Benefits of learning Italian?

Question

I am going to be learning italian soon unvoluntarily as my grandma insists i speak it, and i was just wondering if anyone could list the benefits of having this language?

Many thanks =]

Answer 1

dunno sounds better for future jobs you know  ,but beware its freaking HARD if you don't already know a language that resembles it,  

Answer 2

Jobs'

Answer 3

1. If your grandma is Italian, you will discover your rightful cultural birthright, something you could never do unless you learned the language.

2. You will please your grandmother. That will make her happy and bring you honour.

3. Italian people are fascinating and beautiful.

4. Italian films and literature are wonderful.

5. You will be able to speak to Italians and enjoy your holidays more.

That's just for starters. Good luck!

(Student of Italian for 11 years)

Answer 4

italian girls,

jobs in connection to italy:

so big business otions in fashion, naking, cars etc in conjuction with western countries.

Answer 5

Hello,

Well  you could get a better job with better pay.

Bye  

Answer 6

It's Spoken in a Europian modern country with about 60 million people (not exactly sure about the population), easy to learn (at least for English native speakers), very similar to Spanish (if you know Spanish, or want to learn Spanish next, then it might really help), and has behind it an old civilisation with great culture! You won't lose anything afterall if you try it!

Answer 7

I speak italian and girls like it...lol

Answer 8

It is much easier to seduce members of the opposite (or the same) s*x in Italian than in any other language.

It's probably something to do with the vowel sounds at the ends of words, which is definitely why romantic opera sounds believable in Italian but ridiculous when the libretto is translated into English, German or Icelandic.

The only other 'language' I've come across that comes close to rivalling it in that respect is Romany (or certain dialects of Romany). And that really is a specialist subject.  

Answer 9

wow, a lot of people are saying italian is really similar to spanish, which it is, but what about french?  french and italian are very very similar, but just vocabulary-wise.  french and italian share 89% lexical similarity and italian - spanish share 82%.  so, more correctly, BOTH languages are similar to italian, NOT JUST spanish.

italian girls/women.

food.

italian men for the ladies.

spoken by over 75 million people.

millions and millions of years of art

the colleseum (it's MUCH older than the eiffel tower)

italians love americans

not JUST spoken in italy.  it is spoken there, as well as switserland, germany, greece, romania, serbia, croatia, u.s., canada, argentina, france, australia.  it is only MAJORLY spoken in italy.  i found many italian speakers in laguna beach, california, as well!

just the shere beauty of the language.

io parlo questa bella lingua, e sono fierissimo di parlare questa lingua più vicina al latino.  Coll'italiano si può vincere il mondo!

Answer 10

if you go to italy you get treated better for knowing the language!

Answer 11

it improves your memory

Answer 12

I'm italian! I can help you if you give your MSN contact.

Answer 13

anyone.

... and I'm italian ...

italian is an exceptional wonderful and musical language, but it's absolutely useless in the "real" world

with an exception: i heard that if you are passionated with arts and cultural goods, the italian language is as best, for some obvious reasons, as german is the best if you study phylosophy.

I think if you have to learn a language... you'd choose a language that you like and find somewhat useful

Answer 14

There are two levels of benefit.  First, learning any second language will increase the quality of your brain and likely raise your I.Q.   Language is at the heart of what it means to be a human being.  A bi-lingual (or more) individual has huge intellectual advantages.  He can think in stereo.

As to Italian per se, its use is limited on the world stage.  But Italy is a great place to go and a center or world history. Also, as one of the five languages decended from latin, Italian is a bridge to French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian.  French and Spanish will be easy to add on after Italian.   And they are very useful.  Show this answer to your grandma.

Answer 15

i'm italian and if u need some help contact me on my istant messaging!tell to your grandma that u can have an italian friend who can help u!she could be happy!

italian can be useful in your learnig,it depends on what do u want to study:arts,food,fashion...and u can also use it if u come here!

Answer 16

I personally think Italian is pretty s**y.

With a base of Italian, you could most likely understand some Spanish too, they are pretty similar.