Archive for February, 2010
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Describing possession in Italian
Now that we understand noun gender and articles, the next thing to explore is possession, and the adjectives used to describe it. Fortunately, in Italian, possession is only described by way of possessive adjectives (similar to English). Unlike languages with noun declension (eg, German, Russian, Polish), I don’t have to worry about learning genetive cases and endings. Your mileage may vary.
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Learn Italian vocabulary from Andrea Bocelli!
A few days ago, we discovered a way to use music to learn a new language. Today, we’re going to try it out first-hand, by examining an Italian song by Andrea Bocelli.
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Use Google Reader to learn languages
I don’t like to do a lot of work when I’m learning a language — it requires too much time and effort, and it burns you out quickly. One thing that eats up a lot of time and feels like a lot of work is clicking around on a dozen web sites every day.
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Fun ways to remember numbers
It’s so common for people to learn counting to ten when they start learning a new language, but as I’ve already discussed, this type of learning by memorization is actually bad.