If you want to learn Italian this year, it helps to have a plan because without one, your learning

can feel a bit scattered. It's all a bit here and a bit there and without a clear goal for the day.

And it's often painfully slow because you end up wasting a lot of time on things that don't

actually help you communicate. When you focus on the right things, you learn much faster,

and if you start now, you'll be able to say a lot more next time you're in Italy.

In this episode, I'll be sharing a three-month plan with the activities that I often did to speed things up a bit,

and I found that it always worked really well, so I hope you'll also find it useful to start

speaking Italian this year.

Hi everyone and welcome to learn Italian with Ciao to all and benvenuti.

Hi everyone and welcome to Learn Italian with Joy of Languages.

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Now let's talk about the plan to help you learn Italian this year.

So the most important thing is la routine, la routine, and you might have

guessed that means routine in Italian. La routine. La routine. To make good progress, I think

you need to spend a decent amount of time on it.

So I see a lot of language companies trying to sugarcoat this and say things like five minutes a day.

And that's definitely better than nothing.

You can learn a little bit and of course dabbling is absolutely fine if you just want to pick up a few phrases.

But if you're serious about actually learning to speak

Italian, you will need to put in the time. Ideally, you want to dedicate some time each day,

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