Question 2: It thus became expected that educated Europeans would learn at least some Italian; the English poet ________, for instance, wrote some of his early poetry in Italian.
Question 4: There are fewer cases of ________ than among speakers of languages such as English,[6] and the concept of a spelling bee is strange to Italians.
Question 5: In England, Italian became the second most common modern language to be learned, after French (though the classical languages, ________ and Greek, came first).
Question 10: info), or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people in ________, and by another 10 million Italian descendants in the world, making it spoken by a total of approximately 70 million native speakers.