The Italian language: soft power or dolce potere?

... newspaper Corriere della Sera , the point is not how many people consider this language their mother tongue, but its attractiveness and the number of people wishing to learn it. Surveys at Oxford University show that there, among undergraduates, the Italian language has become the most popular: undergraduates confessed that speaking, reading, and singing in Italian gives them great pleasure. Traditionally, the perception of the Italian language has been closely related to the beauty of the country,...