Learn To Speak Italian Fluently

Debi and Gabriele will upload weekly new Fresh & Traditional Tuscan recipes…obviously Chianti will be served. Visit us at www.underthetuscangun.com

Red Sauce:

Prep Time: 5
Cooking Time: 15

Ingredients:
1/2 red onion
2 tablespoons of olive oil
1 can of pelati (16 ounces)
2 handful of fresh basil
1 hot red pepper
Salt, Pepper
Fresh grated parmesan

Goes well with…
Every time you’ll see that a dish requires some red sauce…well, this is the recipe!

Tips…
Guess what you have to do in case you like your sauce hotter than this?

How to prepare it:

GETTING READY WITH THE INGREDIENTS
Chop the onion medium thin.
Wash the fresh basil and set aside.
Process the can of pelati.

COOKING YOUR DISH
On a medium high flame brown the onion…
When golden, pour the pelati, add salt, pepper and red pepper, and lower the flame to medium.
The cooking time is about 15 minutes…this is what it takes to the sauce to get to a nice consistency.
A few minutes before taking your sauce of the fire, put in the pan half of the basil…
Serve your dish; sprinkle the parmesan, grate the pepper, one or two leaves of basil…the olive oil!

Prosciutto rolls with Arucola:
Serves: 2
Prep Time: 5

Ingredients:
6 Slices of Prosciutto
6 generous pinches of fresh Arugula

How to prepare it:
Cut off most of the fat from your prosciutto.
Lay one slice at the time on a cutting board, put a pinch of arugula on the top of it…now roll! As easy as it gets!

Notes:
Teach your “guy” how prosciutto should be cut, and prepared in the Tuscan way. Slices must be thin but not too much…you should be able to keep a slice between your fingers, without it braking up in pieces.
Paper should be put between the slices when packing…otherwise you’ll get home, and when you open your package, you’ll find yourself with a steak of pressed prosciutto.
It is a good rule to cut off most of the fat off the prosciutto before slicing it…check the cut they are offering you…if you see too much fat on the borders you should have to cut it off!

Buon Appetito!

Debi & Gabriele

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Teach you how to make tiramisu in an easy way.

1)Prepare:
Pudding 200g
Sugar 2 tbsp
Cream milk 100g
Cream cheese 200g

Where do you get the pudding? It’s available everywhere!

How about cream cheese? Go to the grocery store and search out cream and cheese section.

Procedure:
2)Soften your cheese in your microwave for a minutes, then whip until it melts.
3)Add pudding in. Whip and stir.
4)Pour the cream and sugar then whip it up until everythin dissolved and mixed. This is the cream base of the tiramisu.

You will need a piece of chocolate cake for the cake base.
5)Prepare yourself a cup, place the cream base and cake in layers.
6)Freeze it in the fridge for 2 hours.
7)Lastly scatter some choco power on the firmed cream cake.

Then serve!

As pudding stay firm when you freeze them, it cut short the process of whipping eggs and everything. Cake and cream are hence seperated in layers firmly, and it just taste like the original Italian dessert.

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Rome, Venice, Florence… Consider studying italian at Seton Hall, and you may be able to spend an entire summer in Italy. You’d live with an Italian family and immerse yourself in the language and culture. A major in italian language and Literature could lead to a career in teaching or in international business and finance.

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I'm trying to teach myself 2 languages at once-swahili and italian. i've been taking italian for a couple years so that's no big deal. but does anyone reading this speak, understand, read, and write swahili? i really want to kno this language really bad. i'm trying to get my mom to buy me one of those "teach yourself" CD's, but so far, she hasnt given me an answer. could someone give me some tips, like common phrases, verbs, nouns, stuff like that?

http://research.yale.edu/swahili/learn/

http://www.yale.edu/swahili/

http://www.rosettastone.com/en/offer/googlepage?language=kis&a=b

I want to learn italian. I can't get to lessons, but what is the best way to teach yourself. I may go to Italy in the future, but i want to learn the language myself first. Has anyone actually taught themselves a language? Is it possible to get really good by yourself? Thanks.

