5 Fun Facts About Italian: The Language Of Temperament And Passion For Good Food And Wine

1. Italian, such as Spanish or French, is a Romance language that developed from Latin. Of all Romance languages, Italian is actually the closest to Latin, and shares about 85% of vocabulary similarities with Spanish and French. 60 million people speak Italian as a mother tongue, and 125 million people speak Italian as a foreign language.

2. Italian is the official language in Italy and San Marino, and one of the official languages in Vatican, some Swiss cantons, Slovenia and Croatia. Italian...