by DHales | Oct 24, 2013 | culture, history, Italy, Language, Music, Sayings and expressions, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
I dialettiThe dialects For centuries the Italian peninsula was a patchwork of hundreds of dialects, often as different from one another as French from Spanish or English from Italian. Sailors from Genoa couldn’t understand—or be understood by—merchants from Venice or...