Is Italian Difficult to Learn? | Easy Italian 102

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Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating partner countries abroad. Episodes are produced in local languages and contain subtitles in both the original language as well as in English.

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Host: Katie Harris
Camera: Matteo Alabiso

#learnitalian #easyitalian #easylanguages

[ExtremeLYF]

It all depends on your mother tongue. I'm a native English speaker and so learning verb conjugations is absolutely alien to us. That, masculine/feminine words, and improving listening ability, are the hardest parts of Italian for me personally.

[himsanctified]

Knowing Spanish, I can see it's a gateway to Italian. Spanish being much easier for English speakers initially in approaching romance languages. I can understand a lot of the Italian por mi español.

[ibrahimraya]

Sono uno studente alla statale di Milano. Sto imparando l'italiano da circa due anni, da quando sono arrivato a Milano. Ora faccio un tirocinio in Germania, e guardo i tuoi video per imparare più come sempre, ma anche per vedere come va alla bellissima Milano che mi manca tantissimo. Grazie e un grande saluto!

[alilhakiki]

Sono talmente d'accordo con il ragazzo delle 1:30 difficile ma bellissima ! Io sono Marocchino che non sono mai stato in italia e ho imparato la vostra lingua su internet perché ci tengo tantissimo !

[TechnoForever]

So Italians have the same problem that some of us French speaker (not me but a good portion of us) with conditonal tense. Interesting how saying "se io avrei" instead of "se io avessi" is the same as "si j'aurais" instead of "si j'avais" in French. Fascinating really, pretty cool to see we have the same problems in the same group of languages.

[comradeabby]

I'm having fun learning the Italian language but I would describe it as two steps forward one step back. You think you have something down and then wham, theres some kind of "but" or "if" that makes you go back to square 1. Or if you're listening to a native italian and cant really understand what they are saying it can be very discouraging. There are a crazy amount of different rules for every part of the langauge which can also be difficult to learn. But I suppose over time if you're careful and patient everything will start falling into place. I also must add that when you finally do understand something or learn something new the pride that you feel in yourself is well worth it.

[phantomvox]

Depends of your native language in my opinion. My native language is spanish and Italian is easy to understand and learn but conjugating verbs is not easy.

[abdul-qffe]

I've never thought for a second that Italian language is sometimes hard for native Italian speakers;thus, listening to their melodious conversations made me blindly think that Italians would never have difficulty speaking their mother language, I'm just overwhelmed 🤓

[herartemisia]

I’m Turkish and feminine/masculine words are totally difficult for me since we don’t have them but I also speak German and I know how it works. It’s still terrifying, I don’t want to give up because Italian is just so beautiful :(

[diegoalves]

As a portuguese (Brazil), english and french speaker, I can see so many similarities in Italian language. Just started learning it this year, so I come across words like "ancora", which is translated to "ancore" in french; rimanere, which looks like "remain" in English; and "ciao", a word with the same pronounciation that we use to say goodbye in portuguese. Such a terrific words web!

[demiroz]

You guys make me to start learning Italian in my 40s :))))

[pzg]

L’italiano non è così difficile per qualcuno che parla già una lingua romanza, ma anche per una persona greca come sono io. Studio l’italiano da 4 anni all’università e ci sono tantissime parole in italiano che noi greci usiamo nella vita quotidiana o vice versa. Grazie all’italiano, posso anche capire meglio lo spagnolo e il portoghese. Ho studiato anche il ceco e mi sembra molto più semplice dell’italiano però, perché il ceco ha solamente 3 tempi- passato, presente, futuro (come tutte le lingue slave). Il tedesco (so che non appartiene nel gruppo delle lingue romanze, ma quelle germaniche) e il francese sono sicuramente più difficili da imparare, ma l’italiano è ovviamente la lingua più bella.

[dehuevos]

By the way, in spanish you can read the words literally as they are written. That's why both languages are so similar.

[baharspring]

I love the way they speak, very smooth, like music 🎶😌

[linkon]

It's not about the difficulty, It is one of the most beautiful languages to speak.
There are languages that are easy to learn but don't sound as good as Italian.

[thebigphilbowski]

As a native speaker of English the part I find the hardest about learning Italian are the instances where the word order isn't the same. It's really phonetic, unlike my native language which gives me an even greater level of respect for people learning English.

[philipohmes]

Everyone of the 4 languages I have learned has its own unique ways. Knowing an allied language can help in parts as well as leading to some confusions. Do not rush your learning a language in parts. By that I mean: Hearing understanding, pronunciation, reading and vocabulary building, thinking in that language and writing correctly. Some people are better in one type or set of language skills than another. My favorite of all times is the student that leans all of the conjugated endings to words and grammar rules. Yet put that person in a daily conversational situation and they are lost in how to effectively communicate with another person...except maybe, perfectly writing out the words of a sentence. I like learning from listening to a language being spoken or sung (such as opera or folk songs or other ways that words rhyme together.) Very last for me are the Grammar Rules, because with the spoken language we have so many dialects to choose from as well as casual speech usage... the vernacular.
The ultimate test is...can you got to a city: use the Public Transportation Systems with ease, order food from a menu, find your way around a town and have a place to sleep at night and know where to get money when needed.

[BigSmallTravel]

Italian is difficult for us as English speakers from the USA, however we continue to learn day to day.

[boomerbutler]

I feel grateful for this episdoe because I'm half itlaian and my family has never taught me Italian. I'm not sure if there was a reason my family left, but they changed our last name from Alessi to something English sounding to "get more job." Additionally, my father (Sicilian) doesn't speak any Italian to me and i feel like a part of me is missing. I want to learn so badly, but since I live in the United States, not many people speak italian where I could practice.

[joselassalle]

Fácil o difícil es un asunto de opinión personal. Lo que es difícil para alguien no lo es para otro. El italiano es una lengua de estructura y fonética simple. A mi, como hispanohablante, resultó muy fácil aprender italiano; a los cuatro meses de estudio ya podía conversar con fluidez.' De hecho, antes de estudiarlo, podía entender bastante del italiano escrito.