Wanting to Learning Italian?

Question

I'm going to Italy next year, I really want to learn Italian before I go, which would be the best way?

Answer 1

The BBC website is a reasonable starting point...take a look

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian/

Answer 2

The best way would be to take some lessons...I'm Italian and I realise that our language is kinda hard to learn, especially grammar...learning it by yourself would be really difficult!

Answer 3

The best way (but not the cheapest) is to have 1-to-1 lessons with a qualified Italian Language Tutor and to work REALLY HARD and once you become half-reasonable translate everything you hear (including songs) into Italian as you listen to it. Expose yourself to as much Italian as possible (i.e. go to Italian Restaurants, insist on ordering in Italain, buy Italian Newpapers, get hold of some Italian kids books and read them until you know them by heart. In short eat, breathe and sleep Italian - total immersion and in 6 months you'll be able to have real conversations with real Italians.  

Answer 4

hey!i'm italian!contact me at my msn [e-mail] or on my yahoo messenger [e-mail]...i'll hang on!=]

Answer 5

try italian.about.com. Lots of good stuff at that site for all levels of learners

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Answer 6

I have been told by an Italian teacher, that Assimil courses are the best - with the text book and 4 CDs! I haven't bought it yet though! If you can go to an evening class that would be really good, because sometimes you need things explained to you with various examples. So check out www.south-thames.ac.uk and click on 'leisure courses' and then 'Adult & Community' and then 'Courses in this section' and then to 'languages'. Then go to languages and find Italian! I'm enrolling onto the Italian one this year! I did the Arabic and it was FANTASTIC!