This week I have continued in my Italian lessons and some things I have noticed are that I am retaining more vocabulary, but after almost 60 days of studying, I am starting to get bored with my daily Duolingo lessons. Because of school, work, and extracurriculars, I don’t have much free time, so it is easy to push tasks to the back-burner. At this point, I feel like I should continue to practice sentence structure and grammar, because I think I can remember and guess enough vocabulary to get by. In my opinion (and from my experience of learning French), it will be the lack of connecting words that will confuse me in a regular conversation.

In a recent music education class, we were studying musical terms, some of which were very similar to Italian, because of their Latin roots. Although I have learned music theory before, it was interesting to be able to look at these terms through a different lens. 

As a student, it is easy to get stuck in a rut of repetitive studying that doesn’t hold much significance, so the challenge I am setting for myself is simply to be reinspired. As much as I would like to set a goal to learn grammar and do it, I know myself, and I am geared towards understanding. For me, passion is required for learning in a way that I retain and understand material.

I am still enjoying using Duolingo, but I think I will try to challenge myself again in the coming weeks with another test of my comprehension, which means listening to some more authentic Italian.

 

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The first complete sentence I learned: Dov’e posso mangiare una buona pizza? (Where can I find a good pizza to eat?)