It is easy to fall in love with the beauty of Italian language.

It will bring you immediately to a great culture, a great history, a great tradition and a great food.

Italian language is the modern version of Latin, the language of the Pope and the language of many famous writers. Dante Alighieri, maybe the most famous one, wrote his masterpiece La Divina Commedia in a language in between Latin and modern Italian (even in Leichhardt in the Italian Forum there is a statue dedicated to Dante Alighieri).

The beauty of Italian language lives in its complex history: in Middle Age Latin was spoken only by educated people, by church men but not by the majority of Italians. Poor people spoke a “vulgar” form of Latin, because at that time they couldn’t go to school and have a good education. Then Italy was not a unique country, it was divided in many small countries and that’s why there were different forms of “vulgar Latin” (called dialects). When Italy was unified in 1861 (only 151 years ago!), people didn’t speak the same language but Tuscany dialect was chosen as the Italian Standard one because Dante Alighieri and many other poets wrote using this dialect.

Nowadays, although Italian is the national language and 151 years passed from the unification, dialects are still alive. People continue using them at home and in some informal situations.

So Italy has got not only a beautiful language that is Italian but many others attractive languages still alive and different from town to town.