Learn 11 ITALIAN HAND GESTURES (Why Do Italians Talk SO MUCH With Their Hands?) | Easy Italian 150

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  • @dangercat9188
    @dangercat9188 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I love the Italian language. Beautiful country, beautiful language and beautiful people. And food lol.

  • @kathrynbrown1572
    @kathrynbrown1572 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Adorable that they all knew them! Do more of these!

    • @Ale55andr082
      @Ale55andr082 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      it's just normal actually 😅

    • @LuckyRowlands
      @LuckyRowlands ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Adorable? We're not animals :D

    • @Galexlol
      @Galexlol ปีที่แล้ว

      Adorable? Shut the f### up barbarian while i was building a senate you were chasing cows naked

    • @Dev1nci
      @Dev1nci 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ⁠​⁠@@LuckyRowlandsAah I don’t think it was meant like that. Some of my friends call people ‘cute’, in that context it means ‘endearing’. 😄

  • @yasgonzalez1820
    @yasgonzalez1820 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    Anche in Spagna gesticoliamo molto, molti dei gesti che escono nel video li facciamo. Siamo cugini fratelli.😁😉

    • @escalante.limpias
      @escalante.limpias ปีที่แล้ว +15

      No, no somos primos hermanos. Somos hermanos.
      🇪🇸❤️🇮🇹

    • @yasgonzalez1820
      @yasgonzalez1820 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@escalante.limpias Es verdad, somos muy parecid@s. 👍😁

    • @mattia_exc3068
      @mattia_exc3068 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Perché avete la stessa cultura latina, non a caso lo spagnolo è una lingua italico latina come un normale dialetto italiano

    • @dennisrivas2993
      @dennisrivas2993 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tal cual en hispano America es igual

    • @annapiacarnevale2030
      @annapiacarnevale2030 ปีที่แล้ว

      0,48
      Non vedo il nesso con ciò di cui si sta parlando.🤔

  • @mariannereuter
    @mariannereuter ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Loved this. Today I spoke to a Ukrainian woman whose German wasn't so good yet. Gestures help us a lot in situations like these. I intuitively use them for words like cold, hot, sleep, eat etc.

  • @fabiannovellino
    @fabiannovellino ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Bellissima puntata Raffaele!!! Molto divertente. Qui in Argentina, ma sopratutto a Buenos Aires, abbiamo gli stessi gesti, questo indica senza dubbio la nostra provenienza. Abbraccione!!!

    • @geraldhirschenglishintensi9904
      @geraldhirschenglishintensi9904 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Molto interessante! Qui en Inghilterra no gesticolanno afatto.

    • @yolacintia
      @yolacintia ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Noi argentini siamo gli italiani di America 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

    • @timmaloney6441
      @timmaloney6441 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fanno lo stesso in Brasile , poiche' gli italiani hanno contribuito alla Loro cultura .

  • @matthewgiuliano7498
    @matthewgiuliano7498 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I am American of Italian heritage and people here always made fun of us when we gesture and talk with our hands. I love it ❤ and are proud of the way we expressively communicate... it's in our DNA!

  • @NieDukajplMowBezBariery
    @NieDukajplMowBezBariery 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    absolutely hands down! one of the best episodes, and I watched more than 70+!

    • @EasyItalian
      @EasyItalian  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Haha glad you enjoyed it! 😀

  • @Romancelanguagespassion
    @Romancelanguagespassion ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Aspettavo questo video da tanto tempo e finalmente... Wow, adoro tutti questi gesti delle mani italiani 🤌👌👍

    • @dmzt00
      @dmzt00 ปีที่แล้ว

      in realtà sono più tipici di alcune aree della penisola. Nella mia regione non si usano per niente

