As an Italian I use hand gestures. The thing I don't understand is why people always say that only Italians (and the other Mediterranean countries) use hand gestures. I mean, everyone in the world gesticulates with their hands. E V E R Y O N E
The difference is that our gestures have got their own meaning : when you open and close your ... no via , lo dico in italiano... il segno di paura si fa facendo toccare tutte le dita insieme aprendo e chiudendo le dita o piccoli movimenti veloci o ampi e scattosi per grandi spaventi. Ma se lo fa una volta sola vuol dire "un mucchio di gente". Se la tieni chiusa a quel punto dice "ma cosa vuoi, cosa dici" e se invece la ruoti sull'asse verticale allora stiamo a dire "scemo, ti han preso in giro". Se la avvicini alla bocca aperta diventa "ho fame, si va a mangiare? " e se invece te la batti sulla fronte significa "ma sei proprio duro, testone". Tutto con la mano nella stessa posizione a dita unite. Scusa la poca sintesi
I'm portuguese and I always believed that our hand gestures were more similar to spanish than to italians, but I was wrong! We have a specific 'code' for our gestures, like Italians have! Not the same gestures, though...
Hello. I am Italian and I teach Italian and history to children and adults. It is true, we Italians use many gestures when we speak, but it is a cultural fact. Each gesture not only emphasizes what we say, but explains it by making it clearer and there is a valid reason: since ancient times the Italic territory was inhabited by different peoples of different origins, gestures were already used in Roman times to facilitate communications between the various countries that were part of the Roman Empire. This habit over the centuries has not been lost on the contrary, it has strengthened in more recent times when Italy has become a single country no longer divided into different kingdoms. Throughout the Italian territory, different dialects deriving from different languages have always been spoken and when the Italian language was not yet common and used, gestures were the only way for the people to communicate. In short, the language of gestures in Italy is a real territorial language through which we can speak and understand each other even without using the voice. Simple.
And also Spain was part of the roman empire, i think that it comes by the same way... i think every latin-descent countries has many hand gestures, in Mexico we have a lot of them
I caused an Italian bus to crash once... I struck up a conversation with the driver! I had to flee to France, but the French customs officials told me to stop. But I chucked a few rocks their way... Then I saw the biggest white flag and then they ran. I had no idea men can run backward so fast!
That is really interesting! I've also noticed that people who come from countries where historically different races coexisted together, are generally much more expressive with their face, their body language and their voice.
I was on a blind date once and the lady told me "you're kinda odd you use your hands too much when you talk" I should have started dating mediterranean women then
As half italian and half spanish, I feel completely lost without using hand gestures, it's like a separated conversation that helps u understand the actual one lol
As a full Spanish, and as a teacher at a Spanish university for 20 years, I can perfectly give a lecture with my hands in my pockets. And I'm not the only one.
I'm a Latin American girl and I've been to Chile, Argentina and Brazil and I can say we, in this part of the world, also tend to use several hand gestures when speaking. Even I can agree with Stefania when she says that using them in formal situations (seminars, conferences, even school oral lessons, etc) is a good signal, speaks in a good way about your oral communication skills. But, of course, you wouldn't use gestures that could be quite aggressive for people you're talking to.
Of course, they are gestures that have been handed down exactly like languages, and in this case they are affinities due to Latinity. While here it can be said that all the Mediterranean peoples are gesticulating, so both we Latins and Arabs (the two majority cultural/linguistic groups that overlook the Mediterranean Sea), for example. Greetings from Italy, ciao ciao!
@@PP-vp2fu or Spanish you know cos we where all colonized by the countries in the peninsula iberica Italians came later and to selective places...like Chile Argentina, Uruguay etc...(like way south of america)
Teaching gestures to my Italian friends in college was a lot of fun. Cultural exchange at its peak. The Spanish girl was definitely caught off guard on this one cause as a Spaniard I can think of a lot of gestures we use with a specific meaning that she couldn't think of. And I also use that famous italian gesture when I'm mad at someone, just not as much as them. Gestures are definitely a mediterranean thing. The difference is the intensity of the gesture and the amount of times we use them during the day. Italian gestures tend to be more graphic and intense and Italians use them in more situations without anybody raising an eyebrow. A Spaniard would be considered childish in some situations for using hand gestures with the intesity of Italiand, giving the impression of poor self control, while for the Italians it would be casual talk. So we Spaniards have a bit of a lower tolerance for hand gestures, but we use them a lot too.
I was going to say the same, there are a lot of hand gestures in Spain that have a meaning. Like you're crazy, also to say later or after, half-time, let's go, it's expensive, call me, it's crowded, f you, hopefully, they're together, also like wow or "vaya tela", and many more! haha
@@prihg1814 Thanks for the comment bro. I visited her Insta handle and for a while I kept on thinking why my Insta language settings have been changed to Hangul.😅 You sorted it for me😆
@@prihg1814 I’m Korean too it’s a bit awkward talking to other Asians in comment sections, because some don’t speak Korean. (People say my English is bad because I’ve only been studying for a couple years so, sorry if it’s bad.
@@claraluna8033 Even in Argentine slang, Italian influences are very present, words like Fiaca, Yirar, Birra, Mufa, Gamba, Fiaca, Laburar, Nono/nona, etc., are all variations of Italian words.
I'm a dual US/Italian citizen (Italian mom and American dad) and I have a very difficult time not using my hands when I talk, even when speaking English. It was actually a problem when I joined the US Army. One of my drill sergeants had a habit of asking soldiers that talked with their hands if they were Italian and when they inevitably said no he'd say, "Then stop talking with your hands". He finally got to me one day, but instead of saying no when he asked if I was Italian I said yes, which thoroughly confused him. I explained that I was a dual citizen and he was pretty flustered that he couldn't use his normal response.
Yes I have noticed in America we are taught to be mostly still with our hands in serious or professional setting. In a communication class I took it went over a lot of other countries communication styles but never spoke of hands gestures. The only part it touch on was not using too many when public speak unless switching topics. (For America of course) Very interesting.
Hand gestures are very woven into the Latin or Romance languages. Particularly in Spanish and Italian. We use them without even being aware of them. It adds expression and feeling to what we are saying. Excellent video.
This is definitely a Mediterranean thing. I remember I met some Northern European (Dutch and Belgians) exchange students here in my country of Lebanon and as I spoke to them they were seemingly surprised/startled because I came off as aggressive talking loudly and with hand gestures. They eventually got used to it and started using our gestures as well hahaha. For perspective, we've also had Italian exchange students and they fit in smoothly, hands down the friendliest and funniest Europeans I've ever met. Close seconds are the Greeks and Spaniards.
@@tinamoul Come to Eastern Europe, you'll be lucky when people look at you or smile at you. No hand gestures whatsoever unless you're on some corporate meeting where people do the 101 confidence hand movements.
@@tinamoul Don't forget how big the latin community is worldwide. But still there are plenty of cultures where no hand gestures are made in regular talk. (I'm Dutch btw)
@@tinamoul as a Dutch person I rarely see people use hand gestures here. It's not like completely unheard of but we seem to only really do it much when you're like trying to explain something
@@tinamoul You're wrong. I'm German and we also don't use gestures that much. I certainly have no problem talking without my hands, but I had to learn to use them more in presentations so I don't look boring. And Italians definitely have unique gestures. An American I know once tried to talk to an Italian but the Italian was on the phone with someone else. The Italian did the gesture in 4:21 and the American got offended because he thought they were saying "keep walking" lol in reality the Italian was saying "let's talk later"
Andrea has changed a lot since arriving on the channel, whether it's the interaction or even the clothes, she is now wearing "more casual" clothes, without long sleeves, it's cool to see the videos with her
As a Greek, I can say that we also use a lot of hand gestures while talking, and they're actually a mix of how Italian and Spanish hand gestures work: some are words or sentences, and others are meaningless or help us with things like counting! :)
Neighbor, all countries that are less formal/cold and indivualistic do this. Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, the Middle East, much of the balkans etc etc. The only people who think it's strange are the really cold and formal people who are generally from much more indivualistic cultures like Germans, Dutch etc. I often see western Europeans make fun of Italians and Spanish people for using their hands a lot. Same for the Americans who's culture is based on British culture, which is in my opinion less indivualist and cold than Dutch/German but it's extremely formal. Some aristocrat back in the day likely just didn't like hand gestures or was really bad at making hand gestures so it became something kinda rude. "Oh, nouuhh, my dear. You're supposed to sit like a wooden log and talk only with your mouth. Otherwise people might think you're easily excitable!"
