Reply To: Painting Masterclass with Marco Frisoni

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I guess in the conversation they were comparing English, German and Italian as second languages for people speaking one of those as their first one. Of the three English is the only one in which you don’t inflect nouns or adjectives, the idea (and cases used for inflection) came to both German and Italian from Latin (just check names of the cases). I believe that was the common denominator they were referring in the talk (but I’m reporting from memory and not the best of memories at that).

As for Italian part of Tyrol, you’re again right, even today it is easier to speak German than Italian with the locals. I however, was referring to Apulia, which is rural land in south eastern Italy, with very few tourist and very few people speaking any foreign language, my experience from that region was described above.