Italians Talk with Their Hands

Italians are very good at communicating with body language. They usually give more information with their bodies than with their mouths. Most conversations in Italy are not complete without hand gestures. Hand gestures are an important part of Italian culture. Italians use about 250 hand gestures in a day! Italians use hand gestures to highlight a word in a sentence. The Italians learned hand gestures from theatres and dramas a long time ago. They also started using hand gestures to communicate with foreigners in Italy who didn’t speak Italian. Visitors to Italy should learn hand gestures if they wish to communicate well with Italians.