The Italian Language

Learn about the Italian language, grammar, vocabulary and culture

Introduction

In order to understand fully a language it is not only necessary to understand the people in the street, but it is also good to understand the culture of the country where the language is spoken. It is always the writers who determine the course the language will take, though they too, follow the tendencies of the times, discarding some things and making others permanent.

Italian was in no way different and it was the fact that three great writers were born in Tuscany during the period when the language was evolving which determined that the standard language would henceforth be the language they had used: Tuscan.