20 Time Proposal

My 20 time project is going to be to learn as much of the Italian language as I could be the end of the time allotted for the project. My final goal is to be able to have a conversation, at least 2-3 minutes, in Italian, with my grandparents and father. In order to obtain this goal, I would need to start off with a very strong foundation of the Italian language. The easy part of this project will be learning the "American-Italian" words, such as ciao, etc- the words that everybody knows. The difficult part will be keeping up in conversation with lifelong Italian speakers and thinking quickly in Italian. Most of this project will be outside of class, where I know people who speak Italian. During my 20 time in class, I will silently study my Italian.