Another week, another blog post.
This year I gave myself goals to accomplish by the end of the year to really try to figure out my potential and better myself while doing it. These included volunteering more, learning Italian and how to play the piano being among the many things. The first goal I started was learning how to speak Italian. I have always wanted to speak another language and I even took French 1 my second semester of college but unfortunately I took it in the Spring and by the time the Summer was over I had not retained enough to even take a French 2 course. There was no one to blame but myself for the lack of knowing how to speak French. This time I wanted to start completely over with a whole new language and everything. I am not sure how I ended up with Italian being my choice but I think the love of mafia movies had a hand in it. I want to be completely self taught more or less because it was cheaper than taking a class or purchasing Rosetta Stone. I figure that the easiest way to learn is to mimic the way I initially learned English as a child and that is to start from the basics of pronunciation to starting with the simplest of words and building up. Once I have the basics down I will really dive into it through watching movies in Italian and working with more difficult Italian books or anything that would improve on top of the skills I will already have learned. My knowledge of the language is still very limited but by the time my course is over I hope to be much deeper in it so I will inform whomever may read this later on down the road of my progress because I would probably embarrass myself at this point.
Ciao.