60: How to Learn Italian - Tips from a Polyglot Italian teacher
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🗓️ 13 January 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
An interview with Italian teacher and language expert Stefano - get tips on how to learn grammar, make consistent progress and stay motivated all year.
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Today's Italian words
Buon 2019 a tutti! = Happy 2019 everyone
Buon = good
A = to
Tutti = everyone
Oggi parliamo di cosa ci vuole per imparare bene l’italiano = Today, we're talking about what's needed to learn Italian well.
Oggi = today
Parliamo = we speak
Di = about
Cosa = what
Ci vuole = is needed
Per = in order to
Imparare = learn
Bene = well
l’italiano = Italian (literally "the Italian")
In questo nuovo anno appena iniziato = In this new year (that's) just begun.
In = in
Questo = this
Nuovo = new
Anno = Year
Appena = just
Iniziato = started
Innanzitutto, bisogna sapere ascoltare = First of all, it's necessary to know how to listen
Innanzitutto = first of all
Bisogna = it's needed/necessary
Sapere = know how to
Ascoltare = listen
Per poi ripetere e imitare = in order to then repeat and imitate.
Per = in order to
Poi = then
Ripetere = repeat
e = and
Imitare = imitate
Inoltre, ci vuole pazienza = Furthermore, you need patience
Inoltre = furthermore
Ci vuole = it's needed
Pazienza = patience
Meglio progredire piano e bene, che non rapidamente ma male = It's better to progress slowly and well, rather than quickly but badly.
Meglio = better
Progredire = progress
Piano = slowly
e = and
Bene = well
Che non = rather than
Rapidamente = quickly
Ma = but
Male = badly
Infine = in the end
Serve = it's needed
Una forte = a strong
Motivazione = motivation
La nostra passione è il motore che può portarci lontano = our passion is the engine that can take us far
La = the
Nostra = our
Passione = passion
è = is
Il motore = the engine
Che = that
Può = can
Portare = take
Ci = us
Lontano = far
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Bonanno, Happy New Year. |
| 0:03.8 | Are you feeling ready to learn Italian this year? |
| 0:06.3 | If so, this episode is for you. |
| 0:09.6 | We've got a special extended interview |
| 0:12.0 | with Italian teacher and language expert, Stefano, |
| 0:16.5 | who will give you tips on how to learn grammar, |
| 0:19.5 | make good progress and stay motivated, all in |
| 0:23.3 | Italian of course. You're listening to episode 60 of 5-minute Italian. |
| 0:36.1 | Buonano! Happy New Year and welcome to the first episode of Five Minutes Italian of 2019. |
| 0:45.3 | And because it's January, today we have a special guest on the podcast, Italian teacher, Stefano! |
| 0:52.3 | Ciao, Stefano. Ciao, Katie. |
| 0:56.0 | How are you? |
| 0:57.0 | All right, you? |
| 0:59.0 | Well, thanks. |
| 1:01.0 | And I wanted to invite Stefano on for the first episode of January, |
| 1:06.0 | because as well as being an Italian teacher, |
| 1:09.0 | he might be the most multilingual person I know. |
| 1:12.6 | He speaks loads of languages. |
| 1:14.6 | So can you tell us a little bit about which languages you speak, Stefano? |
| 1:19.6 | Of course, my mother tongue is Italian and I'm fluent in English, German, Portuguese, French, Finnish and Romanian. |
| 1:29.8 | And then I'm kind of intermediate in Japanese, Spanish and maybe Icelandic. |
| 1:36.1 | And I also know some Chinese, but not that much. |
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