  • @respiraresinapsi2438
    @respiraresinapsi2438 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    ITA/ENG
    ITA - Non tutti gli italiani lo sanno, ma l'attitudine a gesticolare, muovere le mani, che ha sicuramente una motivazione sociale, deriva dall' ARTE ORATORIA LATINA. I "retori" in generale attribuivano ad ogni gesto, non solo alla parola, la sua importanza ed un significato specifico. Nel corso del tempo ovviamente i gesti hanno modificato la loro funzione in relazione anche al cambiamento del linguaggio verbale, ma una delle testimonianze di come la gestualità sia stata utilizzata resta nell'arte, dalle statue degli antichi romani (pensiamo al gesto di Cesare della mano destra, come ad indicare, MANUS AD INDICEM, ma ce ne sono altri come la mano tesa in forma di saluto, il pugno chiuso sul cuore, la stretta di mano che deriva dal culto di MITRA) che a loro volta si ispiravano ai greci e agli antichi egizi (pensiamo al gesto dell'ARPOCRATE, che invita al stare zitti) passando per la grande arte del rinascimento (pensiamo, ad exemplum, a San Giovanni che indica il cielo) senza dimenticare il teatro: tutto ha un significato specifico. Anche se questo significato sia poi cambiato, concretamente, nel corso dei secoli, alla domanda di uno straniero: perché voi italiani gesticolate? Io rispondo sempre: ma voi avete avuto la RETORICA, Quintiliano, Cicerone, Svetonio e la commedia dell'arte? :)
    ENG - Not all Italians know this, but the ability to gesticulate, move the hands, which certainly has a social motivation, derives from the LATIN ORATORY ART. The "rhetoricians" in general attributed to every gesture, not only to the word, its importance and a specific meaning. Over time, obviously gestures have changed their function also in relation to the change in verbal language, but one of the evidences of how gestures have been used remains in the art, from the statues of the ancient Romans (think of Caesar's gesture of the right hand, as if to indicate, MANUS AD INDICEM, but there are others such as the hand extended in the form of greeting, the closed fist over the heart, the handshake that derives from the cult of MITRA) which in turn were inspired by the Greeks and the ancient Egyptians (think of the gesture of the AR POCRATES, who invites us to keep quiet) passing through the great art of the Renaissance (let's think, for example, of St. John pointing to the sky) without forget the TEATRO: everything has a specific meaning. Even if this meaning has changed concretely over the centuries when asked by a foreigner: why do you Italians gesticulate? I always answer: but have you had RETORICA, Quintiliano, Cicerone, Svetonio?

    • @maurizioevaristo4496
      @maurizioevaristo4496 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Assolutamente vero! C' una lunga storia e tradizione dietro a questo "linguaggio delle mani e del corpo"

  • @frankgiuliano380
    @frankgiuliano380 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    What is amazing is that my grandparents departed Italy in 1911. Yet, we here in America still use the exact same gestures.

    • @N.a.r.i
      @N.a.r.i ปีที่แล้ว

      they are ancient!

    • @matthewgiuliano7498
      @matthewgiuliano7498 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey Frank, we share a last name, we could be related! My family is originally from Bari.

  • @VonGreen
    @VonGreen ปีที่แล้ว +16

    La gestualità è qualcosa che ho notato essere comune in diversi paesi iberici, come Portogallo, e Spagna per isempio. Anche devo dire che qui in Brasile il popolo parla anche gesticolando, almeno alcune un po' e altri un po' di più. (scusa mio Italiano sono ancora imparando)

  • @oOLieutenantOo
    @oOLieutenantOo ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Bel video! In Svezia gesticoliamo poco e quindi questo tema è interessante per me. Imparerò qualche gesto italiano!

  • @Bai_L
    @Bai_L ปีที่แล้ว +6

    No wonder we have Maestro Riccardo Muti!!! I love Italy!

  • @peterk7864
    @peterk7864 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Anche noi i Greci,usiamo apparechie di questi gestioni nella lingua quoditiana,grazie per il vostro ottimo video.

    • @cosmicopeyote
      @cosmicopeyote ปีที่แล้ว +7

      viva la Grecia, viva il popolo greco, un abbraccio a tutti voi! 🇮🇹❤️🇬🇷

    • @peterk7864
      @peterk7864 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cosmicopeyote grazie mille signore

    • @MatthGulins8555
      @MatthGulins8555 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Noi del sud Italia abbiamo lo stesso DNA dei fratelli Greci❤

  • @foodKebKebAb
    @foodKebKebAb ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Da Meridionalissimo, gesticoliamo a più non posso. E faccio bene .
    Proveniamo dalla MAGNA GRECIA 💙🇬🇷 e i gesti ce l'abbiamo nel sangue.

  • @askadia
    @askadia ปีที่แล้ว +15

    L'Italia è al centro del Mediterraneo, centro dell'antico Impero Romano, e antica potenza navale. Da sempre si è trovata a contatto con tutti i popoli che si affacciano su questo mare. Gesticolare diventa una necessità quando non si parla la stessa lingua.
    Personalmente, la prima persona straniera con cui ho avuto contanto era il nipote francese della vicina di casa di mia nonna. All'epoca ero un bimbo e non sapevo ancora parlare francese. Stavamo giocando con le racchette (rackets) in spieggia, quando la pallina è finita lontano, nel lettino di una donna grassa che dormiva. Io ero andato a riprendere la pallina cercando di non svegliare la signora. Il bello è che ho raccontato quello che è successo al bambino francese solo con gesti e imitazioni. Lui s'è messo a ridere per la scena buffa che avevo descritto, senza usare nemmeno 1 parola.

