Italiano

Buongiorno! Come va?

I'm crazy. You ain't gotta tell me. And I'm putting this out there from the jump, it is 2:46 in the morning..I'm tired..Going off of fumes..I'm not gonna be too particular about making this entry perfect. I just wanted to give you something before I forgot.

I did Hindi earlier, and I decided to work on some Italian because I had nothing else to do.

I must say, out of all the Romance languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Italian), Italian is probably my weakest. I'm not even going to count Romanian because I don't know any...yet. One of my teammates from my MMA gym speaks it fluently..But that's another story.

When I first started, I didn't know how far I had gotten. I'm more than halfway done with the first set of lessons (16/30). For these past few lessons, the main focus has been on handling situations regarding money. I guess that's a really important thing to know when visiting Italy...Actually, it's probably an important thing to know when visiting anywhere.

My trouble comes from two things in Italian..When to use 'ne', and when to use 'dei'..It's going to be the death of me..I'm making it a point to get up and go over my notes to keep it all together.

Italian rolls off the tongue. It's a fun language, and isn't that hard, with the exception of the things I just mentioned. I didn't use any dictionaries or anything like that, as most things are phonetically spelled. If I had a problem, I just ran it through GT to make sure. Usually I was spot on.

My favorite word from tonight's lesson was "abbastanza". It means "enough". It just sounds cool.

I can't wrap my head around why I'm weakest at Italian when I'm pretty far into it. I can remember French easier than this, and I'm not as far. It's weird. But that just means I need to beat it the hell into my head.

I'm passing out as I'm typing this..So..I'm calling it right here.

Sidenote..Tomorrow, I'm going to speak to my GF all day in foreign languages..No English. Here's hoping that A) I can pull it off, and B) she doesn't shoot me. <3

Ciao,

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