drp9341 wrote:
Sometimes they said things that I understand 100% but that could just be because Neapolitan and Italian are related languages.
However, I have heard Italian spoken by Neapolitan people and it's just Italian with an accent. I grew up in NYC and one of my friends grandmothers, (from Naples,) didn't speak any English, and her Italian was very bad as well. I would talk to her A LOT. She loved that a young person could speak Italian. I understood her fine after the first few minutes. Her accent was just strong, but it's the same language.
When I was in university I went back to NYC in the summers. One summer I was working in a warehouse and the owner was an old SUPER Neapolitan guy. His English was hilarious, but he loved me because, (once again,) "The Young generation doesn't speak Italian! They answer in English! You speak Italian the right way!" He would invite me into his office for espresso with him and we would talk about stupid stuff like coffee or other things old Italians like to talk about. I had no problem understanding him, even though he would randomly say, in Italian, "I don't know how to say this the right way, (something in Neapolitan.)"
I didn't have ANY contact with Sicilian growing up. I just heard it from some old ladies who like to water their front gardens in the spring. But I couldn't understand any of it anyway.
Right now I need to focus on Polish, but I hope to one day have time to learn Neapolitan!
Please, if you understand what the woman in the video said, write the translation. I still didn't find anyone that could tell me what she says (except for the fact that they live in 7, 8, 9 in her house, lol)
