Painting Masterclass with Marco Frisoni

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And by “German Edition” you mean he wants to come over and have a tutorial weekend here? Or does he actually speak German?

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In Germany, thou Marco claims that German is easy to learn for Italians due to its generally Latin grammar. I can attest to that by saying, that in western Apulia when you want to speak to anyone and you don’t speak Italian, your best bet may be fining older people who used to work in Germany in 50’ and 60’, their German is usually quite good.

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German grammar is definitely not Latin. There are some Latin French, Italian, English, etc.)  loan words in German, but the basic structure is very transalpine and not similar to the ‘Romance’ languages.

Südtirol – called Trentino Alto Adige in Italian – is actually part of Austria and belongs to Italy only because WWI, the population is German and so are their language and culture.

There are Italians who speak German, primarily in the very touristy areas, Italy does get flooded with northerners in Summer, or at least they did until you-know-what.

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I guess in the conversation they were comparing English, German and Italian as second languages for people speaking one of those as their first one. Of the three English is the only one in which you don’t inflect nouns or adjectives, the idea (and cases used for inflection) came to both German and Italian from Latin (just check names of the cases). I believe that was the common denominator they were referring in the talk (but I’m reporting from memory and not the best of memories at that).

As for Italian part of Tyrol, you’re again right, even today it is easier to speak German than Italian with the locals. I however, was referring to Apulia, which is rural land in south eastern Italy, with very few tourist and very few people speaking any foreign language, my experience from that region was described above.

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