Yes I have experience teaching myself a language yet I am only 13. You have to be paient and have the time and really commit! What I did is get cd's that teach you the language, also get a dictionary, grammer book, and basic phrase book. Also look on line, word2word.com is really good! Create a plan for yourself, take about an hour each day to review and learn new stuff.

Also listen to italian music and put movies in italian it really helps!

I'm looking to learn how to speak italian, but I am overwhelmed by the variety of different programs you can use to teach yourself. Does anyone know any really good programs that are fairly reasonably priced?

Rosetta Stone perhaps. But it has its share of bad reviews as any other hyped up learning program.

This is a good (free) site to go to in general:
http://www.ielanguages.com/italian.html

Number one important note in speaking Italian: Open your mouth.

I'd love to learn italian. I don't live anywhere near Italy and can't really get there for a few years, but I'd love to learn it. There aren't any classes offered in my area. I am fluent in French. I've looked at a couple of teach-yourself series. Which method is best? I'm talking about books, cds, kits, websites, etc. Money is not an issue.

Has anyone tried the "Oxford Take Off In" Series? Is it any good?

I love LOVE Rosetta Stone because it immerses you in the language which is the best way for me to learn. It's picture, the word with pronunciation and a speech analyzer that you can use with a microphone to help for your pronunciation. A bit expensive but I think it's worth it. Note: there's an online version too.
I get mixed up in formal education when the English is next to the translated word.

I go further to getting books, music, movies or reading websites in the language that I'm learning plus attending established local language clubs which are really nice because you'll meet people who are serious about learning the language. Start a club if there isn't one in your area or ask your kid,friend or spouse to learn with you. I practice with my baby niece when I'm babysitting her, she may not understand but who cares as long as I'm learning I get better.

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Well, I plan on trying to learn 5 languages before I turn 20, that's 6 years from now, and I would like to know how to approach it. And when I say lesson plan, please be specific, something like
Week One : Voc building
Week Two : Beginner's grammar, nouns
Week Three: Beginner's grammar, verbs…etc.

And the five languages are:
Spanish
French
Japanese
Igbo
Italian

First thing is to define what you mean by learn a language. For the purpose of this, I would suggest that you define learn a language as the ability to read a newspaper in the language and understand the majority of it. I use that as the definition since communication on a social level in a language takes a long time, but the ability to read, understand, and speak could be done in a shorter period of time.

Ok, thinking about the lesson plan, the first thing I would do is define where you are, and what language you have access to learn in social situations. For the purpose of this, I am going to assume you are in the US, which means that Spanish is probably the best language to start with. It is the 2nd most widely spoken language in the US. Then from Spanish, I would move to Italian (I am fluent in English and Spanish, and based on my spanish, I can get a pretty good idea of Italian), which should make it relatively easy to work with. From there, I would go into the 3rd of the romance languages on your list which is French. That will give you a good base of the romance languages. They have similar alphabets to the English language, which should make them easier to learn. Then, from there, it is a toss up. I am not at all familiar with Igbo, but I reviewed their alphabet, and it looks more similar to the English language which means it should be easier to grasp than Japanese. Finally, you will have your mind trained enough in learning languages that the extra challenges of Japanese alphabet, sounds, etc. should work better for you.

As for lesson plans within the language, there are 4 main language learning skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening). My learning plan would be to study a new situation each week (ie: Go to the Bank, Purchase tickets for a movie, etc).
Day 1) Review the vocabulary for that lesson.
Day 2) Work on reading documents within that situation.
Day 3) Work on writing on that subject
Day 4) Try to speak on the subject
Day 5) Try to Listen on the subject

I would do it in that order since first you need the vocabulary, then reading, you can identify the vocabulary used by others, then, you need to come up with the vocabulary on your own by writing, then just focus on the speaking of what you have written to work on pronunciation, and finally listening.

I am hopeful that this is useful. You have a challenging goal in front of you. Good luck.