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Language Learning : Speaking Italian
Along with Romanian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, the Italian language descends from Latin, and can be traced back to the tenth century. However, the Italian language did not start to fully take shape and form as a standard language until four centuries later.
Now, over 70 million people speak Italian. Most of whom live in San Marino, Vatican, Switzerland and Italy but there are also a multitude of communities that speak Italian in the South America, United States, Slovenia, Malta and Croatia.
The Italian language is famous for the countless, colorful dialects. Linguists have even said that each Italian city speaks its very own, unique language. The nearest dialects to standard Italian are Tuscan, Romanesco, Umbrian and Laziale and on the other side Sicilian and Neapolitan are so far from Italian as to be almost considered different languages.
There are twenty one main alphabet letters in Italian, with five additional solely used in foreign names. The Italian language remains fresh from borrowing German, French and English words, while staying true to the original vocabulary that derives from Latin. Much of the Italian words have steadily become part of other foreign vocabularies, mainly musical terms, related art words and names of food.
The grammar of not just Italian but the rest of the Romance languages comes from Latin. Nouns are marked for gender and number, adjectives agree with nouns, verbs are marked for person and number and agree with the subject and the word order is in most cases Subject-Verb-Object etc.
For someone native to one of the Romance languages, the Italian language proves to be a familiar and easy language to learn. Interestingly, a pattern has emerged of natives of English and Germanic languages attempting to pick up Italian.
Read On : Italian Phrases
Report: Derrick Rose nearly played in Croatia (Chicago Sun-Times)
Bulls guard Derrick Rose nearly played for a team in Croatia during the NBA
lockout, a European web site is reporting. The NBA MVP was in talks with KK
Zagreb of the Euroleague to play about 22 games, a team sports director told
mondo.rs. However, the deal fell through because Rose would have missed at
least three league games because of sponsorship obligations, the team official
said. …
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