Every year, around 8 million people worldwide choose to study Italian. Not for work or bureaucratic reasons, as often happens with English or Spanish, but out of pure passion. This is a surprising fact. Italian is not among the most widely spoken languages on the planet, yet it remains one of the most desired. And that's precisely its secret.
The history of this fascination is not recent. Already in the 16th century, Italian was the language of music, of European courts, and of the arts: great composers wrote "allegro," "andante," "forte," and "piano" in Italian. Even today, in a theater in Vienna or Tokyo, a conductor will use those same words. In 1583, the Accademia della Crusca was founded in Florence.
