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Learning Italian in Italy
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Why? Easy to say!…. Have you ever tried to speak Italian or any other foreign language while walking in your country or while traveling on the underground, when you know the person you are talking
with, can properly manage your language? Do you remember the feeling?
You fell ridiculous, as trying to do something not natural at all.
Nobody is probably looking at you or understanding what you are saying, but you feel like everyone is doing it.
Even if at the end you’ll very proud of yourself, because you could make it, it has been stressful and it was a choice.
Well. Come to Italy! You probably know it….. but everyone here speaks Italian! It is just normal and anyone expects you to do that; even if some Italians will definitely try to speak your language or just English to make you feel more comfortable.
Even if all this seems obvious, in fact it is not. Being partly Italian means moving, laughing, walking, watching things as Italians do, or at least, means knowing how Italians do that. There is a whole
of it that only Italy can offer and this is the best way to get the grasp or to improve the knowledge of what “Italian” means.
Once you’ve got it, you can go on learning words, rules, functions and improving your skills in listening, understanding, reading and speaking, aiming first to be understood.
Being in a friendly and authentic environment is fundamental to promote a true learning process and that’s what Istituto Linguistico Mediterraneo has always done since 1981, when the school was firstopened and they started to deal with the subject of helping people in learning Italian Language and Culture. Several Italian Courses offered.
Pisa (open all the year) and Viareggio (open in summer) offer a good picture of Italian Culture and Habits in any season.
Living in a big city can be more adventurous, but the true Italian daily life is gone with the cosmopolitan lifestyle.
Italian have a motto: “Paese che vai, Usanza che trovi” (if you go in different country, you will find different habits). It might be a good idea to pursue this goal and get to know more about Italian Lifestyle,
besides monuments and cliché.
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