Learning a language

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Anyone been here / done that ?

I've been wanting to start up Italian again for some time and have finally got round to it. The first time wasn't a great experience, we had a poor teacher and only once a week etc but things have really moved on and I am using Duolingo on my pad. Even after a week I know more now than I did after a 10 week course several years ago. Anyway my question is (to anyone who speaks Italian) is, is there an easy way to remember / deal with Conjugation?

Take the verb bere - drink, for example, there are (as expected) hundreds of variations of it beve, bovono, beviamo, bevete etc that belong after you, we, they, he, she etc.

Am I being daft even asking and is it just something that comes with real world practice ?

 

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It is the same as most other European languages in that regard.

I started with French, then German, then dabbled for a very short time in Italian and Spanish too.

Never progressed Italian or Spanish though, and i've sadly let French and German slip.

Look up Duolingo in istore or play store. Its free and will refresh it all I'm sure.

Practice for hours every day. Think of the mastery you have developed in English with the amount you speak it every day. Speak your new language as much as this and you will quickly become fluent.

This is the plan, the wife's doing it as well and we have agreed that after a couple of weeks of "basics" we will have an hour each day where we only speak to each other in Italian. Now, we might introduce grammatical errors into the conversation but it should help get us going.

 

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You don't need to learn another language. You just speak English, very slowly, and really pronounce your words. Maybe up the volume.

HE-LL-O.

I

WOULD

LIKE

SOME

CHIPS.



YES


CHIPS



DO

YOU

SPEAK

ENGLISH?




ENGLISH?

This is how my old man does it

 

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I remember hating languages at school, it wasnt a strong point of mine, since i have "grown up" i have always wanted to learn

This was me, I hated French lessons because it was never really explained what was going on, it ended up just being meaningless to me. Duolingo for me is working because its learning by playing and I can take it at my own pace re-doing elements that I struggle with.

 

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This was actually what I meant, and I am so pleased to have found it. Its been a bit of a min revelation for my learning and whilst I understand that its not an all encompassing rule it has sort of broken the back of one of my main stumbling blocks.

http://italian.about.com/library/fare/blverbs01.htm