Dwalin I didn't know you were Russian. Have you lived in Italy? You seem to have pretty good knowledge of its culture. I'm Albanian and we pretty much grew up with Italian shows, TV, movies and it came naturally as a second language. Unfortunately English was more useful so I stopped bothering with Italian. I still understand it and speak it, just not fluently.

Fabrizio was a legend of a singer.. popular even outside of Italy. I've heard that song, pretty impressive.

The other one is so ridiculous you can't help but laugh, good find!

Dwalin I didn't know you were Russian. Have you lived in Italy? You seem to have pretty good knowledge of its culture. I'm Albanian and we pretty much grew up with Italian shows, TV, movies and it came naturally as a second language. Unfortunately English was more useful so I stopped bothering with Italian. I still understand it and speak it, just not fluently.

I live in Italy now, have moved to Milan from Russia as an early teen with my parents (and the cat as well ) , about 15 years ago. People are friendly here, although I miss the snow in winter.
But Albanian is a language completely different from the ones originated from Latin, like Italian, Spanish, French. Was it difficult to learn Italian and Albanian at the same time?
I also had to study Latin as it is in the school program everywhere in Italy, some ways of modifying the words (the cases: nominative, genitive, etc) are similar to Russian.

Italy is really nice. I've been throughout the north, Rome, but the southernmost I ever got was like 20 mins away from Naples. I really enjoyed Genoa in particular. Unfortunately I only stayed in Milano for 3 hours, so I can't say I've seen it.
It's very easy when you're a kid and spend half of your day watching Italian-dubbed TV shows, cartoons and movies

@Alex: Yeah, I'm from Tirana (the capital)

Hey, no need to be sarcastic, not everybody here knows. (Unless you weren't, then my bad)

Obviously, but not everybody here does which is why I specified it in brackets, no idea why it bothered you so much, but whatever.

Song about Raffaele Cutolo by Fabrizio De Andre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wml4es9RiR8


Parody mafia song from a Russian cartoon (the language is a sort of Russian parody of Italian):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utuDgDvInsk

The TV drama was wildly successful in the USSR, where it appeared on state TV in 1986 [2] and in Bulgaria, where is also appeared in the end of the 1980s (later on, the show even featured Bulgarian actor Stefan Danailov in its seventh season), offering the viewers of both countries thrills and dark drama from beyond the Iron Curtain. La Piovra was also shown in 1987–1988 in communist Albania, where it became a huge hit and remains to date a cult film, whose characters and expressions have permeated culture, language and society.