Italian speaking practice and grammar tutoring
Well, pizza, probably. Beautiful monuments, clear blue sea, heaps of pasta, maybe. But there is something else that is deeply rooted in Italian culture, just like pizza and pasta: it’s coffee, il caffè! [Read more…]
But I have the feeling that, if you go once, you can’t help but go there again. And again. At least, that’s the feeling I have after being there for the first time this year.
The book is In altre parole by the Pulizer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, basically a declaration of love for the Italian language.
I was walking the dog at lunch break yesterday when I heard the phrase above. I turned my head and saw a lady getting out of her car and opening the front gate of her house.
That post was mainly focused on building vocabulary and learning new words. But mastering a language involves many other abilities.
It takes time, devotion, and a lot of effort. If somebody tells you that learning a foreign language is easy, he or she is either a genius or someone who thinks that you just need to know how to tell the time in a certain language to say that you are fluent in such language.
I am not fit enough, I tend to get tired very easily, and I don’t have much time to exercise. But I love hiking. I love it really badly.
Have you taken a beginner’s course and now it’s time for you to practice a bit? Have you tried muttering some words but immediately stopped, frozen by your shyness?
And I also have to confess that I put off writing this blog post for days now. I don’t know exactly why, but I kept on beginning the post and then deleting it as it never felt perfect.
