Japanese, although my spoken Japanese is extremely rusty (used to be better when I was taking weekly Japanese lessons online), but I can read quite well, good enough to understand basically everything I come across. I'm currently focusing more on Catalan just for personal interest, and thanks to my Spanish knowledge, I already have an advanced beginner level with very minimal studying. I also want to learn Italian because I love how it sounds, and Italian food is great. I'll probably take an introductory course at my university while I still have the opportunity to do so. This would purely be for pleasure, not because I find Italian particularly "useful." Where I live there are many Spanish speakers, but realistically I probably would never use Italian on a regular basis in my daily life. Still, Italian is a language that deeply interests, especially given that it has had a huge impact on classical music (another hobby of mine). In the distant future, I want to learn German and French, but that would have to wait. Apart from my native languages, I hope to speak Spanish and Japanese at an advanced level (C1 give or take) and Catalan, Italian, German, and French at an upper intermediate level (B2). It will be a long journey, but a worthwhile one.

There's some Italian loan words in English too. Some examples include "vendetta", "prima donna" and "bravo".

Native English speaker but near fluent in Spanish and I pretty quickly got to a low moderate level of Italian and it helped me when traveling through Italy. I want to go back and go to more rural parts of Italy where people are less likely to speak English and I want to at least be competent/conversant in Italian.

My friend, people haven't been saying "forte" meaning cool since the '90s where I live🙈 Ahah anyways your videos are great and I really like following you

I'm interested to learn more about the Italian regional languages and dialects 👍

My mother toungue is English, I was taught a little bit of Spanish as a child, then I moved somewhere where that wasn't important so language learning dropped untill I took a second language course in highschool for college prep, that language was Latin. Then as a graduation trip we went to Greece and then Italy, particularly Firenze and Rome. I took the small tourists course on the plane, but had an English to Italian translator on my phone for small single words or small sentences, und jetzt meine zweiten sprache ist Deutsch. German was always easy for me as a kid and then a few years ago I got injured, my doctor at the time said a patient he had with the same injury all of a sudden could only speak French, which enspired me to learn another language. I feel I am CEFR A2-B1 but to be honest I am doing it because it interests me and I want to pass on how it helped me look at the world differently to others.

I'm from Venezuela so Spanish is my native language but my family is from Portugal, even tho I don't speak Portuguese I understand it very well, Brazilian accent is indeed easier to understand also people always say that Portugal's accent is closer to slavic languages. I would love to learn Italian so I can go there and talk with local people and of course eat some local food and be able to order it in Italian.

All I can say is it’s pretty hard to hold onto a language if you have no one to speak it with. I see all sorts of people in the US taking a few semesters if Italian, maybe hiring a tutor or joining a club after college, then being surprised at how little they remember on their vacation to Florence five or ten years later.

Non mi importa quanto è utile, l'ho imparato soltanto perché mi piace. È un piacere per il cuore. E poi, dopo l'italiano puoi imparare facilmente lo spagnolo ad esempio che sarebbe più utile.

I’m an English speaker. I love Latin and am thinking about learning it well - and I’m further thinking that this would set me up for later learning ‘Romance’ languages.

That bit of trivia about "forte" being used the same way as "cool" is very "forte", lol! Does "molto forte" work, is that something that gets said?

I think that people should definitely consider leaning another language if they don't speak a second language already. I think it really broadens your mind. I personally chose Italian because I know that I am likely to travel there quite a lot.

I have begun my new languages with Italian. It should provide a great basis for romance languages and I am fascinated by the culture. I'm visiting Italy in September. That'll be the first real test of my skills!. My first language is English.

I'd love the video on dialects! I'm speak Spanish, Portuguese, and some french so Italian just seems like the next step since I'm too lazy for an eastern language, but I am interested in going to Sicily for a few weeks if I can become conversational in a few months. I don't imagine I'll be fluent but I think I should be able to get by. I'm interested on your suggestions if I should look into Sicilian dialect though.

That French vs Italian love language poll is interesting because I remember hearing that Spanish was more of a romantic language than French. Then again, maybe they meant romantic as in relation to Latin

I'm a Swedish speaking Nordic with an interest in Late fifteenth century Italian renaissance, and together with my brother hope to retire in Italy. So i think i have a strong motivation. My 25 year old beginners course in Spanish might complicate things.

I'd like a video on Italian dialect. I've been wanting to visit some family in Calabria

as an infant i spoke intuitively Italian, Greek and English since I am only one generation removed from Italy as my grandfather spoke it fluently with his wonderful Mediterranean accent and my grandmother with her Abruzzese-Molisano accent, being in a little Italia, and another family of Neapolitan and Cretan that were friends, by teachers they thought I was born in Italy and surprised my folks did not speak it at all. I believe it is a phenomena and the love of the roots of your own trek that like an oil well always there for in everyone is the ability to connect to languages of their past heritage as well as any other. Yet it is something else to 'understand the science of grammar in any language, especially English'. I could and do obviously speak English but flunked high school English classes and only could ace the 'subjects' I was interested in. So if you want to learn language you have to do it by adding the things you love. For example if you love automotive technology then you need to study that in the target language, for Italian most assuredly music and food are the best ways to pick it up as well as its histories since the kitchen is the place where many tales and stories of the origins of the recipes are recited by the cooks or chefs, and yes, there are men chefs from Rome that I have met in North Providence, Rhode Island and not all Italians are like the stereotypes you have in Hollywood, many are tall and blonde and blue eyed and red haired and blue and green eyed and light toned white, and look at your migrations throughout the empires of commerce, people from all over take jobs wherever they could use their trades and that is a big part of language exchange and knowledge exchange where people experiment with new or forgotten seasonings or spices and foods for some reason they fell out of use perhaps because of some unknown peculiarities from a new 'emperor or pope or king or prince' to it being burned out of the countryside. In college we had 'Reader's Digest' in very many different languages available and I found that very warm in studying any other language and helpful in Italian grammar. But I have to say you need traditional family types of things that have staying power of respect for family and heritage to be appreciative of what in the case of Italia has to offer, as I am always studying things Greek and Italian and European (northern, western, eastern and southern) as a forever learning process. I am grateful for Signor Metatrone (a little Italian e at the end there) for keeping the torch of knowledge burning, grazie mille.

