Does anyone want to learn Italian?

[spacedonkey]

I've decided to set aside one hour a day to learn Italian. I've got the Michel Thomas course and the Hugo Learn Italian book. Does anyone want to join me and practice on here?

I ahve always wanted to!What does it involve?

Well I've got this book : hugo Italian in Three Months (published by DK). I thought I'd work through the book and use the Michel Thomas as a supplement to it (had the idea of bunging the Michel Thomas CDs on at night time). If you got hold of same book we could work through it together or I could post exercises on here or something like that?

Perhaps ks or other Italian speakers could advise?

ok I'll look for the book this week and I'll be in touch asap

great noddy

i have an extremely rusty Italian GCSE, so would love to have some beginner level practice!

Ooh, I did Italian about ten years ago. I speak a bit of spanish too and tend to mix the two up. Will dig out the old books and join in with you all.

bump
Ciao tutti studenti!!

Ciao gingerbells! (not bad eh? )

Ciao! Is that it!?
(Oh go on then it is gone 1am......)
We could start with
buon giorno come sta? (good morning, how are you?)
or vorrei una birra. Salute! (I'd like a beer. Cheers!)

See, the useful stuff you always remember.
How to order a beer in 10 European languages - there is a challenge!

\link{http://www.esperanto-usa.org/beer.html\tee hee hicc!}

sono bene grazie, come stai?

(have no idea if that's right, is it sort of right-ish?)

Brava Spacedonkey!

looks right to me.

oh oh, DD is crying, can we continue the lesson tomorrow?

night night

buona notte!

Ciao tutti

sono solo

I'd love to sd! I've got the BBC course and keep meaning to do more but have only done the first half hour!!!

I like fiddling around with the \link{http://world.altavista.com/tr\Altavista Babelfish Translator}

It's quite a good tool to help see how sentences are constructed n stuff

Are you going to join the Parliamo Italiano club then wobbly?

Mind you, I'm not quite sure how it'll work on here. Perhaps we can post exercises for everyone to do or something

Then we can have a mumsnet field trip to Italy and practice our lingo skills on all those delicious giovani

or should that be giovani squisiti

Si sd!! Am not sure how it would work on here but just knowing other people are learning will give me a bit of a kick up the @rse to do it!!!

Possiamo parlare dei giovani squisiti in italiano

Per esempio, ci è un giovane squisito in Cuba Libre.

What's the Italian for "phwoar"?