Be fluent in Italian

I’m still slogging away at Italian, but this week I almost gave up. I never make the time to do my homework and then I spend most of the lesson telling stupid stories in the present tense (and often in the wrong person). Beh!

Ok, after doing my English exams now it´s time to improve my Italian, maybe use the few minutes I used to use for English (Oh, but want to improve my Spanish as well!). So, today was my first day, 10 minutes of Italian with my hot water bottle in bed! It was good because it´s just 10 minutes. And then I wrote in the book the date and how many minutes. Let´s see…

It’s really helped me maintain my fluency level! Yeah!

I have no excuse not to do this. With an Italian boyfriend (and Spanish, the same boyfriend, ah!) I really have a good opportunity to do this well and quickly. So now he speaks to me in Italian on Wednesdays and I answer in Spanish, and on Thursdays he speaks in Italian and I (try) to answer in Italian. It’s easier for me as I’m Portuguese and I speak Spanish fluently and some French but there are many things that are different.

I could be putting more effort into this but I have other priorities, but anyway I’m improving. This is a good way to couples to speak each others languages because if you know that that day you will do this you will do it naturally instead of waiting for the day when you and your partner are in the mood to learn a new language.

i want to be fluent in italian so i can have a proper conversation with my grandparents without my mum translating for me

not now.

i’lll have to come back to this one. no more trip to italy in my future.

I’ve moved on to learning some basic food names. It’s really the pronunciation of the words that frustrate me.. For example, il granoturco has 2 too many rolling r’s for my little Midwestern accent. However, I am not discouraged.. ;-)

and I think this one will have to be put on the back burner

I’ve officially started. I am just trying to learn some vocabulary words right now. I have little captioned pictures up all over my house and now know how to say things like ‘ladies room’, ‘milk’, and ‘keys’.