    • @minhhoangpham2944
      @minhhoangpham2944 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Qué divertida memoridad😂

  • @ingridtrue8652
    @ingridtrue8652 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Video fantastico! 🙌❤ Grazie mille per averceli mostrati in modo da poterli mettere in pratica! 🙏😃

    • @iren4545
      @iren4545 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Anche in Grecia...Grazie mille 👍

  • @GTZSFJREJ
    @GTZSFJREJ ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Ciao cari!
    Cioè sono tedesca è studio in italia, da le mie coinquiline ho imparato qualche degli gesti italiano ma sincirmente non lo sapevo tanti di quelli nel video! Buon lavoro con questa episode, era veramente utile e interessante
    Mi fa riedere come invece noi tedesci no gesticulano mai. Infatti ci sono qualche gesti come „sei pazza“ o „no, no, don‘t you dare“ ma in quotidianno non si usa mai

    • @abbaspouya3471
      @abbaspouya3471 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey, anche studio qua in italia, stavo imparando tedesco prima italiano, mi piace entrambi lingue. Dov'è studi ?

  • @honoresangwa1000
    @honoresangwa1000 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Video assai utile per noi stranieri. Grazie di cuore

  • @gustavocapuccio1953
    @gustavocapuccio1953 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Grande ragazzi! Bellissimo video, grazie mille per questo.... Noi facciamo qualche gesto simile a voi.. 👍🇮🇹🇺🇾

  • @praesentius
    @praesentius ปีที่แล้ว +9

    When I lived in Ferarra, I worked with this Italian guy (it was on the Poggio Renatico Italian airbase) who decided to try and teach me Italian hand gestures. Holy crap. Everything from signing hunger, anger, pleasure, specific food desires like pasta or BBQ. It's ridiculous how many things can be expressed by an Italian who is using their hands.
    On the other end of the spectrum is my Italian tutor. She's from Milan and doesn't really use them much at all.

  • @YogaBlissDance
    @YogaBlissDance ปีที่แล้ว +60

    I haven't watched yet, but my theory is ina country like Italy where there were so many dialects and different languages historically, folks needed gestures as a way to communicate basic things to each other. Gestures are easy to do- and can cross a language barrier.

    • @alexsc9261
      @alexsc9261 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You are right!! This is the historical reason

    • @gio7799
      @gio7799 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Some people think that Italian hand gestures are older, hand gestures were important during the Roman Empire, ancient Romans needed a universal and easy language to communicate eachother all around the Empire.

    • @CallMeArdo
      @CallMeArdo ปีที่แล้ว

      è un'ottima risposta

    • @aldozilli1293
      @aldozilli1293 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's what I heard, particularly in the South and Naples where due to the central location in the mediterranean they would often have contact with many different tribes Greeks, Cartheginians (North Africans/Arabs/Berbers) Visigoths, Celts (Hispania), Normans (and their former/ varying conquering tribes) and with the Roman empire. Italy really has been the centre of the known world and mixed with many different peoples for a long time.

  • @mimmo4762
    @mimmo4762 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Credo che il gesto di "preciso" (che di base è il mimare la tensione di un filo) a entrambe le mani si usi soprattutto in tono ironico, nel senso di "Ecco, è successo esattamente quello che prevedevo" o "Era inevitabile" o "Appunto, esattamente come avevo detto". A volte sostituito da quello a una mano, ma più esteso. Ed è divertente pensare che abbiamo un gesto anche per concetti così astatti, e persino sfumature diverse dello stesso concetto.: non ci avevo mai riflettuto prima.

  • @AnnA-vz9tq
    @AnnA-vz9tq ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Una puntata molto bella! Grazie per spiegare questi gesti, e molto interessante da conoscerli!

  • @JB-oq6kc
    @JB-oq6kc ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Qui in Canada utilizzammo pollice su - thumbs up! No gesticoliamo tanto nel questo paese. Saluti dal Canada! ❤

  • @pareja90210
    @pareja90210 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Io sono messicano ma io faccio dei gesti per enfatizzare certi punti 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤏🤏🫵🫵🫱🫲🫴🫳🫴

  • @entropie138
    @entropie138 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man, I love this video!
    I started doing a bit of Italian on Duolingo (yes, I know, I need other methods to learn Italian, too, but it helped give me an introduction at the very least), and instantly fell in love with the accent you speak it with. I looked up other videos for Italian as well. One before this video commented on the gesturing motions of the language, so I just happened upon this video. So glad I did! I can decode at least a few awesome gestures, especially "Che vuoi?" I see that particular gesticulation around so much and I finally know what it means!
    Thank you guys so much! This was fun!

