Good day. I'm Andy. My name's Andy.
I want to speak (I said say) only in Italian. I want to speak without any English.
Without using Spanish.
English is prohibited!!
I hope that I'm able to speak Italian without any Spanish words
because sometimes I'm confused between Spanish and Italian.
I don't know why
I started to learn Italian 25 years ago.
24 years maybe, I'm not sure exactly when.
A Sicilian friend [at that time] asked me why I didn't speak Italian.
The next day, I bought a book to help me learn Italian.
My friend didn't speak much English and he wasn't too well.
He was in hospital. I used to visit him in hospital.
He was ill and didn't speak very good English.
Then I decided to learn Italian to help him because
He didn't have family in London where he lived.
I lived in London 25 years ago.
About two months later I visited his family in Sicily (Catania)
and I stayed with the family for one week.
His father was supposed to be able to speak French
but he only knew how to speak Italian, and no English.
He couldn't speak either French or English.
And the same for the sister.
So, very quickly I had to speak some Italian to communicate with the family.
Please excuse me, I have a head cold.
Some years later I worked in a Bureau de Change.
That year was 1997
There, I met some Italian colleagues.
One of them in particular became a good friend.
It was him who asked me to make this video!
Buon giorno William!
He helped me to develop my Italian and we are still friends
Even though he lives in Milan. I live in Portsmouth, UK.
Anything else in Italian?
I know some tongue-twisters, like
Trentitre Trentini.... (33 people from Trento travelled to Trento trotting)
Again
Trot trot trotting all the way to Trento
We have Italian students who work in my shop from time to time.
They taught me the tongue-twisters
I have another tongue-twister
On the bench the goat thrives, under the bench the goat dies.
Otherwise.
[a Language Bear calling out in the background]
Sorry, that was my friend in the background
Another tongue twister is
Apelle, son of Apollo,,,,
Apelle, son of Apollo, made a chicken skin ball. All the fish came to see
on the surface that ball that was made by Apelle, son of Apollo.
It's difficult
At the moment, I work in a shop
and sometimes customers come to speak to me in Italian.
I have one... I know one man. He is Tunisian
He speaks a little Italian, a lot of French, Arabic
I speak a little French, Italian, Arabic,
Russian, Chinese, English and other languages some words.
OK, otherwise in Italian?
I think that this video isn't that long because my Italian isn't that good.
Bye bye bye. Thank you for watching it.
I hope that I didn't say Spanish words... perhaps! [I know I did!!! Oops!]