I love this video because it gives you a "slice" of what genuine human interactions are. I love seeing people's face light up when they realize they share something with someone else.
The overwhelming majority of Italian immigrants who settled in New York City from 1880 - 1924 were from Southern Italy and didn't speak formal Italian. They spoke Neapolitan or Sicilian.
@@PROVOCATEURSK fyi: naples and sicily had been kingsdoms way before italy was invented and people were forced to speak a foreign language. They didn't leave because they didn't want them.
My great aunt was from the south and didn't speak Italian when she emigrated, just napolitan, her first language.. She learned Italian there.. after spanish 😅
@@josemanuelvarelapuig5064 lolol Hey i'ma keep it a buck. She is absolutely stunning! I don't know how it had escaped my attention that Italian women in general were so incredibly gorgeous. But yes, if Gelsomyn was representing Italy for the Miss World competition, she would bring them home the Gold. lol Plus, her comment shows that she has a soft heart, which is where a woman's true beauty is shown!
Morale della favola: se vuoi parlare italiano a New York, cerca un albanese ! 😅 cari amici dell'Albania, grazie mille di aver imparato la nostra lingua e di preservarla in terre statunitensi ^^
bravo! volevo dire la stessa cosa, questi albanesi si hanno capito come progredire nella vita "prendere un barcone e sbarcare illegalmente in Italia", poi si impadroniscono della lingua, della cittadinanza, del passaporto ed a new york, se cerchi qualcuno che parli italiano a little Italy, dovrai cercare un albanese!, bravi geni! (genius)
@@M_Marco che si tolgano dai piedi/dalle balle, visto che tra l'altro sono arrivate quando tutto era gia stato preparato dall'Italia/era tutto pronto e fanno anche i "superiori" dicendo che gli "Italiani non hanno voglia di lavorare" - era gia' tutto pronto quando sono arrivati senza invito/visto ed illegalmente
Ma ok tutto...ma su Reddit uno ha INSEGNATO italiano(mi diede torto su dei verbi). Il problema degli italo americani è lo stereotipo che portano. Il 90% degli albanesi sono cambiati(vedi un Ermal Meta e Fiona Kakalli, spero di aver scritto giusto il nome di Fiona) idem un italiano medio del sud. E' gente che ha speso tempo per evolversi culturalmente. Un italo americano questo processo non l'ha fatto e portano ideologie vecchie che se le dici in Italia ci insultiamo(tipo "il Fascismo era corretto")!
To all the people that think they know why. A lot of albanians born in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and till early 90s know how to speak italian, especially coming from midwest Albania, because that was the “forbidden” TV/Radio that they looked/listened during the communist era. It was the only contact that we had with the western world. I speak so fluent Italian that sometimes the Italians don’t believe that I’m albanian. Then, obviously, in the States there are no borders and they mix (the guy that says he is albanian, but his mom is italian). The Mafia correlation is not the reason. It is more of a result. My wife, both my parents, my sisters in law speak fluent italian.
@@ribaldiluca6566 Questo e successo tanto tempo fa. Il comunismo ha fatto il suo per 45 anni. Comunque ti posso dire che purtroppo sta cambiando ancora, perché i social, i film ecc. sono tutti in inglese.
When I moved to Texas it took a while to find a decent Italian restaurant. When I did, I discovered that it was owned and run by two brothers from Albania.
My favourite thing about this video is the clear difference between those who speak italian but born in the us (and it's not an easy feat learning a language while not immersed in the culture, so obviously kudos to them!) and those who came from italy. They immediately start shouting and gesturing, it feels so much like home! 💕
@@pixytori28 you’d have an easier time learning it, cause both languages are considered romance, just like french, portugese and romanian. it’s kind of like learning german if you’re dutch and vice versa
The fact that they've lost the language for me is a tragedy. They need to teach the children Italian at home cause English is inevitable everywhere else.
sono d'accordo, lo sto imparando quest'anno, ho 34 anni, sarebbe bene se miei genitori mi l'hanno insegnato quando ero piccolo (I'm only 4 months in, I probably have more mistakes than proper Italian in that sentence lol)
I grew up in England. My father spoke Italian but we spoke Cumasch an Italian dialect. I doubt if most Italians in NY speak or spoke Italian rather than their native languages
@@youtubeyoutube936 Yes, I get it but nowadays with the advanced technology we have it's not hard at all to get and keep the standard form of any language, although I'd have to say that besides Italian there are also many other languages in Italy which are wrongly considered as Italian dialects.
Il nostro paese rimane e rimarrà sempre nel cuore di noi Italiani, anche se spesso costretti a dover andare via. Un saluto e un abbraccio a tutti gli italiani nel mondo. Italy will always be in our hearth, even if we must leave our home for many reasons. Greetings to all the Italians out there, hugs.
Che bello sentire un mozzarellaio di Giarre ( CT ) vicino casa mia ,parlare in dialetto siciliano,mi si è riempito il cuore di gioia mi ha fatto commuovere. Dal 1987 che si trova negli USA e riuscire a non perdere la madre lingua e cultura,significa che è ancora attaccato alla madre patria custodendola gelosamente nel suo cuore . Che bello questo video.❤️
I am Albanian born and living in Italy and i must say that watching all these albanians owning italian restaurants is amazing, atleast they are keeping the italian cousine alive outside italy
@@astrofficialchannel1987 indubbiamente la connessione etnico-culturale esiste, soprattutto per il sud italia essendo stato oggetto di numerose migrazioni durante gli ultimi due millenni dall'epiro al sud italia, inoltre grazie al mio test del dna ho scoperto di avere molti parenti lontani italiani del sud italia
@@testadelcomputer1839 Certamente nei secoli ci sono sempre stati scambi commerciali e culturali, siamo vicinissimi geograficamente. Non mi intendo di navigazione, ma penso che da Lecce a Valona ci sia un oretta appena di nave, è forse il punto in cui l'Adriatico è più stretto.
È lo stesso discorso dei ristoranti giapponesi gestiti da cinesi qui. La cucina italiana come quella giapponese sono di voga e il popolo di queste cucine non essendo interessate a far questo di mestiere lasciano la nicchia vuota per altri da colmare
in Little Italy there are all nationalities except Italians, years ago I went to a restaurant where there was an Italian at the door who welcomed customers, who emigrated decades ago, I ate a carbonara, when I got up from the table to go to the bathroom I took a look at the kitchen, only Asians worked inside, and the pasta was very salty, much better McDonald's. The Italians left that neighborhood decades ago, now it's just a fake tourist attraction like a movie set or theme park.
Inizialmente ero un po' deluso dai vari negozi di Little Italy, non sembrano per niente italiani, poi finalmente ho visto "La casa della mozzarella". Sembra davvero il tipico alimentari di paese dove si vende un po' di tutto. Ce ne sono ancora tanti così qua in Toscana, anche se, a poco a poco, i grandi supermercati li stanno facendo chiudere. La mozzarella appena fatta doveva essere buonissima. 👍
Se andate da Di Palo all'angolo di Grand e Mulberry (200 Grand), parlano perfettamente italiano perché la loro famiglia viene dalla Sicilia e dal sud Italia. Sono lì da 120 anni, 4 generazioni, tutti parlano italiano. E importano TUTTO quello che vendono, dall'Italia. Chiedete di Luigi.
@@cjay2 a natale del 2001, con ancora il fumo delle twin towers in aria, sono venuto a NY a casa di un amico che una sera ha avuto il colpo di genio di fare una cena a sorpresa: "cucina lui che è italiano".. premesso che io cucino da almeno 40 anni, ragione per cui al 95% delle cene mi ritrovo in cucina.. a NY non sono riuscito a trovare un solo ingrediente come dico io. Non parlo di ingredienti di nicchia che capisco non si trovino ma, il pomodoro ne aveva solo la forma, l'aglio era meglio non usarlo, il basilico era solo verde, la pasta aveva tre tempi di cottura: al dente, giusta, liquida.. mi sono vergognato come un politico.. anzi.. quelli non conoscono vergogna. il bello è che erano entusiasti.. Se solo avessi saputo di Luigi :)
When my grandparents moved to Chicago in the 1920s they didn't speak a word of English. But they forbade anyone to speak Italian to us. Because it was really looked down on, it put them very much in the lower class of American society at the time. They were strongly invested in having us be English-only American citizens for our own benefit. And that was a really painful thing for our family. We paid a price for that.
Then World War 2 hit and it really put an end to teaching it. I wish we learned but honestly if they taught it to us then it would be a (from me) Abruzzese or Sicilian dialect not standard Italian. Family is from South Philly btw.
My mother was an Italian war bride. To Americanize she named us Ken, Steven and Brian. The youngest got Renato as his middle name. However, she taught us to be proud of our Italian heritage, which we all are. We are also very close to our Italian relatives.
It's sad and I don't like when people are speaking to one another in their native tongue, someone gets offended for them not speaking in english around them.
Lot of Albanians grew up watching our italian television so they can speak often very well. They are our closest brothers in Europe along with the spanish, maybe. More then french people, often so far by italian lifestyle.
Republic of Venice (la repubblica di Venezia) stretched along the coast all the way to Cyprus. ( Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Cyprus) I think that since then, there was no actual connection between Albania and Italy. A part of Croatia, City of Rijeka and Istra peninsula, on the other hand, were part of Italy until 1947.
