Is English corrupting the Italian language?
Written by admin on 29 September, 2009 – 9:30 pm -
It’s time for another guest blog. Ainsley Okoro has written a very interesting and amusing article about how the Italian language is being corrupted through the overuse of English words. I thoroughly enjoyed it and trust you will too.
Brits don’t do foreign languages very well – which might explain why they spent centuries making sure everyone else learnt English.
So as a 40-something-year-old Brit, the four years I spent trying to master Italian were a struggle. Frankly, I half-wished that way-back-when we had made Il Bel Paese part of the British Empire as well.
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