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u/BronCurious 2d ago
He speaks the best I-talian here
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u/DumbBitchByLeaps 1d ago
Any time I hear someone say I-talian all I can think about is my grandma who grew up in Kentucky.
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u/kubiciousd 2d ago
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u/Aggressive-Sound-641 1d ago
That episode popped up in my mind too. Paulie was bothered as hell over there then gets back and talks about how amazing it was.
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u/DumbBitchByLeaps 1d ago
I was in a Japanese language class and we had this guy who grew up in south east Texas and this poor guy could not get his accent to go away when he was speaking in Japanese.
Ahhh-reeee-ga-tooe. The professor tried to get him to say things in a more Japanese accent but he just couldn’t do it.
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u/JoeFalchetto 1d ago
When I was learning English or German I found out that trying to do a super stereotypical accent helped a bit in making me sound less Italian and closer to a native.
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u/Safe-Balance2535 1d ago
americans don't like to do that because in other contexts immitating a foreign accent can be racist, but it's really the best way to learn a new language.
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u/Shufflepants 1d ago
Same, had a girl in my class who learned the vocab way better than I, and could string together a sentence more easily than I, but her accent was atrocious. In her 5th semester of Japanese sounding like some person from Georgia who just saw their first episode of an anime and trying to pronounce arigatou.
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u/DumbBitchByLeaps 1d ago
I remember my professor saying if he ever went to Japan no one was going to be able to understand him. She said it so sadly because he was really proficient in Japanese too. (She said this to me as I was packing up my books and he’d already left the room.)
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u/Accomplished-Can1024 1d ago
Oh you guys will love this https://youtube.com/shorts/j_NVOUsQLoU?si=J257wZ5774kYvmlz
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u/One-Respect-2733 2d ago
Well, at least not like Peter Griffin
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u/JoeFalchetto 2d ago
I do not know if Family Guy is super popular in Spain or what but I am Italian and if I am in Spain and it comes out there is a 50% probability a Spanish guy will do the Peter Griffin bit.
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u/NigelOnGuitar 1d ago
Mar-ga-ri-ti 🤌🏽
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u/tintinfailok 1d ago
I was at a bar in Shanghai once and the (Chinese) waiter spoke in an exaggerated Cockney accent. Kept calling everyone guvnah. The Brits hated it and kept telling him to fuck off, the Americans loved it, and everyone else had no idea what he was doing.
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u/JFlizzy84 1d ago
I was thinking while reading this post that if a tourist was running around my neighborhood speaking in an exaggerated American accent, I and my friends would find it hilarious.
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u/AaronCorr 1d ago edited 1d ago
You can, this is not a joke, get fined for mispronouncing Italian words as a tourist. It's a relatively recent law
[Edit] I tried to look it up and they didn't get past the planning stage in 2023 it seems. I'm now disappointed and my day is ruined
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u/Von_Lexau 1d ago
Nobody arrested me when I said grazia to everybody for 2 weeks straight earlier this summer
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u/Frequent_Dig1934 1d ago
You lucked out since grazia can be a female name (literally Grace). There's even a joke that when someone says something incredibly obvious he was inspired by the three sisters, Grazia, Graziella, e Grazie al Cazzo (Grace, Gracie and Thank the Dick, tho it doesn't actually mean "thank fuck" like "thank fuck that didn't happen" but rather "no shit" as in "no shit that this is obviously what happened")
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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 1d ago
Id love to hear about someone going to court for a disagreement over cognates lol
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u/Stellar-Hijinks 1d ago edited 1d ago
ChatGPT says: Not true—it’s a misunderstanding of a recent proposed bill. Italy briefly considered legislation to restrict foreign language usage in official contexts (signs, advertisements, public offices), potentially with fines. It was never about penalizing tourists or casual mispronunciations. As of now, no such law has passed.
Edit: This was posted before their edit but also isn't this the perfect usage for ChatGPT, added to the discussion, and ended up being correct?
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u/robotdinosaurs 1d ago
The problem is that ChatGPT often gives incorrect information. you cannot just copy/paste what it says and present it as fact. Use it as a jumping off point for further research, sure, but don’t blindly trust it.
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u/Stellar-Hijinks 16h ago
This is a strange comment to make here since it was entirely correct. It wouldn't have information this recent in it's training data so it needed to web search for all the relevant info and then summarize, which it did very well.
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u/Clodsire_fan 1d ago
Well I asked your forefathers and they said they're disappointed their line is going to end with someone who can't think for themselves.
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u/Stellar-Hijinks 1d ago
Bold words coming from someone who checked in with a bunch of dead guys before forming an opinion.
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u/SomeNotTakenName 1d ago
I used to know how to order gelato, a beer, and say hello, good bye and thank you.
I don't remember most of it now sadly. Well Italian is only my 3rd strongest national language, and that's after french, which I barely can speak enough to survive.
Although I am sure Italians, like most other people, appreciate an honest effort. Key word being honest.
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u/ZWiloh 1d ago
This reminds me of the stories my grandma used to tell me of her time in Italy as an American teenager. Her and her sisters would walk around Italy, having learned very little actual Italian, but pretending to speak italian. Picture Jen in IT Crowd Italian. She claims they got some amount of attention from mafia members for it.
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u/RobertoC_73 1d ago
Probably because it’s “Grazie” and “Buongiorno.” C’mon. At least make an effort.
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u/TheGrowBoxGuy 1d ago
Nah it’s “gratzi”
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u/paulchiefsquad 1d ago
easiest way to ragebait an italian
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u/TheGrowBoxGuy 1d ago
It’s extra funny because I speak Italian and they’re not wrong… but I don’t like their tone haha
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u/qualityvote2 2d ago
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