@@luckystrike656 The story is much more intertwined than that... The connection between Illyrians and the ancient Apulian peoples, Epiro, Skanderbeg, the immigration of the Albanians to Italy after the arrival of the Ottomans and etc. In any case, the Albanians have never known Italian, it's since TV was born that they began. Once the communist regime forbade contacts with foreign countries, Italian TV was the only source.
@@MrPontMeyer yes but Latin originated in modern day Italy, and the modern Italian language is the “most Latin” in its lexicality than any of the other Romance languages, except Sardo (Sardinian).
@@longbeach7623 modern italiam take a lot of words from spanish. Even sicilian and napoletano has more spanish words since spain rule southern italy so long
@@infolibertad_1 actually it’s quite the contrary. Spanish words that end in a vowel that do not contain a J, X, or Y, have Italic origin. This accounts for a significant amount of the vocabulary. Only Napoltano and Sicilanu absorbed forms of Spanish words. And as far as modern Italian goes, it has a lexical similarity coefficient of 82%, predominantly due to Roman conquest as both languages are rooted in Vulgar Latin. Italian is actually *more Latin* than Spanish. This is textbook university study.
For me as a German, but also being able to speak fluently Italian and English, it’s always heartwarming to see people in other places, speak languages, that I understand😊
I’m Italian and I’ve been an exchange student in the U.S. . While visiting Little Italy in New York, a guy promoting a restaurant stopped me because I looked Italian and started talking in Italian, it was several months of no speaking Italian “in person” for me, so I got caught off guard and did not answer right away. It felt odd to me in that moment so he just cursed at me and went away. I felt so bad for the rest of the day… so I’m happy to see you found lovely people :)
Loooool I swear it caught me off guard and it really took a moment to realise😂 but before I could do anything about it I had been “mandato a fare in c***”😂😅
I know just how you felt, for I too have been caught off guard, and couldn't reply, though in quite other circumstances. I think it's the unexpected context that throws one off guard, without a repertoire for it, at least for that moment. And then we realize, and feel bad... My condolences!
I moved to Greece, born and raised in New York miss my Italian friends and their big personalities una facca una razza, lots of love and never stop being loud and loving.
Ha, ha, ha - I used to hear "Una faccia, una razza" all the time growing up in Australia. My heritage is Spanish but all the Greeks and Italians would ask you where you were from because you look "Mediterranean"....love it!
When I was a little boy, I used to watch my father fix his cars. Often when he ran into problems repairing them, he would swear at his cars in Italian. That's how I learned to swear in Italian.
@@WhatashameMaryJane You deserve it for making the world a nicer place. Hope that your "significant other" cherishes and appreciates you, stay happy and well.
My uncle and aunt visited their son in NY around 25 years ago, and they went to Little Italy. They randomly met a group of new yorkers originally from Pozzallo, and they had a very nice time. These people invited my uncles to their restaurant (more of a taverna) and gave them food, they had a blast. They really cherished that moment.
If you tried “do you speak Chinese in Chinatown” it’d be like a 99% yes rate even for the younger folks born in the US. Seems like only the older folks born in Italy have kept their language abilities.
That's 100% not true. American born Chinese suck at speaking Chinese. Losing your language abilities is normal for all ethnic groups and is inevitable more or less with each generation that lives in the diaspora
Actually, only the ones who immigrated after 1960 when there was another large influx. The really old ones, the over 80's never really learned. They were encouraged to be "real americans." Maybe a few of them did have parents who never spoke English well like a cousin of mine who would be in his 90's if he were alive but he even married a non-Italian and I doubt if any of their kids learned, especially since he died when they were young and she remarried another non-Italian. I have to wonder how much of their Italian heritage those kids even knew, especially growing up in Princeton where we were not the most beloved people in the world.
Most Italian immigrants in New York City are elderly, and many of them, my parents included, do not speak Italian, they speak Italian regional languages and very few learned any English. So, we all speak our language. Little Italy ceased to be an Italian neighborhood decades ago, whereas Chinatown is an immigrant neighborhood and Chinese are the largest foreign born population in New York City. But, don't kid yourself, children or grandchildren of Chinese immigrants are not more likely to know Chinese than children or grandchildren of any other immigrants. Nothing special going on here.
@@BotanicalJourney Well I grew up in NJ right across the river and yes, most of them spoke the regional languages like Neapolitan and Sicilian predominantly but I would say 90% of my grandparents (born in the 1880's) generation learned English. Maybe not polished and gramatically perfect but they knew it. Most of the ones who are elderly, that would be me, got educations. College wasn't as common back then but there were paraprofessional jobs that required some post high school study to be able to do well. Women who went to Secretarial schools could write and speak better than a lot of college graduates do now. I disagree with you about the Asian kids. They learn. They may not like to speakthe language but they learn it because it is very beneficial for their future careers given the geo-political climate we're in.
The "Italian Americans" use our culture, the best food in the world. The stereotype of Italian production, from super cars to electronics, fashion, perfumes, elegance, a way of dressing .. sports brend of any different subject. I'm pissed off. with this New Generetion that knows nothing, but knows how to take from the Dolce Vita
@@hits_different Because Italian culture is so famous in the U.S, it also makes it easy for Italians to become successful in the U.S. I am originally Turkish, been living in the U.S for 20 yrs. I had to work my butt off. But I have a buddy from Napoli, met him playing football 15 years ago. We did all kinds of crazy shit together. Life has been very easy for him. He can easily find a job as a waiter in a top Italian restaurant. Work 5 hours and make $200-500 with tips. Why? Because he is the only Italian guy in the Italian restaurant lol. And he can easily meet girls just by saying he is Italian. The girls are like...WTF, I never had Italian. Will find out if he is good lover or not. His dad is worse than him. He is like 55 years old and tries to hook up with 20 year olds. His usual tactic: He pretends to talk with someone on the phone on the street, he is talking italian. Then he asks the girl who is passing by, if she speaks italian. Also, he sells fake italian leather goods in beverly hills that he buys from a jewish guy :))
I met a girl like mary jane in italy some time ago, she had such a personality that everyone around her was happy, its a fantastic gift to bring happiness to everyone you meet, and you mary jane have it
Sono stato in vacanza a Ny qualche anno fa e non posso che confermare: non importa da dove vieni, non importa chi sei e non importa neppure che squadra tifi, fuori dai nostri confini ogni italiano è fratello o sorella ❤️
Mi sono trovato per caso sul tuo canale e devo farti i complimenti, veramente un video bellissimo, vedere molti paesani vivere in america e la realtà che si sono creati li. In bocca al lupo per tutto
I was a young child in Greenwich Village in the late 1950s and can recall women dressed in black standing in the doorways of Italian food stores with hanging meats. There was a big festival along Macdougall Street called the festival of San Gennaro. The local Italian children went to Our Lady of Pompeii school. It was a very Italian neighbourhood back then.
Robert DeNiro is from Greenwich Village but interestingly his Italian surname is mostly a coincidence. He's bohemian Village, not Italian Village. His parents are prominent, college-educated painters, mom a WASP from Berkeley CA and dad an Irish-Italian from upstate. I think DeNiro Jr did later in his childhood try hanging out in Little Italy to kind of learn to be an Italian kid. That's actually pretty quintessentially New York. Since everything is here, you can kind of choose your crowd to some extent if you don't like what you were born into. It's not fully genuine, but the kids who try it make a better go at it than kids in the suburbs!
My parents traveled all over Europe back in the 1970's. They both said that Italy BY FAR was their favorite. Said the people were so welcoming and friendly. One day, I hope to go.
I will take a wild guess that they did not have to drive at any point during their visit. Ha! Sorry Italians; some stereotypes are true and you know it! 😆
Glad that Casa de Mozz made it on this video. I lived in that area for 4 years. Not much little Italy left in the BX. I remember when McDonald's opened on Arthur Ave - was a huge controversy.
Her experience remids me of russell peter's joke about new york italians. He said there are people in new york who don't speak italian but act more italian than the real italians hahahaha. I didn't believe it until I watched this video. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ma invece di stare qua a commentare su youtube vai a calciare rigori 8 ore al giorno. Dovevi solo segnare uno contro la Svizzera ed eravamo primi nel girone 😑 (SCHERZO)
It's nice to see that there are still "italian" americans that are actually Italians, and it's also nice to see that many italian americans, expecially the young ones, seem to be taking an interest in learning about italian culture and language
Yes, this sad fact is forgotten. The prejudice against Italians (and other ethnic white groups) caused the children of these immigrants to be discouraged form speaking their language.
"Ciao a tutti" The Best intro you ever done on your youtube channel. 😉 Anyway this is a great video, its very special and grateful to appreciated the italian customs ("assaggini" 😂). Maybe this video could be the beginning of a new format. Grazie ancora Mary Jane. È bello sentirti parlare in italiano. Un saluto da Roma. 😉
I lived in Naples from 1970-76. 7-13yrs old.........I understood everything. Living there for 6 years....I still feel like I'm part Italian/Napolitan even though I'm not. I'm French German but American. Went to high school in Athens, Greece 1976-1981.........So I also feel like I'm part Greek also. After all.....a big part of my upbringing was there. What a great experience I had.
@@samufaus2 it is overhype, since they pride themselves as a “culture” state when in reality is just most Americans who carries lots of different backgrounds but don’t even know their actual backgrounds of anything. If I’m gonna be honest that’s the USA , somewhat pretentious country that says it is a “melting pot of culture” when reality is just majority of everyone who only speaks English but they’re of different backgrounds but again knows zilch about it.
