How many Italian/Americans can actually speak Italian?
Here is a quote of Alessandro Bianchi
Listening to the trials broadcast on television and the wiretaps, I have never heard even an Italian mobster, who was born and raised in Italy, speak Italian. They always speak in their local dialects. Imagine if the Italian-American mobsters can speak standard Italian correctly! They probably grew up knowing a few words of their dialect drenched in American English.