As an Italian I say we eat pizza like 2 times a month and not just one, it depends on each person, some people eat it every weekend, but we do eat A LOT of pasta, I’m really loving their friendship, I love you Spanish people
I'm Egyptian and I can tell you that we have most of these Italian hand gestures with the same meaning, with a lot of extra Egyptian hand gestures that only used by women, the thing that might worries me if I meet an italian person is that we both use some hand gestures but with completely different meanings. I guess only Egyptians and Italians exaggerate in this and half of the conversation depend on the hand😂 All the love from here to Italy ❤️
@@nochu9753 in fact this is something strange for me to hear!! I suppose you share some roots with us😉😂 can you also say a sentence using your hand without saying one word?😂 Isn't it really amazing!😍❤️
@@emansobhy4382 yeah in tunisia too we can say sooo much just with hands and without any word. You can even have a mini conversation just with the hands and facial expressions
That was so fun to watch them interact! I love their bond and how open minded they are. It's always great to watch this type of series and see how people from completely different countries are so friendly with each other. It makes me want to talk to them as well :D
I met a lovely Russian lady at the shop where I work, in Italy. She's been living in Italy for several years, so far, though her children were born in Russia, and also they speak Russian at home. She was so confused by her teen daughter who speaks Russian with Italian hand gestures she uses with her Italian friends and schoolmates. Russians using hand gestures sounds very odd indeed...
Really? You have never seen any angry babushkas lamenting over something? While shouting at you when you have done from their point something bad? That's when they gesticulate, throwing hands, pumping fists and giving you middle fingers. But I get it, it would be on a rare, heated occasion, not in normal speech between two people as in the video.
@@pavook Well, I guess she was talking about normal conversation, as she was the first to be surprised by that about her daughter, and spoke about it as something funny.
Hand gesture is talking with passion in your heart. Us italians and spanish people too are full of passion and no one can contain it or we could explode.❤❤❤
Recently I was in Milan, and I was trying to communicate with an Italian woman in English, she could understand, but she was replying to me in Italian, if she didn't do any hand gestures I could never understand what she was talking about. My poor french and Latin lessons at school and the fact I am also Greek helped me perfectly understand her. We use hand gestures a lot when we speak, which are almost similar.
This would feel like absolute torture to me, I can't make a full sentence without moving my hands! I'm from Uruguay, and here, as well as in Argentina, we use tons of Italian gestures when we speak, mostly the "what are you saying??"😂
@@susanasanchis9816 That is wrong. The official language is Spanish although we use many of our own words derived from Italian and other languages. Castigliano? Did you mean Castellano? "Castellano" and "Spanish" are synonymous. Castellano means "from Castilla" (a region of Spain).
I am Italian, and I feel like our gestures are part of our culture. I get so angry when people make fun of us for that, but as the girls said, it’s a lot more boring! Also, for the exams they forced me to stop using my hands, and I literally could not! They started moving like they were possessed, I couldn’t control them!
Why getting mad? It's not like people make fun of your culture, I truly think there's no a bad intention (at least not on most of people). It's just like a way to admire or yeah, it's just the way one recognizie an Italian person. It's not like we hate Italians by doing an Italian gesture. No sense. Like some north americans that get mad bc you don't speak English fluently or you have a different accent bc you're "offending their culture and language" :7 Plus, I've met a lot of Italians and I think it's worse what some of them do, saying nigga, negro every three seconds to insult as if this word was an insult or was nothing for black people, bc even if it's a word, most of them used "sei un negro" with a really bad intention on it.
Mom is 100% Italian and watching her talk and eat at the same time is hilarious. It takes almost an hour because every time she has to say something her hands immediately start moving. She’s known for knocking things off the table because she’s so expressive. I picked up the habit as well, unfortunately 😂. It’s totally subconsciously too. Not moving your hands feels so awful, because it feels like you aren’t getting the impact of your words across unless you show it in your hands.
As a spaniard I relate a lot to this video. I remember when I used to work with a big crew of polish, russian and dutch men, which barely moved their hands while talking at all, and feeling extremely uncomfortable around them 'cause they just wouldn't do it and I would. It's interesting how hand gesture changes language.
I'm mostly polish but I also have Spanish and Italian and native... i fear the polish in me makes my hands not move lol! I notice my mom (spanish) hands move constantly
I'm Italian. Italians and French are cousins, Italians and Spanish (and Greeks)... Well, we are BROTHERS. like REAL blood brothers. I cannot explain this.
As a Spanish guy I felt anxiety for them not being able to express themselves with all their emotion and passion with their hands. can't imagine speaking without gesturing, just feels awkward
In countries where hand gestures are seen as undesirable/bad manners kids are usually thought at a young age to not use them, so in that case you don't really miss them and its actually hard to turn gestures back on again.
I'm an autistic Spanish woman and I find a lot of trouble gesticulating so I come up as cold whenever I meet people for the first time. It's a barrier that I was surprised I didn't have when I moved to England, such a different gesture culture.
I’m also an autistic Spanish woman. In my assessment they had me pretend to brush my teeth. At the end of my demonstration, the doctor pointed out I had not used gestures at all 🥲
Imagine being a deaf person in Italy you'll win every argument to the point where you can become a congressman because the amount of hand gestures you can do would be far superior
As someone who is half Italian, I have to say this would be absolute torture. it is not an exaggeration when people say that Italians can have a full blown conversation with just hand gestures. Honestly the funniest part to me is that, it's so natural I don't even realize I'm doing it, to the point that I actually catch myself using them even when I'm on the phone, in a voice chat online, or even just thinking out loud to myself.
That’s so funny I’ve just realised the Spanish and Italian outraged “pray hands” is the angry Brits “im trying to reiterate my point FIRMLY 😡” fascinating video thank you for sharing!
I think that hand gestures is a healthy and useful way of making the social interaction more easy as it helps in the conversation and can help the listener understand better what you have to say. As a Spaniard I’ll always use it.
@@LucasSoaresy aquele que indica medo para eles, significa para nós que algo está cheio. Você diria algo como "Eu fui no mercado e ele estava assim *faz o sinal*" para indicar que o mercado estava cheio ou lotado.
I'm originally English but I've lived in Spain for 33 years (best decision I ever made). Whenever I go to England to see my friends, they always tell me that I wave my hands around all the time, and I don't even realise that I'm doing it but I'm glad that I do! btw, Spain > UK, especially since Brexit! I would never go back to live there! Also, ¡la mallorquina está buenísima!
I am mexican, and we also use a lot of body language. BUT then I came to Poland and had to go to a Polish school and learn everything in Polish without knowing the language (I did not even know, where Poland was). So I had to use even more body language and expressions to communicate, otherwise I would have not passed junior highschool and highschool, and would have been a forever alone person. As a consequence, I believe that I have, if not mastered, really polished my body language to an extent that once with a very basic Japanese level (N5) I was able to communicate with a Japanese girl through 4 days without using a dictionary. And my husband, who did not speak Japanese then, knew what we were talking about based in my gestures, tone and movements :'D This is an issue for me when writing, and in particular when writing essays as I have a small vocabulary, which my body language usually compensates. Thankfully, I no longer need to write much and at work, I can always call people to explain things :D Using all of our senses to communicate is for me the most optimal and probably clear way to communicate with other people. However, I know that there are people that when you use too much body language, they just lost track of what you are saying...so maybe not for everyone.
I'm Indonesian and I just realized how rarely we use hand gestures 😂 at least in my family. Whenever I use hand gestures my parents always told me to calm down, like it was kinda argumentative if you speak with your hands moving. I think we only use it in a public speaking ocassion and not in daily life.
@@snuscaboose1942 what are you talking about? it's extremely awkward to speak without them at least in America. The other day I had burned my hands and chose not to move them. The person I was talking to asked me if I was autistic.
@@firebanner6424 if someone asked you if you were autistic, I would expect you were not making sufficient eye contact (maybe you were staring at your burned hands).
The "scared" gesture in Italian means "a lot" in Spanish. There are also some gestures with meaning like "to leave" (like making a "T" with your hands...kind of when you want a break, but with one hand facing in the opposite direction) or to "hurry up" (snapping your fingers twice following an open hand)...and many more! I currently live in Germany and they also have some gestures with meaning, like when someone does something that doesn't make any sense, they "air-wash" their face. It is a quite interesting topic :)
I wouldn't know if the same thing applies for other Latin American countries, but here's my two cents: in Peru, we use the "scared" Italian gesture to indicate "fear", but it's kind of vulgar so it shouldn't be used outside of very very informal situations. We also use the same gesture to indicate that a place is "packed".