I love this so much! I have no relation to Italians but Italian culture is so beautiful! I've been learning Italian for about 1 year and I pretty much understood everthing that was said here. I can't wait to waltz into the next Italian restaurant and befriend everyone like Ms Mary Jane does! Maybe I'll get my chance to impress the day I get to visit Italy. Amazing! Cheers!
Mi hai messo il buon umore, mi rendo conto di quanto il nostro paese sia speciale e di quanto lo stereotipo immaginario italiano prenda davvero vita a new york in un modo totalmente buffo, che adoro. Ti seguo! 💚
Questo video mi ha emozionato, vedere che dei miei paesani sono sistemati fa piacere al cuor,ma la famiglia lontana ,tanti sacrifici ! W l Italia w l America
What a fun video!! I lived in Italy many years, now I am in England but going back to Italy (Florence to be more precise) in few months time and I love to watch any video that has the word 'Italian' or 'Italy' in the title!
@@bymihaelapuscas ive heard de Niro is more irish than italian......Chris Walken has german roots , his family has a bakery in Essen but his family name is "Welken" so it made sense to "english-fy" the family name
My wife is from Friuli, Italy near Udine. We have been married for 34 years and I can't imagine what my life would have been without her. I learned the value and importance of what REAL family is from her, and Friulan culture since the age of 20 has become a tremendous part of my existence. Your videos are fantastic and may I suggest you do a visit back to Friuli in the future. Mundi.
I'm italian living in ireland for 15 years. I LOVE MOZZARELLA more than my own life. If one day i'll be in NY i will definitely go to the Casa della Mozzarella in the the bronx. Fascinating how they make mozzarella, with gorgonzola, for me, probably the best cheese ever made in history.
I found this enjoyable, heartwarming, entertaining, and educational with WASMJ (Maria) search for native born speakers. Hopefully there will be more of these videos. 🇺🇸🍻🇮🇹
Fantabulous video! Easily one of your best, MJ. First, what a great, yet inevitable, idea for a video, lol. Second, it's wonderful to know there are folks speaking Italian and maintaining this authentic food culture for NYC to enjoy. I found and subbed this channel through AK oh so long ago, and I'm so glad I did!
My dad would speak to his brothers or sisters in Italian on the phone. One day, I asked how come we never learned Italian. His response is that you are in America, and you speak English. Ok, I said.
I’m glad to be italian descend! When I visited italy i’ve been really well treated! And here in the UK whenever I meet some italian person they’re always very nice as well! I would never change a single drop of my blood and heritage!
What did you expect? The Italians that built Little Italy immigrated 100-130 years ago. Most, like my wife and my grand parents, moved to the other boroughs and Long Island many years ago.
Infact they are not anymore Italian and have lost all of their connections with Italy, but people still keep on thinking Italian Americans as the yardstick of what is Italian, especially movies from Hollywood. Not to mention that almost all Italians Americans are originally from the deep South of Italy and culturally and even phenotypically wise they are not very similar to central and north Italians either.
Infact they are not anymore Italian and have lost all of their connections with Italy, but people still keep on thinking Italian Americans as the yardstick of what is Italian, especially movies from Hollywood. Not to mention that almost all Italians Americans are originally from the deep South of Italy and culturally and even phenotypically wise they are not very similar to central and north Italians either.
@@alessandrom7181 The same is true of every immigrant group. The people who immigrate retain the culture of their native country. The first generation has one foot in the old country, one in the new. The second generation may learn a little of their heritage from grandparents. The 3rd generation has completely melted in the American melting pot.
Actually I did. If you go to Chinatown they speak Chinese and dialects, both Chinatowns in ny and San Francisco. And if it's not so , don't open " italian restaurant "or shops if you don't know shit of Italy or Italian culture or worse don't identify yourself as an Italian.
@@francesco7604 Apples and oranges. There has been/continues to be a big influx of mainland Chinese/Taiwanese people over the past 30-40 years. When they get here, they are much more comfortable living in US Chinese enclaves. (Just as newly emigrated Italians gravitated towards “Little Italy”). Working in a Chinese restaurant is a first job for many of them, since they get by with very little English. My Irish-Italian son is married to a first generation Chinese girl. Her parents emigrated from Beijing, still live in a Chinese neighborhood of Oakland, did menial work their whole lives. Mandarin is the primary language spoken in their home. On the other hand, my daughter-in-law is fluent in English and Mandarin,. She graduated from Berkeley, then dental school in SF. It’s likely her children will never be even proficient in Mandarin.
Da Italiano con suoceri e cognato albanesi residenti a Boston mi ha fatto ridere tantissimo che in Little Italy diversi albanesi ti parlavano in Italiano :))
When Italians moved to the new world, they brought their italic languages (e.g. Neapolitan, Sicilian, Sardinian etc.) with them. Few are likely to know the current standard 1.
@@riccardosebis5333 Italic, as in sprung from the italian peninsula. Why say gallo-romance, italo-dalmatian, etc. when geography and not classification, is meant?
@@alvarezabonce Sardinian language its only classificate at this part, with Romanian, not of gallo-ibero-italo romance area.. Only isolated... It's old romance language, there is also a Prelatine part
You can still hear Italian spoken in southeastern British Columbia in Canada, especially around the town of Trail, although possibly not as much as a few years ago. Not all Italians settled in big cities, some settled in remote areas.
Yes, New Yorkers (I’m born and bred) always considered Arthur Avenue in the Bronx to be the more authentic Little Italy in NYC. Food is better, and less if the “menu turistico” that you typically find in Manhattan’s Little Italy. I love your channel...Jon in Orange County, California
Large Italian districts are found in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge, Howard Beach and Ozone Park in Queens, Belmont in the Bronx, and Staten Island (where 55% of residents are of Italian heritage).
Italian heritage isn't worth anything as you can see in the video. That doesn't mean they're worse or anything. But it's kinda strange saying you're Italian and you can't speak any. There's obviously other languages in Italy, so you'll find quite a few people speaking bad Italian, but great dialects or other languages.
@@multa7053 I wouldn't say that Italian heritage isn't worth anything... language is just one part of it. Language is something that needs to be maintained through usage and if you no longer need it, then you lose it. That doesn't render your broader ethnic experience meaningless. And there are actually many Italian immigrants in NYC and ethnic neighborhoods where she could've quite easily found Italian speakers... unfortunately, with no active immigration from Italy, these areas are all in decline. Where I grew up in the '80s and '90s, Italian was more commonly heard than English.
@@geoffoakland There are many neighborhoods where you will find Italian immigrants, but the immigrants are all old and the neighborhoods are all in decline. Most of the immigration from Italy came 1965-1980. (Not including of course the major wave from 1890-1920).
@@BotanicalJourney thanks, I appreciate your response. Some other little Italys seem to be doing better; Northend Boston, North Beach in San Francisco, Bloomfield in Pittsburgh
@@geoffoakland Doing better in what way? To be clear, the two "Little Italys" in this video are no longer functioning Italian communities and have not been for many, many years. If the objective of the person who made this video is to find Italian immigrants or Italian Americans who can speak Italian, then you need to go to the neighborhoods in NYC where those people (myself included live). Those other places you mention, which I've been to, do not have the numbers of Italian immigrants that you will find in NYC. When I say all the neighborhoods are in decline, I mean simply that the immigrant population is dying off and not being replaced.
You're about 20 years late, minimum. Chinatown took over all but maybe 2 blocks of Little Italy. All of the Italians got an education and moved out to North Jersey, Long Island etc. The best Italian restaurants are in North Jersey now IMHO. You can go to Arthur Ave in the Bronx as well...mostly Albanians work the stores anymore. CALABRIA PORK STORE!!!!
Perché lo hanno imparato a casa da genitori/nonni che quasi sicuramente sono scappati dal sud italia. Quando l'italiano lo parli SOLO a casa, e in tv, per strada e nei negozi senti un'altra lingua, quello che impari dell'italiano è il dialetto.
Most of them are sons or nephews of Italian people which speak dialect at their home most of the time, and do not use normal Italian very often because they don't need to when living in NY. Italians in Italy who usually speak dialects are instead "forced" to speak normal Italian, for example when they move from their hometown to other cities.
@@enricacantori2984 grazie, lo so che siamo nel 2022 e so che tutti parlano italiano. Sto dicendo che gli italiani in America , dentro casa, parlano dialetto perchè è più probabile che tra parenti parlino dialetto e quindi hanno meno occasioni di parlare italiano, quindi prevale il dialetto. Mentre in Italia appunto se ti sposti di 10km devi per forza parlare italiano. Mi riferisco agli italo-americani, che non parlano italiano dalla nascita come qua, ma che parlano prevalentemente americano e ogni tanto dialetto con i genitori o con i nonni.
@@arrivagabry standard Italian became universal throughout Italy before WWI. Most southern Italians are multilingual from this point forward. This argument is only valid for the first wave of immigrants in the late 1800s.
Loro parlano napolitano a Mulberry Street! Very nice vid! I can remember being down there back in the '80s and '90s. It was really different back then. A lot of the original Italians died or moved away.
Il signore siciliano mi ha fatto emozionare, traspariva l’amore che aveva per la patria e per l’artigianalità del suo mestiere. Servirebbero più italiani come lui, però qui, in Italia.
I am Argentine of Italian origin. I find it incredible that almost no one speaks the language in Little Italy!!! In my city, Buenos Aires, we don't have an Italian neighborhood because almost the entire city is a kind of Italy. And an Italian doesn't need to know Spanish to come, I guarantee it!!!
