A little effort to speak the language can buy a whole lot of goodwill in Italy. In most big cities and heavily touristed areas in Italy, hotel and restaurant staff, shopkeepers, and museum attendants ...

The list of new Italian words published this week by the Treccani Institute covers everything from politics to celebrity ...

As indicated by the hodgepodge of attempted dialects in “House of Gucci,” Nicolas Cage’s strangely nasal intonations in “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin,” and Chris Pratt’s misguided voiceover in “The ...

MARTÍNEZ: Italy's government has removed one word from its rousing call to arms. It was written by a young patriot named Goffredo Mameli. This was back in 1847, when what we know today as Italy was a ...

Most of us know that the United States Social Security Administration (SSA) records and maintains baby name data throughout the country, and releases an annual list of the most popular baby names that ...

ROME (Reuters) - It's official. The language of Italy is Italian -- but not everyone is happy about it. While it might seem obvious, the Italian-ness of Italian has only just been enshrined in the ...

In most big cities and heavily touristed areas in Italy, hotel and restaurant staff, shopkeepers, and museum attendants will almost certainly speak at least some English. But venture to smaller towns ...