>The Italian language has seen an impressive increase in interest over the last few years, with more and more people choosing to study this beautiful language in their spare time. So much so that it has now overtaken many other languages to sit in fourth place of the most studied languages in the world.
>The current rankings hold English at the top spot as the most studied language in the world, while Spanish sits in second, Mandarin in third and Italian in fourth position.
I wonder how far it'd fall down the rankings if you didn't include casual muh heritage Americans
Parker Adams
I wonder how far french/german would fall down the rankings if I didn't include casual muh heritage Americans
John James
milior linguagio felice di avermelo fatto insegnare
Jace Gonzalez
prego
Angel Torres
>Above French. Truly a dying language. Even though I highly doubt that Italian is higher than French
David Brown
French is not dying at all, considering all Francophone countries in Africa have birthrates in the double digits.
Brandon Hernandez
I fail to see how this is a good thing
Anthony Williams
>Francophone They barely speak french outside cities.Really I have been there and they speak their own meme languages and even speak english more than french in some places
Cameron Bailey
I'm not even saying it's a good thing. It's not a bad thing either.
Aiden Bennett
bobbity boopity mi Mario hermanos
Elijah Lewis
> italian > beautiful
top klok
Jonathan Butler
Why do people even wanna learn Italian as a second language
I don't get it
Benjamin Reed
Are you retarded ?
Cooper Moore
FRENCH BTFO
Juan Long
>hermanos totally different language dawg
Brayden Evans
I find hard to believe considering that site like duolingo ranks french as a second place
Angel Torres
Hermano comes from latin germanus. We have fratres but it was used among monks.
Ethan Howard
ho imparato l'Italiano en scoula media dieci anni fa, ma ho dimenticato mezzo
Tyler Nelson
>Duolinguo >relevant
stay surrender.
Levi Peterson
Good enough desu
Gabriel Bailey
A world where english, chinese, spanish languages are top 3...
Jacob Collins
Only reason to learn Italian is if you want to join the Mafia.
Noah Green
Rude Very rude
Easton Ward
I took italian a while ago but i live with so many puerto ricans that if I tried to speak italian without having time to practice nowadays, it would probably come out half spanish
Although I expect an italian could still understand
Gabriel Sanchez
>implying they don't talk to each other in the local dialects
Jonathan Murphy
>english The language of the one super power. >chinese The language of the guys on second place. >spanish Shit ton of places speak spanish so people probably think "this will open some tourism opportunities" or maybe it is about literature as well.
I really do wonder what is prompting people to learn italian.
Jonathan Bennett
yeah but there's no Italian word that sounds like that, is what I'm saying to you
Carter Reyes
MAMMA MIA PIZZA SPAG-AH-HETTI THAT'S-A GOOD-A STUFF
Juan Collins
Of course, Vento Aureo soon, I'll start to learn Italian for sure next year
Lucas Parker
Western world learns English Eastern world learns Chinese Americans learn Spanish :(
Blake Campbell
Well Italy invited 1 billion Africans to move to their country any way they can, so now they are getting ready to move.
Samuel King
Not very, if at all.
Julian Thompson
Food and fashion.
Ryan Anderson
Do you really need to learn Italian to eat Italian food?
Kevin Gomez
>or maybe it is about literature as well. Nobody learns Spanish for the literature because Spanish and Latin American literature is all completely irrelevant. Spain wrote in Latin for centuries before finally making the vulgar language official sometime around the 1500s I think. I can't think of any relevant literature to come out of Spain since then, but I can think of plenty of literature written in vulgar Italian (Dante's Inferno, The Prince, etc.)
Joseph Wilson
It's time.
James Ramirez
>Spanish and Latin American literature is all completely irrelevant. t. potterhead
Dominic Martin
This is exactly 100% what is happening, good job on our perfect understanding of all things political. You will be regarded as a wise man.
Dylan Gomez
>Spanish literature irrelevant >sometime around the 1500s i think *slow clap* its amazing to see a victim of american education speak proudly with his "knowledge"
Nolan Anderson
but muh quixote
Jose Diaz
>Yankee education
Adrian Wright
>1500s Nah m8. El cantar del mio CID is from the XI century. Also modern literature as we know it was born in Spain. Jorge Manrique?s work and el Lazarillo de Tormes are considered the first pieces of European modern literature. t.had to study this crap at school
Angel Walker
How hard is it? I was doing French, could read it no issue but speaking it was hard. Want to learn Italian and be able to speak more so for..reasons.
David King
Plenty of good lit from Spain, btu the best Spanish lit you'll find in Latin America. The hispanic canon blows the Italian out of the water
Jaxon Morgan
>you'll find in Latin America Maybe nowadays.XIX, XX and XVII Spanish literature is bretty good.
Aiden Edwards
American education is really sad.
Luis Ortiz
this is completely wrong. IIRC the first grammar of a modern european language is Nebrija's Spanish grammar, from 1492, the same year Columbus reaches America, the Jews were expulsed from Spain, and the last muslim kingdom in Spain was conquered. And they had been writing in Spanish for centuries by that point, although pretty different from modern Spanish.