  • @Brillosbae
    @Brillosbae ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Please keep doing this videos! They are so helpful and funny.

  • @EccoMath
    @EccoMath ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Grazie mille per questo video divertente e interessante! Essendo italo-americano, nato vicino a Philadelphia, direi che ne ho conosciuto mezza e non ne ho conosciuto l'altra mezza. Il movimento per ``che vuoi'', certo che sÌ lol il classico contorno di ``waddaya want?!?'' a PA/NY/NJ. lol Ma è pazzo... mi avevo dimenticato del movimento a 9:21 fino a che l'ho visto qui nel video!!! Mio nonno faceva cosÌ! (Di solito perché lui ha appena mangiato un piatto di pasta piccante con qualsiasi tipo di maiale lol) Ma è morto molto anni fa. Grazie moltissimo per avermi datto di nuovo questa memoria!!!! Che bella.

  • @kai.raio.
    @kai.raio. ปีที่แล้ว +4

    it’s almost like a sign language. fascinating!

  • @luisyanez5943
    @luisyanez5943 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ciao, sono sordo, peruviano, parlo la lingua orale e dei segni, e ho anche antenati italiani. Ho anche visto che le ragazze italiane sono molto belle e mi fa molto piacere innamorarmi di loro 0:58 😍😍😘😘🥰🥰💋💋🌹🌹❤❤. Saluti dal Perù

  • @katyyung6247
    @katyyung6247 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent video! Loved learning the hand gestures. Thank you

  • @sn2546
    @sn2546 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The best clip on Italian gestures!!!!!!❤❤❤

    • @EasyItalian
      @EasyItalian  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it! 🥰

  • @laurab2588
    @laurab2588 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastico Raffaelle, mi e piaciuto un sacco questo video!

  • @djczanzibar
    @djczanzibar ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Yes. This is what I thought. A long time ago there must have been many dialects, so people used hand gestures instead. It reminds me of sign language for the deaf, however a lot more limited.

  • @shariyarshajid
    @shariyarshajid 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing I really enjoyed this video.

  • @ccantrell4053
    @ccantrell4053 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That was fun! Divertito!

  • @guerro327
    @guerro327 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Questa e stata una lezione molto divertente. Molto bene

  • @lucas82
    @lucas82 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such a beautiful language and culture.

  • @monikanowak5547
    @monikanowak5547 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ciao :) noi in Polonia per sicuro usiamo lo stesso gesto per dire rubare (almeno mio Nonno usava sempre), per dire che qulachuno e pazzo (girando un dito vicino testa), ma anche se qualchuno e pieno e non vuole mangaire piu o a mangiato qualcosa buonissimo puo accarezzare sua pancia con un mano, fai silenzio (un ditto indicativo sul bocca) , e un segreto/non dire nessuno fai geste come 'zip' al bocca, ci sono anche gesti per dire che qualcosa e costoso, che qualcuno e ubriaco, che qualcosa e super e tanti altri;))

  • @cathiekessler7766
    @cathiekessler7766 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This was so much fun!
    While I can't comment on the historical reason for this being uniquely (or stereotypically) Italian, I CAN say that it's just about growing up in the culture. How do I know? I'm about as anglo as it gets, but I attended an elementary school that was 85% Italian, and I use most of those gestures and knew all of them.
    I was called "mangiacake" every day for ten years, but I know how to eat pasta, and I get to express myself properly with my hands.

    • @emanuelamattioli6743
      @emanuelamattioli6743 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In Northern Italy we do NOT move our hands like that 'cause it only belongs to Southern Italy culture and mentality

    • @cathiekessler7766
      @cathiekessler7766 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@emanuelamattioli6743 Makes sense. I went to school in a neighbourhood full of Sicilians. It doesn't get much more "south" than that! (Cue the Italian snobbery about Sicilia...😉)

    • @emanuelamattioli6743
      @emanuelamattioli6743 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cathiekessler7766 My mother was from Palermo,Sicilia and my father was from a small torna near Bologna,Emilia Romagna.Anyway she NEVER used hand gestures.Maybe it depends on the level of education.Sicily amd most Southern regions were conquered by the Arabs and the Arabian culture still lives in Sicilan cuisine and behavior

    • @Giovis968
      @Giovis968 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@emanuelamattioli6743 what? North to south everybody use gesture whit his hands all Italy Veneto Lombard Tuscany maybe Naples bit more but is same culture , I'm German

    • @emanuelamattioli6743
      @emanuelamattioli6743 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Giovis968 I'm Italian and I think I know better than you the difference between Northern and Southern Italy.Anyway we're NOT the same culture.Hasst du niemals Italien besucht?

