Italian Language and Culture

The film "Red Tails" is set during World War II and follows the Tuskegee Airmen, African-American pilots who fought in the war. The Italian city featured in the film is Rome, which is a key location in the story as the pilots fly missions over Italy.

You can say "the street" in Italian as "la strada."

Buona sera. The Italians dispense with the "Have a" part, and just say "Buona Sera". I suppose literally it would be "Avete una buona sera", but I never heard that used the entire time I lived in Italy.

The name Dior is French, not Italian.

Some Italian last names starting with "D" are Di Giovanni, De Luca, De Rossi, and D'Angelo.

You can say "Ciao zio" in Italian to greet your uncle.

The word for "godsend" in Italian is "provvidenza divina."

Yes, that's what my kids call their grandpa too.

In Italian, "ci" is typically pronounced like the English "ch" sound in "cheese" or "church." For example, "ciao" is pronounced "chow" in Italian.

It depends on if you mean the noun or adjective form of the word. As a noun it means soft. As an adjective it means to play quietly or softly.

It is pronounced as "BWOH-nah PAHS-kwah."

'Cheech' doesn't directly translate from Mexican Spanish to Italian, as it's a nickname or name that may not have a literal translation.

il = like the word "eel", but don't pronounce the EE quite as long

vero = "VEH-ro"

amore = "ah-MO-reh"

non = like the word "known", but only say the first half of the OW vowel (it's like the Spanish O)

muore = "MWOH-reh"

mai = like the word "my"

Ciao is just Ciao. Spanish is the same way, for this word, although in Spanish, the standard Spelling is Chau.

The violin evolved from the medieval fiddle, an instrument that was commonly used in Italy and other parts of Europe. Changes and improvements were made to the fiddle over time, leading to the creation of the violin as we know it today.

No, Thad Matta is not Italian American. He is an American college basketball coach known for his successful coaching career at schools like Ohio State University and Butler University.

"Friggin" is a euphemistic way of saying "fucking" in informal language. It likely emerged as a softer alternative to the more explicit term.

Google translator converts it as "me e mio fratello"

Italian is considered a descendant of Latin. Latin is the ancient language spoken by the Romans, which evolved over time to become the Italian language we know today. Italian shares many similarities with Latin in terms of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.

In Italian, the letters 'cc' are typically pronounced as a hard "k" sound, as in "car." An example of this pronunciation is in the word "ciao," where the "cc" is pronounced as "ch" because it comes before an "i" or "e".

Venice is a place in Italy so do you mean how do you say dear in Italian.

Dear in Italian is - Caro

The Italian word for roots is "radici."

No but they are very similar, for they stemmed from Latin. Most European languages are similar in some ways.

Here is an example of Spanish being like Italian

8 in Spanish is ocho

8 in Italian is otto.

8 in Filipino/Tagalog in Walo. So no similarity there though!Except they all end in o.