My first language is Swiss German. I’ve learned Spanish, because I live in Spain. I’ve started to learn a bit of Catalan, Portuguese, French (had about 8 years of French in School though), Latin and Italian with Duolingo.

My mother tongue is Spanish and my great-grandparent was Italian, but never met him, though I would love the feeling of being connected to the past of my family in a way. Same as with Hindi, grandpa was Indian.

I'm Norwegian, I have decided to stick to Europe in my life instead of seeing the entire world, and Italy is my first choice. I'm planning of studying art there for half a year as a foreign exchange student to start out, I started learning Italian a year ago. Now I'm trying to write a motivation letter in Italian. It's pretty difficult, I'm trying to limit my use of google translate as much as possible for this. I'm going to have a native speaker look over it before I consider sending it. I did not speak any Romance language beforehand. Pronunciation is relatively easy for me, but the grammar is challenging.

I'm working in a company where I have a lot of contact with people from Italy and it would help to speak Italian for sure :) Also I speak polish and I think it gives me an advantage to some degree

I also was introduced to The Italian School of Swordsmanship and want to learn HEMA systems like Fiore De Battalia and I have a background in Classical Music and want to learn the meanings of those terms and words and to be able to read and learn from these treatises.

I learned Italian simply because it is a beautiful language and I love the culture I don't care if it's not as common as other languages interestingly enough I know more people who have learned Italian just because they like it versus out of necessity then any other language

I remember having read about 30 years ago that foreign student who speak the worst Italian in Italy were the Spanish students because of the similarity of the languages they did very well with Spanish so they did not engage in becoming better in Italian.

Many in the world, as I have often seen on KZfaq in various comments, want to learn Italian simply because they find it a beautiful language.

I am happy to see that you have started this channel. I initially subscribed to your primary channel a few years ago for its then Italian language content. I've been desperately trying to learn Italian for years: it's embarrassing how much I struggle. I had taken the Pimsleur course about eight years ago. Tried Babble, briefly, then Duolingo, which I have been working at for a long while - I have a streak of over 1K days. I'm pretty good at doing Duolingo, but I can't speak the language. And as you explain in this video, I find reading easier. I watch Italian TV shows and movies, used Language Transfer, have gone through some KZfaq courses, and even spent four months this last year in Italy (bought and apartment there). I was sure that spending time in Italy would bring me over the hump. But no one would speak with me. Obviously. At this time besides the Duolingo, I have occasional Zoom lessons from an Italian woman. A professional language tutor. She going pretty much over the basics: simple vocabulary and grammar. But I feel she is working toward real dialog. That's good. But answers to your video's questions, for me are that since I am moving to Italy and in the process of getting dual citizenship, and very importantly, have just turned 80, I pretty much have to learn this language. Thank you for this channel, -Joe

Some in Japan and Peru too.

Italian is cool. Beautiful sounding language and culture. I like it WAY more than Spanish. I ended up going with French though because it will be more useful in general and I also love the French language.

My native language should be Chinese, and I do speak it fluently, but my first language is definitely English. My parents forced me to learn French for 6 years but I honestly hated it and never really learned anything, though tbh I regret it now and I wish I put in more effort. I think I mostly just really want to learn a romance language and the idea of being able to speak Italian is enough to motivate me. I'm also hoping to be able to use the knowledge to pick up French again someday. I also really agree with Italian being sexy so I do hope to meet an Italian haha

I'm currently learning italian through my high school. My native language is Luxembourgish but I know German, French and English as well. Through french, vocabulary and verbs arn't that hard but I struggle with the pronounciation. Luckily, my father is italian so he can help me sometimes.

it's always worth to learn a tongue if we are interested in it.

You said you had better understanding of Portugese when it was written rather than spoken. I'm Swedish and in school it was required to read and listen to Norwegian (Bokmål) and Danish and learn to understand it somewhat at least. I learned very quickley that Norwegian was far easier to understand spoken than written, and Danish was very easy to read but very hard to understand spoken.

Here in Argentina not very many people speak Italian but the amount of Italian descendants is staggering (and was for much of the XXth century, we might not have had as many immigrants as Brazil and the US but our country had a very small population so the Italian % shoot through the roof). Amongst the newer generations this number is steadily declining but until the 80s and early 90s in some places the population could be 70% plus pure Italian descendant (unfortunately, like in Europe, Italian descendant peoples stopped having children so the numbers have sharply declined).

9:40 mentions São Paulo, shows a picture of Rio :D

I am lucky enough to live near London which has over the years attracted many people from across Europe. My reason for trying to learn other languages is just that it's nice to be able to speak a little of someone's language. I would like to go to Italy but would want to speak enough Italian not to come across as arrogant or rude by just speaking English. I am getting there but the more I learn the more there is to it for example formal and informal pronouns and greetings.