Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: Venetian is spoken mainly in the Italian regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia and in both Slovenia and Croatia ( Istria , Dalmatia and the Kvarner Gulf ) .
Simplified: In the present day , it is spoken in the Italian regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia , in Slovenia and in Croatia .