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jdv130 4 days ago


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acarraturo 6 months ago


anomalyinkThis class is just a pain in the butt.

Learning Italian has been on my agenda for a loooong time.

It’s sort of natural to be drawn to things that are part of your heritage, I guess. (And, uh, at the risk of sounding like a ridiculous literary nerd, I would reeeeally like to read The Divine Comedy in its original language).

One of the colleges nearby me started offering Italian as an online credit course.

Well.

I did a little research about language learning (wanted to study linguistics for awhile) and came to find out that classes are considered a pretty ineffective way to learn a language. (Doesn’t everybody know someone who took language classes all through high school and can’t remember a single thing about it?)

Considering that this class was going to cost me money (a substance that I am sadly not made of), I had to think about it. I took a year of Spanish in college already, but my boyfriend at the time was from El Salvador and those two classes were pretty much THE easiest school-related thing I’ve done in my life.

Long story short, I signed up for it. And since finding an Italian boyfriend is pretty much out of the question, I think I’m just out of luck.

Language-learning works best by immersion, they say.

I can testify to that, I think, because I tried to teach myself Italian through that method awhile back (listening to Italian radio, watching movies with Italian subtitles, listening to Italian audiobooks) and I picked up quite a bit of it. (LingQ is what I was using. If you have an interest in language, check it out.)

Okay, well…I learned more doing THAT than I have in the monotonous vocabulary exercises that this class demands. It’s a lot of work (read: a lot of BUSY work), without much reward.

But I’m going to keep at it. Because as always, it’s possible I’m just being pessimistic. =\ 7 months ago


anomalyink 7 months ago


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thenightbefore 9 months ago


hauntingmeforeverI want to learn Italian...

I want to be able to dream in Italian. 11 months ago


hauntingmeforever 11 months ago


fluffy_speaks 13 months ago


TheGoodest 14 months ago


lawsren 4 years ago


georgiecoll 15 months ago


barbadosinkathe start

I spent 4 month in Milano as my semester abroad and I’ve fallen in love with this language! I understand most of it now and can speak about every-day stuff.
I’m not going to take an Italian course, because I have no free time and extra money for it. So, my plan is to communicate with the native speakers (people I met in Milano and also there are several italians coming for exchange semester to my school) and watching Euronews in italian regularly. Some grammar exercises would be good too, I guess.
Hope it won’t stay only as New Year resolution! 16 months ago


barbadosinka 16 months ago


johnbeltrano 16 months ago


Beatriz Medeiros 17 months ago


Jenny Hann 19 months ago


Greta TamošiunaiteUntitled

Fluency in a foreign language is a life-long project so I’m afraid that when it comes to pressing the “I’m done” button here on the 43things site, it’ll take years.

However, I’m quite pleased with myself because I have climbed over a big obstacle, something i was afraid of for some time.
I have used Italian to do a tourist tour in my home city where I usually work as an English language guide.

This is so significant because usually when speaking in Italian, I’m always the passive one – the native speakers speak, I listen and when they turn to me I get to answer. This time I was the active part, I was giving a monologue or even a sort of a lecture.

There is still a lot to improve when it comes to my language skills, but the tourists left happy and they did understand me all throughout the 3-hour tour.

Yay! 21 months ago


dawdlingdickwad 22 months ago


katiesue33 23 months ago


tnfvvc 23 months ago


cmena1031Well

After a semester in Italian masterpieces I understand the language pretty well and I could probably defend myself in it but I’ve came to the conclusion that I no longer want to be fluent in Italian.. 2 years ago


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