Italian Hand Gestures
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As expressive people, Italians have no problem showing you how they feel using their hands. Having grown up with an Italian mother and family as well as travelled around Italy for a month, I have come to understand the importance of understanding Italian hand gestures and want to pass on my knowledge to you...with help from my Nonna
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I don't know why so many italians have got angry after watching this video. I'm italian, and that's so funny! I laughed all video long! Come on, that's not a mockery, it's just a fun video and I can say, as italian, that most of that gestures are actually very used. So slow down, let's all laugh together and be happy. (New subscriber ;-) )
Probabilmente ridi perchè sei priva di un elemento organico importante e fondamentale: il cervello
It is quite humorous. Italy is more than earthquakes and volcanoes.
@@mauriziosirna3626 anche tu ne sei privo, o forse sei solo un poppante permaloso ;)
It misleading and if alot of those gestures don't exist then it is a mockery.
@@mustange550 which ones dont exist?
I'm from naples and yes girl, you got almost everything right😂
Why would God call a city nipples is there mountains there
It’s Naples not nipples....
@@littlechefgacha2446 Its Nepal brother (family guy joke)
But not the covered head. It s an offensive image.
Interesting video. It's weird because of all the Italian language courses I took there was no mention of Italian gestures. Of course when I got to Italy I had that WTF moment. Honestly I thought people were fighting when I first saw Italians actively communicating because there was so much more energy and contact then I'm use to in mid-western US (are we dead inside?). I think the gestures help a lot because they work like a mini language that (though I've noticed slit variations) most Italians can understand and it will get you buy especially when your language skills don't (my Italian is terrible). This gestures are definitely not used exclusively in Naples, I lived for three years in Lombardia, my husband is Italian and he regularly uses about half of those you showed. Thanks, much love.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I am italian and when I read the definitions I started using my hand gestures 🤌🤌🤌🤌BTW well done, you nailed it
noo ma davvero si fanno solo in italia?? ceh io ero convinta che li facessero in tutto il mondo
+Gaia Monti gli inglesi sono complessati e nn capiscono un cazzo
+Gaia Monti alcuni si fanno anche in Spagna!
solo lo italianni poso farlo sono chemi😂😂
+Cerise And Fraise sei francese,ti sei risposta da sola :)
oddio anche io all'inizio pensavo si facesse dappertutto
I had so much fun watching. A great video.
Gezen Adam Thanks so much Gexen. So glad you enjoyed it!
I am Italian and I love this :) well done.
Lovely. Your facial expressions are great and artistic. Informative and humorous. Thank you.
Hahaha thank u! Im quite animated ive been told. Glad you enjoyed the video
I'm Italian and this video is AMAZING! :D I didn't realize we have way more hand gestures than others until now :D
Lol
Pretty good really enjoyed this.
perfect and enjoyable...i really admire what u did..we ve seen those gestures many time in movies but never really knew the exact meaning.u deserve more views ..ten times more..ill share it hopefully more people see ur brilliant act
This was on the popular page on Instagram so I had to come watch this been half Sicilian and having lived in Sicily many years and been with Sicilian guy !!! OMG it was so funny !!!! And so accurate !! I just love our hand gestures ! I found my self as it was written on the screen is already start doing the hand gesture !!!!
Sophia Anna That's so awesome!!! I'm half Sicilian too. My mom is from Palermo and I did a road trip across Sicily a few years ago and feel in love with it. So beautiful and diverse. So clad you found me through Instagram! Welcome!! I hope you stick around. The family we have here is pretty darn awesome. We are a bunch of travel junkies who love adventure, culture, food and a good laugh. Hope to see more of you on my channel :)
Kristen Sarah im happy to join ! :-) my Dad is from a province of Siracusa ! i go twice a year back to see family and we love it ! i am very blessed to my fluent in italian so although we now live in the uk my 4 year old son speaks both languages !!! :-)
Kristen Sarah And another question did you vlog your road trip in Sicily i looked back on your videos and couldn't find any :-/ ??