I was going to say that there are a lot of hand gestures in Spain that have a meaning. Like you're crazy, also to say later or after, half-time, let's go, it's expensive, call me, it's crowded, f you, hopefully, they're together, also like wow or "vaya tela", and many more! haha
That gesture means "it's very crowded" in Turkish. We also have a gesture for "Are you scared" and it's also imitating a clenching anus. But we do it in a different way
I'm from Argentina... we have a very strong italian influence in our roots so we speak spanish but with italian gestures... we are the mix of these two girls.. 😅
@@paolorossi9180 Mussolini una volta disse che l'Uruguay era il paese più italiano al di fuori dell'Italia.Inoltre, uno degli antenati dell'Italia, Giuseppe Garibaldi, visse qui in Uruguay per molti anni e combatté nella Guerra Civile.
As Italian,I have to say that we use gestures because in ancient time, we were a mixture of various peoples and tribes, each one with their own language (we see it also today, we have many dialects and local languages), so we developed many gestures in order to communicate with few issues and problems. For example, even now if I speak my dialect, Bergamasco, Latin base and Celtic substrate, with also a bit of Scandinavian words... a Sicilian wouldn't understand almost nothing, and vice versa. So we speak Italian, ahah. But imagine when we hadn't developed yet Italian... Hand gestures would fill the gap. We also feel that with gestures, we can reinforce the concept we're expressing, we can communicate it better, with passion and intensity. I'm sure it's the same for Spanish brothers and sisters.
What an idiotic comment.. also at most they were a different people those in South Italy because of the Magna Grecia past. In central Italy there was a similar subtratum and Italic tribes and in North Italy too there was a gaulich substratum plus etruscans. Hand gestures are also mostly in the South and btw it was Etrsucans and Romans to do that the fact we were a mixture of people and tribes means jack@hit.
In Spanish we also have gestures like italians do, gestures that are whole words or even phrases, for example when someone is selfish or when you want to leave a place. Im supposing the Spanish girl didn't remember them.
I'm Brazilian, we also have gestures for all these things, I don't know in Spain, but as she said, they are all international gestures, but also intuitive, not just a way of gesturing something. In Italy I think they have almost a rule for gesturing, not just intuitive gestures but exact meanings
@@LyraEnergy yes of course we have some international gestures but others have specific meanings that people that aren't from spain don't understand. My partner isn't Spanish and sometimes can't understand me when I use some gestures.
I agree, we rub our fingers when something is expensive or to ask: how much? We point fingers at you when angry to accuse you of something, we tap our bellies when we have eaten too much, we open both palms and shake them flat upwards to mean: I don't get you, or when you are impatient or when you want to say: Doh! Obvious. We raise our palm in front of somebody to stop their movement or speech. We put our index finger or thumb to our throat and "slice" it pointing at you. This is not often done. We pat our cheek twice to mean you or someone is considered dishonest and wants to take advantage of us. We put our index to the middle of our forehead to say: think! or if it is done three or four times in a row: are you stupid or what? Plus the ok sign, the finger, the horns, these are paneuropean... Hahaha.
The same thing also here in the Philippines since we are the only country in Asia that is heavily influenced by Spain. Yes, we normally do a lot of hand gestures when we talk.
As a Chilean watching the first minutes made me impressed by the number of Italian gestures that exist here, because Italy was not even as big a group of immigrants here as it was in Argentina or Uruguay.
Yes, we use the "Italian hand" gesture in Spain. Just not as much, but we use it with the same meaning. We also have some gestures that are words or sentences, like the one when your mum tells you off by "hitting" the air "diagonally", or when we say somebody's crazy. We have many more gestures, although probably way less than Italians, yes.
Greeks also use their hands and have many many gestures. I often do not notice myself using them and non Greeks have mentioned it to me. Hahahahaha. Oen of the things these 3 countries share and have in common, amongst many things. Love the Mediterranean 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇪🇸🇪🇸🇮🇹🇮🇹
I think cultures that grow up with this seem very passionate about life in general. I'm an introverted musician. My hands stay tucked under my legs for small talk, but when describing a sound my hands can go from clawing, waving, pointing, stacking, miming... I think it's the only indicator that I'm actually excited in a conversation and not just politely agreeing.
It's funny, I didn't realize I used many hand gestures until a coworker pointed it out. She also knew my sibling and said we both waved our hands around a lot. I am neither Italian nor Spanish but it seems we have something in common!
being scandinavian, i tried to use hand gestures when i was talking to my roommate, i started off decent but had to keep reminding myself to use gestures eventually i forgot that i was trying to use gestures like halfway through talking about what we are going to eat tomorrow. she then asked if i was having a moment or something because i kept "flapping my hands around"
I think, in Finland, hand gestures aren't quite as common, we're kind of monotonic sometimes. Then again, I personally gesture quite a bit, because I feel it helps me think, and sometimes when I can't come up with the right words I fill the silence with my hand gestures - but that's a me thing, I can't think and talk at the same time. If I speak English or some other language (other than Finnish), the gesturing gets more intense. And if I'm super nervous, I just freeze altogether.
As an Italian living in Finland, I agree, Finns don't gesture much. But on the other hand, I have to say that I don't feel my hand gesture is over the top here either. It is generally something accepted. I mean, I have never received any weird look or comment, even from my close friends. I would say that Finns are most of the time a very accepting and open minded folk 😊
In Spain is the same. People in mediterranean spain may use their hands more than on the atlantic. It's just depends on the person, rather than the culture. It's just sometimes stereotyped on Spanish people because Italians and western mediterraneans do it, but not all of Spain is mediterranean and we use hands far less, I dont see a big difference when I interact with someone from another country. They also use the same gestures that are international.
I'm Spanish and I'm telling you, I CAN'T talk without using my hands. More than once my friend has hold both my hands while I was talking and I would just stop mid conversation, staring at my hands, too stuned to speak. Then she would let me go and laugh. 😂
I'm from Spain, when I studied my Erasmus in Poland I shared a flat with another Spanish and an Italian. There were barely any differences in culture, habits, language... between us. The similarities between Italy and Spain are incredible, I realised it fully during that time.
Omg why did I love this video so much People should really listen to italian people about our colture instead of assuming things about us, like, I heard about people thinking Italy is a city in France (pls don't ever say that to a italian person, they're going to be mad at you), and honestly, hearing people talking about mafia when my country is brought into the conversation isn't really that pleasing, considering that mafia wasn't and isn't only in Italy and is a really sensitive topic for us. We are a bit of a stereotype, and we joke about our country a lot too, but sometimes it kinda gets old and disrespectful lol Btw really tysm this video is so accurate I relate to this so hard-
I’m german but I like using hand gestures to support my speech as well, I think it‘s quite useful and it makes the point you‘re making seem more grounded and clear
As a Maltese woman, I use a lot of hand gestures to communicate with the other person. Since our culture is partly influenced by the Italian culture, we communicate in a very similar way.
La verdad es que cuando salen en los videos Andrea (la chica española) o Stefania (la chica italiana) los videos son mucho mas entretenidos , divertidos y dinamicos. No es por criticar a las demas chicas anglosajonas, francesas, etc. Pero la quimica que hay entre España / Italia no la tienen ni los australianos con nueva zelanda. More videos with the tandem Andrea - Stephania !!
As an Argentinian I can say we use all the hand gestures the italian girl explained. But it figures because a lot of Italians migrated to Argentina so we not only have the Spanish influence but Italian too.
