Small Town or Village near Bari to practice Italian
Jul 14, 2022, 1:45 pm
#16
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: SEA
Posts: 3,955
Well, yes, the do try. Buy on the rare occasion one gets a Napolitan DOC in Napoli utter Italian words in Italian, you now have the perfect example of a... circular argument (a completely different issue). The one, big advantage is that after a day or two you loose all fears of Napolitan, especially when you realize that, after all, it is not thaaat difficult and you try the Sones' advce: you can't always get what you waaaaaany... 
. Mind you, the above is true for Greeks in Napoli, i have a very good friends from Busto Arsizio who will only understand one word in Napolitan after having been down south tens of times: "si"!
. Mind you, the above is true for Greeks in Napoli, i have a very good friends from Busto Arsizio who will only understand one word in Napolitan after having been down south tens of times: "si"!
Jul 14, 2022, 10:35 pm
#17
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 7,237
"Napolitan DOC" hahahahah that is fantastic. A lot of the folks that immigrated at the same time as my parents are from Naples, so I can mostly understand what's going on. We have a good family friend who is Calabrese and probably needs subtitles in both English and Italian, and through that I can sort of stumble through Calabria. I have almost no idea what's going on by the time I get to Sicily, but what I don't understand in words, I do understand in hand gestures.
Jul 18, 2022, 7:59 am
#19
Join Date: Mar 2005
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If you want immersion into something similar to standard Italian (nowhere speaks standard Italian, no matter what the Tuscans say), Bari would not be my first choice. Neither would Sicily, Sardinia, Calabria, Friuli, Trentino, northern Lombardy and Swiss Ticino, and even Veneto is borderline with their massive lisp (sorry, "voiceless fricative") where "Luciana" becomes "Luziana" - it's "Lusciana" in the South.