  • @polinagrusha8881
    @polinagrusha8881 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    pensavo che in Bielorussia dove vivo noi gesticoliamo abbastanza tanto. ma quando ho guardato questo video, ho capito che noooo , non gesticoliamo tanto quanto gli italiani😅😄

    • @grodental11
      @grodental11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      gli italiani del nord gesticolano meno degli italiani del sud...

  • @birgittakolte8414
    @birgittakolte8414 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Grazie Raffaele, puntata fantastica e molto divertente. Sono tedesca, ma vivo in Grecia. In Germania non usiamo quasi mai le mani per esprimerci. Qui in Grecia invece sì e non solo le mani, anche la faccia, gli occhi (per esempio molte volte un semplice "no" (όχι) si esprime senza parole, solo con le sopracciglia alzate e un movimento con la testa dal basso verso l'alto).

    • @adofonconi9753
      @adofonconi9753 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Italiano impeccabile, complimenti

    • @birgittakolte8414
      @birgittakolte8414 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@adofonconi9753 grazie mille!!!

    • @giorgiodifrancesco4590
      @giorgiodifrancesco4590 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@birgittakolte8414 In Italia, quello stesso movimento greco lo fanno solo i sicilianie per sottolinearlo ci aggiungono uno schiocco della lingua contro i denti, che produce un TsK

    • @birgittakolte8414
      @birgittakolte8414 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ah, grazie, Francesco. Non lo conoscevo e così non ho prestato molta attenzione a cercare questo movimento nell'espressione dei Siciliani quando ero in Sicilia due mesi fa. Ma alla prossima!! Buona giornata!!

  • @DanielRuiz-yn4pe
    @DanielRuiz-yn4pe ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Il gesto di "hai paura" è il mesmo in Messico.

  • @RobertoGarzaro12
    @RobertoGarzaro12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sono dal Guatemala, penso che si gesticula ma non così tanto. Però oggi ho scoperto che non qua al Guatemala abbiamo lo stesso gesto con le mani per dire "Hai paura??" 😂❤

  • @saskiatrippe1922
    @saskiatrippe1922 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I gesti in realtà hanno un motivo molto semplice. Poiché la lingua italiana era (ed è ancora) molto diversa nelle diverse regioni all'epoca, i gesti venivano usati per condurre il commercio tra loro.
    P. S. Ho scritto questo prima di aver ascoltato il fine. 🤣🤣

  • @jamesswindley9599
    @jamesswindley9599 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for this! It made me think what hand gestures I use in English 😅❤ and now I can’t stop thinking of more 😂

  • @forzajuve723
    @forzajuve723 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    grande!
    it should be on the UNESCO list.

  • @jenniferpoppen9618
    @jenniferpoppen9618 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mille Grazie! As a french Canadian, we are also known for using ALOT of gestures and talking with our hands. It was fun to watch and very informative as I'm now learning Italian (4th Language)

    • @EasyItalian
      @EasyItalian  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks a lot and good luck with your learning of Italian!

    • @marvinsilverman4394
      @marvinsilverman4394 ปีที่แล้ว

      there is a video where someone interview to the people in England (in English to Ethnic english people)
      and i was surprised the people moved their hands too much when they speak
      not only a single person ,several waved their hands when speaking

  • @dkim2011
    @dkim2011 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Many decades ago, an academic actually wrote a lengthy treatise on the differences between the gesticulations of Italians and Jews in NYC. As I recall, the Italians were more inclined to paint pictures with their hands, while the Jews used their hands more to accentuate a beat, in Talmudic fashion. Having grown up in NYC half a century ago, that seems about right, although I'm not sure either ethnic group in America gesticulates as much as they used to. (???)
    I love the hypotheses you mention to explain why Italians gesture so much - molto interessanti! We might also ask why some people gesture so little? In some cases it might be because, over the centuries, it was considered undignified to show much emotion, to reveal so much, especially to strangers, and to exert less control over the body (which in some Asian cultures is particularly important when addressing both seniors and juniors.) Personally, I prefer the Italian way.

    • @EasyItalian
      @EasyItalian  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for your very interesting comment!

  • @MoniLein-yy2ue
    @MoniLein-yy2ue ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A few months ago I listened to an an interesting presentation from an Italian professor of Italian literature here in South Carolina. He did not have a strong Italian accent but he looked like he was about to explode trying to contain his body language. He could hide his verbal accent a lot better than his body accent, and I kept wishing he would just cut loose and give us the full theatrical display.

