Films and series set in Calabria. And what the Italian sounds like.

Set among Roman teenagers and their families, the speech is standard Italian carried on a light Roman accent with only occasional local colouring in the casual exchanges; nothing is spoken as dialect.

Normal conversational pace with some overlap in the school-corridor and family-argument scenes, but no sustained cross-talk as a style.

Checco's Italian is heavily Bari-marked in intonation and carries scattered Apulian lexical and phrasal habits, but the grammar stays standard and the northern/Norwegian-set and institutional characters speak plain Italian, so a learner follows the sense while losing some of the regional colour.

Normal conversational speed with bursts of overlap in family and office arguments; the comic timing actually favours clearly delivered punchlines.

The Roman family and the neighbourhood children speak standard Italian with a Roman accent and a light dusting of local colouring; the Calabrian summer episode adds southern inflection but not dialect.

Normal conversational speed, with some overlap in the family scenes and quick back-and-forth between the two boys, but nothing relentless.

Cetto La Qualunque speaks a thickly Calabrian-marked Italian — Calabrian phonology, local lexicon and cadence layered over Italian syntax — while officials, journalists and his wife's circle stay standard, so a learner with standard Italian loses a large share of the protagonist's lines.

The comic engine is Cetto steamrolling other speakers, with frequent interruption and cross-talk in the campaign and household scenes.

The 'ndrangheta families in Calabria speak in a strongly Calabrian register among themselves — enough that Italian viewers were given subtitles for those scenes — while the prosecutor, police and protection officials speak standard Italian.

Normal conversational pace with some overlap in the family confrontations, but interrogation and courtroom scenes are deliberately measured.