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🗓️ 7 May 2024
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You’re learning Italian, but it’s going slower than you’d hoped? These unconventional tips will help you speed things up!
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Today's Italian words:
Impossibile = Impossible
Importante = Important
Normale = Normal
Errore = Mistake
Il vocabolario = (the) vocabulary
La grammatica = (the) grammar
La pronuncia = (the) pronunciation
Anno = Year (remember to make the “n” long!)
Sono di New York = I’m from New York
E tu? Di dove sei? = And you? Where are you from? (informal)
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0:00.0 | If you're looking for tips on how to learn Italian faster, you are in the right place. |
0:05.2 | Just putting my realistic teacher hat on for a moment, we can't promise you'll learn it in five minutes or 30 days, |
0:12.1 | because learning Italian does take time and effort. |
0:15.8 | But you can almost certainly learn it faster than you are now. |
0:18.9 | In fact, traditional language learning methods are |
0:21.1 | probably slowing you down precisely because they're based on tradition and not science. So in this |
0:27.9 | lesson, you'll find practical tips to help you learn Italian faster, backed by science and approved by |
0:35.0 | our students. |
0:55.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to Learn Italian with Joy of Languages. Before we get started, we wanted to let you know that enrollment for our online Italian school is open, but it's closing soon. |
1:03.0 | If you're interested, you can find out more by clicking the link in the description. |
1:08.0 | But for now, we're talking about how to learn Italian faster, so let's get |
1:12.4 | on to our first tip fast. Numero one. Use the similarity between English and Italian to your advantage. |
1:21.0 | If speaking Italian feels impossibila, it's important to know that a lot of words are very simile in Italian and English. |
1:32.0 | We'll keep using them in this lesson to show you what we mean. |
1:36.8 | These simile words will help you understand, remember vocabulario and speak Italian. It's one of the reasons our student |
1:47.2 | Neil likes learning Italian so much. He enjoys noticing links. For example, pericoloso, |
1:55.2 | pericoloso means dangerous, which sounds a little bit like peril. |
2:02.3 | Next, stop obsessing over la grammatica. |
2:06.2 | With additional methods, you spend a lot of time |
2:08.7 | road learning verb tables. |
2:10.8 | You might have spent hours doing it yourself. |
2:14.3 | I am. |
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