Giancarlo Livraghi wrote: <I don't think I have an "accent", though sometimes people in the South tell me that I sound "northern". Most of the time>
One of the most amusing things to happen to me is people in Southern Italy telling me that the way I said common phrases like "va bene" sounded "northern"- given how basic my command of the language is, I'd have thought "foreign" or "tourist-like" would be the first choice!. As a matter of fact, my first Italian teacher was Piedmontese, so that might account for it. Cheers Divya Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
