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Item Title
"There are a lot of Italians who speak Spanish, and a lot of Spanish who speak Italian."
Author/Creator
Interviewer: Carroll, Thomas D.
Created/Published
August 11, 1994
Notes
Interview with Matthew Carbonelli.
Summary of audio segment: MC says it's funny that there's a lot of Italians who were born in South America, and so speak Spanish and Italian. And vice versa. Languages are close. MC remembers in the 1960s seeing the stores on Park Avenue convert to Hispanic stores. Remembers one, going down there, and Spanish speaker said something that would be exactly the same in Italian. The languages are very close. MC can understand Spanish as long as they speak slowly. If they start rumbling fast, then I get lost. MC's father, if he was here, could speak both.
Subjects
Interviews
Italian Americans
Oral history
Sound recordings
Ethnography
Interviews
United States--New Jersey--Paterson
21st Avenue
Object Type
Related Names
Narrator: Carbonelli, Matthew
Medium
Digital Audio Tape
Language
English
Call Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-TDC-A008; A: 01:30:52
Reproduction Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-TDC-A008
Part of
Working in Paterson Folklife Project
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afcwip tca00805
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcwip.tca00805