Very little only a few words here and there.
It's the pronounce that makes it weird I think.
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I could understand a little of genvoeis only because i spent my holidays in Liguria.
I can understand it somehow thanks to subtitles, but without them I'd probably grasp just very few words. In fact, Genoese is one of the hardest dialects in Italy to understand even for other Italians (once I read someone on the web say that it was the hardest together with Bolognese and Bergamasco, and I agree). It's because it has undergone several sound changes that altered the pronunciation: loss of intervocalic consonants, strange diphthongizations, and so on. It also has probably got lots of 'exotic' vocabulary, being the language of a major seaport.
i understand genoese quite well :)
because here in the north west of Sardinia is spoken the sassarese language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassarese_language, that is deeply influenced by genoese, though it is primarily classified as a corso-tuscan language.
a folk song in Genoese Language compared with Sardinian Sassarese:
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Two songs in Asturian:
La xana'l·lagu - The Lake's Xana (Asturian fairy nymph)
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Folk song De Grau a Concarneau
-Mariana was at home doing something with the priest when her husband came back from the mountain, gun on his shoulder...
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Prouvençau (Provençal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIcfO...layer_embedded
Jan Petit que danço, pèr lou rèi de Franço
'mé la man, man, man ! :D
French with Southern accent
Toulouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcyKJ...eature=related
South-West (very strong accent)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YcyS...eature=related
Marseille
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVNarSZjPn8
In things like this one still sees the common bonds of the people of (h)oc! :)
The Joan Petit is known by all children in Catalonia:
El Joan Petit quan balla, balla, balla, balla,
amb la mà, mà, mà!
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And in Aragon it's being recovered via folk groups:
Chuan Chiquet que danza quan plena la pancha
con o piet, piet, piet!
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the calabrese tarantella
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the abruzzi tarantella
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the Campanian tarantella
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Lucania tarantella
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Apulian Tarantella
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