Yeah. We are all a bit of a mix. I have French Spanish Portuguese Italian and Ukrainian. But I'd say most Argentinian ppl have some Spanish and Italian those are the two common ones I noticed most ppl have there, of course there some other mix or European too. But the Italian influence is present in the language and food. A lot of Italian words made their way into our slang. They say say Buenos Aires is the Europe of South America
@@reaux3921 I know plenty about it I was born there and I speak fuent Spanish. I never said we speak Italian. I said the hand gestures made its way in due to migration of Italians. And some words too for example "laburo" is used a lot to say "work" but the Spanish word is "trabajo"
@@Canyoutakemebackwhereicamefrom en españa se usa en otros contextos pero no "laburo" en concreto, por ejemplo "contrato laboral", "abogado laboralista". Y también usamos muchisimos gestos con significado de los que Andrea no se ha acordado, como "estas loco", "luego o después", "espera o para", "tiempo muerto o medio tiempo", "vamonos", "llamame o nos llamamos", "esta lleno de gente", "es caro", "ojalá o crucemos los dedos", "están juntos", "vaya tela", "no lo entiendes" (despectivamente como para decir que eres tonto y no te enteras de lo que te estan diciendo), "que te den" (también como insulto) y seguro que muchos más! jaja
In Chile (Spanish speaking country) we do use quite a few of those Italian hand gestures... The one for "I dont care", "what are you talking about" and "you chicken" are commonly used and understood.
This video is so interesting and they are so funny 🤣 Egyptians too are using different hand gestures too 😅 When I start learning Korean part of formality to not use your hand and put one over the other while standing. So strange for real. How on earth not to use your hand to express yourself?
Some asian culture refrain from using hand gesture because it might seem agressive especialy if talking to someone higher like parents, elder, officer, leader, etc. On the other hand when talking to someone lower hand gesture might seem arrogant like you are ordering people around. In some culture they even use their upper body for pointing at certain direction just to minimize using hands. I don't know why but if i may take a guess its prob because hand gesture make someone suddenly looks bigger, like a praying mantis spreading its limbs to scare its aggresor. But that doesnt mean there is no hand gesture at all, it exist but rarely used to avoid things i've mentioned before. Hope this helps. 😉
I love how these two women connected throughout this video!! Also I am colombian 🇨🇴 and we also like to use plenty of hand gestures when speaking, it's also part of our culture and I feel it enriches the way we communicate and express ourselves 💛💙❤
Lol I'm mixed Italian and French and my sis tells my boyfriends 'If you want her to shut up just hold onto her hands!' Loving betrayer! Lol I also was well-known among my friends for knocking down glasses of red wine on peeps during drinks or parties and as soon as I'd get excited about sth and start gesticulating wildly, they'd move a safe distance out of reach! 😂
As a Norwegian I utterly enjoyed this 😂😂 It went about the same as I thought it would and I can emphasize with the constrained feeling lol (even though I don't use gestures (nearly as much) like that/they do at all)
to be fair we still use hand gestures but we also use a lot more tone and anotations when speaking to add flavour (also why to foreigners a lot of the time it can sound like norwegians sing when talking to each other)
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As an Italian I use hand gestures.
The thing I don't understand is why people always say that only Italians (and the other Mediterranean countries) use hand gestures. I mean, everyone in the world gesticulates with their hands. E V E R Y O N E
Japanese don't
@@salmonetesnonosquedan8345 Japanese too
The difference is that our gestures have got their own meaning : when you open and close your ... no via , lo dico in italiano... il segno di paura si fa facendo toccare tutte le dita insieme aprendo e chiudendo le dita o piccoli movimenti veloci o ampi e scattosi per grandi spaventi. Ma se lo fa una volta sola vuol dire "un mucchio di gente". Se la tieni chiusa a quel punto dice "ma cosa vuoi, cosa dici" e se invece la ruoti sull'asse verticale allora stiamo a dire "scemo, ti han preso in giro". Se la avvicini alla bocca aperta diventa "ho fame, si va a mangiare? " e se invece te la batti sulla fronte significa "ma sei proprio duro, testone". Tutto con la mano nella stessa posizione a dita unite. Scusa la poca sintesi
@@kddiodox no
You’re right ! I speak French (I’m swiss) and I talk a lot with my hands 😂
- How many hand gesture you guys can make during a video ? - Andrea🇪🇦 and Stefania 🇮🇹 : Yes 😂🤝🤚🤞👇👏👊🤛🤌
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I'm portuguese and I always believed that our hand gestures were more similar to spanish than to italians, but I was wrong! We have a specific 'code' for our gestures, like Italians have! Not the same gestures, though...
Most of latinos used to be like them, we can’t speak without gestures 😂😂🤣
Hello. I am Italian and I teach Italian and history to children and adults. It is true, we Italians use many gestures when we speak, but it is a cultural fact. Each gesture not only emphasizes what we say, but explains it by making it clearer and there is a valid reason: since ancient times the Italic territory was inhabited by different peoples of different origins, gestures were already used in Roman times to facilitate communications between the various countries that were part of the Roman Empire. This habit over the centuries has not been lost on the contrary, it has strengthened in more recent times when Italy has become a single country no longer divided into different kingdoms. Throughout the Italian territory, different dialects deriving from different languages have always been spoken and when the Italian language was not yet common and used, gestures were the only way for the people to communicate. In short, the language of gestures in Italy is a real territorial language through which we can speak and understand each other even without using the voice. Simple.
Thnx cool!!
Wow very interesting fact. Almost as if many people had to partially use sign language
And also Spain was part of the roman empire, i think that it comes by the same way... i think every latin-descent countries has many hand gestures, in Mexico we have a lot of them
I caused an Italian bus to crash once... I struck up a conversation with the driver!
I had to flee to France, but the French customs officials told me to stop. But I chucked a few rocks their way... Then I saw the biggest white flag and then they ran. I had no idea men can run backward so fast!
That is really interesting! I've also noticed that people who come from countries where historically different races coexisted together, are generally much more expressive with their face, their body language and their voice.
These two are fantastic together; they have a great dynamic!
I was on a blind date once and the lady told me "you're kinda odd you use your hands too much when you talk"
I should have started dating mediterranean women then
How did she knew if you were blind??
Ladies usually appreciate it when you use your hands a lot
As half italian and half spanish, I feel completely lost without using hand gestures, it's like a separated conversation that helps u understand the actual one lol
Same! 😂
Basically what you're saying is that you need subtitles to talk to people.
🇪🇸 ❤ 🇮🇹
As a full Spanish, and as a teacher at a Spanish university for 20 years, I can perfectly give a lecture with my hands in my pockets. And I'm not the only one.
same here… 🇮🇹🍀🇪🇸
Italy and Spain best friends forever
🇪🇸 💘 🇮🇹
Hell yeahhh!!! Love you guys
Fratello🇮🇹🇮🇹❤
Amor desde España
❤️💛❤️ 💚🤍❤️
❤️💛❤️ 💚🤍❤️
❤️💛❤️ 💚🤍❤️
siempre, hermanos junto con mis griegos del alma también 🇬🇷❤️
I'm a Latin American girl and I've been to Chile, Argentina and Brazil and I can say we, in this part of the world, also tend to use several hand gestures when speaking. Even I can agree with Stefania when she says that using them in formal situations (seminars, conferences, even school oral lessons, etc) is a good signal, speaks in a good way about your oral communication skills. But, of course, you wouldn't use gestures that could be quite aggressive for people you're talking to.
Of course, they are gestures that have been handed down exactly like languages, and in this case they are affinities due to Latinity.
While here it can be said that all the Mediterranean peoples are gesticulating, so both we Latins and Arabs (the two majority cultural/linguistic groups that overlook the Mediterranean Sea), for example.
Greetings from Italy, ciao ciao!
Most Argentines have at least one full-blooded Italian grandparent.
Same thing in Colombia we also use a lot of hand gestures
Most of the population in south american is italian/has italian origins, due to the massive italian immigration.
@@PP-vp2fu or Spanish you know cos we where all colonized by the countries in the peninsula iberica Italians came later and to selective places...like Chile Argentina, Uruguay etc...(like way south of america)
I think it’s so funny that they moved their heads so much. Still so expressive.
Teaching gestures to my Italian friends in college was a lot of fun. Cultural exchange at its peak. The Spanish girl was definitely caught off guard on this one cause as a Spaniard I can think of a lot of gestures we use with a specific meaning that she couldn't think of. And I also use that famous italian gesture when I'm mad at someone, just not as much as them. Gestures are definitely a mediterranean thing. The difference is the intensity of the gesture and the amount of times we use them during the day. Italian gestures tend to be more graphic and intense and Italians use them in more situations without anybody raising an eyebrow. A Spaniard would be considered childish in some situations for using hand gestures with the intesity of Italiand, giving the impression of poor self control, while for the Italians it would be casual talk. So we Spaniards have a bit of a lower tolerance for hand gestures, but we use them a lot too.
