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Celebrating because Italy didn't qualify for the World Cup!!!
Yeah, well done Bosnia!!!
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I need to stop commenting on perverts' sections.
Now my visitors' page is full of weird profiles lol

See what happens when you've been naughty, Roger? See???

Generazione Expat: sono 630.000 i giovani partiti dall'Italia tra 2011 e 2024 - - > io uno di quelli: 25 anni nel 2013...

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I left Italy in 2013 to move to the UK. Why? For love. The same love that ended last year (December 2025) in divorce.

Anyway... I want to document my life as an emigrant and how I'm becoming less Italian everyday.

Disclaimer: even though I'm also Liechtensteiner and Danish, I'm talking about Italy only because that's the Country where I was born and grew up. I don't speak Danish and I rarely visited Liechtenstein or Denmark. When I speak English I have an Italian accent (unfortunately, since I hate it. I don't understand why Brits seem to love it/find it funny... I really hate it! But I love the British accent when they speak Italian ❤).

1. I rarely follow Italian news and culture. I have to look at the definitions of neologisms because I sincerely don't know what they mean. When I went back to Italy in 2023, a man was surprised because I didn't know who an Italian TV personality was (of which I've already forgotten the name). I told him that I had moved to the UK ten years earlier and I don't watch Italian TV anymore. I could watch it online if I wanted to... but I don't. I rarely watch British TV, let alone the others. I prefer YouTube videos or sport.

2. I haven't seen some of my family members in years. My beloved grandad died and I couldn't even attend his funerals. My parents took me to see his grave in 2023 and I cried.

3. English language. I started studying English at school when I was 8 (1996), when the Italian government made English a compulsory subject in every school. I was one of the best learners in my class, because I've always loved languages. However my skills were still basic, since I only used it during English classes or on EP.
I've improved my English skills (listening, speaking, understanding) by living here in the UK, no doubt about that. I can finally understand Eminem's lyrics... and that says a lot!
Since my ex-husband isn't Italian and I don't live in London, I'm not surrounded by Italians... so it was easy for me to improve my English.
I've got a BSc (Hons) Cyber Security degree from a British University and I could understand all the lectures without problems.
When I have to say something in English or I listen to someone talking to me, I automatically know what I/they am/are saying: I don't need to translate it in my head anymore. Same goes for reading and writing. By now it comes to me naturally... I still make mistakes ofc and I'm still learning new sentences (especially slang) everyday, but I can confidently say that I'm C2/Native.

4. Italian language. Oh, boy...where should I start? I'm trying to not forget it, but... ouch!
I'm currently writing a novel in Italian, but sometimes I have to double check verbs conjugations and sentences!
I write my songs and my memories in English... and this doesn't really help my case.
Since my ex-husband isn't Italian and I don't live in London, I'm not surrounded by Italians. Some British people may try to speak Italian with me, but they only know few words. And I panic when I have to speak Italian with non-native people, because I subconsciously tend to mimic their accent.
Italy, 2015.
I visited with my (then) husband. When we stopped to buy some dinner, the shop owner told me: "Your Italian is good!". I thanked him, before telling him
that I'm actually Italian.
Italy, 2023.
Many people mistook me for a British person because of my accent when I spoke Italian. When I asked the girl at the airport if she could change my euros
to pounds, she said: "I knew you were going to say British pounds!". I asked her why and she said: "Because of your accent". So, yes... apparently now I
speak Italian with a British accent/inflection.
England, 2025.
My sister has already corrected several times my pronounciation of Italian words like Paracetamolo or antibiotico, because I tend to
say them using the British syllabication and accent.
Switzerland, 2026.
People would speak German or English to me, but as soon as they saw my Italian passport (the only one I got), they swapped to Italian... and again, I
struggled because I preferred German or English.