From recent DL blog: "Gen Z learners tend to study Japanese, while their parents and grandparents study Italian!"
https://blog.duolingo.com/dear-duolingo ... enerations
Ironic for Italiano being the language of a country with one of the coolest, most stylish cultures in the world! (Not that the Japanese language and culture shouldn't be treasured in their own right.) Oh well, who is this Boomer/X'er to talk, his being turned on to such a lovely, melodic tongue through lurid Italian horror flicks, strangely enough.