@@elijahernandez481 Existen nativos todavía y sus hijos son muchísimos. Además para los argentinos es sencillo entender el italiano porque diariamente se utilizan muchas palabras que derivan de él. El tono es muy similar y las frases se arman igual.
@@-Nicolas- exacto se que muchos modismos de por allá vienen del italiano que interesantísimo me encantaría conocer argentina tan bello ...saludos desde México
@@elijahernandez481 Saludos y muchas gracias por tus palabras. También me gustaría conocer México y su enorme patrimonio. Son muy buena gente los mexicanos.
I live in Manhattan and someone told me that all the restaurants in Little Italy in Manhattan are run by Albanians, I believe they worked in Italy and learned the Italian cooking there
@@WhatashameMaryJane Perché siamo i secondi più grandi esportatori di cultura italiana nel mondo 😂 saluti dall'Abruzzo. Si, sono albanese. Un giorno, New York City, ci vedremo. Btw I love your videos. They're so entertaining and immersive. It feels like I'm there with you. Italians and albanians are like cousins. 🇮🇹♥️🇦🇱
@@WhatashameMaryJane Well, for starters, personally, I've been in Italy for 22 years, since I was 5. Plus albanians and italians go way back and have always had strong ties due to their relationship in politics and as neighbors. Albania is like a second home to many italians. It goes both ways. Plus a high percentage of people speak italian there, fluently. For me, it's only natural to consider myself half italian. 😁
Thing to remember is when my grandparents arrived it wasn't cool to be Italian so at least in my family you spoke Italian only around family not in public.
Realmente mi sembra di capire che ci sono pochi italiani veri a New York ma quelli rimasti sono dei grandi. Forza Juve!!! - I really understand that there are few real Italians in New York but those left are great. Forza Juve!!!
There are plenty Italians and they are “real” their children and children’s’ children etc just moved from New York City and throughout the years assimilated just like everyone else. 😂
Ciao! Questa è stata la prima volta che ho visto un suo video e mi è piaciuto tantissimo ☺️ a volte sembra molto difficile trovare un ristorante italiano autentico, perché i proprietari sono albanesi (quello succede anche con i ristoranti greci). Ho trovato due ristoranti dove parlano italiano: Piccola Cucina e Bocca di Bacco. Ottimo lavoro!
Most Italians arrived in the USA in the late 1800 or early 1900. Most of them spoke a dialect. In the year 1900 only 10% of the Italians actually spoke italian.
@@joselassalle4958 I know it well because I speak one of those dialects, montefeltrino romagnol. In Italy they call "dialect" a language whom speakers chose italian for literature and culture, even religion. My grand grands spoke the every day conversation in montefeltrino, but they pray in italian (come la gente)
The top of the italian immigration in the USA was around 1890-1920. People with italian names like Joseph Mazzello, Bill De Blasio, Sylvester Stallone barely can Say One/Two italian words in a Row. In Italy they are not considered italian at all.
@@mml1426 True. I had a Mexican-American coworker who's grandma was born in Mexico and of course spoke Spanish. Her US born mother was bilingual and she herself couldn't speak Spanish at all. She said every time a Mexican would speak to her in Spanish and she'd say "Sorry, I only speak English" they'd look all suspicious at her like she was lying!😄
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Mi ha fatto piacere che ci sono dei Albanesi li in New York che parlano l'italiano
Con gli Italiani si sente come a casa
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so ignorant interview, not even you you know to speak italian, shame on you
@@mikestante3923senti Mattia abbi un pochino di rispetto
@@KevinWolfers 💩🤡
“Sorry do you speak italian?”
“Yes!”
“Wonderful! Where are you from in Italy?”
“Albania!”
🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱😂😂
🤣🤣 did also said that his mom is Italian?
Lot of Albanian can speak Italian
Mussolini stonks
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In restaurants there are more Albanians working there than Italians: it's definitely Italy
Haha... just like in Italy. Where Albanians work at many restaurants.
@@arditbajraktari5631 where?
This is so accurate i'm laughing
Same in germany
Uguale proprio
Hands up to Orazio because he didn't lose his Sicilian accent. Greetings from Sicily
Sembra arrivato da ieri ahahah
Orazio, si sempri u miagghiu! 😁😁😁
Grande Orazio, e pensare che altri italiani migrati in AMERICA che hanno avuto figli non hanno insegnato la loro stessa lingua ed è un peccato!!
Andiamo Brandon! Andiamo Brandon!
Saluti da messina allora
I love this video because it gives you a "slice" of what genuine human interactions are. I love seeing people's face light up when they realize they share something with someone else.
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Well said.
What I learned from this video: there's a lot of Italian speaking Albanians who own/ work at Italian restaurants in New York.
In italy we have a looooot of albanian people. A lot
Fun Fact. The Italian Mafia sees the Albanian Mafia has brothers, because they have they share the same rules, especially blood oaths.
@@Manu_oRei bullshit
@@Manu_oRei WTF bro
@@SetIsNerd quando "ci rubano il lavoro" anche all'estero 😂
The overwhelming majority of Italian immigrants who settled in New York City from 1880 - 1924 were from Southern Italy and didn't speak formal Italian. They spoke Neapolitan or Sicilian.
No wonder Italy didn´t want them /s.
@@PROVOCATEURSK its because those parts of way to under developed. Just like today
@@PROVOCATEURSK fyi: naples and sicily had been kingsdoms way before italy was invented and people were forced to speak a foreign language. They didn't leave because they didn't want them.
same: Argentina, Australia...
My great aunt was from the south and didn't speak Italian when she emigrated, just napolitan, her first language.. She learned Italian there.. after spanish 😅
I saw the light in Orazio's eyes when he talked about Sicily and his family. It filled my heart.
Um, if I saw you walk into a store, my eyes would light up even if you didn't say one word! lol
@@_Mr.D nice one Mr. D. Go get em
@@josemanuelvarelapuig5064 lolol Hey i'ma keep it a buck. She is absolutely stunning! I don't know how it had escaped my attention that Italian women in general were so incredibly gorgeous.
But yes, if Gelsomyn was representing Italy for the Miss World competition, she would bring them home the Gold. lol Plus, her comment shows that she has a soft heart, which is where a woman's true beauty is shown!
@@_Mr.Dgo find some black women
Morale della favola: se vuoi parlare italiano a New York, cerca un albanese ! 😅 cari amici dell'Albania, grazie mille di aver imparato la nostra lingua e di preservarla in terre statunitensi ^^
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bravo! volevo dire la stessa cosa, questi albanesi si hanno capito come progredire nella vita "prendere un barcone e sbarcare illegalmente in Italia", poi si impadroniscono della lingua, della cittadinanza, del passaporto ed a new york, se cerchi qualcuno che parli italiano a little Italy, dovrai cercare un albanese!, bravi geni! (genius)
@@pRQYifIQywIon0myDHH3qA l'italiano viene studiato e parlato in Albania, e l'immigrazione albanese in Italia è dovuta in parte anche a questo.
@@M_Marco che si tolgano dai piedi/dalle balle, visto che tra l'altro sono arrivate quando tutto era gia stato preparato dall'Italia/era tutto pronto e fanno anche i "superiori" dicendo che gli "Italiani non hanno voglia di lavorare" - era gia' tutto pronto quando sono arrivati senza invito/visto ed illegalmente
Ma ok tutto...ma su Reddit uno ha INSEGNATO italiano(mi diede torto su dei verbi). Il problema degli italo americani è lo stereotipo che portano. Il 90% degli albanesi sono cambiati(vedi un Ermal Meta e Fiona Kakalli, spero di aver scritto giusto il nome di Fiona) idem un italiano medio del sud. E' gente che ha speso tempo per evolversi culturalmente.
Un italo americano questo processo non l'ha fatto e portano ideologie vecchie che se le dici in Italia ci insultiamo(tipo "il Fascismo era corretto")!
as an Italian boy I want to congratulate Albanians because many of them are really fast on learning Italian and they are also great Italian speakers
Because most of the words in Albanian are Latin
@@enver_hoxha1908 i didn't know that. Thank you very much
But Albanians are not Italian
@@renaissanceman9168 in facts they're Albanians
@@nelisugnu Yes, but they’re not Italians, who are the best custodians of Italian culture and Italian civilization.
To all the people that think they know why. A lot of albanians born in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and till early 90s know how to speak italian, especially coming from midwest Albania, because that was the “forbidden” TV/Radio that they looked/listened during the communist era. It was the only contact that we had with the western world. I speak so fluent Italian that sometimes the Italians don’t believe that I’m albanian. Then, obviously, in the States there are no borders and they mix (the guy that says he is albanian, but his mom is italian). The Mafia correlation is not the reason. It is more of a result. My wife, both my parents, my sisters in law speak fluent italian.
Wow! Thank you I have always wondered
What you say is true. I spoke couple of days ago with an albanian girl. I tought she was italian without accent. Perfect.
Esatto, poi si deve anche pensare che (pur troppo) l'Italia ha occupato l'Albania imponendo l'Italiano come lingua.
@@ribaldiluca6566 Questo e successo tanto tempo fa. Il comunismo ha fatto il suo per 45 anni. Comunque ti posso dire che purtroppo sta cambiando ancora, perché i social, i film ecc. sono tutti in inglese.
@@Lyman_Zerga immagino, immagino. Anche qui in italia c'è un'inglesizzazione dell'italiano!
When I moved to Texas it took a while to find a decent Italian restaurant. When I did, I discovered that it was owned and run by two brothers from Albania.
Where in Texas? I'd love to find a good Italian restaurant.
@@tunomatic Little Elm. Name of the place is Roma's.
