Mamma Mia! Decode Italian Hand Gestures, Accents and Onomatopoeias with Polyglot Artist from Rome
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Laugh along with us while learning essential Italian words and sounds to avoid awkward misunderstandings, impressive regional accents that sound entirely different (e.g. Milanese vs. Roman), and the Italian hand gestures that non-Italians use, but might not fully understand.
Join host Catrin Skaperdas and polyglot artist Maddalena Mazzaferri as they have an entertaining chat about Italian culture inclusive of:
Accents: Roman, Sicilian, and Milanese
Italian Hand Gestures and their True Meanings
Sounds to Communicate and Onomatopoeias in Italy
Italian vs. U.S. Animal Sounds
Maddalena's Mamma Mia Technique
Challenging English Words for Italians and vice versa
Correct Pronunciations of Italian Words: Mozzarella, Prosciutto, Spaghetti and Gnocchi
Words to be Aware of their Double Meaning
Similar Italian Words that have Completely Different Meanings
Maddalena's Words of Wisdom
For more information about Maddalena Mazzaferri, check out her Instagram @radioziamaddi.
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As a born and raised Italian from Rome, but leaving in LA for over a decade I got a kick out of this episode. I can testify that this is in fact 100% true 😂
Not even remotely and i'm 100% Italian living in Italy. Italy is not only South Italy.
Great work Catrin! Feel like I’ve learned more about Italian culture in this 45 minutes than I have in the last 6 years being married to one! 😂
😅 Thanks, Konnor!
Italian pronunciation in the United States has a strong southern influence, and there is a reason. From about 1875 to 1925, Italians were the largest migration group into the USA and the majority of the migrants were from Sicily and Southern Italy. There were Central and Northern Italians also but they tended to settle more in specific urban regions. Southern Italians spread out more evenly across the nation. This is why the majority of US stereotypes for Italy and Italians in general are Southern Italian stereotypes.
Thank you for sharing!
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And that's why the stereotypical phenotype Muricans depict as "Italian" look like a South Italian and not like a Central and North Italian.
@@alessandrom7181 My father was from Torino. He had blonde hair, gray eyes, and was 1.84 m. My mother was from Napoli. She had blonde hair, blue eyes, and was 1.8 m. They met in Roma, which is where me and my brothers and sisters were born and grew up. Yes we are all tall, blonde, and blue eyes also. We migrated to the States in the 90s. While I spoke Italian at home, I developed an American accent and spoke English pretty quickly and my friends didn't know I was Italian for a very long time. When I talked about my parents, I would just say they were European. Years later I learned that most of the people in my town thought my parents were Swedish. 🤣 I love it. But what's even funnier to me, is that when I go back to Italy and speak Italian, while I am a native speaker, I do have an American accent and Italians don't believe me when I say I'm Italian born and bred. With the way I look and the way I sound, they just refuse to believe I'm Italian. 🤣
Mamma mia 👌 what a first episode! Great interview Catrin 🫵 with a superb guest 👍 Grazie 👏 to share with American people our Italian culture 🇮🇹
Grazie, Alessio! - And it's my pleasure 🇮🇹
Great conversation! I didn't realize it is such a fresh channel ;) Switching accent trick is amazing. I have heard it before and always wanted to learn it, but it don't have any particular talent. I will have to brute force it, methinks ;)
Thank you for the positive comment! I agree that Maddalena Mazzaferri's accent skills are amazing!
Hi there. I am italian, very interested in languages, and I enjoyed very much the relaxed way you guys take topic, while at the same time trying to go deeper, hints to phonetics, likely etymology... good job!
Thank you!
27:40 she did explain just a part, that mouth sound is used a lot also in complete different situations, for example when someone do a mess or something that you don't like you can do that sound while getting a bit annoyed/angry with facial expression which mean basically like "goddamn" in a bad way, or when someone say a thing not true you can do that sound which mean basically "go fuck yourself i don't believe you", or when some guys have some problems with eachothers can happen that one say something wrong/bad and then the second one do that sound in combo with 🤌 while then saying "tf do you want?", then if someone bothering you you can do that mouth sound as saying "don't bother me leave me alone" in a kind of clear and aggressive way, or even when a friend say a stupid joke or a stupid thing you can do that sound and then laugh as to say "what a moron 😂"
The "scary hand move" actually reprsents a butt squeezing when a person is suddenly scared... that's why we also call fear "la strizza", which meens "the squeeze". The "scary hand" gesture in Sicily also has a different meaning if you do it slowly: it means that a pace is so crowdy that people aare pressed together.
It is fun to see how also the hand gestures language in Italy has regional accent. I can often tell where a person is from (or where his parents are from) just looking at the way they use gestures.
off topic but it's kinda impressing that you sit in that position without moving a bit for the whole hour
😆 It's interesting that you noticed - Thank you for the compliment!
I think it looks even more impressive because, on the other side, I can't stay still! 😂👌
@@radioziamaddi 😅
Suggestions for future gesture explanation:
- "il gesto dell'ombrello" fun for the name, has variation, it's rude but like bad words in a foreign language: don't use them unless you are so confident that they come natural to you (as you could use them inappropriately, maybe offend someone without meaning to), but good to know if you hear them
- 'le corna': different meanings in italy and btw italy and us, might lead to misunderstandings
27 years in Italy, I still can't hear the doubles
doubles?
Wow I think I had a crush on you...❤
Spero di averlo scritto bene
E continuiamo con sta leggenda metropolitana dei gesti che piace tanto agli stranieri...
e se lo dice @hold982
@@silvia_leev No meglio se lo dice tale sissibug PhD ad Harvard :X
@@hold982 oh no!!!! anyway ...
@@silvia_leev In Italia non ci svegliamo la mattina gesticolando come voi ebeti credete che facciamo, se non altro non succede al centro nord, fattene una ragione 🤡🤡
Beh...non mi pare una leggenda metropolitana e nemmeno un offesa ma la semplice realtà. Noi italiani facciamo gesti con le mani continuamente!
quando parlate voi italiano ridiamo noi....🤣🤣🤣
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nice interview
Thank you!