Top 10 Questions Beginner Students of Italian Have - Beginner Italian Course: Lesson 29

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This Beginner Italian language course is designed to give you the most solid foundation to become a confident speaker of Italian.
In this video let's answer the most frequently asked questions from beginner students of Italian.

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[italymadeeasy]

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[kellycrawford]

Thank you again for recommending Passive Listening.

I listen to Italian while I play games that don’t require reading. (Card games & matching games). I am understanding a fair amount of what I hear.

A few times a week, I watch things in Italian, no subtitles. I just try to figure out what’s going on using the visual clues. I do not try to translate it. I love cooking shows. So watching Italian cooking shows is great. I can understand what’s going on.

Thank you again. I have wanted to learn Italian since I was young. Using the thing I learn from Italy Made Easy, I feel like I can really do it. 🎉

[nged]

IMMERSION? YES! Talking about immersion I have to say that after some month of listening to italian radio (like 15 minutes a day, but not every day) I am very happy to sometimes understand what they are talking about, even better if you first read the news in your language, then listen to italian news on the radio. And I like the differences of the italian speakers - some speak really fast, some really slow so that I can get every word (although I do not know every words meaning). I now remind myself that it's one year ago that I travelled to italy for the first time. I drove by car from germany and was happy to listen to italian radio by entering italy. Never forget this moment in the Alpes. But then I did not understand anything - it was just "bla bla bli blo blu" to me. :-) So I am happy with the fact that week by week I go further to understand this beautiful language. It just takes time. But this is something that you must agree with. It's just like learning anything, like to surf - if you love it you have to do it and repeat. There is no other way to become really good at it.

[anniemccowan]

Another good resource for beginners, and with help for the present and imperative tense (and often body parts as well!), is meditation videos in Italian.
Thank you for all your helpful videos, Manu! With your help I hope to be able to say all the above in Italian someday!

[WriterJenOnYT]

Grazie per il corso d'italiano! Also, I love your St. Louis Cardinals hat. I live in St. Louis, it's my hometown, and I love my Cardinals!

[satya_kartik]

Thank you so much Manu, some of the questions are so relatable.

[JoeesJewelry]

Bellissima lezione! Grazie di cuore Manu 💕

[subashinianand]

Thank you for your wonderful sessions. Looking for an Italian to check my pronunciation and learn conversation.

[angiecressy]

Dear Manu. This mini series is fantastic. I am an English speaker and have lived in Palermo for a year. I do my immersion at the bars and in the streets almost daily. I can understand about half of what is being said. My question is this. Is it possible that in Sicilia the spoken language includes so many metaphors and slang expressions that i find it hard to understand the meaning. I can understand the words but they don't seem to make sense. A man was waiting a bus stop. His phone rings and I hear 'Dove sei?' He replies 'Sono un cavallo.' Also i have a neighbour who is 95 and only speaks Sicilian. I can't understand him at all. His language sounds very Arabic. I just wave at him and bring him something to eat. Angie.

[kelliyeowell]

Love your videos. They have been so helpful. Thank you. Funny thing in this video is when you said 'proNOUNciation' is usually the issue why Italians don't understand us. Well ... that word is actually pronounced 'proNUNciation.' haha :)

[Antcarhuman]

Have learnt a stack of new stuff in the last 30 days

[chrisfugardi]

Hi Manu! Thank you so much for helping me get started! Also, I hope you don’t catch your ankle on the corner of your coffee table 😬

[giovanna]

Manu, tu sei un insegnante molto buono e saggio 👍😀

[lauryn_g]

Ahhh i’ve been living in Italy for about 7 months now, but i’m originally from St. Louis. I absolutely loved seeing the St. Louis Cardinals hat in this video🙏

P.S. your videos have helped me so much. grazie mille 😅🙌🇮🇹

[secretariatgirl]

I'm a few lessons behind due to health issues but I'll be catching up! I take thorough notes!

[whychromosomesmusic]

In reference to opera. I love music of all kinds from Early Music to modern music and Puccini is one of my favorite composers. After taking these Italian courses I wonder if maybe because it has to be sung and not spoken that the stressed accented syllables in words are maybe incorrect sometimes? For example I have listened to it over and over again and I believe that she is not singing "Mi chiAmano Mimi." I think she is singing "Mi chiaMAno Mimi." So I have thought about opera for practicing immersion but wonder if that is such a good idea due to the pitfalls of possible mispronunciation.

I will just stay with the tried and true methods I already have -- the ones suggested by Manu or some ventures of my own -- finding more documents of my ancestors or reading articles in Italian online -- such as books or websites such as official websites for comuni especially the sections marked "Storia". Molto interessante.

[nathanl.]

Guardare la prossima video domani Manu. 🙏🏾

[anjanakannan]

I know three languages English, Malayalam and Hindi the last two from India i am only 12 years old so it's kinda hard like definite adverbs is more than all languages I know combined so it's kinda difficult but it's a perfect Italian learning session and i really like it .keep it for teaching us perfectly

[crod]

Look at Manu! Showing off his muscles! I see the form Muscle Manu! 😂💪🏾👍🏾

[vante]

i was a science student and i changed my major to literature and languages this year , I have finals after 3 months and you've been helping me a lot, even tho english isn't my first language, thank you sm for ur efforts, ur a great teacher, Grazie Manu !