I was going to say the same, there are a lot of hand gestures in Spain that have a meaning. Like you're crazy, also to say later or after, half-time, let's go, it's expensive, call me, it's crowded, f you, hopefully, they're together, also like wow or "vaya tela", and many more! haha
as an Italian I must say I like the spanish girl very much! she's so sweet and full of life, always smiling and polite
She is half Spanish and half Korean, I think I saw it on her IG☺
@@prihg1814 bs
@@prihg1814 Thanks for the comment bro. I visited her Insta handle and for a while I kept on thinking why my Insta language settings have been changed to Hangul.😅
You sorted it for me😆
@@shobhit7735 loll😂
@@prihg1814 I’m Korean too it’s a bit awkward talking to other Asians in comment sections, because some don’t speak Korean. (People say my English is bad because I’ve only been studying for a couple years so, sorry if it’s bad.
These women are incredible! Great ambassadors for Italia and Espana.
As an Argentinian whose ancestors are Spanish and Italian, I've never seen something more relatable
Hi Joseph Joestar, it's me Joseph Joestar.
@@ilmarcotogni OHHH MYYY GOOOOOOOODDD 😱
Also we have a lot of similarities with Italians, like the scared hand gesture or the “what are you talking about”, I use it all of the time too
@@claraluna8033 Even in Argentine slang, Italian influences are very present, words like Fiaca, Yirar, Birra, Mufa, Gamba, Fiaca, Laburar, Nono/nona, etc., are all variations of Italian words.
se hablan en ingles y son argentinos 😆😆
I'm a dual US/Italian citizen (Italian mom and American dad) and I have a very difficult time not using my hands when I talk, even when speaking English. It was actually a problem when I joined the US Army. One of my drill sergeants had a habit of asking soldiers that talked with their hands if they were Italian and when they inevitably said no he'd say, "Then stop talking with your hands". He finally got to me one day, but instead of saying no when he asked if I was Italian I said yes, which thoroughly confused him. I explained that I was a dual citizen and he was pretty flustered that he couldn't use his normal response.
That sounds like a small win when you can make your drill sergeant stumble.
I simply can't imagine how the sergeant felt after your response... hahahahaha
@@dangerredable, I never heard him ask another soldier that question for the rest of OSUT (One Station Unit Training).
What an idiotic comment..hand gestures are cultural you don't have them with DNA. Also it is a Southern Italian thing not of the whole Italy.
Yes I have noticed in America we are taught to be mostly still with our hands in serious or professional setting. In a communication class I took it went over a lot of other countries communication styles but never spoke of hands gestures. The only part it touch on was not using too many when public speak unless switching topics. (For America of course) Very interesting.
It's sooooooo funny how they cannot stop gesturing all the time. I love this! 🥰
Hand gestures are very woven into the Latin or Romance languages. Particularly in Spanish and Italian. We use them without even being aware of them. It adds expression and feeling to what we are saying. Excellent video.
This is definitely a Mediterranean thing. I remember I met some Northern European (Dutch and Belgians) exchange students here in my country of Lebanon and as I spoke to them they were seemingly surprised/startled because I came off as aggressive talking loudly and with hand gestures. They eventually got used to it and started using our gestures as well hahaha.
For perspective, we've also had Italian exchange students and they fit in smoothly, hands down the friendliest and funniest Europeans I've ever met. Close seconds are the Greeks and Spaniards.
It's not a Mediterranean thing, it's a global thing. If anything if your experience with the Dutch will be in the minority.
@@tinamoul Come to Eastern Europe, you'll be lucky when people look at you or smile at you. No hand gestures whatsoever unless you're on some corporate meeting where people do the 101 confidence hand movements.
@@tinamoul Don't forget how big the latin community is worldwide. But still there are plenty of cultures where no hand gestures are made in regular talk. (I'm Dutch btw)
@@tinamoul as a Dutch person I rarely see people use hand gestures here. It's not like completely unheard of but we seem to only really do it much when you're like trying to explain something
@@tinamoul You're wrong. I'm German and we also don't use gestures that much. I certainly have no problem talking without my hands, but I had to learn to use them more in presentations so I don't look boring. And Italians definitely have unique gestures. An American I know once tried to talk to an Italian but the Italian was on the phone with someone else. The Italian did the gesture in 4:21 and the American got offended because he thought they were saying "keep walking" lol in reality the Italian was saying "let's talk later"
Andrea has changed a lot since arriving on the channel, whether it's the interaction or even the clothes, she is now wearing "more casual" clothes, without long sleeves, it's cool to see the videos with her
When it comes to the clothes, summer times do that to people 😁
Andrea's videos are my favorite, she could be in every damn video and I would never complain.
I mean it's summer
It’s probably the weather.
Why are you over-analyzing her appearance like that?
As a Greek, I can say that we also use a lot of hand gestures while talking, and they're actually a mix of how Italian and Spanish hand gestures work: some are words or sentences, and others are meaningless or help us with things like counting! :)
Very true im greek cypriot born raised london and we talk with our hands and talk loud english people think we are arguing ❤❤
Neighbor, all countries that are less formal/cold and indivualistic do this. Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, the Middle East, much of the balkans etc etc. The only people who think it's strange are the really cold and formal people who are generally from much more indivualistic cultures like Germans, Dutch etc. I often see western Europeans make fun of Italians and Spanish people for using their hands a lot. Same for the Americans who's culture is based on British culture, which is in my opinion less indivualist and cold than Dutch/German but it's extremely formal. Some aristocrat back in the day likely just didn't like hand gestures or was really bad at making hand gestures so it became something kinda rude. "Oh, nouuhh, my dear. You're supposed to sit like a wooden log and talk only with your mouth. Otherwise people might think you're easily excitable!"
As an Italian I say we eat pizza like 2 times a month and not just one, it depends on each person, some people eat it every weekend, but we do eat A LOT of pasta, I’m really loving their friendship, I love you Spanish people
Ma infatti che cazzo è sta cosa che dobbiamo mangiare pizza tutti i giorni ahah
È molto più comune mangiare pasta tutti i giorni piuttosto che pizza
I'm Egyptian and I can tell you that we have most of these Italian hand gestures with the same meaning, with a lot of extra Egyptian hand gestures that only used by women, the thing that might worries me if I meet an italian person is that we both use some hand gestures but with completely different meanings. I guess only Egyptians and Italians exaggerate in this and half of the conversation depend on the hand😂
All the love from here to Italy ❤️
🇮🇹❤️🇪🇬
Argentinian as well
@@nochu9753 in fact this is something strange for me to hear!! I suppose you share some roots with us😉😂 can you also say a sentence using your hand without saying one word?😂 Isn't it really amazing!😍❤️
@@emansobhy4382 yeah in tunisia too we can say sooo much just with hands and without any word. You can even have a mini conversation just with the hands and facial expressions
@@emansobhy4382 As an Argentinian I can say: Yes I can. I can say "hi" , "goodbye", ”what the heck are you talking about?"
That was so fun to watch them interact! I love their bond and how open minded they are. It's always great to watch this type of series and see how people from completely different countries are so friendly with each other. It makes me want to talk to them as well :D
I met a lovely Russian lady at the shop where I work, in Italy. She's been living in Italy for several years, so far, though her children were born in Russia, and also they speak Russian at home. She was so confused by her teen daughter who speaks Russian with Italian hand gestures she uses with her Italian friends and schoolmates.
Russians using hand gestures sounds very odd indeed...
Really? You have never seen any angry babushkas lamenting over something? While shouting at you when you have done from their point something bad? That's when they gesticulate, throwing hands, pumping fists and giving you middle fingers. But I get it, it would be on a rare, heated occasion, not in normal speech between two people as in the video.
I would say it depends on a person, because I myself use quite a lot of gestures, and know a few people who are like that :)
@@pavook Well, I guess she was talking about normal conversation, as she was the first to be surprised by that about her daughter, and spoke about it as something funny.
Then, my mom and I must have had Italian ancestors somewhere down the line because we use a lot gestures, lol!
Yeah, it's really about the person. I personally don't know how can you talk about something emotional and keep your hands relaxed
for those of us w hearing problems, hand gestures are a blessing
9:25 There was the energy of "Okay, what I _really_ wanted to say was *hand gestures* " and I love that :')
I'm Italian and I feel like Spanish folks are my brothers
aww, we Spaniards obviously do feel like that about Italy as well! 🇮🇹 🤝 🇪🇸
As an spanish I agree, italians are my favourite people, you're all so nice but funy and Italy is one of the most beautifull places on earth😍
How could anybody abroad even distinguish you from another?
