Actually, they’re already here. I went to two supermarkets this morning to get everything for dinner this evening and, in both, Italians were trying to communicate with the natives.
In the first one, a customer was trying to buy “brodo” (broth). She seemed, rightly so, rather skeptical when she was shown the bouillon cubes.
In the second one, the conversation at the cash register went like this:
Italian customer: Panettone?
Cashier: Nein.
Italian customer (in Italian): “No” you don’t understand or “no” you don’t have any?
Cashier (in German): I don’t understand you but no we don’t have any.
Italian customer: ?
Twenty years of voice lessons including Italian opera and a few trips to Italy allowed me to clarify: Non c’è la. [And benvenuta a Vienna. ;-)]
ecbinvienna 
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