Here are some questions on Prof. Clivio's interview prepared by other students. You may wish to compare them to the ones you prepared. After, see if you can answer these.

Questions on content
1. How was "italiese" born?
2. Who created "italiese"?
3. Why was "italiese" created?
4. Which are the forms of "italiese"?
5. What was the main vehicle for the rapid spread of Italian in Italy?
6. Why are dialects spoken more in Toronto than in Italy?
7. Why did the immigrants that came here 40 years ago use more dialect than Italian?
8. Why is Italian more spoken in Italy than the dialects?
9. What are the effects of this more frequent use of Italian in Italy on the dialects?
10.Which language do the second generation Italian Canadians speak?
11.Why do the children of immigrants say they are Italians even if they speak only English?
12.What is the solution for maintaining dialects alive in Italy?
13.What disappears when the dialect disappears?
14.Why would the disappearance of certain dialects in Italy result in the disappearance of culture?
15.What are the limits of dialect use?

Questions on terminology and wider issues
1. Why are some dialects more suitable for formal communication and others not?
2. How will Italian culture in Canada survive without the language?
3. What does "purism" mean?
4. What was the attitude of the Fascist government towards dialects?
5. What does "necessary borrowings" mean?
6. What does "luxury borrowings" mean?
7. What does Prof. Clivio mean by "rearguard action"?
8. What does Prof. Clivio mean by "political action of linguistic ecology"?
9. What does it mean that "dialects become levelled"?
10.Why is Friulian considered a language and Piedmontese is not?
11.What is the difference between "common italiese" and "local italiese"?
12.Why do Italian writers in Italy use dialects in their novels?