My family are from Bardi. Now i'm booked in to do an Italian language course, but my mum says my grandmother didn't really understand Italian, as she and her family spoke a ''Bardi Piacenza'' dialect very unlike modern Italian.
My question is, is this correct? I hear the grammar is different also.Will I be understood speaking my new fancy Italian tongue in Bardi? the place I am thinking of moving to..
Thanks again for your replies Lee
Bardi dialect
Re: Bardi dialect
You should definitely not worry about that. Decades of TV watching put the kibosh on the daily use of dialects in Italy. Nowadays only people of a certain age maintain some fluency in what was once the local language, while younger people mostly communicate with others in a more or less standard form of Italian.
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Re: Bardi dialect
Are you sure? Ever been to Naples or Trieste? (just to mention two towns)arturo.c wrote:You should definitely not worry about that. Decades of TV watching put the kibosh on the daily use of dialects in Italy. Nowadays only people of a certain age maintain some fluency in what was once the local language, while younger people mostly communicate with others in a more or less standard form of Italian.