Hello again! 😀
This is part 5 of my 5-part series on ways to speed up your learning curve.
The following excellent ideas are the result of a challenge I posed to my students:
“Come up with entertaining & enriching ways to bring more Italian language and culture into your everyday lives between classes.”
The Result:
“50 Ways to Accelerate Your Learning Curve”
Try a few and enjoy ~ for that is the true spirit in which to learn a new language!
And now, the final 10 items ~ Buon divertimento!
40. Use polite Italian phrases (i.e., grazie, prego, per favore) and greetings (Buon giorno, buona sera, ciao, etc).
41. Make and review flashcards ~ use those little spaces of ‘dead time’… when waiting for the kids, the bus, the doctor, the light to turn green!
42. Study Italian language text books.
43. Talk with relatives in Italy ~ don’t have any? Talk to someone else’s relatives!
44. Write your shopping lists in Italian.
45. Go to Italian festivals, i.e., Festa Italiana, A Taste of Italy, Italian film festivals.
46. Get and watch the “Visions of Italy” DVDs.
47. Listen to Italian music on satellite radio (Siriusly Sinatra).
48. Listen to and learn Italian nursery rhymes (search for them on YouTube.com).
49. Watch a wide variety of Italian TV channels on the web on “La rai in diretta sul web”—Fantastico & FREE!
50. Sharpen your ear: Lots more Italian TV and films to watch online at REWWWOLUTION.TV Also FREE!
