Italian by https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz en-us 2020-09-20 00:14:46 UTC 2020-09-20 01:29:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1ee-1f1f9.png Italian Language Basics: olivianels12 https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761413947 Language Family: Indo-European, and it the closest "romance" language to Latin.

Where it is spoken: Italy (official language), Malta, Corsica, Albania, Luxemburg, Germany, Belgium, America, Canada, and some parts of South America

Number of Italian Speakers: 64,000,000 globally ]]> 2020-09-20 00:21:23 UTC https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761413947 Italian Alphabet and Numbers: olivianels12 https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761416748 "J, K, W, X, Y" are not letters that are used in the Italian language]]> 2020-09-20 00:27:33 UTC https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761416748 Italian Sayings: olivianels12 https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761427416 2020-09-20 00:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761427416 Interesting Fact- Italian Dialects olivianels12 https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761429188 Italy has been made up of regional languages, or dialects, since the 1800's. Each of these dialects vary in words, syntax, and sound. Dialects coexist with "standard" Italian in regions, 60% of people claim to speak their regions dialect fluently. ]]> 2020-09-20 00:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761429188 Sound of Italy olivianels12 https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761431745 2020-09-20 00:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761431745 Where is Italian Spoken? olivianels12 https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761432741 2020-09-20 01:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761432741 Classic Italian Song olivianels12 https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761433654 2020-09-20 01:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761433654 Interesting Fact- Language Across Italy olivianels12 https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761434598 In addition to Italian being the official language of Italy and then further being divided into regional dialects, German is also the official language in some northern regions.]]> 2020-09-20 01:03:59 UTC https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761434598 Syntax in Italian olivianels12 https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761436929 Subject-verb-object (SVO)
When speaking Italian, the subject, verb, then object in respectively in sentences, which is the same as English.

I (subject) watch (verb) TV (object)

Io (subject) guardo (verb) la televisione (object)]]> 2020-09-20 01:08:03 UTC https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761436929 Religion and Italian olivianels12 https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761439826 90% of Italians are Roman Catholic. In fact, the Vatican, the country where the Pope lives, is in Italy. ]]> 2020-09-20 01:13:34 UTC https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761439826 Borrowed Words from Italian that we use in English olivianels12 https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761441967 There are many words in the English and Italian language that are similar, or have some similarities because both stem from Latin. Some examples of words we use that originated in Italy are

Panini
Bimbo
Espresso
Camera]]> 2020-09-20 01:17:19 UTC https://padlet.com/olivianels12/z0x7v01h511gw9dz/wish/761441967