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Language Learning and Me: Italian
A student of the language shares what’s worked for her
A while back, I interviewed a few people about their experiences learning different languages. My hope is that by discovering what others are doing, we can be inspired to try different things that work for us.
In our continuing series on different language learning experiences, Ashleigh shares her story with us.
Why Italian?
I didn’t so much choose Italian, as it chose me. My husband is Italian and before we were even considering getting married we decided to come to Italy for a year or two. I decided to learn the language and from the first week I attended lessons and began speaking daily with my mother-in-law in Italian (after she declared her distaste for the English language and her refusal to use it with me). And lucky I did, because that year or two became 4 or 5!
Had you learned any other languages before? What were they, and dhow did they help you with Italian?
I had already spent a good 10 years studying Japanese with several stints in that country too. The wonderful thing about having shed sweat and tears over learning to read, write and understand Japanese was that once I began learning…
