What is a good website/program to learn Italian?
November 1, 2008 by admin · 1 Comment
I really want to learn how to speak Italian but dont know from where. What's a good website or program to learn Italian?
Hello,
That is great that you want to learn Italian.
Pimsleur Recorded books are great, sort of similar to Rosetta stone method. Pimsleur recorded books are recorded conversations.
Here are some good books that can be helpful,
Teach yourself Italian
Colloquial Italian
Berlitz Italian
Living Language Italian
Conversational Italian
Lonely planet Italian
www.byki.com, here is a free website where you can download the software to give you a starting point in learning Italian.
Would you consider Italian a difficult language to learn?
October 14, 2008 by admin · 8 Comments
I'm currently learning Spanish and Portuguese and would like to learn Italian as well. The thing about it though is that I probably won't be able to take classes to learn the language (I'm already a doulbe major doing International Business and Spanish and plan to pick up a minor in either Mandrin or Japanese). So for this reason I am thinking about just learning the language on my own. I'm doing this with Portugues right now and have been pretty successful. But I'm not sure if that's simply because I'm learning Spanish in school and Portuguese is very similar to it. Is Italian similar enough to Portuguese and Spanish where I'd be able to learn it on my own? Thanks in advance!
Absolutely not. I speak it and I am Romanian. It would be a breeze for you since you speak Spanish and Portuguese. Italian is a lot simpler than Portuguese because it has no nasal sounds – Port has 10 I believe.
Go for it! You'll love the language. It just rolls off your tongue.
I studied French, Italian, Spanish, German, Polish, Arabic, Russian, Romanian (mother tongue), and Chinese during the course of my life. I do not speak all of them, but I can certainly tell you what's easy and what's not.
How did you learn to speak Italian fluently??
October 6, 2008 by admin · 4 Comments
I want to learn Italian very badly. I have looked at several websites, and I do find good information, but it is all out of order, I have no idea where to start. I am jumping from phrases, to alphabet, to pronounciation. It is very confusing as I have not found a very organized website that will truly help me. I was wondering how did you learn to speak Italian? And are there any books that are good? Like for example: Italian for Dummies?
I took the beginners class in high school, and continued afterwards listening to SEVERAL books on tape (or mp3s) where you repeat every sentence and everyone looks at you looks at you like you're crazy, lol, j/k.
Also rented many many Italian movies w/ english subtitles and keep practicing! You really have to be consistent on your own with studying to keep all the rules and language fresh in your memory.
Music helped as well! Sing along with Bocelli, Lucio Battisti, Laura Pausini.
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