I have been to 2 excellent Italian restaurants in Perth Asutralia that were run by Indians.
I have found that in the US a lot of Albanians own Italian restaurants
@@JAG214 also in germany, albanians own italian restaurants
My favourite thing about this video is the clear difference between those who speak italian but born in the us (and it's not an easy feat learning a language while not immersed in the culture, so obviously kudos to them!) and those who came from italy. They immediately start shouting and gesturing, it feels so much like home! 💕
now what if you knew another latin language (spanish in my case) and is currently learning italian?
@@pixytori28 you’d have an easier time learning it, cause both languages are considered romance, just like french, portugese and romanian. it’s kind of like learning german if you’re dutch and vice versa
The fact that they've lost the language for me is a tragedy. They need to teach the children Italian at home cause English is inevitable everywhere else.
sono d'accordo, lo sto imparando quest'anno, ho 34 anni, sarebbe bene se miei genitori mi l'hanno insegnato quando ero piccolo (I'm only 4 months in, I probably have more mistakes than proper Italian in that sentence lol)
@@AndrewDaniele87 Sentence was fine just one small mistake where you said mi l'hanno when it should have been me l'avessero. keep it up :)
@@Aragonstar thank you!! :)
I grew up in England. My father spoke Italian but we spoke Cumasch an Italian dialect. I doubt if most Italians in NY speak or spoke Italian rather than their native languages
@@youtubeyoutube936 Yes, I get it but nowadays with the advanced technology we have it's not hard at all to get and keep the standard form of any language, although I'd have to say that besides Italian there are also many other languages in Italy which are wrongly considered as Italian dialects.
Il nostro paese rimane e rimarrà sempre nel cuore di noi Italiani, anche se spesso costretti a dover andare via. Un saluto e un abbraccio a tutti gli italiani nel mondo.
Italy will always be in our hearth, even if we must leave our home for many reasons. Greetings to all the Italians out there, hugs.
Forza Italia sempre 💪🏽🇮🇹❤️
Verità! Saluti da un italiano in Svezia 👋🏽
Un abbraccio sincero a tutti gli Italiani che sono al estero!
This is weird
Greetings to all the Rorschac-pic users
@@johnnycarcosa5974 🤎🖤
Che bello sentire un mozzarellaio di Giarre ( CT ) vicino casa mia ,parlare in dialetto siciliano,mi si è riempito il cuore di gioia mi ha fatto commuovere. Dal 1987 che si trova negli USA e riuscire a non perdere la madre lingua e cultura,significa che è ancora attaccato alla madre patria custodendola gelosamente nel suo cuore . Che bello questo video.❤️
Vivo da 61 anni in Olanda e sono sempre Italiano con passaporto Italiano.
Ha emozionato pure me che sono milanese
Concordo
Vero e grandissimo chi sa se ci sono anche rumeni negli usa
Un mito il giarrese davvero! Adesso sappiamo dove mangiare la vera mozzarella italiana, a New York!!!!
The most welcoming, hard working and kindest people ever. ❤🇦🇱🖤
albanians?
I'm looking for Marco from Trapoja.
Stop with cultural appropriation and acting like Italians
I am Albanian born and living in Italy and i must say that watching all these albanians owning italian restaurants is amazing, atleast they are keeping the italian cousine alive outside italy
Malgrado quando si pensa, italiani e albanesi sono popoli fratelli. È giusto così! 🇮🇹🇦🇱
@@astrofficialchannel1987 indubbiamente la connessione etnico-culturale esiste, soprattutto per il sud italia essendo stato oggetto di numerose migrazioni durante gli ultimi due millenni dall'epiro al sud italia, inoltre grazie al mio test del dna ho scoperto di avere molti parenti lontani italiani del sud italia
@@testadelcomputer1839 Certamente nei secoli ci sono sempre stati scambi commerciali e culturali, siamo vicinissimi geograficamente. Non mi intendo di navigazione, ma penso che da Lecce a Valona ci sia un oretta appena di nave, è forse il punto in cui l'Adriatico è più stretto.
Guarda che cousine significa cugina 😅. Cuisine se vuoi dire cucina 😉
È lo stesso discorso dei ristoranti giapponesi gestiti da cinesi qui.
La cucina italiana come quella giapponese sono di voga e il popolo di queste cucine non essendo interessate a far questo di mestiere lasciano la nicchia vuota per altri da colmare
in Little Italy there are all nationalities except Italians, years ago I went to a restaurant where there was an Italian at the door who welcomed customers, who emigrated decades ago, I ate a carbonara, when I got up from the table to go to the bathroom I took a look at the kitchen, only Asians worked inside, and the pasta was very salty, much better McDonald's.
The Italians left that neighborhood decades ago, now it's just a fake tourist attraction like a movie set or theme park.
Feels that way. No real Italians left there. Sad
Spitting fax
Yup China town completely took over that area, i was also surprised about how little english they spoke
If u wanna try real italian food just come to italy
yeah, they are using the name of Italian restaurant for prestige
Inizialmente ero un po' deluso dai vari negozi di Little Italy, non sembrano per niente italiani, poi finalmente ho visto "La casa della mozzarella". Sembra davvero il tipico alimentari di paese dove si vende un po' di tutto. Ce ne sono ancora tanti così qua in Toscana, anche se, a poco a poco, i grandi supermercati li stanno facendo chiudere. La mozzarella appena fatta doveva essere buonissima. 👍
Era davvero deliziosa, per un attimo mi è sembrato di stare in Italia.
Anche io ho lavorato in un alimentari dietro banco, effettivamente il clima sembrava proprio quello 🙂
Se andate da Di Palo all'angolo di Grand e Mulberry (200 Grand), parlano perfettamente italiano perché la loro famiglia viene dalla Sicilia e dal sud Italia. Sono lì da 120 anni, 4 generazioni, tutti parlano italiano. E importano TUTTO quello che vendono, dall'Italia. Chiedete di Luigi.
@@cjay2 a natale del 2001, con ancora il fumo delle twin towers in aria, sono venuto a NY a casa di un amico che una sera ha avuto il colpo di genio di fare una cena a sorpresa: "cucina lui che è italiano".. premesso che io cucino da almeno 40 anni, ragione per cui al 95% delle cene mi ritrovo in cucina.. a NY non sono riuscito a trovare un solo ingrediente come dico io. Non parlo di ingredienti di nicchia che capisco non si trovino ma, il pomodoro ne aveva solo la forma, l'aglio era meglio non usarlo, il basilico era solo verde, la pasta aveva tre tempi di cottura: al dente, giusta, liquida.. mi sono vergognato come un politico.. anzi.. quelli non conoscono vergogna. il bello è che erano entusiasti.. Se solo avessi saputo di Luigi :)
@@mrmetalzeb4596 figa bianka 2001
When my grandparents moved to Chicago in the 1920s they didn't speak a word of English. But they forbade anyone to speak Italian to us. Because it was really looked down on, it put them very much in the lower class of American society at the time. They were strongly invested in having us be English-only American citizens for our own benefit. And that was a really painful thing for our family. We paid a price for that.
Then World War 2 hit and it really put an end to teaching it. I wish we learned but honestly if they taught it to us then it would be a (from me) Abruzzese or Sicilian dialect not standard Italian. Family is from South Philly btw.
It's really sad to be ashamed of its culture, language, and identity.
This happened a lot in the south Spanish speaking Texas culture too. A lot of younger baby boomers and gen x-ers don’t speak it for that reason.
My mother was an Italian war bride. To Americanize she named us Ken, Steven and Brian. The youngest got Renato as his middle name. However, she taught us to be proud of our Italian heritage, which we all are. We are also very close to our Italian relatives.
It's sad and I don't like when people are speaking to one another in their native tongue, someone gets offended for them not speaking in english around them.
The Juve logo, the question "What team do you support?" and the Udinese banter. That's why argentinians and italians get along so well.
Questo spiega tutto 😂
I would have spitted straight on the floor of this guy. JUVE MERDA PER SEMPRE
and you support All Boys hahahah
O cidadão é da sicilia e torce pra Juve. Que tristeza.
Leva il gagliardetto della Juventus e metti quello del giarre calcio o del Catania
This video honestly told me I have to look into Albanian-italian history. There's a connection there I didn't know about.
Lot of Albanians grew up watching our italian television so they can speak often very well. They are our closest brothers in Europe along with the spanish, maybe. More then french people, often so far by italian lifestyle.
Republic of Venice (la repubblica di Venezia) stretched along the coast all the way to Cyprus. ( Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Cyprus)
I think that since then, there was no actual connection between Albania and Italy.
A part of Croatia, City of Rijeka and Istra peninsula, on the other hand, were part of Italy until 1947.
@@luckystrike656 The story is much more intertwined than that...
The connection between Illyrians and the ancient Apulian peoples, Epiro, Skanderbeg, the immigration of the Albanians to Italy after the arrival of the Ottomans and etc.
In any case, the Albanians have never known Italian, it's since TV was born that they began.
Once the communist regime forbade contacts with foreign countries, Italian TV was the only source.
@@ltubabbo529 big drugs affairs between italy and albany,thats all
@@alemaz91 Abbastanza limitata come visione
Greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽
We respect the crib of our Latin languages 🇮🇹
Every latin language is older than italian 😂
@@MrPontMeyer but italian is still derived from Latin
@@MrPontMeyer yes but Latin originated in modern day Italy, and the modern Italian language is the “most Latin” in its lexicality than any of the other Romance languages, except Sardo (Sardinian).
