 Advice on learning Italian while staying or living in Italy
When you see a young Italian lady or man hanging out the window talk to them! I did and it was fantastico! LOL!
If you're in Italy to learn Italian whether on a trip or living there here is some advice. If you're going to
school in Italy it's nice to meet other people at the school but you need to get out and meet the native Italian
speakers. You do this by going to where they go. So go to an Italian gym, Italian sports club, church, AAA or
drug abuse meetings, bicycle clubs, martial arts schools, soccer or basketball pick up games or anyother place where Italian
speakers go. Do your shopping in Italian etc. etc. Don't hang around all the time if at all with English
speakers or the people who speak your language. Go to an Italian library and see if they have any kind of program
where you teach somebody English and they teach you Italian. Also make sure you have a small hand held type radio
so you can listen to the radio in Italian and you should also have a little hand held recorder to record your classes
and people on the street. Sit in the front of your classes. I always sat in front of my classes at the University in Perugia,
recorded my classes and would record people in stores, on the street, ristorante and anywhere else. Ask somebody
bilingual how you say this and that in Italian and record it. Talk to Italian women, men children. Anybody who will talk to
you talk to them. Don't be shy. If you get rejected don't let it bother you. There is always somebody who will talk to you.
Per esempio I saw this young Italian lady hanging out the window and just started talking to her. We became the best of friends
and she took me everywhere. We only spoke in Italian even though she spoke fairly good English and fluent Spanish and French.
If you're married and with your wife or girlfriend make friends with an Italian couple.
Make sure the room or apartment where you stay has a television so you can watch Italian and don't forget to have a small radio and
i-pod so you can be constantamente listening to the Italian language.
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Last edited by Villa; 07-30-2009 at 03:39 PM.
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