  • @AlvaroSpain
    @AlvaroSpain ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Mi ha fatto ridere alcune delle espressioni...sembra un po' "mafioso" avere gesticolazioni per dire "se te prendo" o "fare qualcosa sotto il tavolo, non legalmente ".
    Comunque bella puntata, molto divertente.
    Siete un "team" 5 stelle e mezza.
    Amo anche i podcast, i cui consiglio a tutti vivamente.
    Grazie e a presto. Buona settimana a tutti 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇪🇸🇪🇸💪💪

  • @luzipaz9645
    @luzipaz9645 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    BRAVISSIMO! Da tempo stavo aspettando precisamente questo video! Gli trovo così importante da capire perchè si esprime e si capisce meglio utilizando questi gesti!! Una domanda, sono uguali tra tutta Italia? GRAZIE MILLE

    • @barbaciante
      @barbaciante ปีที่แล้ว

      Direi di sì. Forse c'è qualche piccola differenza, ma direi che è superflua. Infatti, non tutti gli intervistati nel video erano di Napoli, ma hanno dato tutti le stesse risposte alle domande sui gesti.

    • @grodental11
      @grodental11 ปีที่แล้ว

      tutti gli italiani capiscono i gesti che si fanno, ma gli italiani del nord, come me, gesticolano molto meno.

  • @drippysonic9060
    @drippysonic9060 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Everybody dresses so classy

  • @Thepizzaboys-mh8mr
    @Thepizzaboys-mh8mr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Make more of these videos, per favore!🙏

  • @steveneardley7541
    @steveneardley7541 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I watched another video on Italian hand gestures, and in the comment section there were all these people from Spain, Uruguay, Brazil, Greece who used almost the same gestures. So this language passes easily through different countries. I'm Italo-American. I use my hands a lot, but not specific gestures. One thing me and my siblings all do is that we point at things with our noses rather than our fingers.

    • @keltyk
      @keltyk ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mediterranean countries all sharing the same trade routes and ports. Hand language would have been useful with so many different languages among so many close neighbours. Spain and Portugal must have taken the gestures to their colonies in Sth America.

  • @spanish-en-contexto
    @spanish-en-contexto ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Grazie mille per il video! Il mio gesto preferito è indubbiamente “Ci facciamo una spaghettata.” Perché non abbiamo questo in inglese? Negli Stati Uniti abbiamo la stessa impressione degli gesti italiani con gli italiani-americani. Ci sono molte persone con ascendenza italiana nel nostro paese, e bensì sono delle nuove generazioni che già non parlano italiano, la gesticolazione è ancora presente. Infatti, molte persone, orgogliose della sua connessione con l'Italia, si presentano con un po’ di gesti per dimostrare le sue italianità. Può essere che la gesticolazione è davvero una forma di comunicazione che si eredita. Io, come un tailandese-americano, ho imparato dai miei genitori che può sembrare un po’ maleducato esagerare troppo con le mie mani per parlare, ma adoro che a Napoli sia più quasi come una lingua stessa.

  • @PeterForella
    @PeterForella ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ti potrebbe piacere: "Italiano Senza Parole" di Don Cangelosi, ha più esempi. La sua teoria è che i gesti italiani sono così buoni che non hai bisogno di parole.

  • @ilefab4545
    @ilefab4545 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    La cosa bella è che da nord a sud i gesti sono uguali e significano le stesse cose

  • @ferjelo
    @ferjelo ปีที่แล้ว +9

    È incredibile che in Argentina si usino tutti gli stessi gesti con lo stesso significato

    • @gabrielemangialavori8732
      @gabrielemangialavori8732 ปีที่แล้ว

      la cultura italiana è stata esportata in Argentina dagli immigrati italiani

    • @stefciko5831
      @stefciko5831 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Perche ti sorprendi??😂😂 Siete al 60 per cento italiani

  • @nicolenotizieeamici
    @nicolenotizieeamici ปีที่แล้ว

    Best ONE !!!❤

  • @anashidaoui6301
    @anashidaoui6301 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    penso che gesticolare è una cosa molto importante aiuta la persona ad espremersi bene quando parla con il corpo ed il mano .anche possa creare un'armonia tra le parole ed le espressioni 😊

  • @monikasabine6223
    @monikasabine6223 ปีที่แล้ว

    Grazie mille 👍

  • @madygarcia584
    @madygarcia584 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In Colombia anche si gesticola, non tanto ma lo facciamo. Infatti, alcuni gesti che ci hai mostrato nel video sono gli stessi qui.

  • @Aleks_Som
    @Aleks_Som 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Grazie mille! Fantastico!
    Ma cosa significa "se ti prendo"? Cosa vuol dire questo gesto?

