ciao a tutti

can anyone help me to find francesco? Last seen working as a waiter at hotel sole, limone, lago di garda, lombardia, northern italy in august 2005, now possibly working in switzerland somewhere? Surname and address unknown, but he worked at hotel sole for at least 2 summer seasons in 2004 and 2005.

Hello all ! I'm new here and I'm trying to get some information on Italian dialect !! I live here in Northern California, single mom with 2 great teens ( or mini adults ! ) and am Italian ( Gallo). Within the last year I have been wheelchair bound, so I have much more free time than I'd like or than I'm used to, so what better way to take up some of my time.....learn Italian !!!
I had been picking up a little, tho only found out this morning about the different dialects...this is confusing to me !
If anyone could tell me, please, which form of the Italian dialect seems to be the most frequently used...I would so appreciate it !! Thank you, Deb !!:o

Ciao ladyDeb! how're u? Are you italian? gallo from where? there are many places called gallo in italy. Anyway I'm trying to answer your question. Dialects in italy are so common used specially outside of big towns. Each region has yours own dialect but it enough changes between to close little town. Dialects are like an own language. The perfect italian is florence dialect but language changes everytime is not fixed. Anyway if a tourin person speak his dialect with a person from sardegna or sicily they don't understand each o other, and if they speak modern italian they have some problem for the different accent. You'd have to listen for understanding ;-)

I have heard that the Italian spoken most on Italian news programs is the dialect that is the most understandable throughout the country.

Sort of like here in the U.S. We have dialects -- people from New Jersey, New York, Texas, the Midwest are all easy to pick out -- but the newscasters on CNN all sound pretty much the same.

Teresa

Teresa,

the Italian spoken on TV is not dialect, it's Italian...well kind of...I've heard that modern Italian derives from Florence's dialect. But strictly speaking, it's Italian they speak. When you hear a dialect you'll know it, in many cases it's like a totally different language! Maybe what you're referring is more of an accent/pronunciation.

Checco