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Perhaps my perspective is skewed as a Canadian consistently exposed to multiple languages in media and in casual conversation. Italy shares borders with two Ge
by jagger27 5y ago
Perhaps my perspective is skewed as a Canadian consistently exposed to multiple languages in media and in casual conversation.
Italy shares borders with two German majority speaking countries (Switzerland and Austria) and is close to Germany itself. Wouldn't Northern Italians especially have good exposure to them?
As for the Italian 'gli', that was probably the hardest for me to pick up.
- mmarq 5y agoNo, apart from Alto Adige, which is an Austrian region occupied after WWI, still inhabited by Austrians, nobody has any exposure to German. (I honestly don’t know if they consider themselves Italians or Austrians, but they usually are native German speakers and have limited knowledge of Italian). It is hard to find a 45+ year old Italian who knows a foreign language.