Only 16 short weeks ago, the language I spoke and the language my grandparents spoke seemed vastly different and foreign. Fast foward 16 weeks and they don't seem that different at all. In fact, I understand most of it. A couple of months ago, I looked at learning Italian as a daunting, impossible challenge. I wasn't sure just how much of a language I could learn in just 15 weeks. But after my 20 time is over, I am please to say that I learned quite a bit over my time. My learning experience was not without its hiccups, but that's what made me more successful. You are supposed to fail when you are learning. If you aren't failing, that means that you already know it, which means that you aren't learning. In my case, there were a couple of variables that gave me a challenge. One is the fact that I had to use English all day, every day, while learning Spanish in school, and trying to learn Italian on my own time. This preventing me from properly learning Italian because I was not able to use Italian as much as I would have liked. Also, Italian is very similar to Spanish, for example, the same letters make different sounds, etc. This really confused me since I had to learn both at the same time.
This was a great project in which I got to use my time efficiently to do something that I wanted to do. I learned a lot of Italian and I hope to continue my progress, but for now:
Arrivederci e mi auguro buona fortuna.
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