Nancy C. Carnevale (Author of the book "A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945")

When you leave your homeland with almost nothing, for a land you don't know, where people you don't know speak a language you don't know, the shock is almost unbearable. That's what happened to millions of Italians during the mass emigration period. The studies about Italian American dialects and how our fellow Italians adapted their way to speak t...