Go to https://buyraycon.com/xiaomanyc to get 15% off your Raycon purchase this holiday season! Brought to you by Raycon. In 2009, while I was in college, I decided to spend a year in an overseas language program in Beijing to learn Chinese. Not only did I get to try squat toilets for the first time in a Chinese university’s international students dormitory, I was also randomly assigned as a roommate this handsome Italian man named Ciro, and I learned a lot from his debonair Italian ways. He a rough around the edges punk rocker from the gritty streets of Naples, I an introverted bookworm from the leafy suburbs of New York, as a match it actually worked surprisingly well.

Since leaving China 15 years ago I’ve missed him quite a lot, but since I am a professional language learner who travels the world these days Ciro offered to teach me the Neapolitan language of Naples which contrary to popular understanding is not a dialect of Italian but a language which differs from Italian as much as Spanish does.

Stay tuned to find out what happened when we reunited in Naples. I don’t speak any Italian so it was quite funny for Neapolitans to encounter an American tourist who only spoke English and Neapolitan.

If you want to get in touch with Ciro to learn Italian, Chinese, or Neapolitan or have a job offer for him (he's looking for work currently) you can get in touch with him on LinkedIn here:   / ciro-d-esposito-1aa87b140  

0:00 Introduction
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2:04 Meeting my Neapolitan friend
2:41 Ordering pizza
4:20 Looking for a midnight snack
5:33 Boozy Neapolitan coffee
8:45 Don't “cheers” with coffee!
10:48 Speaking Welsh and Neapolitan
11:43 Trying wallet pizza
13:17 Going to Piazza del Gesù Nuovo
14:37 Buying “naughty pasta”
15:46 Shopping for souvenirs
17:04 Vendor speaks Neapolitan and Chinese?!
18:31 A romantic dinner

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