    • @EasyItalian
      @EasyItalian  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sarebbe "se ti prendo, te le do!", cioè "ti picchio"... un po' violento come gesto! 😅

  • @ruthkarl9113
    @ruthkarl9113 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In Hawaii local people make a quick upward nod while lifting eyebrows to say hello...Americans twirl an index finger near the temple to indicate someone is crazy, and a quick jerky horizontal swipe across the neck with a flat hand means stop, or cut, or turn that thing off!

  • @sandracarli1110
    @sandracarli1110 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Buffo! Proprio ieri ho preparato questo tema per i miei alunni e volevo guardare se l'aveste già trattato.

  • @EphemeralProductions
    @EphemeralProductions ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Each of those gestures are cute and funny! Love them! ❤

  • @stevenburns4296
    @stevenburns4296 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastico

  • @davidmeir9348
    @davidmeir9348 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    We Jews also do that a lot.
    Now imagine, I'm Jewish and I have Italian ancestry so MAMMA MIA 🤌🤌🤌

  • @maurijk25
    @maurijk25 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    also the facial expressions are important with the gestures...:)

  • @keltyk
    @keltyk ปีที่แล้ว

    Here in Scotland, many people do hand and head gestures when talking. We don't know we're doing it. Some people consider it an annoying character flaw here; as if you lack vocabulary, and rely on gestures. It's not a conscious language, though some gestures mean something specific. They could be funny, insulting, instructive, threatening, welcoming, friendly, helpful or whatever. There are simple, basic gestures for 'hi', 'I don't know' 'shhh', 'lunatic', 'go away', 'f- off', 'come in', 'you're welcome', 'stop', 'great!' 'thanks'. But again, we are barely conscious of doing it. It's an instinctive, perhaps obvious set of gestures, and definitely not as developed as your Italian hand speak

    • @EasyItalian
      @EasyItalian  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks a lot for sharing!

  • @arturomarinho_dp
    @arturomarinho_dp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    aqui en Argentina son casi los mismos gestos! here, in Argentina the same! so funny, we cannot hide our ancestors, bravissimo !

  • @user-pk1fo8mg5q
    @user-pk1fo8mg5q 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Inestimabile!

  • @maramnasagain
    @maramnasagain ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm tunisian and we have those gestures too 😂❤ except for few like the spaghetti one and you're smart 🎉 so I think it's the first theory that might explain the gesturing like it was because of hard communication between different parts of the empire which can explain why we have it here too 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @alessandrom7181
      @alessandrom7181 ปีที่แล้ว

      Empire went as far as Britain and Germany.

  • @N.a.r.i
    @N.a.r.i ปีที่แล้ว

    The most common italian gesture, the "spoon gesture" as I call it, it's for the term "what", which gets easy as a joker gesture.
    "What do you want?"
    "What is it?"
    "What are you saying?"

  • @nonzerosum8943
    @nonzerosum8943 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mille Grazie e Cosa significa la parola "magari"
    Paolo

    • @plastercaster8036
      @plastercaster8036 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Magari= maybe

    • @EasyItalian
      @EasyItalian  ปีที่แล้ว

      Ciao! domanda interessante ;D Ed ecco un video in cui ne parliamo th-cam.com/video/SOIdHcybQOY/w-d-xo.html

    • @nonzerosum8943
      @nonzerosum8943 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@plastercaster8036 Grazie

    • @plastercaster8036
      @plastercaster8036 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nonzerosum8943 prego 😉

  • @michaelgill2635
    @michaelgill2635 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nella mia famiglia, si, ma solo gli italiani. Non gli irlandesi o gli scozzesi. In fact, my mother makes fun of me all the time for doing it, even though she is part of the Italian family.

  • @ControlledCha0s
    @ControlledCha0s ปีที่แล้ว +1

    _"Antonio Margarete!"_ 👌😁

  • @wrs8895
    @wrs8895 ปีที่แล้ว

    I use gestures a lot when talking and when people ask why I say I got it from my grandmother from Italy (Naples). No one gets it lol So I think think this was a funny video!

  • @pippo7068
    @pippo7068 ปีที่แล้ว

    credo che i gesti fatti da chi parla siano, principalmente, un aiuto a chi dice, piuttosto che a chi ascolta. Sincronizzazione tra pensieri e parole come, in musica, i gestii di un direttore d'orchestra . ✌🤟🤞🤘🤙✊👃

  • @aliveandwell2078
    @aliveandwell2078 ปีที่แล้ว

    Questo episodio è molto divertente!!!!

    • @EasyItalian
      @EasyItalian  ปีที่แล้ว

      Grazie mille, ci fa piacere che ti sia piaciuto!

