Official U.S. Milan Consulate video...

[alfstone]

...to help US citizens in Italy to understand our way to communicate.

http://video.repubblica.it/divertimento/l-italiano-si-parla-con-le-mani-il-rap-del-consolato-usa/171132/169664?ref=HRESS-4

Alfredo

[Geir]

[Hook]

5 minutes & I'm fluent...is somebody gonna beat me up when I tell them I don't care??
Fumble on!

[Hilary]

Good grief!

I'm going to use the "are you scared" one - I thought that was hilarious!

Oh and I've been doing the "you must go" one wrong all these years 

[alfstone]

Good grief!

I'm going to use the "are you scared" one - I thought that was hilarious!

Oh and I've been doing the "you must go" one wrong all these years 

"You must go": right hand over the left open HAND, NOT ELBOW, Hilary... 

...or it's a quite different matter... 

Alfredo

[Hilary]

I'm going to do some of my own Alfredo - I'll post some selfies later

[Hilary]

Here we are Alfredo - to be fair you probably DON'T know these  

English sign language for

"I'm just not in the mood tonight!"



and

"That don't impress me much!"

[alfstone]

Mmmmhhh....

the second one is someway suggestive...

the first one...no, really I can't see the point... 

Thanks! 

Alfredo

[Hilary]

the first one...no, really I can't see the point... 

Probably for the best - sorry Mr Stone . . .

on the plus side, I've now got an extra joke for one of my songs 

[alfstone]

And anyway, there are many many more...

http://gazzenda.gazzetta.it/2010/09/30/italian_popular_gesture_favolo/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMp31nTSzLg

Alfredo