Ora è più usato il:guarda come vola il cazzo che me ne frega
dov'è obama con le medaglie
Din din din niu dabliudabliuì uorld cempion
il più utile di sempre
+simashi kishamoto ma sei ovunque XD
sposiamoci
forse, anche senza forse, la più bella dimostrazione di gesti tra i tanti video, bravissima Kristen, che gli dei ti abbiano il gloria, se riesci, fai un salto anche qui in Italia, recentemente è cambiata molto, fai un salto prima che sparisca tutto, gesti e autoctoni compresi. saluti...
Awesome. Loved it. I notice watching this and others vids, that even Italian gestures have slight differences/ dialects in different parts of Italy. Very good to learn.
This is awesome-- brava!
i loved this
This was hysterical! Love it!
I have learned a lot things. Thank you
I'm italian-brazilian and my family and I always "speak with hands" (too)...and the meanings still the same! Culture is something really strong... amazing! The State I live (SP: Sao Paulo) has a HUGE influence of the italian immigrants
I noticed so many hand gestures when I was in Italy last year. This video was amazing :)
***** Haha thats awesome! What part of Italy did you explore?
Most of the major points! Roma, Pisa, Florence, Venice, Milan, etc. :)
***** Usual stereotypes about Italy
I loved it Kristen. You captured my grandma perfectly and this was probably 40 years before you were born!
I grew up in an Irish-Italian neighborhood in NJ. I forgot about so many of these gestures over the years. Thanks for reminding me of them. Atsa nice!
Crabjuice Which one is your fav?
Well done!
Solo ora mi rendo conto che questi gesti li facciamo solo noi italiani!!! you're very nice!!
Brings back a lot of memories and like a lot of countries some parts of Italy a different gesture could mean different things thanks for working on my laugh lines
That was quite amusing. Well Done.
Bella e brava ! Where did you stay in Italy for one month?
Good job !
These gestures are common, especially in Southern Italy. In the present day no Italian woman dress this way anymore ( the last time that I saw a woman with this " outfit " it was in the early 70s ). . Anyway I think that she is very nice and funny and I enjoyed the video.
You have my characters... I will try my best to follow your instructions... I love it.
Love it! hahaha! My nonna also does this.
Loved it!
Amazing place to visiting broh..
Thank you for your video, Do you have one that is school friendly? I want to show my students but of course some sections are not appropriate for school ;)
Loved this!
Great video Kristen!! I'm going to Italy in September for three weeks. Can't wait!!
Cody Haj Yay! Where in Italy are you exploring?
no aspettate, non si fanno in tutto il mondo? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Great video! I just got back from 17 days travelling through Italy, and it would've really helped to of had this video before I went. Would've saved me some confusion! Glad to finally understand some of them.
Briggs Marshall hahah! Where in Italy did you go? Did you hit up Sicily?
No! I wanted to go to Sicily though! Next time! We visited Rome, Naples, Amalfi Coast (stunning), all over Tuscany, and Venice.
Che bella 🤗🤗🤗 Grazie
This was a super cute video. Grazie mille.
Terrific. Clever and funny.
1:39 i always thought this meant "don't do it" or "if i catch you you'll be in trouble"
So true!
This is really interesting, i'm from Algeria and i noticed that we share a lot of those same gestures !!
It was great! 🌷❤️
Being Italian myself, this is reeeeeeeally accurate! Great video!:)
Good one!
Thanks for share
Yes! I liked you video much.
Very cute!
I am an actor shooting a film as an Italian MaMa this weekend.This helped me a lot.So much fun! Thanks!
I love this video. From Italy
Thank you Davide!
hahha I loved it! I'm from Spain and we also have many common gestures! But I didn't realize that those gestures aren't international!
When sei italiano and non condividi tris video
very good!
Really enjoyed thanks from fella Italian
This video cleared my thoughts.
You are always so funny and I will be a loyal fan!! I miss Italy so much!! :D
From us, 100% 2nd Gen Italians....We Love it!! Forever Customs and Performing Arts
This might be useful for when I go to Italy in December! :)
Helloooo... nice video, yes hand gestures is universal language. I found so meny similaritys between Italy and India. not only the falgs, even rules braking and same hand gestures also.....yes it's universal language. this is Ram from India, Hyderabad.
omg that's so accurate! I'm italian and I use a lot of the gesture you have shown, but sometimes I don't even release that I'm doing it! For example, if you ask me to mime "good idea" I would probably tall you that we don't have a gesture for it, but then, on a daily basis, I do use it in a automatic way! Moreover, do you really don't use the same gesture to say that something is delicious all around the world?
hahaha, no we don't do that the express we like the food, we taste the food and then say hmmmmmmmm, and probably nod at the same time or just swallow it and then say,wow, this is so delicious. But there are the other ones that we do too. like come here, go away, knock on wood...
no we only make the okay sign or thumbs up (one thumb usually). i gesti italiani sono piu interessanti.
