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I always ask if Italians speak standard Italian when they speak ?
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Of course they do, unless they were born in a different country (and maybe have been adopted). Italians are ‘Italian’ after all.
I am a Belgian who speaks Italian very well. I have visited Italy many times and have seen 13 of the 20 regions.
With strangers most Italians speak the standard language. In small villages elder people are often not able to speak it.
I have also been a member of an Italian web-site in the USA. They were all second or third generation. Most of them did not speak any Italian at all. A few spoke very little. I had to chat in English with them.
Actually not.
Standard Italian is just used in official situations (as school) or in burocratic context.
In family and with friends quite nobody speaks standard Italian, dialecet is the main form of comunication. Even if in North-Italy most of cities are losing their own dialect, some Italian standard grammatical forms are becoming unused (conditional and subjunctive for exemple).
Since every city and region has got its own dialect, it’s very difficoult to comunicate among the several regions, so to fix these differences is used the Standard Italian taugh at school…
Which Italians are you talking about?
Italian-Americans? No, most probably not, a very small percentage are fluent in Italian and they are usually recent immigrants
Italian citizens? OBVIOUSLY
Do Americans speak English well?
Are you serious?! this question must be a joke…
of course they speak standard Italian, that’s where Italian came from… it’s like asking if Spanish people speak standard Spanish or the English speak standard English…
I just can’t believe that you asked this, to the world, literally…
(no ofense…) Happy Holidays…
Most 3rd generation immigrants are linguistically dead. I know people straight from Venezuela who say they are losing their their spanish. If they live in Italy yeah, Italians born or raised in america, speak very little italian in general.
I originate from Africa and can verify that 3rd generation is linguistically dead. I can understand Chenowae when my parents or grand parents speak but I’m not fluent enough to hold a conversation, so I wil speak to my kids in english.
Unless you speak a language every day it will happen.
I agree with catwoman and maya: Italians speak standard Italian only in "official" situations; but 95% of the times they (including me!) speak their own city’s slang.
Catwoman is right, Italian people speak standard Italian only in formal situations.
Every region, every city have their own dialect, that is spoken instead of Italian standard.
However dialects are transforming into Italian standard with the spend of the years.
Italians speak the best Italian you’ll hear. You won’t come across many people speaking standard Italian, more people speaking their local dialects. It’s the same with any language.
(Another note: Actual Italians speak good Italian, rather than people who have Italian background and claim to be Italian).