So why have you conquered Ibiza? xDDDDD
Andrea became the star of the channel. I am Brazilian, but I always enjoy watching her on the channel´s videos.
As I Spaniard, I confirm, yes we use a lot our hands to speak🤣
Hand gesture is talking with passion in your heart. Us italians and spanish people too are full of passion and no one can contain it or we could explode.❤❤❤
As a French (I don’t if I use a lot of hand gestures but it is possible) I understand and support my 2 neighbours. It’s so hard
Recently I was in Milan, and I was trying to communicate with an Italian woman in English, she could understand, but she was replying to me in Italian, if she didn't do any hand gestures I could never understand what she was talking about. My poor french and Latin lessons at school and the fact I am also Greek helped me perfectly understand her. We use hand gestures a lot when we speak, which are almost similar.
This would feel like absolute torture to me, I can't make a full sentence without moving my hands! I'm from Uruguay, and here, as well as in Argentina, we use tons of Italian gestures when we speak, mostly the "what are you saying??"😂
In fact the official language of Argentina is not Spanish but Castigliano, an Italian dialect.
@@susanasanchis9816 That is wrong. The official language is Spanish although we use many of our own words derived from Italian and other languages. Castigliano? Did you mean Castellano? "Castellano" and "Spanish" are synonymous. Castellano means "from Castilla" (a region of Spain).
In Brazil too. Mass italian immigration gang🤝🏻
I believe in all Latin American world it’s important for us move our hands because we had a headache of Spain and Portugal, that is the lenguaje.
@@susanasanchis9816 they don't have official language
I am Italian, and I feel like our gestures are part of our culture. I get so angry when people make fun of us for that, but as the girls said, it’s a lot more boring!
Also, for the exams they forced me to stop using my hands, and I literally could not! They started moving like they were possessed, I couldn’t control them!
😂 that would make a great horror flick. The Possessed Hands.
@@anndeecosita3586 Ha, ha, ha. Your comment just reminded me of the movie "Idle Hands" 😈 😂
Get angry? Grow up.it's Just light-hearted banter
Why getting mad? It's not like people make fun of your culture, I truly think there's no a bad intention (at least not on most of people). It's just like a way to admire or yeah, it's just the way one recognizie an Italian person. It's not like we hate Italians by doing an Italian gesture. No sense. Like some north americans that get mad bc you don't speak English fluently or you have a different accent bc you're "offending their culture and language" :7
Plus, I've met a lot of Italians and I think it's worse what some of them do, saying nigga, negro every three seconds to insult as if this word was an insult or was nothing for black people, bc even if it's a word, most of them used "sei un negro" with a really bad intention on it.
@@anndeecosita3586 would love that, except I can’t watch horrors 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
¡Gracias, Andrea, hermosa señora! Grazie, Stefania, bella signora!
Mom is 100% Italian and watching her talk and eat at the same time is hilarious. It takes almost an hour because every time she has to say something her hands immediately start moving. She’s known for knocking things off the table because she’s so expressive.
I picked up the habit as well, unfortunately 😂. It’s totally subconsciously too. Not moving your hands feels so awful, because it feels like you aren’t getting the impact of your words across unless you show it in your hands.
As a spaniard I relate a lot to this video. I remember when I used to work with a big crew of polish, russian and dutch men, which barely moved their hands while talking at all, and feeling extremely uncomfortable around them 'cause they just wouldn't do it and I would. It's interesting how hand gesture changes language.
Southern Europeans are really the opposite of Northern Europeans
@@inotoni6148 very much
@@inotoni6148 It even happens with southern spanish vs northern spanish
I'm mostly polish but I also have Spanish and Italian and native... i fear the polish in me makes my hands not move lol! I notice my mom (spanish) hands move constantly
I'm Italian. Italians and French are cousins, Italians and Spanish (and Greeks)... Well, we are BROTHERS. like REAL blood brothers. I cannot explain this.
Our cultures have influenced each other for centuries and we see the world from a similar perspective.
Greetings from Spain.
🇵🇹🤝🏻🇪🇸🤝🏻🇮🇹🤝🏻🇬🇷
History my friend, through times we've influenced each other a lot. Love to my Mediterranean brothers.
Civilization is Mediterranean. Spain learned from the Romans, we inherited Rome's ways and culture.
Yes you're all arabs in Europe 😂😂😂🧔🏿🧔🏿🧔🏿
@@karls.5921 arab 😂🇪🇸🧑🏿
As a Spanish guy I felt anxiety for them not being able to express themselves with all their emotion and passion with their hands. can't imagine speaking without gesturing, just feels awkward
In countries where hand gestures are seen as undesirable/bad manners kids are usually thought at a young age to not use them, so in that case you don't really miss them and its actually hard to turn gestures back on again.
Well being anti-social helps a lot.
I'm an autistic Spanish woman and I find a lot of trouble gesticulating so I come up as cold whenever I meet people for the first time. It's a barrier that I was surprised I didn't have when I moved to England, such a different gesture culture.
I’m also an autistic Spanish woman. In my assessment they had me pretend to brush my teeth. At the end of my demonstration, the doctor pointed out I had not used gestures at all 🥲
I love Italian and spanish person talk with gestures, they are the best!
Imagine being a deaf person in Italy you'll win every argument to the point where you can become a congressman because the amount of hand gestures you can do would be far superior
Have you ever seen a Mussolini's speech?? Go and watch one...
Deaf people see things us can't dream of. I don't know, but I think they read you much better than you ever could believe.
You should be locked either in jail or in an insane asylum, and I'm not talking about your comment...
As someone who is half Italian, I have to say this would be absolute torture. it is not an exaggeration when people say that Italians can have a full blown conversation with just hand gestures. Honestly the funniest part to me is that, it's so natural I don't even realize I'm doing it, to the point that I actually catch myself using them even when I'm on the phone, in a voice chat online, or even just thinking out loud to myself.
if you are half italian, do you use only one hand when talking???
@@pancho33pistolas28 Nah gotta use both or I'd be disowned by half of the family xD
In Uruguay most gestures are the same due to the strong Italian and Spanish migration
That’s so funny I’ve just realised the Spanish and Italian outraged “pray hands” is the angry Brits “im trying to reiterate my point FIRMLY 😡” fascinating video thank you for sharing!
As an Spaniard, I do confirm that we have a lot of hand gestures for an specific word or situation, just as Italians :)
I think that hand gestures is a healthy and useful way of making the social interaction more easy as it helps in the conversation and can help the listener understand better what you have to say. As a Spaniard I’ll always use it.
in brazil we also have a lot of hand gestures with meanings of their own, i’d be fun to see a brazilian and an italian comparing those
I’m wondering if some of them are similar, omg so interesting
@@Sim0sama the 🤌🏻 most of the time means the same, but we have some of our own that are "sentences/words" like the italians have theirs
Tipo qual?
@@LucasSoaresy aquele que indica medo para eles, significa para nós que algo está cheio. Você diria algo como "Eu fui no mercado e ele estava assim *faz o sinal*" para indicar que o mercado estava cheio ou lotado.
I am a brazilian, but I have just discovered I am half Italian. Hand gestures are in my blood lmao
I'm originally English but I've lived in Spain for 33 years (best decision I ever made). Whenever I go to England to see my friends, they always tell me that I wave my hands around all the time, and I don't even realise that I'm doing it but I'm glad that I do!
btw, Spain > UK, especially since Brexit! I would never go back to live there!
Also, ¡la mallorquina está buenísima!
Un Inglés bien integrado en España? esto es nuevo 😊
@@CenoByte jaja... Es verdad, somos pocos, aunque ya no me identifico como inglés. ¡Soy madrileño!
I am mexican, and we also use a lot of body language. BUT then I came to Poland and had to go to a Polish school and learn everything in Polish without knowing the language (I did not even know, where Poland was). So I had to use even more body language and expressions to communicate, otherwise I would have not passed junior highschool and highschool, and would have been a forever alone person.
As a consequence, I believe that I have, if not mastered, really polished my body language to an extent that once with a very basic Japanese level (N5) I was able to communicate with a Japanese girl through 4 days without using a dictionary. And my husband, who did not speak Japanese then, knew what we were talking about based in my gestures, tone and movements :'D
This is an issue for me when writing, and in particular when writing essays as I have a small vocabulary, which my body language usually compensates. Thankfully, I no longer need to write much and at work, I can always call people to explain things :D
Using all of our senses to communicate is for me the most optimal and probably clear way to communicate with other people. However, I know that there are people that when you use too much body language, they just lost track of what you are saying...so maybe not for everyone.
