Comments by "Renny Richard Macchi Sr." (@renatomacchi2195) on "Why Italian Americans don't speak Italian" video.

  1. Italians in the United States of America and elsewhere where they emigrated to don't speak Italian because Italian is our second language in Italy and our local dialect is our first language. This is what happens in Italy. Among ourselves we speak from childhood the local dialect then of course in school we speak Italian and we speak Italian when we deal with other Italians who are from other areas of Italy and with foreigners. When Italians came to the United States or other Countries they came from different areas of Italy and kept their own ways including their ""Local" languages and they kept talking in dialect in family with may be some Italian words thrown in here and there and they spoke to their children mostly in dialect so standard Italian never picked up steam among the new Italian generation born outside of Italy. This did not happen to the Spanish-speaking people because when the Latin Spaniards colonizers arrived to what was called by the Latin French "Latin America" they did not have to deal with all the dialects that Italians had to deal with so the Spanish language flourished in the Americas. They have different accents but not dialects which are totally different languages altogether. You can get more education about Italy (Italia) and it's historical development from Latin Roman Times to now by visiting this blog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyAjG4hPckA&t=217s
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