@@longbeach7623 modern italiam take a lot of words from spanish. Even sicilian and napoletano has more spanish words since spain rule southern italy so long
@@infolibertad_1 actually it’s quite the contrary. Spanish words that end in a vowel that do not contain a J, X, or Y, have Italic origin. This accounts for a significant amount of the vocabulary. Only Napoltano and Sicilanu absorbed forms of Spanish words. And as far as modern Italian goes, it has a lexical similarity coefficient of 82%, predominantly due to Roman conquest as both languages are rooted in Vulgar Latin. Italian is actually *more Latin* than Spanish. This is textbook university study.
For me as a German, but also being able to speak fluently Italian and English, it’s always heartwarming to see people in other places, speak languages, that I understand😊
I’m Italian and I’ve been an exchange student in the U.S. . While visiting Little Italy in New York, a guy promoting a restaurant stopped me because I looked Italian and started talking in Italian, it was several months of no speaking Italian “in person” for me, so I got caught off guard and did not answer right away. It felt odd to me in that moment so he just cursed at me and went away. I felt so bad for the rest of the day… so I’m happy to see you found lovely people :)
Timidone
Stop being so shy lmao why would someone speaking Italian to you shock you?
Loooool I swear it caught me off guard and it really took a moment to realise😂 but before I could do anything about it I had been “mandato a fare in c***”😂😅
I know just how you felt, for I too have been caught off guard, and couldn't reply, though in quite other circumstances. I think it's the unexpected context that throws one off guard, without a repertoire for it, at least for that moment. And then we realize, and feel bad... My condolences!
@@houstonswisha143 omg, whats the problem of being shy, calm down😭🤣
I moved to Greece, born and raised in New York miss my Italian friends and their big personalities una facca una razza, lots of love and never stop being loud and loving.
Una faccia
Ha, ha, ha - I used to hear "Una faccia, una razza" all the time growing up in Australia. My heritage is Spanish but all the Greeks and Italians would ask you where you were from because you look "Mediterranean"....love it!
I like how everyone who speaks Italian starts to speak the language as soon as they hear her accent in English
When I was a little boy, I used to watch my father fix his cars. Often when he ran into problems repairing them, he would swear at his cars in Italian. That's how I learned to swear in Italian.
“Vengo dal Friuli” “e dove sta il Friuli?”
Non ho neanche avuto bisogno di uscire dall’Italia per sentire questa frase
Sad story 🥲
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Perché la gente è capra,se solo si istruisse capirebbe quanto il Friuli ha dato all'Italia
We need more videos of MJ speaking her native language 👏🏻👏🏻
Ahah I wonder how many people among my widely international audience would be able to follow me!
@@WhatashameMaryJane truth though
Mary Jane speaks the universal language of sincere goodwill and charm. She gets along very well with others, A++.
@@richardkluesek4301 ah that’s straight flattery! ☺️
@@WhatashameMaryJane You deserve it for making the world a nicer place. Hope that your "significant other" cherishes and appreciates you, stay happy and well.
"Tifa Udinese, no buono" ahahah :) bel video, te sei uno splendore. Saluti dalla Liguria, da Genova.
Che io correggerei in "tifa udinese, grande!" 😎
Detto da un siciliano che tifa Juve.. fa ridere
eccoci, eccoci 😂 non deludete mai
@@kikkss86 quelli americani sono tutti discendenti del terrone.
My uncle and aunt visited their son in NY around 25 years ago, and they went to Little Italy. They randomly met a group of new yorkers originally from Pozzallo, and they had a very nice time. These people invited my uncles to their restaurant (more of a taverna) and gave them food, they had a blast. They really cherished that moment.
If you tried “do you speak Chinese in Chinatown” it’d be like a 99% yes rate even for the younger folks born in the US.
Seems like only the older folks born in Italy have kept their language abilities.
Asians don't assimilate
That's 100% not true. American born Chinese suck at speaking Chinese. Losing your language abilities is normal for all ethnic groups and is inevitable more or less with each generation that lives in the diaspora
Actually, only the ones who immigrated after 1960 when there was another large influx. The really old ones, the over 80's never really learned. They were encouraged to be "real americans." Maybe a few of them did have parents who never spoke English well like a cousin of mine who would be in his 90's if he were alive but he even married a non-Italian and I doubt if any of their kids learned, especially since he died when they were young and she remarried another non-Italian. I have to wonder how much of their Italian heritage those kids even knew, especially growing up in Princeton where we were not the most beloved people in the world.
Most Italian immigrants in New York City are elderly, and many of them, my parents included, do not speak Italian, they speak Italian regional languages and very few learned any English. So, we all speak our language. Little Italy ceased to be an Italian neighborhood decades ago, whereas Chinatown is an immigrant neighborhood and Chinese are the largest foreign born population in New York City. But, don't kid yourself, children or grandchildren of Chinese immigrants are not more likely to know Chinese than children or grandchildren of any other immigrants. Nothing special going on here.
@@BotanicalJourney Well I grew up in NJ right across the river and yes, most of them spoke the regional languages like Neapolitan and Sicilian predominantly but I would say 90% of my grandparents (born in the 1880's) generation learned English. Maybe not polished and gramatically perfect but they knew it. Most of the ones who are elderly, that would be me, got educations. College wasn't as common back then but there were paraprofessional jobs that required some post high school study to be able to do well. Women who went to Secretarial schools could write and speak better than a lot of college graduates do now.
I disagree with you about the Asian kids. They learn. They may not like to speakthe language but they learn it because it is very beneficial for their future careers given the geo-political climate we're in.
There are so many Albanians in Italy that it doesn't even bother me that they own so many restaurants in the US. They are family at this point
Indeed
The "Italian Americans" use our culture, the best food in the world. The stereotype of Italian production, from super cars to electronics, fashion, perfumes, elegance, a way of dressing .. sports brend of any different subject. I'm pissed off. with this New Generetion that knows nothing, but knows how to take from the Dolce Vita
@@andreagiambrone6642 It's not that deep dude. No need to get triggered and pretentious over something so minimal. Calm down.
@@hits_different Because Italian culture is so famous in the U.S, it also makes it easy for Italians to become successful in the U.S. I am originally Turkish, been living in the U.S for 20 yrs. I had to work my butt off. But I have a buddy from Napoli, met him playing football 15 years ago. We did all kinds of crazy shit together. Life has been very easy for him. He can easily find a job as a waiter in a top Italian restaurant. Work 5 hours and make $200-500 with tips. Why? Because he is the only Italian guy in the Italian restaurant lol. And he can easily meet girls just by saying he is Italian. The girls are like...WTF, I never had Italian. Will find out if he is good lover or not. His dad is worse than him. He is like 55 years old and tries to hook up with 20 year olds. His usual tactic: He pretends to talk with someone on the phone on the street, he is talking italian. Then he asks the girl who is passing by, if she speaks italian. Also, he sells fake italian leather goods in beverly hills that he buys from a jewish guy :))
@@semprefidelis76 Laugh the fuck out loud!!!!!!!!
I met a girl like mary jane in italy some time ago, she had such a personality that everyone around her was happy, its a fantastic gift to bring happiness to everyone you meet, and you mary jane have it
I did this experiment in Montreal about 10 years ago, and was pleasantly surprised to see many Italian-Canadians of Quebec knew the language.
Yep the migration to Canada happened much later
Im italiano in montreal
Migration to Toronto was happening at the same rate as the USA for Italians.
That's why the mob is still in Montreal
Sono stato in vacanza a Ny qualche anno fa e non posso che confermare: non importa da dove vieni, non importa chi sei e non importa neppure che squadra tifi, fuori dai nostri confini ogni italiano è fratello o sorella ❤️
Mi sono trovato per caso sul tuo canale e devo farti i complimenti, veramente un video bellissimo, vedere molti paesani vivere in america e la realtà che si sono creati li.
In bocca al lupo per tutto
I was a young child in Greenwich Village in the late 1950s and can recall women dressed in black standing in the doorways of Italian food stores with hanging meats. There was a big festival along Macdougall Street called the festival of San Gennaro. The local Italian children went to Our Lady of Pompeii school. It was a very Italian neighbourhood back then.
san gennaro is a famous napoletano saint
Robert DeNiro is from Greenwich Village but interestingly his Italian surname is mostly a coincidence. He's bohemian Village, not Italian Village. His parents are prominent, college-educated painters, mom a WASP from Berkeley CA and dad an Irish-Italian from upstate. I think DeNiro Jr did later in his childhood try hanging out in Little Italy to kind of learn to be an Italian kid. That's actually pretty quintessentially New York. Since everything is here, you can kind of choose your crowd to some extent if you don't like what you were born into. It's not fully genuine, but the kids who try it make a better go at it than kids in the suburbs!
Can't believe I just seen this video now.
UA-cam recommend it, but wow it's amazing MJ
Ciao sono marocchino ad essere onesti adoro imparare nuove lingue ma tutto l’amore rimane per l’italiano 🇮🇹❤️
Ciao Youssef, grande!
@@WhatashameMaryJane ciao carissima sono innamorato con la vostra lingua
My parents traveled all over Europe back in the 1970's. They both said that Italy BY FAR was their favorite. Said the people were so welcoming and friendly. One day, I hope to go.
I will take a wild guess that they did not have to drive at any point during their visit.
Ha! Sorry Italians; some stereotypes are true and you know it! 😆
Everyone I meet loves Italy or Brazil, even if they were robbed or had a bad experience, lol.
