When does it stop feeling like a foreign language? When does it stop being a foreign language? It happens when you have a system, when you start to move freely within the system, when you stop looking at the language…
One of the reasons grammar gets easier once you stop pursuing it is because, for most people, grammar is the ultimate determiner of “readiness” to speak Italian. If you approach grammar in this way, you’re likely to turn every interaction…
When learning Italian, there comes a time when the nature of the effort involved changes. In the beginning, you have to construct each sentence, verify it, then consciously go ahead and say it. You don’t really ‘own’ the words yet.…
Italian seems so straightforward. It’s full of cognates, its grammar appears to be simpler than many other languages, and the pronunciation is musical and intuitive. Yet, somehow, speaking just doesn’t come easily. The problem here is not that Italian is…