  • @GioMarron
    @GioMarron ปีที่แล้ว

    I’d argue it’s to do with passion
    Talk about a train and nobodies hands move, talk about love, hate, anger and, of course, football and there’s not a still hand anywhere.
    I had the pleasure of visiting Italy a few years back and when Italians spoke, it was almost as if their passions were just under the skin.
    As a Scot, we tend not to be over-expressive with our hands: our words can cut to the quick and a Scottish woman can cut you to your soul, but even then when we talk of our Bonnie land and our proud history, our hands are all over the place

    • @EasyItalian
      @EasyItalian  ปีที่แล้ว

      Many thanks for sharing, it's a very interesting comment!

  • @jzito9707
    @jzito9707 ปีที่แล้ว

    come è divertente!

  • @Erick_T4
    @Erick_T4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Buonissimo!!! ❤😂

  • @spd2978
    @spd2978 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    .. why hand gestures? .. for expression & communication - theatrical (yes) - italians are passionate about life !!

  • @sabrinaandhusband7791
    @sabrinaandhusband7791 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cosa a voi ( in Arabo)= aspetta e vedi! especially when the hand is moving down with the same gesture, in a warning threatening manner 😅 example: wait and see they'll be exposed by the media! Or: wait and see he won't last long in his position, or wait and see you have to pay me back or else etc.or it could be: wait! Explain to me! sometimes.

  • @Chosterizer
    @Chosterizer ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Il video mi è piaciuto, devo dire che anche noi messicani usiamo lo stesso gesto per paura

  • @LiquidGoldSwords
    @LiquidGoldSwords ปีที่แล้ว

    What's behind the last gesture (the one about being smart) ? Is it related to Scarface or something ?

    • @giovannimoriggi5833
      @giovannimoriggi5833 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The meaning is rightly the scar, but it's actually older than the movie… Anyway Capone, Pacino and De Palma are all of italian heritage.

    • @massimorubin3392
      @massimorubin3392 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not al all! It means "long eye"

    • @massimorubin3392
      @massimorubin3392 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or "cutted eye", that see far away!!

  • @nicolaslevatimosic5479
    @nicolaslevatimosic5479 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Come argentino posso dire che usiamo gli stessi gesti in Argentina (per la grande immigrazione italiana certamente) tranne quello della spaghettata e quello d'essere furbo.

  • @AK-2291
    @AK-2291 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Qui in Argentina cinquanta percento della gente ha sangue italiano, quindi gesticoliamo abbastanza.

  • @세인이-c1o
    @세인이-c1o ปีที่แล้ว

    Sto molto bene!

  • @annebarden4179
    @annebarden4179 ปีที่แล้ว

    love this video but I feel some of those gestures could get you into trouble, non?! I would love to know where it was filmed I visited Napoli last summer and that area looks a little like a canal?

    • @albertomariani1963
      @albertomariani1963 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why into trouble? Actually, since we share their use, they help us understand each other better.

    • @foodKebKebAb
      @foodKebKebAb ปีที่แล้ว

      Napoli Piazza Bellini . The center of the night movida.

    • @giovannimoriggi5833
      @giovannimoriggi5833 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're alway having trouble if you express yourself not properly, and that's true for gestures as well. In fact, Italians know that gestures are not always allowed. It depends.

  • @MyungganKi
    @MyungganKi ปีที่แล้ว

    Molto interessante! Ma qui nella Corea del sud, non si usare i gesti tanto, secondo me. Quindi, mi ha incuriosito questo.

  • @rossanomacchioni7746
    @rossanomacchioni7746 ปีที่แล้ว

    Muovere le mani è naturale anche per chi pensa di non gesticolare. Cosa è diverso muovere le mani con senso compiuto , parlare con le mani anche senza parlare. Più vai a sud Italia e più si gesticola. Penso che in modo così vasto solo in Italia si gesticola così..

  • @EphemeralProductions
    @EphemeralProductions ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Here in America we don’t really have any equivalents to these gestures. We use hand gestures though but they’re usually obscene or not considered intelligent! lol. Some of us (like me) talk a LOT with their hands! Possibly because if Italian heritage? Maybe! :) I’m not of Italian heritage i don’t think, so i do not know! lol

  • @mafeherreno7426
    @mafeherreno7426 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Qui in Colombia facciamo lo stesso gesto di "hai paura?" hahaha

  • @ozanbayrak562
    @ozanbayrak562 ปีที่แล้ว

    7:58 In Turkey, that gesture means “You are gay” 😂😂

  • @ArcadioSW
    @ArcadioSW ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There is a famous story when two Italians survived Titanic disaster by swimming to New York. - But how did you manage to swim such a distance?! - reporter asks. - Ma dai! We didn't swim! We just talked! :)

  • @animezingamejojoradio
    @animezingamejojoradio 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:54