Priceless!!! Hopefully she’ll find someone who speaks Italian in little Albania the next time
Glad that Casa de Mozz made it on this video.
I lived in that area for 4 years. Not much little Italy left in the BX. I remember when McDonald's opened on Arthur Ave - was a huge controversy.
Full of energy, rhythm, humour, great. MJ.
Grazie Claudio :)
Her experience remids me of russell peter's joke about new york italians. He said there are people in new york who don't speak italian but act more italian than the real italians hahahaha. I didn't believe it until I watched this video. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's not only a joke because they act as characters from Martin Scorsese's movies. :-)
Where did u get the balls?? Lol
@@paolomainotti8958 Martin Scorsese's movies depict Italian Americans of South Italian ancestry, hardly an Italian from say Tuscany or Lombardy. LOL
To be honest they act as Italian Americans of S.Italian ancestry mostly.
Ma invece di stare qua a commentare su youtube vai a calciare rigori 8 ore al giorno. Dovevi solo segnare uno contro la Svizzera ed eravamo primi nel girone 😑
(SCHERZO)
It's nice to see that there are still "italian" americans that are actually Italians, and it's also nice to see that many italian americans, expecially the young ones, seem to be taking an interest in learning about italian culture and language
Most of my family lived in those neighborhoods. The reason no one speaks Italian because our parents discouraged it. We were force to assimilate
Very true! Sad, but true.
Yes, this sad fact is forgotten. The prejudice against Italians (and other ethnic white groups) caused the children of these immigrants to be discouraged form speaking their language.
"Ciao a tutti" The Best intro you ever done on your youtube channel. 😉 Anyway this is a great video, its very special and grateful to appreciated the italian customs ("assaggini" 😂). Maybe this video could be the beginning of a new format. Grazie ancora Mary Jane. È bello sentirti parlare in italiano. Un saluto da Roma. 😉
Ciao Francesco!
I lived in Naples from 1970-76. 7-13yrs old.........I understood everything. Living there for 6 years....I still feel like I'm part Italian/Napolitan even though I'm not. I'm French German but American. Went to high school in Athens, Greece 1976-1981.........So I also feel like I'm part Greek also. After all.....a big part of my upbringing was there. What a great experience I had.
I love the energy in this video. Now I miss New York and all its cultures.
Overhyped nyc lol
@@cdnsilverdaddy not over hyped at all. clearly you've never been
@@samufaus2 it is overhype, since they pride themselves as a “culture” state when in reality is just most Americans who carries lots of different backgrounds but don’t even know their actual backgrounds of anything. If I’m gonna be honest that’s the USA , somewhat pretentious country that says it is a “melting pot of culture” when reality is just majority of everyone who only speaks English but they’re of different backgrounds but again knows zilch about it.
@@samufaus2 been twice ; 2014 and 2017 . I stand my ground. Also I’m Malaysian Muslim so this is just an opinion from a non-American.
I love this so much! I have no relation to Italians but Italian culture is so beautiful! I've been learning Italian for about 1 year and I pretty much understood everthing that was said here. I can't wait to waltz into the next Italian restaurant and befriend everyone like Ms Mary Jane does! Maybe I'll get my chance to impress the day I get to visit Italy. Amazing! Cheers!
Mi hai messo il buon umore, mi rendo conto di quanto il nostro paese sia speciale e di quanto lo stereotipo immaginario italiano prenda davvero vita a new york in un modo totalmente buffo, che adoro. Ti seguo! 💚
Questo video mi ha emozionato, vedere che dei miei paesani sono sistemati fa piacere al cuor,ma la famiglia lontana ,tanti sacrifici ! W l Italia w l America
Viva Italia 🇮🇹 ❤ 😍
greets to Italia إيطاليا
From Jordan 🇯🇴 ♥
7:30 le sue parole per l’Italia , thanks to u for making this beautiful video 🥺❤️❤️❤️
What a fun video!! I lived in Italy many years, now I am in England but going back to Italy (Florence to be more precise) in few months time and I love to watch any video that has the word 'Italian' or 'Italy' in the title!
I wish you a pleasant come back Mihaela!
@@WhatashameMaryJane cannot wait!! England it's not for me! :)
@@bymihaelapuscas ive heard de Niro is more irish than italian......Chris Walken has german roots , his family has a bakery in Essen but his family name is "Welken" so it made sense to "english-fy" the family name
I took Italian in High School. So l understand some Italian. Love Italian Food, everything Italian.
My wife is from Friuli, Italy near Udine. We have been married for 34 years and I can't imagine what my life would have been without her. I learned the value and importance of what REAL family is from her, and Friulan culture since the age of 20 has become a tremendous part of my existence. Your videos are fantastic and may I suggest you do a visit back to Friuli in the future. Mundi.
I'm italian living in ireland for 15 years. I LOVE MOZZARELLA more than my own life. If one day i'll be in NY i will definitely go to the Casa della Mozzarella in the the bronx. Fascinating how they make mozzarella, with gorgonzola, for me, probably the best cheese ever made in history.
I found this enjoyable, heartwarming, entertaining, and educational with WASMJ (Maria) search for native born speakers. Hopefully there will be more of these videos. 🇺🇸🍻🇮🇹
Wir haben dieses Stück gemeinsam genossen ❤️❤️❤️ Danke ☺️
It was satisfying that you found someone who not only spoke Italian but who actually hailed from Italy.
Fantabulous video! Easily one of your best, MJ.
First, what a great, yet inevitable, idea for a video, lol.
Second, it's wonderful to know there are folks speaking Italian and maintaining this authentic food culture for NYC to enjoy.
I found and subbed this channel through AK oh so long ago, and I'm so glad I did!
I’m not Italian but I want my kids to learn haha I grew up in New York and the culture influenced me a lot
My dad would speak to his brothers or sisters in Italian on the phone. One day, I asked how come we never learned Italian. His response is that you are in America, and you speak English. Ok, I said.
I’m glad to be italian descend! When I visited italy i’ve been really well treated! And here in the UK whenever I meet some italian person they’re always very nice as well! I would never change a single drop of my blood and heritage!
What did you expect? The Italians that built Little Italy immigrated 100-130 years ago. Most, like my wife and my grand parents, moved to the other boroughs and Long Island many years ago.
Infact they are not anymore Italian and have lost all of their connections with Italy, but people still keep on thinking Italian Americans as the yardstick of what is Italian, especially movies from Hollywood.
Not to mention that almost all Italians Americans are originally from the deep South of Italy and culturally and even phenotypically wise they are not very similar to central and north Italians either.
Infact they are not anymore Italian and have lost all of their connections with Italy, but people still keep on thinking Italian Americans as the yardstick of what is Italian, especially movies from Hollywood.
Not to mention that almost all Italians Americans are originally from the deep South of Italy and culturally and even phenotypically wise they are not very similar to central and north Italians either.
@@alessandrom7181 The same is true of every immigrant group. The people who immigrate retain the culture of their native country. The first generation has one foot in the old country, one in the new. The second generation may learn a little of their heritage from grandparents. The 3rd generation has completely melted in the American melting pot.
Actually I did. If you go to Chinatown they speak Chinese and dialects, both Chinatowns in ny and San Francisco. And if it's not so , don't open " italian restaurant "or shops if you don't know shit of Italy or Italian culture or worse don't identify yourself as an Italian.
@@francesco7604 Apples and oranges. There has been/continues to be a big influx of mainland Chinese/Taiwanese people over the past 30-40 years. When they get here, they are much more comfortable living in US Chinese enclaves. (Just as newly emigrated Italians gravitated towards “Little Italy”). Working in a Chinese restaurant is a first job for many of them, since they get by with very little English. My Irish-Italian son is married to a first generation Chinese girl. Her parents emigrated from Beijing, still live in a Chinese neighborhood of Oakland, did menial work their whole lives. Mandarin is the primary language spoken in their home. On the other hand, my daughter-in-law is fluent in English and Mandarin,. She graduated from Berkeley, then dental school in SF. It’s likely her children will never be even proficient in Mandarin.
Some parts there, especially at the market, feels more Italy than in the actual Italy. I am 100% italian since dozen of generations
Hilarious! Covid permitting, I hope to visit Albania this spring. I must take some Italian lessons.
nice to see someone from Bari on here representing the Adriatic coast in New York!!!!!!! I just got back from Italy, on vacation, great memories
Da Italiano con suoceri e cognato albanesi residenti a Boston mi ha fatto ridere tantissimo che in Little Italy diversi albanesi ti parlavano in Italiano :))
When Italians moved to the new world, they brought their italic languages (e.g. Neapolitan, Sicilian, Sardinian etc.) with them. Few are likely to know the current standard 1.
@anzarazz standard italian wasn't really a thing untill after the war. Anyone's first language was still the dialect.
I know what neapolitan sounds like and I can understand most of it: that was no dialect of any kind. That was a phony appropriating a culture.
Sardinian is not a "italic" language, it's a isolate romance language, or South romance, so we're not Italians
@@riccardosebis5333 Italic, as in sprung from the italian peninsula. Why say gallo-romance, italo-dalmatian, etc. when geography and not classification, is meant?
@@alvarezabonce Sardinian language its only classificate at this part, with Romanian, not of gallo-ibero-italo romance area.. Only isolated...
It's old romance language, there is also a Prelatine part
Italy is Italy will always be in the heart. Italians we recognize colors and smells miles earlier!!!!🌻🌻🌼🍇🍇🍓🍀🍷
You can still hear Italian spoken in southeastern British Columbia in Canada, especially around the town of Trail, although possibly not as much as a few years ago. Not all Italians settled in big cities, some settled in remote areas.
