I have to say Florence was my favorite region- between Lazio and Toscana, I chose Toscana. The pace was more laid back, it was less chaotic, and the people were definitely not wound as tight. Great people in Rome but I’m from NT originally and I got a very NY vibe from Rome that I didn’t from Florence and I appreciated that about Florence. Plus the architecture, in the old city was just mind blowing.

Coming from English and learning Italian in middle age it is extremely difficult. My grandfather spoke standard Italian, my great grandfather Neapolitan but later also standard Italian as I remember my great grandfather and grandpa talking in Italian in the 80s. I recently became a dual citizen and have been studying Italian for the past several years largely teaching myself. Im at the stage where I need live classes to get better at using it with natives at a grown up pace. When I was in Italy I understood it if it was spoken slowly but as soon as they started conjugating quickly and talking like - well an adult instead of someone in an easy reader book it got rough real quick. I can order drinks, ask for directions, etc. funny enough no matter how many times I asked for coffee to go they all tried to resist giving me a to go cup. They’d give it to me but they all had a horrified look on their face 😂

A Sicilia ndo cori ❤ U sicilianu s’ava salvaguardari! Je importanti sta cosa. Viva a Sicilia

I love Jada toys. They have great figures in great prices, like McFarlane toys. Unlike most other toy companies, who sell their figures for over 50€ each.

Speak German? Let me see your results from The Goethe Institute. Speak Spanish.? Let my see your DELE exam results. If your fluent achieving a C1 or C2 on any exam should be easy.

Interesting! People who see my videos often think i am italian im curious to see what an actual italian thinks about that

Venti means 20 ounces. Each ounce is 29.57 ml.

If you were to try polish I really would be interested in your opinion

This was the language jesus spoke?

As a speaker, i can confirm

Thank you - interesting! I speak swiss-german an always wondered, if swiss-italian is also so much different to Italian as Swiss-german to german. Now I know! 🙏🏼 By the way - in swiss-german we say "Zwieback" which means 2 x backen (baked twice). Theres are hard-baked sort of toasts (cold). And: In swiss-german e also say NATEL to the mobile phone. This is an abreviation for the name of the very first sort of mobile phones called "Nationales Auto-Telefon" (national car telephone").

I appreciate this video as it's one of the most reasonable I've seen on the topic! There are too many anti-pitch accent videos out there that just dismiss it as stupid, useless, or unnecessary. I'm not kidding, they seriously use those words! What a bizarre way to refer to something that is part of the culture and speech of the language you're learning or teaching.

I think of Argentinian Spanish as Spanish that is part of the way there to the standard Italian. (Kind of hard not to be given the massive Italian immigration to Argentina early in the 20th Century.)

Great job, Metatron! Your thorough analysis and critical thinking skills are truly impressive. Keep pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo in the language learning community. Your dedication to exploring different perspectives and providing insightful commentary is truly inspiring. Keep up the fantastic work!

"I'm going to kill your entire family" how stereotypical is that 😅😅

As a native Portuguese speaker, I seem to understand everything but I'm not understanding anything

Wow, this sounds beautiful...I was not expecting this. It has the expressiveness of modern Italian.

It’s sounds strange for me cause I can understand ir about 40% to 50%. My mother language is portuguese.

I wonder why one seldom reaches native like ability in other languages. It could be genetically or something like that, but I think if there are other reasons one could try to explore these more. My uneducated theory is what you want to achieve. For example I watch allmost all of my content in english. My operating system on both my phone and PC is in english. (IT stuff is much easier to google then). I can definitely talk about a lot of general topics or even computer science related topics with other people but my accent will be there. And I think that is because I do not try to improve it actively. Two good friends if mine speak nearly the same level of german. One is from poland lives like 10+ years here and another is italien and lives like 3 years here. You can tell where there are from and there are often some weird errors in the grammar etc. but you can absolutly understand everything what they want to explain. And I think there is the end of the lone for most people because the incentives are gone.

I'd rather learn real languages and speak to people

A lot of teachers don't try to teach it because of how many students either can't hear pitch differences, or find it too overwhelming and thus demotivating. But it is important if you want to sound... Well, good. And it's not really that tough. I've been learning Japanese for about 7 years and I'm proud of having good pitch. The hardest part is learning to listen out for it. Then it's like any other part of the language in that you use study and immersion over time to learn the rules and pick up how different words are said by paying close attention. It's really very rewarding and poor pitch accent starts to sound really bad when you know the difference.

Romanian is very beatiful language. Romania is the country of Codreanu, Haiducii, O-zone and Cioran. I think its enough ahah. The language is very melodic. Great people. I think from Italian to Romanian would be easier to learn or viceversa.

Im from Sicily and I get most of Neapolitan. I find Naples very similar to Palermo where I lived even tho im from Agrigento area. Your videos about languages, especially Sicilian (which is a language actually) are very interesting. Ciao Metatron!

I speak English (native) and Spanish (level C1). I understood 95% Italian.

I'm glad you're calling him out. He really makes outrageous claims.

The Brazilian Portuguese that appears in the video is mostly the Paulista (São Paulo) one, I say mostly because it's very common in the media. One way to differentiate the Paulista to the Cariocas(Rio) is that, the Rio one has the "S chiado, similar the the European one, while the Paulista hasa "smooth" S, similar to Italian, by the one there was a heavy Italian immigration to the São Paulo state, most from the Veneto region, but als, from all regions, and that influenced their accent a lot.

