I’ll tell ya what keeps me from trying to learn italian...
Italians have told me its a waste of time because every town in italy uses a different version of italian and that its even hard for italians to understand each other. They say there is no standard italian or at least none that anyone tries to adhere to.
true, that’s what my Italian friends say — and Milanese can’t understand Sicilians. I learnt the Rome dialect (mostly because I love to travel to Rome) and it’s simple enough to begin with...