Learn Italian:
Learning any foreign language requires effort and time, but nowadays there are strategies that can greatly help. Actually, all learning includes an amount of input, the more input you get, the easier and faster you will learn.
- Take a very elementary Italian course online, New lessons and exercises are added periodically.
- Visit the Italian songs section, with texts, translations and YouTube clips. Songs are great fun, and music can be a formidable tool for learning a foreign language: the lyrics offer huge wealth of words and expressions. Hearing and/or singing along songs will improve your language skills effortlessly, and with fun. Repetition is one of the pillars of memory, and pleasurable activities help to avoid boredom. The results can be truly amazing!
- See Italian films in the original version
Watching movies in their original version is a nice and effective way to learn Italian, and beginners could start with subtitles in their own language, then as a second step see the movie again with subtitles in Italian. When getting an Italian movie on DVD, pay attention to the Pal/Non-US Format, since the DVD might not play on your equipment.
- See movies you know well in the Italian version.
There are surely movies you like and have seen many times, you could see them again on DVD choosing Italian language and English subtitles. To find these movies online, you might search for the Italian title, to be sure you get a DVD with an Italian version - English subtitles are usually available on most DVDs. Or if you are buying from a store, find on the back of the cover the information on the languages available.
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Useful Tips to Exploit dead times
- Audio lessons can be transferred to an MP3 player, iPod, or other device
- Listen to recordings while driving, travelling, cooking, tidying up the house, doing physical exercise. Without making any changes to your habits, with just 5 hours a week we'll have 260 hours each year of "passive learning" (that does not require any planned, intentional study).
Suggested Links of Free Resources
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