Sunday, July 8, 2007

alcuno progresso

I've been trying to study Italian at least a couple times a week, and I do feel that I'm making some progress. I think that from now on I'll start trying to post in Italian, because even though it requires a lot more time and a bunch of dictionary looking up I believe it will help me.
I installed the Rosetta Stone software, which is also being helpful, although I really don't think you can learn a language that way. It teaches you a bunch of vocabulary, sometimes really unnecessary vocabulary, instead of showing you more of grammar and sentence structuring, which is the most important in my opinion.
I've also been following one of the tutors' advice and using the RAI website to watch some video clips in Italian. They have some interesting TV shows, and even though it may be hard to understand everything they say, I understand what's going on.
I've watched the two first episodes of Le Ragazze di San Frediano which takes place at the end of the second World War and tells the story of this guy who becomes a hero by accident.