Yes, New Yorkers (I’m born and bred) always considered Arthur Avenue in the Bronx to be the more authentic Little Italy in NYC. Food is better, and less if the “menu turistico” that you typically find in Manhattan’s Little Italy. I love your channel...Jon in Orange County, California
Hey Jon! Thanks for leaving the comment.
Large Italian districts are found in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge, Howard Beach and Ozone Park in Queens, Belmont in the Bronx, and Staten Island (where 55% of residents are of Italian heritage).
Italian heritage isn't worth anything as you can see in the video. That doesn't mean they're worse or anything. But it's kinda strange saying you're Italian and you can't speak any. There's obviously other languages in Italy, so you'll find quite a few people speaking bad Italian, but great dialects or other languages.
@@multa7053 I wouldn't say that Italian heritage isn't worth anything... language is just one part of it. Language is something that needs to be maintained through usage and if you no longer need it, then you lose it. That doesn't render your broader ethnic experience meaningless. And there are actually many Italian immigrants in NYC and ethnic neighborhoods where she could've quite easily found Italian speakers... unfortunately, with no active immigration from Italy, these areas are all in decline. Where I grew up in the '80s and '90s, Italian was more commonly heard than English.
You should’ve tried the “Little Italys” in The Bronx. Arthur Avenue, is one. Morris Park is the other. They speak Italian, but it’s regional dialects.
Watch the whole video
I was about to ask, are there any real Little Italies left? Bensonhurst maybe? Staten Island is one third Italian, maybe that's the place to go.
@@geoffoakland There are many neighborhoods where you will find Italian immigrants, but the immigrants are all old and the neighborhoods are all in decline. Most of the immigration from Italy came 1965-1980. (Not including of course the major wave from 1890-1920).
@@BotanicalJourney thanks, I appreciate your response. Some other little Italys seem to be doing better; Northend Boston, North Beach in San Francisco, Bloomfield in Pittsburgh
@@geoffoakland Doing better in what way? To be clear, the two "Little Italys" in this video are no longer functioning Italian communities and have not been for many, many years. If the objective of the person who made this video is to find Italian immigrants or Italian Americans who can speak Italian, then you need to go to the neighborhoods in NYC where those people (myself included live). Those other places you mention, which I've been to, do not have the numbers of Italian immigrants that you will find in NYC. When I say all the neighborhoods are in decline, I mean simply that the immigrant population is dying off and not being replaced.
You're about 20 years late, minimum. Chinatown took over all but maybe 2 blocks of Little Italy. All of the Italians got an education and moved out to North Jersey, Long Island etc. The best Italian restaurants are in North Jersey now IMHO. You can go to Arthur Ave in the Bronx as well...mostly Albanians work the stores anymore. CALABRIA PORK STORE!!!!
It's so strange. Italians that live in US have a way stronger accent than italians in Italy
Perché lo hanno imparato a casa da genitori/nonni che quasi sicuramente sono scappati dal sud italia.
Quando l'italiano lo parli SOLO a casa, e in tv, per strada e nei negozi senti un'altra lingua, quello che impari dell'italiano è il dialetto.
Most of them are sons or nephews of Italian people which speak dialect at their home most of the time, and do not use normal Italian very often because they don't need to when living in NY. Italians in Italy who usually speak dialects are instead "forced" to speak normal Italian, for example when they move from their hometown to other cities.
@@enricacantori2984 grazie, lo so che siamo nel 2022 e so che tutti parlano italiano. Sto dicendo che gli italiani in America , dentro casa, parlano dialetto perchè è più probabile che tra parenti parlino dialetto e quindi hanno meno occasioni di parlare italiano, quindi prevale il dialetto. Mentre in Italia appunto se ti sposti di 10km devi per forza parlare italiano. Mi riferisco agli italo-americani, che non parlano italiano dalla nascita come qua, ma che parlano prevalentemente americano e ogni tanto dialetto con i genitori o con i nonni.
that's because in the US they all come from southern Italy, they don't speak correct Italian but the dialect very few speak Italian.
@@arrivagabry standard Italian became universal throughout Italy before WWI. Most southern Italians are multilingual from this point forward. This argument is only valid for the first wave of immigrants in the late 1800s.
Loro parlano napolitano a Mulberry Street! Very nice vid! I can remember being down there back in the '80s and '90s. It was really different back then. A lot of the original Italians died or moved away.
When two Italians are in the same room: non-verbal communication 🇮🇹❤️
Man that soccer bit (football, excuse me) at 7:19 was hilarious.
Un abbraccio a quel signore siciliano 🥰 con il suo fantastico accento .
Fact: “Little Italy” was always Little Sicily, which is not Italian until a certain time.
Il signore siciliano mi ha fatto emozionare, traspariva l’amore che aveva per la patria e per l’artigianalità del suo mestiere. Servirebbero più italiani come lui, però qui, in Italia.
Sicilian dude was chill enough to give you that extra content of how they make some product.
He was! And that paid off, he got many new clients after this video
Sei fantastica, mi piacciono troppo questi format 😍
I am Argentine of Italian origin. I find it incredible that almost no one speaks the language in Little Italy!!! In my city, Buenos Aires, we don't have an Italian neighborhood because almost the entire city is a kind of Italy. And an Italian doesn't need to know Spanish to come, I guarantee it!!!
Entonces existe mucha gente que habla italiano aún en buenos aires?
@@elijahernandez481 Existen nativos todavía y sus hijos son muchísimos. Además para los argentinos es sencillo entender el italiano porque diariamente se utilizan muchas palabras que derivan de él. El tono es muy similar y las frases se arman igual.
@@-Nicolas- exacto se que muchos modismos de por allá vienen del italiano que interesantísimo me encantaría conocer argentina tan bello ...saludos desde México
@@elijahernandez481 Saludos y muchas gracias por tus palabras. También me gustaría conocer México y su enorme patrimonio. Son muy buena gente los mexicanos.
I live in Manhattan and someone told me that all the restaurants in Little Italy in Manhattan are run by Albanians, I believe they worked in Italy and learned the Italian cooking there
I also wonder why there is such a phenomenon.
@@WhatashameMaryJane Perché siamo i secondi più grandi esportatori di cultura italiana nel mondo 😂 saluti dall'Abruzzo. Si, sono albanese. Un giorno, New York City, ci vedremo. Btw I love your videos. They're so entertaining and immersive. It feels like I'm there with you. Italians and albanians are like cousins. 🇮🇹♥️🇦🇱
@@egzram Hiiiii!!! I can tell you are, but I cannot tell why you are so passionate for Italian culture!
I notice same thing in Europe. Well Albanien has Close ties to italy. They probable think it's the same.
@@WhatashameMaryJane Well, for starters, personally, I've been in Italy for 22 years, since I was 5. Plus albanians and italians go way back and have always had strong ties due to their relationship in politics and as neighbors. Albania is like a second home to many italians. It goes both ways. Plus a high percentage of people speak italian there, fluently. For me, it's only natural to consider myself half italian. 😁
Thing to remember is when my grandparents arrived it wasn't cool to be Italian so at least in my family you spoke Italian only around family not in public.
Realmente mi sembra di capire che ci sono pochi italiani veri a New York ma quelli rimasti sono dei grandi. Forza Juve!!! - I really understand that there are few real Italians in New York but those left are great. Forza Juve!!!
There are plenty Italians and they are “real” their children and children’s’ children etc just moved from New York City and throughout the years assimilated just like everyone else. 😂
Mi fai sentire fiera di essere Italiana ❤️ bellissimo video
Mai !
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Ciao! Questa è stata la prima volta che ho visto un suo video e mi è piaciuto tantissimo ☺️ a volte sembra molto difficile trovare un ristorante italiano autentico, perché i proprietari sono albanesi (quello succede anche con i ristoranti greci). Ho trovato due ristoranti dove parlano italiano: Piccola Cucina e Bocca di Bacco.
Ottimo lavoro!
I love how you ended up with speaking with real Italian, but not by language... BY FOOD ❤❤❤
Sentire un italiano all'estero è come sentirsi a casa ♥️
@Mylenaciribellioficial Mountain
Most Italians arrived in the USA in the late 1800 or early 1900. Most of them spoke a dialect. In the year 1900 only 10% of the Italians actually spoke italian.
Those so called 'dialects' are really different regional languages.
@@joselassalle4958 I know it well because I speak one of those dialects, montefeltrino romagnol. In Italy they call "dialect" a language whom speakers chose italian for literature and culture, even religion. My grand grands spoke the every day conversation in montefeltrino, but they pray in italian (come la gente)
The big wave of Italian immigration was 100+ years ago. They're mostly assimilated and thoroughly English speaking.
The top of the italian immigration in the USA was around 1890-1920. People with italian names like Joseph Mazzello, Bill De Blasio, Sylvester Stallone barely can Say One/Two italian words in a Row. In Italy they are not considered italian at all.
@@Κύμη Leonardo di Caprio
Kinda how it is in California and Texas nowadays with Mexicans. A lot don’t speak Spanish anymore
@@mml1426 True. I had a Mexican-American coworker who's grandma was born in Mexico and of course spoke Spanish. Her US born mother was bilingual and she herself couldn't speak Spanish at all. She said every time a Mexican would speak to her in Spanish and she'd say "Sorry, I only speak English" they'd look all suspicious at her like she was lying!😄
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This woman I’d have a ball with. So much energy and fun