This is some informative kind of video but I am laughing like crazyy...you are so funny with all kind of facial expressions there haha..😂😂
Delightful!
the second one doesn't mean " I'm hungry" but it means that you didn't digested your meal, and it can also mean that you can't tolerate someone.
This made us laugh so much! You are so funny! Me and my partner have been living in Italy for the past 4 years! Haha we now have a better understanding of these gestures!!
What is the song?
What about gestures for specific items, especially food. Prosciutto, wine, ham, pizza, spaghetti etc..
Wow bravissima hahaha in effetti siamo proprio così ;) You are really good ;) In Italy we use these gestures! :)
My grandmother was from Napoli and when I misbehave she would give me some of that Italian Candy. That was the only hand gesture I remember, that was rarely though...
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH It's always funny see how foreigners (in your case a canadian-italian girl) manage our handgestures language. ;) Your version is close enough to the original, well done! it seems like a particular dialect of the original version, sooo funny. Family version maybe? (If I may ask) Where are your parents from exactly? Which part of Italy i mean
hahaha, awesome and I like that Iranian hand painted table cloth hanging behind your back
Where did you get the cloth behind you and what culture is it from?
It's from Sicily :)
I'm going to try most of this when I get to italy.
Geez! I could have used this bit of knowledge while in Milan. Now I know what was said when I asked where to find Starbucks in the cafe district. :)
Informative and hilarious!
***** :)
Perfetto !! Fantastico :-)
nice expressions.... :D good job....!!!
sono italiana e ogni volta che vedo questi video mi diverto moltissimo perchè noi italiani quando gesticoliamo siamo molto più spontanei e non pensiamo affatto ai gesti che stiamo facendo. detto questo well done!
sì ma è per ridere
love the video very very funny please make another one with the Italian hand gestures with nona and other ones with nona it's very funny
+Doug Ferrera I'll definitely be making more videos like this one :) so glad you enjoyed it
great let me know when you do it
Amazing, had so many laughs :-)
Just wondering (and sorry for my bad english) doesent it look weird or just stupid for you, when non italian try mimic those gestures?
This was fun, but some of them are basically just from the south of Italy. Others are from all over Italy but the way you show them is the south way, in the north we are less dramatic. Ciao from Milano
I'm Italian, and I can say this video is very accurate.
Giacomanzium Excellent! That's what I like to hear. I'm also Italian :)
Kristen Sarah I meant Italian living in Italy, but that's okay :D good job!
+Giacomanzium tu non stai bene...
Sekko Veieno Okay.
+Giacomanzium let's say it's nice and quite good..but not that "very accurate"..
I'm Italian... this video is so funny! some of this are not so used anymore... But is true I also use a lot my hands when I talk and I didn't realize it yet! ahah good job! this video is super funny!
Superb 👌👌👌
That was way more hand gestures than I thought you would come up with haha.
Omg, this is too funny! Greetings from Costa Rica!
Simpaticissima !!! :-)
I have a lot of Italian friends and this is very accurate...
Imsouchivy Suos hahah great! Now you will be able to impress them with your hand gestures.
ahhaja I'm Italian and it's so funny hahah! Good job! brava!
Yes, from castelveyere
Brilliant. But I just saw a an italian actresss wave goodbye with an opening closing hand gesture. It was so un- english I was just wondering. Is it an Italian gesture?
this is so accurate 😂
I had a laugh with this. I'm from Argentina, and I have italian grandparents. They never taught me these gestures, but I do them almost everyday!
Nice ! Very similar to turkish gestures :)
funny... Loved it!
ahahah, I will send this guide to my Belgian friends, so they will learn more about our way of speaking :)))))))))
brava