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| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6961 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes  Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 9 of 17 26 July 2010 at 12:07pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
According statistics, Italian is spoken as first language by 62 millions people. Is official language of 6 states and is widely spoken by local people (thanks to Tv) in Albania-Montenegro-Greece-Malta-Corsica_Southern France-Tunisia And it is used in Italian communities in the Americas,Australia and Europe 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6961 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 10 of 17 26 July 2010 at 12:33pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Italian is widely taught in many schools around the world, but rarely as the first foreign language; in fact, Italian generally is the fourth or fifth most taught foreign language in the world.
In the United States, Italian is the fifth most taught foreign language after Spanish, French, German, and American Sign Language, respectively. Throughout the world, Italian is the fifth most taught foreign language, after English, Spanish, French, and German. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6769 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 11 of 17 26 July 2010 at 1:37pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Croatia needs to be added to that list, since it has an Italian-speaking region (Trieste). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6961 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 12 of 17 26 July 2010 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Ops! Sorry! I forgot Croatia,Slovenia( where is an official language in Istria) and Montecarlo , 3 places where live quite a few Italian-speaking communities .
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| YoshiYoshi Senior Member China Joined 5532 days ago 143 posts - 205 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 13 of 17 27 July 2010 at 10:38am | IP Logged | ||||||||
It surprises me to know sign language ranks ahead of Italian in the US. What's the status of Italian throughout Europe? Would American sign language be universally intelligible to all hearing impaired people around the world? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6961 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 14 of 17 28 July 2010 at 1:05pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
In the United States, Italian is the fourth most taught "talked" language Statistics say that American sign language is the fourth taught language ( in Usa there are 2 millions of deaf and dumb + their parents,relatives, friends etc) Although the United Kingdom and the United States share English as a spoken and written language, British Sign Language (BSL) is quite different from ASL, and the two sign languages are not mutually intelligible. Every country has its own sign language. Going back to Italian language you can find a lot of radios and newspapers in Italian language in almost every country where there is an Italian community .Just have look in these links.... http://www.cittadinocanadese.com in Canada http://www.americaoggi.info in New York Usa http://italianmedia.com.au/w3 In Australia then you can find in Argentina, Brasil , South Africa etc etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| marmotta Newbie Italy Joined 5377 days ago 3 posts - 6 votes Speaks: Italian* | Message 15 of 17 07 January 2011 at 2:11pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
The Italian-speaking region Captain Haddock is referring to used to be part of Trieste's province. Is is now in Croatia. The city of Trieste is in Italy and it has a much smaller province now. Alongside Italian, local dialects/languages originating from ancient Venetian are usually spoken by people in those areas. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 16 of 17 13 January 2011 at 3:50am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Italian is also quite useful along the Albanian coast because of the ferry connections to Vlorë and Durrës
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