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| musigny Triglot Groupie United States Joined 6023 days ago 57 posts - 61 votes  Speaks: English*, FrenchB2, Japanese Studies: Italian | Message 1 of 3 18 May 2013 at 5:48pm | IP Logged |
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This is my first entry on hopefully a series of entries that will continue until I finish Assimil Italian with Ease.
Four years ago I started work at an Italian restaurant as the Wine Director. Frankly, my background is in French wine but I knew the Chef and knew a bit about Italian wine. Over the past four years I've had much exposure to the Italian language. Our restaurant has many Italian customers and we have four Italians on staff. Italy was a country I had never been to before but in a little over three years I've been fortunate enough to have travelled to Italy a number of times. Hard to believe! I finally decided I'm going to make a concerted effort to learn Italian. A couple of great things about Italians, even those who live abroad, are they seem pretty easy going and they seem to enjoy speaking their language, even with foreign learners who are at a basic level. I speak both Japanese and French fairly well but in my experience many people from those cultures living abroad don't like to engage in their language with non-native speakers. I can't tell you how many times I've been in conversations with someone Japanese where I'm speaking Japanese and their speaking English. I've encountered French abroad as well who are just not interested in speak French with a non-native speaker. This can make engaging a native in their language discouraging. I've never had an Italian reply back in English, never. That makes this such a great (and encouraging) language to learn. Luca Lampariello talks about building a language core and he recommends nothing more highly than Assimil. So I'm dusting off my Assimil Italian with Ease and getting started. I'm on lesson 8. I don't want to have too many goals just some reasonable guidelines: - finish in a reasonable amount of time, i.e. 3-5 months, 6 months at the most - take an Italian proficiency test after finishing the course, maybe A2 or even B1 if passing looks possible. I may engage a tutor (via skype) as well at some point to help me along and so there is a little accountability outside myself. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| nicozerpa Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 4328 days ago 182 posts - 315 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 2 of 3 19 May 2013 at 1:54am | IP Logged |
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Hi! Good luck with your Italian, it is an incredible language. I also started with Assimil and it definitely worked for me.
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| musigny Triglot Groupie United States Joined 6023 days ago 57 posts - 61 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2, Japanese Studies: Italian | Message 3 of 3 20 May 2013 at 5:59pm | IP Logged |
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Ciao Nicozerpa, thanks for the encouragement!
I started studying Italian on May 9. I really want to work on my pronunciation. Sometimes I get mouth fatigue repeating the dialogs. It's better to stop at that point and pick up later. Here's how I'm approaching Assimil. 1 Listen to dialog & exercises 2 Repeat dialog and exercises 3 Do fill in the blanks 4 Translate dialog and exercises to English 5 Transalte dialog and exercise to Italian I do this over 2-3 days generally. I repeat the steps 1-5 until the answers to 3 and 5 are 100% and I can repeat the dialog comfortably. After going through steps 1-4 I will begin the next dialog and then go back to step 5 later and see if I can translate it. Again I will keep going back through steps 1-5 until 3 & 5 are correct and I can recite the dialog comfortably. I'm always working on two dialogs at once. Right now I'm working on dialogs 9 & 10. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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