University of Windsor Italian professor Giuliana Salvatore teaches two of the common Italian hand gestures she asked her students to try to interpret as part of her research on the importance of ...

Jabbing two forefingers together shows an Italian two people or things don’t get along, and screwing a forefinger into the cheek tells an Italian child that something is delicious. They’re common hand ...

We Italians like to say that a gesture is more valuable than a thousand words. Surprisingly, we don’t actually have a gesture that says that, but we do for almost everything else. When it comes to ...