There is an important aspect of the Italian way of communicating that will always remain hidden in Italian audio recording projects: “Italian symbolic gestures, the autonomous culturally codified gestures used by Italian hearing people in everyday communication”.You can certainly hear smiles or the effects breathing and body movements have on the interpretation
There is something about the definition of “the Angels’language” that fascinates me. Apparently many poets, men and women of letters and artists spent quite some time on this topic and some are convinced that their own language must be the one spoken by the great winged souls
When I first heard about L’Accademia della Crusca in Italy, during a lesson at school, I was not able to create a direct connection between the bran, la crusca, and the most important institution responsible for regulating the Italian language as well as the oldest linguistic academy in the world. I