Comments on: Traditional Music from Abruzzo by Terre Del Sud

By: Janet Bianchini

Janet Bianchini — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:50:29 +0000

Don’t lose heart! With some patience, and lots of listening (as you are correctly doing)you should catch some of the main common words which do have some resemblance to “Tuscan” Italian. Eg man =L’uomo = l’ominu. It’s a very difficult dialect to write and to read, for that matter. I would love to find some books written in the local dialect as one day, it could become extinct as younger people no longer swant to speak it in the future.
Best of luck!

By: Bodach

Bodach — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:34:01 +0000

So it was going to be even harder for me to understand what was being sung – I didn’t stand a chance!

By: Janet Bianchini

Janet Bianchini — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:41:30 +0000

Thank you for the information on “Terre del Sud”. They sound like a very lively band! The songs are in “dialetto” abruzzese. I was brought up in England by my Italian parents and grandmother , who always spoke in the dialect of their area (Provincia Teramo), but I always replied in English! We still converse like this today. Half Abruzzese dialect/ half in English. I have to say, it’s almost like a different language, but luckily, around Civitaquana, the locals speak the same dialect, so I can understand it usually.