{"id":90131,"date":"2024-05-01T10:35:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T10:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=90131"},"modified":"2024-05-01T10:35:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T10:35:46","slug":"italians-are-the-most-sought-after-partners-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/italians-are-the-most-sought-after-partners-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Italians are the Most Sought-After Partners in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-90257 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/berrettini-hero-italian-men.jpg\" alt=\"berrettini-hero-italian-men\" width=\"1600\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/berrettini-hero-italian-men.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/berrettini-hero-italian-men-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/berrettini-hero-italian-men-1024x363.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/berrettini-hero-italian-men-768x272.jpg 768w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/berrettini-hero-italian-men-1536x544.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/berrettini-hero-italian-men-400x142.jpg 400w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/berrettini-hero-italian-men-155x55.jpg 155w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The characteristics of the ideal partner: endowed with a sense of humor and, <em>&#8230;preferably Italian.Babbel<\/em> conducted an international study that allows identifying the most sought-after characteristics in a partner.<\/p>\n<p>53% of respondents stated, for example, that they find it <strong>sexy to date someone whose mother tongue is different from their own,<\/strong> and the percentage rises to<strong> 61%<\/strong> for Italian respondents.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Italians themselves claim the top spot<\/strong> as the most coveted partners internationally, <strong>followed by Spain and France,<\/strong> respectively, in second and third place.<\/p>\n<h2>What Characteristics Does the Ideal Partner Have?<\/h2>\n<p>Internationally, <strong>71%<\/strong> of people consider the ability to<strong> speak one or more foreign languages<\/strong> as an attractive characteristic in a romantic partner, ranking it above a healthy and <strong>sporty lifestyle (67%), travel experiences (66%), culture (63%), and career ambition (61%).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the top positions, we find instead a <strong>sense of humor (80%), intellect and cultural taste (73%), and beauty, physique, and style (72%).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/10-mistakes-prevent-you-from-finding-love\/\">10 Mistakes That Prevent You From Finding Love<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Italian is the Sexiest Language in the World<\/h2>\n<p>Once again, according to research commissioned by Babbel &#8211; the language learning platform that offers lessons on apps and live &#8211;<strong> Italian is considered the most attractive language, with 89% of preferences for the combination of <em>&#8220;romantic&#8221;<\/em>, <em>&#8220;sexy&#8221;<\/em>, and <em>&#8220;passionate&#8221;.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, Italian thus knocks French off the podium, generally considered the <em>&#8220;language of love&#8221;<\/em>: although it maintains the primacy of the most romantic language (34% of preferences against Italian&#8217;s 33%), the language of the <em>Belpaese<\/em> wins precisely for the combination of the three categories, with French stopping at 79%.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Particularly interesting is the fact that <strong>even the French choose Italian as the most attractive language<\/strong> (85% of preferences among sexy, romantic, and passionate) to the detriment of their mother tongue (61% of preferences).<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>However, <strong>true lovers of Italian as the language of love turned out to be Spain and the United States (each with 96%),<\/strong> and especially the <strong>United Kingdom (the percentage reaches a staggering 98%).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on Grazia.it<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":42690,"featured_media":90257,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[6939,38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Italians are the Most Sought-After Partners in the World - Grazia USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Italian men rank as the world&#039;s most desired partners, a study finds. 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