So funny! 😂 and both of these ladies seem so fun haha
I'm Indonesian and I just realized how rarely we use hand gestures 😂 at least in my family. Whenever I use hand gestures my parents always told me to calm down, like it was kinda argumentative if you speak with your hands moving. I think we only use it in a public speaking ocassion and not in daily life.
For most native English speakers, it is the same, hand gestures are rarely used, except for public speaking. Bhasa is similar to English in many ways.
@@snuscaboose1942 what are you talking about? it's extremely awkward to speak without them at least in America. The other day I had burned my hands and chose not to move them. The person I was talking to asked me if I was autistic.
@@firebanner6424 Maybe you're of Italian or some other Southern European background where hand movements are common in speech?
@@firebanner6424 if someone asked you if you were autistic, I would expect you were not making sufficient eye contact (maybe you were staring at your burned hands).
The "scared" gesture in Italian means "a lot" in Spanish. There are also some gestures with meaning like "to leave" (like making a "T" with your hands...kind of when you want a break, but with one hand facing in the opposite direction) or to "hurry up" (snapping your fingers twice following an open hand)...and many more! I currently live in Germany and they also have some gestures with meaning, like when someone does something that doesn't make any sense, they "air-wash" their face. It is a quite interesting topic :)
Also in Italian that gesture can mean "a lot/very crowded", it depends on the context
I wouldn't know if the same thing applies for other Latin American countries, but here's my two cents: in Peru, we use the "scared" Italian gesture to indicate "fear", but it's kind of vulgar so it shouldn't be used outside of very very informal situations. We also use the same gesture to indicate that a place is "packed".
I was going to say that there are a lot of hand gestures in Spain that have a meaning. Like you're crazy, also to say later or after, half-time, let's go, it's expensive, call me, it's crowded, f you, hopefully, they're together, also like wow or "vaya tela", and many more! haha
That gesture means "it's very crowded" in Turkish. We also have a gesture for "Are you scared" and it's also imitating a clenching anus. But we do it in a different way
A lot in SPAIN, for me is cagón (scared)
I'm from Argentina... we have a very strong italian influence in our roots so we speak spanish but with italian gestures... we are the mix of these two girls.. 😅
Y bueno. 😄
Baños es un apellido? :0
@@sgjoyder2890 si, es mi apellido... no es muy común pero es así... like "toilette"... 🤷♂️
@@juanjobanos4440 Si por eso, pensé en el toilet de una xd
@@sgjoyder2890 ... yo ya me acostumbré, pero en el colegio me cargaban bastante... 😅
Italy and Spain, our father and mother respectively. Greetings from Uruguay 🇺🇾❤🇮🇹❤🇪🇸
Viva l'Uruguai
@@paolorossi9180 Mussolini una volta disse che l'Uruguay era il paese più italiano al di fuori dell'Italia.Inoltre, uno degli antenati dell'Italia, Giuseppe Garibaldi, visse qui in Uruguay per molti anni e combatté nella Guerra Civile.
@@omegajrz1269 Mussolini lasciamolo perdere, per cortesia, stiamo parlando di ecellenze.
Good luck with that! Italians are the most expressive people I’ve ever seen!
As Italian,I have to say that we use gestures because in ancient time, we were a mixture of various peoples and tribes, each one with their own language (we see it also today, we have many dialects and local languages), so we developed many gestures in order to communicate with few issues and problems. For example, even now if I speak my dialect, Bergamasco, Latin base and Celtic substrate, with also a bit of Scandinavian words... a Sicilian wouldn't understand almost nothing, and vice versa. So we speak Italian, ahah. But imagine when we hadn't developed yet Italian... Hand gestures would fill the gap. We also feel that with gestures, we can reinforce the concept we're expressing, we can communicate it better, with passion and intensity. I'm sure it's the same for Spanish brothers and sisters.
Exactly the same.
yes exactly but i'm sardinian
Hehe, some time ago the waiter in an Italan restaurant denied being able to speak Italian because he was from Naples.
What an idiotic comment.. also at most they were a different people those in South Italy because of the Magna Grecia past. In central Italy there was a similar subtratum and Italic tribes and in North Italy too there was a gaulich substratum plus etruscans.
Hand gestures are also mostly in the South and btw it was Etrsucans and Romans to do that the fact we were a mixture of people and tribes means jack@hit.
In Spanish we also have gestures like italians do, gestures that are whole words or even phrases, for example when someone is selfish or when you want to leave a place. Im supposing the Spanish girl didn't remember them.
I'm Brazilian, we also have gestures for all these things, I don't know in Spain, but as she said, they are all international gestures, but also intuitive, not just a way of gesturing something. In Italy I think they have almost a rule for gesturing, not just intuitive gestures but exact meanings
@@LyraEnergy yes of course we have some international gestures but others have specific meanings that people that aren't from spain don't understand. My partner isn't Spanish and sometimes can't understand me when I use some gestures.
I agree, we rub our fingers when something is expensive or to ask: how much?
We point fingers at you when angry to accuse you of something, we tap our bellies when we have eaten too much, we open both palms and shake them flat upwards to mean: I don't get you, or when you are impatient or when you want to say: Doh! Obvious.
We raise our palm in front of somebody to stop their movement or speech.
We put our index finger or thumb to our throat and "slice" it pointing at you. This is not often done.
We pat our cheek twice to mean you or someone is considered dishonest and wants to take advantage of us. We put our index to the middle of our forehead to say: think! or if it is done three or four times in a row: are you stupid or what?
Plus the ok sign, the finger, the horns, these are paneuropean... Hahaha.
@@nurnu349 and dont forget the sign for when we want to leave a place!!
@@nataliapintanel4281 or when asking for the bill in a restaurant or bar!
The same thing also here in the Philippines since we are the only country in Asia that is heavily influenced by Spain. Yes, we normally do a lot of hand gestures when we talk.
El Latinoamérica es igual asta de lejos hablamos en señas como italianos y españoles 🤌.Saludos
I'm from Spain and I really like Italians and Italian culture. I know, what a surprise...😄
As a Chilean watching the first minutes made me impressed by the number of Italian gestures that exist here, because Italy was not even as big a group of immigrants here as it was in Argentina or Uruguay.
spain and italy are like brothers from same mother and greece too
🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇬🇷
Yes we are ☺️ Italy and France can't stand each other instead 🤣
@@chiaraf633 only Italians can't stand French people. French instead are really into Italian culture.
Trust me, my family is Franco-Italian.
@@chiaraf633 Spain and France also dont stand each other
@@legendarydragon2564 another thing that unites us
Not only Italian and Spanish use hand gestures..all people of Mediterranean sea use hand gestures a lot ♥️♥️
I am Greek and I also use a lot of hand gestures and people have said to me that I look like an Italian while speaking because of that.
As an American whose heritage is both Greek and Italian, I can attest that both sides of my family use hand gestures equally, and a lot!
Una faza una raza
Greece is our grandmother. We love her to death.
Yes, we use the "Italian hand" gesture in Spain. Just not as much, but we use it with the same meaning. We also have some gestures that are words or sentences, like the one when your mum tells you off by "hitting" the air "diagonally", or when we say somebody's crazy. We have many more gestures, although probably way less than Italians, yes.
How gorgeous Italian and Spanish are, the two countries I love the most.
Greeks also use their hands and have many many gestures. I often do not notice myself using them and non Greeks have mentioned it to me. Hahahahaha. Oen of the things these 3 countries share and have in common, amongst many things. Love the Mediterranean 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇪🇸🇪🇸🇮🇹🇮🇹
Only grik classic
@@rms994 what are you on about mate?
@@chrisofmelbourne87 🇬🇷👳🏿♂️
Hi, I'm spanish, just wanted to say that at 00:39 what Andrea says is "bechamel", a kind of sauce made of flour, grease and milk!
Im Australian, and I love bechamel 🤤
I just ate bechamel pasta😁
Bechamel es una salsa francesa mundialmente conocida. Lo dice bien. De hecho habla genial inglés
I think cultures that grow up with this seem very passionate about life in general. I'm an introverted musician. My hands stay tucked under my legs for small talk, but when describing a sound my hands can go from clawing, waving, pointing, stacking, miming... I think it's the only indicator that I'm actually excited in a conversation and not just politely agreeing.