And, I thought of this one later, mina might be from "femina" as in "chella femina commonly used in the past in Napoletano, as opposed to "Quella donna" in the Standard Italian taught scholastically today. I'm sorry, I feel like an idiot trying to explain Italian to Metatron. Its actually more for others who might be reading this and are not Italian speakers. For what its worth, I was born in Argentina with parents from Benevento but came to Toronto in 1963 when I was 4. I also lived in Italy as an adult twice for 3 years and 4 years, mostly Milano. Although English is my main language, I also speak Italian, Spanish with a rioplatense accent (that would be for the area around the Rio de la Plata including Uruguay) and I'm also pretty good with Napoletano.

Bedui is farmer. Funny

lol

I do fall asleep quite often with movies and whatnot in Spanish which encourages my dreams to be in Spanish this doesn’t help me learn per se but it is fun, my most effective method of acquiring words and internalising them is via music and songs as music is so expressive I feel it easier to absorb the connotations and feelings of the words and structures but as it is a creative medium they can be more flexible with grammar so I have still needed to look at grammar books but I’d say music got me 40% of the way and the rest raw embarrassment via speaking to natives and hard study I feel the same as you in that I’m functionally fluent but my Spanish has clear Scottish influence every now and again tho funnily enough I’ve been asked if I’m Italian jajaja probs the melodic way we speak or the person asking is just ignorant

Esperanto is not reduced to the max, and much more difficult than Tokipona. Esperanto is the most simple language which is as expressive and capable as were the languages the inventor knew well when he made it, that was: Russian, German, and French. He mixed in some words and features from also Polish, English, Jewish, Hebrew, Litovan, Latin, and Greek. There are only 16 basic grammatical rules to learn, there are no declensions or irregular verbs. The learning part mainly consists of learning the vocabulary. Compared to English, you're saving 95% of the effort on the grammar side, and about 50 to 70% vocab-wise, as there are many derivational suffixes.

Dum multstudenta festo mi konatiĝis al hispanino. Mi ne parolas la hispanan lingvon. Mi parolis Esperanton, ŝi parolis la hispanan, kaj tiel ni komunikis la tutan vesperon. Sed, kion mi faris: kiam la esperantovorto estis prenita el la angla, germana, aŭ rusa (ekzemple vortoj kiel birdo, lerni, hundo, verŝajne, prokrasti, nepre, ktp.) mi anstataŭigis tiun vorton per la latina vorto, ĉar mi ja en la lernejo lernis dum ses jaroj la latinan. Mi do ekzemple diris "kano" anstataŭ "hundo", "probable" anstataŭ "verŝajne", ktp.

That Esperanto feels empty for you is due to the fact that you don't speak it and don't participate in the community. It's like me saying the uzbek language feels empty, or, sailing feels empty, etc. I'd say a lot of experiences I made I would never had had without it, especially on an international scale. And I say this as somebody having lived in several countries and having English used much more often than Esperanto.

It's one of the main errors to believe there is no Esperanto culture. There's a lot of it now, many common ideas special for esperantists, special words not directly translatable into any other language etc. There is a large original literature of more than a thousand works (and lots of translated world literature). And there are now thousands of native speakers, grown up in esperanto families. Addendum: almost nobody is learning English because of the culture, you learn it as it pays or is even obligatory in school. But most learners never reach full competence and stay always disadvantaged as compared to native speakers.

Have you ever attempted to learn or speak any Okinawan Languages?

8:39 im from quebec and i swear when you said "direct" it sounded like 100% quebecois

I think people from Romania underestand more from romatsch.For me ,its sound like romanian with some new words in it...

Great video dude! Part 2 please! I really want to know what our friend Caesar would think of the "c" sound becoming a sibillant! Also, no need to wait 2000 years for final "s" to drop in Spanish. It has already happened in Andalucia and parts of South America

The alphabet is not completely different. The "Latin" alphabet is a variation of the Greek alphabet which was used in Kymi (in Euboea) and was transferred to Kymi in South Italy (or Cumae). If you make a comparison you'll see the similarity between the two alphabets. C is a rounded Γ, D is a rounded Δ, L is a rotated Λ, R is Ρ without a line, S is a rounded Σ, P is a deformed Π,. Even W is Ω (w and ω). A, B, E, Z, K, M, N, O, T, Y, and X are common in the two alphabets.

Pibe is likely from "pivello"

Occitan is very beautiful. Literary medieval occitan is marvellous, magnificent, possibly the most beautiful language in the histtory of logos.

I speak a few languages myself, and I love English. Your English is perfect, gorgeous syntax. Love your video.

Hello Sir...great video. But may I ask..did you live in England for a while? I'm a Sicilian American...and sadly English is the only language I know..when you speak English...sounds like you have a British accent! Molto Interresante!

Il 50 % degli argentni siamo di origine italiana, per questo motivo abbiamo tanti "italianismi" nel nostro linguaggio, per gli spagnoli, noi parliamo lo spagnolo con acento italiano.

La televisión y el televisor. 😊 Sí tenemos las dos palabras, la primera femenina y la segunda masculina.

The true language of Rome. Don't get me wrong I know Italians are protective of their country but why not have both? Rome was very different from Italy. The Italian nation and language came centuries later. As did Nuyorican Spanish. Latin is not Italian although Nuyorican Spanish and Italian are both from Latin and I say Nuyorican Spanish because Nuyorican Spanish is ghetto and so is Italian. Spaniard Spanish is purely Germanic. The Visigoths came and laid waste to Iberia and created Spain. And Nuyoricans and Italians are non-white, Hispanic, Latin with Latin English accent as were the Romans (OK English didn't exist in the time of the Romans, but if England is anything to go by as they seem to be the Romans more than anyone else), that's how they sound.

I learnt French at school, only used it once in France, would've been better at learning Spanish as I've been to more Spanish speaking countries

Tre bone ❤

Try listening to the other Occitan varieties such as Gascon (sub dialect Aranese), Limousin or Nisart,

Do u still live in the US?