🇮🇹 Going to Italy in the near future.

[possiblydrew@pnw.zone]

🇮🇹 Going to Italy in the near future. Exciting!

Does anyone have recommendations for learning to read/ speak Italian? Hopefully not AI-cooked like Duolingo

#AskFedi

[sonjas@mastodon.art]

@Possiblydrew Buy your favorite (children's) book, that one you've read a thousand times, in Italian

[arratoon@beige.party]

@Possiblydrew @CiaraNi I really like using the Pimsleur app. I’ve been using it to improve my French. 25 minutes a day. I do it during my runs, mumbling in French as I go.

[rraggl@mastodon.nl]

@Possiblydrew babble.com seems to be recommended often as a good alternative

[rraggl@mastodon.nl]

@Possiblydrew Damn autocorrect

https://www.babbel.com/

[zabow@mastodon.bida.im]

@Possiblydrew You could try tandem.net, the free version on the pc works well but not on the smartphone though.

[peterkotrcka@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@Possiblydrew I'm using a combination of books, immersion and yes, also a little bit of Duolingo on my way to work.

[pseudonymsupreme@pnw.zone]

@Possiblydrew I’m a big fan of Pimsleur. It’s not free, but I learn more than I do with adds that gamify things and only drill vocab.

[possiblydrew@pnw.zone]

@SonjaS this is such a good idea!

[scandigonian@pnw.zone]

@Possiblydrew
https://mangolanguages.com/

[dado@social.novemila.org]

@Possiblydrew @bovaz You can try to write in Italian to Italian users, like me :)

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@dado @Possiblydrew @bovaz and watch Italian movies! Or even Italian dubs of English movies, although the dubs aren't always word-for-word faithful to the original 8-D

[labrezza@mastodon.bida.im]

@Possiblydrew I recommend booking a few lessons with an online tutor through a service like Preply. Do-it-yourself rarely works with languages in my opinion.

[cgbencini@mastodon.uno]

@Possiblydrew welcome in Italy.
Visit Firenze, it worth it (but also Venezia, Rome etc. )
To learn italian here is a small guide for You: it's easy to learn 🤪
https://youtube.com/shorts/xyyMgSbr11U?si=BbCjiAGoEBFYokVV

[mdione@en.osm.town]

@oblomov to me understanding a new language being spoken is the hardest part. Luckily Italian has very few vowels, but OTOH they tend to speak really fast.

@dado @Possiblydrew @bovaz

[mdione@en.osm.town]

@mdione but as someone said above, watching movies or series for which you know the script by heart (in my case it was The Simpsons) helps a lot, including picking up translations for expressions.

@oblomov @dado @Possiblydrew @bovaz