How easy would it be to teach myself a language, i want to learn italian

Question

italian being my heritage i feel a little bad about not learning it, as a kid i knew quite a bit but years of not going and i've forgotten it all.

how easy would it be?

could anyone point me in the right direct of what books/cd's to get? and perhaps a good way in general to go about it?

thanks

Answer 1

i have one month to learn spanish and i am somehow good in english.iam doing these things you can do it

1 watching movies with Italino subtitles (you can download subtitles for free over the intenet)

2 sat channels we have rtl 102.5 that is music channel with a lot of italian music-videos descussion and more

3 internet or sat rado

4 take a vocabulary book memorise words everyday

5 about the grammer took some lishort and helpfull lessons on the internet

6 the roset stone is good learning tool you can find it on torrents (p2p)

all you need is vocab grammer and listenng but remember vocab is the most important and ofcourse listening helps alot in learning vocab

Answer 2

Another vote for Rosetta Stone. It's an online program-and it's fun!

Best of Luck!

Jana

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Answer 3

free internet websites that teach italian, tapes, books, movies, music, and visiting italian colonies in the us and eating at an authentic italian restaurant.

Answer 4

Rosetta Stone is very good. It's not easy if you want to learn. There are lots of books/cds you just have to decide the ones that best fit your schedule.

Answer 5

Doing it over the internet is a good way to start. It gives you all the necessary vocabulary, and can teach you quite a bit.

But there is a limit as to how far you can go without outsider help. When it comes to learning verb tenses you need somebody to instruct you, because they're complicated. Plus you have idioms in different languages e.g. if you wanted to say I am 18 years old in french, you would say J'ai 18 ans, which means I have 18 years. There are more complicated ones, but it's very difficult to learn them on your own.

Italian is the kind of language that's easy to learn.

Answer 6

The Rosetta Stone Cd's help a lot.  Also get a Italian\English dictionary.

The only thing that I can think of would be to go to Italy for a year and you will automatically learn Italian from being around it.  That's how I learned Spanish. I went to Mexico for 9 months and it just came without trying.  By the way, I am a quarter Italian:)