Nah
I agree !
As an American from Texas and living in Missouri, I can hold a whole conversation with my hands in my pockets, no problem.
Their Beauty is overwhelming
It's funny, I didn't realize I used many hand gestures until a coworker pointed it out. She also knew my sibling and said we both waved our hands around a lot. I am neither Italian nor Spanish but it seems we have something in common!
being scandinavian, i tried to use hand gestures when i was talking to my roommate, i started off decent but had to keep reminding myself to use gestures eventually i forgot that i was trying to use gestures like halfway through talking about what we are going to eat tomorrow.
she then asked if i was having a moment or something because i kept "flapping my hands around"
I think, in Finland, hand gestures aren't quite as common, we're kind of monotonic sometimes. Then again, I personally gesture quite a bit, because I feel it helps me think, and sometimes when I can't come up with the right words I fill the silence with my hand gestures - but that's a me thing, I can't think and talk at the same time. If I speak English or some other language (other than Finnish), the gesturing gets more intense. And if I'm super nervous, I just freeze altogether.
Same here xD.
As an Italian living in Finland, I agree, Finns don't gesture much. But on the other hand, I have to say that I don't feel my hand gesture is over the top here either. It is generally something accepted. I mean, I have never received any weird look or comment, even from my close friends.
I would say that Finns are most of the time a very accepting and open minded folk 😊
In Spain is the same. People in mediterranean spain may use their hands more than on the atlantic. It's just depends on the person, rather than the culture. It's just sometimes stereotyped on Spanish people because Italians and western mediterraneans do it, but not all of Spain is mediterranean and we use hands far less, I dont see a big difference when I interact with someone from another country. They also use the same gestures that are international.
I'm Spanish and I'm telling you, I CAN'T talk without using my hands. More than once my friend has hold both my hands while I was talking and I would just stop mid conversation, staring at my hands, too stuned to speak. Then she would let me go and laugh. 😂
Idk if also all mexicans have this but some of us arw also very communicative with our hands
I'm from Spain, when I studied my Erasmus in Poland I shared a flat with another Spanish and an Italian. There were barely any differences in culture, habits, language... between us. The similarities between Italy and Spain are incredible, I realised it fully during that time.
I'm from Spain and I can confirm that describing a croqueta without using your hands is nearly impossible :P
I had seen Stefania before, it was on the channel "Awesome world" which is also in Korea, she is nice and funny, I hope it is like that here too
Se carga unas piernas 🥴🥴
I just found a new channel
Spanish people use the whole body to express their feelings and use the high-volume mode to talk to everyone everywhere. P.D. I'm spanish.🇪🇦
P.D. in English is P.S. :D so you prooved yourself haha
Omg why did I love this video so much
People should really listen to italian people about our colture instead of assuming things about us, like, I heard about people thinking Italy is a city in France (pls don't ever say that to a italian person, they're going to be mad at you), and honestly, hearing people talking about mafia when my country is brought into the conversation isn't really that pleasing, considering that mafia wasn't and isn't only in Italy and is a really sensitive topic for us.
We are a bit of a stereotype, and we joke about our country a lot too, but sometimes it kinda gets old and disrespectful lol
Btw really tysm this video is so accurate I relate to this so hard-
I’m german but I like using hand gestures to support my speech as well, I think it‘s quite useful and it makes the point you‘re making seem more grounded and clear
As a Maltese woman, I use a lot of hand gestures to communicate with the other person. Since our culture is partly influenced by the Italian culture, we communicate in a very similar way.
Probably the most funny video of World Friends.
LOVED THIS! So funny and cute
0:48 the way she looks shows she can actually see what she is holding in her vision😂😂😂
I won't stop saying it; Stefania (the Italian girl featured here) is sooo gorgeous! Absolutely beautiful and stunning!
I have once seen an Italian guy making the "wtf" gesture while frantically speaking at the PHONE. It was me
I remember seeing you at Fiumicino airport as you were talking on the phone!
La verdad es que cuando salen en los videos Andrea (la chica española) o Stefania (la chica italiana) los videos son mucho mas entretenidos , divertidos y dinamicos. No es por criticar a las demas chicas anglosajonas, francesas, etc. Pero la quimica que hay entre España / Italia no la tienen ni los australianos con nueva zelanda.
More videos with the tandem Andrea - Stephania !!
As an Argentinian I can say we use all the hand gestures the italian girl explained. But it figures because a lot of Italians migrated to Argentina so we not only have the Spanish influence but Italian too.
Lot of Italian ..?? Really ..??
Yeah. We are all a bit of a mix. I have French Spanish Portuguese Italian and Ukrainian. But I'd say most Argentinian ppl have some Spanish and Italian those are the two common ones I noticed most ppl have there, of course there some other mix or European too. But the Italian influence is present in the language and food. A lot of Italian words made their way into our slang. They say say Buenos Aires is the Europe of South America
@@williamjeferson3202 you must not know much about Argentina 😂 it’s very Italian but they speak Spanish
@@reaux3921 I know plenty about it I was born there and I speak fuent Spanish. I never said we speak Italian. I said the hand gestures made its way in due to migration of Italians. And some words too for example "laburo" is used a lot to say "work" but the Spanish word is "trabajo"
@@Canyoutakemebackwhereicamefrom en españa se usa en otros contextos pero no "laburo" en concreto, por ejemplo "contrato laboral", "abogado laboralista". Y también usamos muchisimos gestos con significado de los que Andrea no se ha acordado, como "estas loco", "luego o después", "espera o para", "tiempo muerto o medio tiempo", "vamonos", "llamame o nos llamamos", "esta lleno de gente", "es caro", "ojalá o crucemos los dedos", "están juntos", "vaya tela", "no lo entiendes" (despectivamente como para decir que eres tonto y no te enteras de lo que te estan diciendo), "que te den" (también como insulto) y seguro que muchos más! jaja
the spanish girl is so pretty and charismatic she won my heart over
In Chile (Spanish speaking country) we do use quite a few of those Italian hand gestures... The one for "I dont care", "what are you talking about" and "you chicken" are commonly used and understood.
This video is so interesting and they are so funny 🤣
Egyptians too are using different hand gestures too 😅
When I start learning Korean part of formality to not use your hand and put one over the other while standing. So strange for real. How on earth not to use your hand to express yourself?
Are you Egyptian?😉🌹 I was talking about Egyptian hand gestures a moment ago😂❤️
Some asian culture refrain from using hand gesture because it might seem agressive especialy if talking to someone higher like parents, elder, officer, leader, etc. On the other hand when talking to someone lower hand gesture might seem arrogant like you are ordering people around. In some culture they even use their upper body for pointing at certain direction just to minimize using hands.
I don't know why but if i may take a guess its prob because hand gesture make someone suddenly looks bigger, like a praying mantis spreading its limbs to scare its aggresor. But that doesnt mean there is no hand gesture at all, it exist but rarely used to avoid things i've mentioned before. Hope this helps. 😉
Because you r a savage
I did not jus like the video, I loved it!!
When you tie their hands they suddenly become very exquisite ppl from England 😅 it's really funny to watch 😂 I couldn't talk without hand gestures 😅
Absolutely LOVE this!!!
I love how these two women connected throughout this video!! Also I am colombian 🇨🇴 and we also like to use plenty of hand gestures when speaking, it's also part of our culture and I feel it enriches the way we communicate and express ourselves 💛💙❤
As African, I too felt tormented, just by reading the title. My hand and arm is in pain.
It's almost impossible!
Ahahah!
Just the title alone was enough to know this would be hilarious!
Lol I'm mixed Italian and French and my sis tells my boyfriends 'If you want her to shut up just hold onto her hands!'
Loving betrayer! Lol
I also was well-known among my friends for knocking down glasses of red wine on peeps during drinks or parties and as soon as I'd get excited about sth and start gesticulating wildly, they'd move a safe distance out of reach! 😂
As a Norwegian I utterly enjoyed this 😂😂
It went about the same as I thought it would and I can emphasize with the constrained feeling lol (even though I don't use gestures (nearly as much) like that/they do at all)
to be fair we still use hand gestures but we also use a lot more tone and anotations when speaking to add flavour (also why to foreigners a lot of the time it can sound like norwegians sing when talking to each other)
This was funny. Awesome video.
Btw, all those italian gestures make perfect sense 😁