Improving one’s ability to have a dialogue in a foreign language requires two different skills – comprehension and articulation – to hear and to speak. In order for a conversation to go well, it is necessary to not only focus on what you want to say, but also to understand what the other person is saying. By making mistakes, we learn The first piece of… Read More »5 tips to improve your Italian conversational skills
Rarely does a student of Italian have writing as one of their goals. This is a skill often considered less important than speaking or reading. But this is not the case. The fact that most students want to “talk” is not surprising because it is one of the most important activities in everyday life and the one that allows us to relate to others. But… Read More »SOME TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR ITALIAN: WRITING
When we read we activate a series of unconscious processes. If we make these processes explicit, so that we are conscious of them, we can use them to help us navigate the process of reading. This will enable us to gain a better understand of the text we are looking at. So what happens in our minds when we read? And how can we immerse… Read More »Some tips to improve your Italian: Reading
If we ask a student of Italian what their goals and interests are regarding language study they will almost always answer “to converse”. If you are also one of them perhaps you might be interested in these thoughts and suggestions for improving your Italian. The fact that most students want to “converse” is not surprising because it is one of the most important activities in… Read More »SOME TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR ITALIAN: SPEAKING
Language is music, not math! More than often we tend to think that learning Italian or any other foreign language should follow a mathematical model in which, having learned all the rules of grammar, the result is the ability to understand and communicate in the language studied. Nothing could be more wrong! Let us think for a moment: how did we learn our mother tongue?… Read More »SOME TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR ITALIAN: LISTENING
