The official language of Italy and it has evolved over time, primarily because of the poet Dante Alighieri, who modernized the language by blending the Italian dialects, Sicilian and Tuscan. While the language’s Tuscan roots are more prevalent, the now-extinct language, Dalmatian, also inspired Dante. With the combination of these three Romance dialects, the Italian language evolved into its modern state. Spoken by approximately seventy million people, Italian shares the title with Latin as co-official language of the Vatican City, as Italian has Latin roots. Though the language is most widely spoken in Italy, Italian is also spoken in some areas of Switzerland, Croatia, France, Slovenia, and Albania.
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“This was a great book to bring along as I visited Italy. The author does an amazing job teaching conversational skills.
I learned allot with Conversational Italian quick and easy and so will you!” – Frank
“This was a great book to bring along as i visited italy. The author does an amazing job teaching conversational skills.
I learned alot with Conversational Italian quick and easy and so will you ” – Javier
“Good book I benefited a lot from it” – Rafael