I've successfully studied German and Spanish, but frankly wasn't very strategic about it. I am hoping to acquire competency at the B1 or B2 level in Italian in much less time than it took for me to do so in German and Spanish. Does anyone have any tips or strategies to share?
Here's what I've done so far:
- I started my Italian journey with Pimsleur Italian Levels 1 and 2, mostly to get a feel for the rhythms, intonations and sounds of the language
- I've since spent some time with the yabla Italian videos, which have transcripts and games, again to get a feel for the rhythyms and to begin to acquire some listening comprehension
- I've signed up for some italki trial lessons, made some notebook posts and started looking for language partners.
What have you done that's been effective? Anything you tried that didn't work out so well?
