Italian Language

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Info on Italian language

Discover the history of Italian language and its development. It has gone through many changes, eventually it is kept and widely spoken by lots of people in different countries.

A brief info about Italian language

How Italian language developed

The great Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who ever expressed that he spoken Spanish with God, French with men, German with his horses, but Italian with women since though this beautiful language can express many subtleties of feeling and thought. Italian as the most musical language in the world that been popularly using in the musical, dram and many books. Many people start to learn Italian with great pssion due to different reasons, they may be students want to study in Italy; business men have Italian business parters or travelers are interested in Italy.    

Actually, although Italian is a Romance language, it is the closest language to Latin among other Romance languages. Do you know, Italian language is the official language of San Marino, a primary language for Vatican City and one of the four official languages in Switzerland.

In history, there were about two crucial of Italian language development. Two invasions occur between 1500 and 1850. In the middle of 16th century, the first Spain ruler invaded and conquered Italy. This invasion left a lasting influence on Italian grammar. Another influence was made by the Nappoleon's invasion in 19th century. Though the war time, Italian language was again reduced regional dialects to increase the united nature of the country.  

After the unification of Italy, they formed the modern Italian which is also called the standard Italian. The Italian language was mostly Latin and some Italian dialects development. Over 1500 dialects were spoken with the official Italian language together until these days. Most dialects are used mostly in villages and certain regions. Old people live in their hometown are still happily to communicate in local dialect, but most young people defiantly like to speak in modern Italian. Italian language officially becomes the national language was by the effort from their education systems and media.

Italian is called musical language, if you would like to learn this beautiful sound language, you can have a look at Rocket Italian, it is not only a learning program, but also a musical time to relax and speak Italian.

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