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Could you accept Mister for Signore?

Yes, I tried that too. Didn't even think about the number.

Yes same with me, I just knew it as wind with 'venti' being wind spirits in Roman Mythology

yes I tried winds. I guess twenty is more the american answer since i have have about starbucks have coffee called like that ( though I do realize starbucks is branching out and seen more and more in other countries. It is not a phenomenon in most countries (yet) )

Can you accept grotto for grotta and chant for canto?

Yes, why doesn't grotto work? I googled an English translation of grotta and cave was first, but next in order were grotto and cavern.

Can you accept morning for giorno? Buon giorno is good morning.

giorno means day, not morning; it's like in Italy they say "good day" instead of "good morning" so I don't think morning should be accepted I'd accept "kid" for bambino

Finally music theory pays off!

french is so similar to this so its easy

piacevole curiosità , signore

Got the lot in about a minute. Mi piace molto la lingua italiana, quindi grazie mille per questo quiz! ;-)

I'd say 100% is pretty good for someone who used a combination of a limited knowledge of Spanish and historical and cultural clues.

DUCE is not truly an Italian word. It derived from Latin word DUX (= leader, military chief) and was adopted by Mussolini as his personal title, since he got inspired by Roman Empire. Before fascist times, "duce" was an archaic and lost world. After fascist time, "duce" is almost only used to address to Mussolini (aka il Duce). So, I think it's a little misleading to put that word on a quiz like this. "Duce" in Italian Language has almost exactly the same value of "Fuhrer" in German: they both are not anymore vocabulary words, but they're instead historical related appellatives with a given strong negative characterization.

You're wrong about Führer, it still means a guide, sometimes a driver.

ah never realised but I guess it is similar to dutch voeren then. A hardly used anymore verb meaning leading something somewhere. (close to transporting, but it is more about the movement, the guiding. VERvoeren would be transporting. I guess it is related to varen which in english is sailing, but basicly comes from a root that means going/moving) Farewell is connected to that.

and you have "in vervoering" which losely can be translated as being moved (to tears)

"verführen" means "to seduce" in German.

Almost all Italian words derive from Latin. Duce does not mean leaders as indicated by the quiz but means military leader. It is no longer used because this charge no longer exists but is part of the Italian vocabulary anyway.

But why?

There's a brand of frozen pizza in the US called DiGiorno.

Hi, I'm Italian, "Canto" doesn't mean "Song", that's "Canzone". "Canto" is "Sing" (first person singular), or "Chant", like other people argued in their posts. Thanx

"Il canto degli italiani" is a chant not a song, there is an important difference. A song can be the one you listen to on the radio for example while a chant is something higher.

Caro Giommaso, turns out you're the ignorante, here.

While I was taking this quiz, I realized how close a lot of them were to Spanish words. I got a pretty good amount of the words correct just by using my knowledge of Spanish words. For example, oro literally means gold in Spanish too. Benvenuto sounds pretty dang close to bienvenido, and, again, both mean the same thing. "Yo canto" means "I sing" in Spanish. Cavallo sounds like caballo, which means horse in Spanish. Venti sounds close to veinte, which means twenty in Spanish. Padre means father in Spanish. Vino means wine in Spanish. Bianco is kind of close to blanco, which means white in Spanish. Ciao is a little close to chao, meaning bye in Spanish. This one is a bit of a stretch, but mille is close to mil, simply cut off the last two letters. Mil means thousand. I couldn't really find any other words that are similar to those of the Spanish language. Anyone else find this easy because of Spanish?

I'm British and I went to Italy with my Peruvian wife, and in the museums with audio description things often the choice was Italian or English, and she always preferred Italian, despite never having learned any Italian before. It's like a free bonus language if you speak Spanish!

prima donna - First woman

Duce is not the Italian world for "leader". The only person who can (and must) called Duce was Benito Mussolini. Please replace it with "capo" or "condottiero".

"il" duce maybe.

could you please accept "kid" for bambino?

can you add hi for ciao?

and 'sup dawg' as well

Please change leader with military leader

Whoa...so THAT's what tutti frutti means?!

My French came so clutch thank god

got all of them :) I speak spanish which is very similar

Watch out! Duce only refers to Benito Mussolini and it has a very negative connotation. You can't use it to talk about a politician or any leader in general unless you don't want impicitly s/he is a dictator.

Accept dad for padre