At least, not while I was in hearing range. Ah, the loss of culture between generations …
(via the Flea)
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Italian phrases my grandfather never used
At least, not while I was in hearing range. Ah, the loss of culture between generations … (via the Flea)…
Usually it’s the swear words people learn first.;->
There were a couple of mild ones I did pick up (the extent of my Italian), but none of the ones (as such) on the list.
But again that is one thing I think was lost between the past two generations and the “current: generation in this country. My great-grand parents and grandparents generations both spoke low Polish. My dad knows some words that he picked up listening to them. Me, nothing.
On my moms side, the great grand parents spoke German, my grandfather, knew some words, and my mom knows nothing. I think that we as a nation lost something in the decision not to teach the languages, and traditions, of our forbearers (Thankfully, Glog has made it!).
It was my great grandparents (on my Mom’s side) who came here. I remember my Bis Nona only speaking Italian (except for very broken English). My Nona could speak Italian and English pretty fluently. My Mom could understand Italian, but not speak much at all (which is how, stereotypically, secret conversations were held in front of me when I was a young’un). Me, I just link to Italian vocabulary pages online. And so it goes.