Why Italy
How many dialects of the Italian language are there?
And how long does it take to learn the Italian language if you go to class two days a week, 2 hours per class? And how was it decided that Italy should be divided into 15 regions?
Public Comments
- I know there are Sicilian, Neapolitan, Venetian. The rest you can find in this link. http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_country.asp?name=Italy
- I personally learned three languages on my own, watching foreign movies, reading books, listening to audio tapes, practice, practice and practice. Although, the only language I took for a class was Hebrew. arrivederci! shalom! au revoir! adios! aloha!
- Dialect in Italy are.... countless! Some are more popular and spoken, but in different cities you may find different vernaculars, even if those cities are relatively close; that's for big cities, but also smaller region ("region" intended as a specific valley or so, not in political/administrative way) have their own dialect; for instance, dialect spoken in Turin is *very* different form the one you can hear if you go in the northeast of Piedmont, 50-80 miles away... By the way, dialects are way more spoken in the South of Italy, while in the North is more easy to find local accent on regular Italian language. How many times it takes to learn Italian... I can say it will take 100 hours of good teaching (and work form students :) for a basic knowledge of a language. Then you have to improve by experience. [oh, and Italy is composed by 20 regions, not 15; and about why, that of course came from historical reasons... in your own Coutry is different...?]
