English:
red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet.
Black white.
Italian words:
nero - black
grigio - grey as in pinot grigio
red - rosso
Italian words.
Use Google translate.
Facebook has a translation button if you see text in a foreign language post.
A quick way to pick up intonation is by listening to a foreign language film which has subtitles.
Go to an Italian restaurant, listen to the waiters, read the food menu and the wine menu. While waiting for service, check the back of wine bottle labels.
My favourite colour translation pages are those which show the colour with the words printed in the middle. You could print one off and stick it on the wall above your desk. Glance at it throughout the day.
Learning Plan
Learn ten words a day. That's 3650 in a year, a pretty good working language. Each weekend revise the week's words. The last weekend, revise the month's words. Learn one sentence a day. Or use Earworms, the Berlitz system of repetition of phrases, and play the disc it during breakfast.
See my previous posts on other languages. (Come back for more later - I am revising and adding to the language posts throughout today.)
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, language teacher, author and speaker.
red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet.
Black white.
Italian words:
nero - black
grigio - grey as in pinot grigio
red - rosso
Italian words.
Use Google translate.
Facebook has a translation button if you see text in a foreign language post.
A quick way to pick up intonation is by listening to a foreign language film which has subtitles.
Go to an Italian restaurant, listen to the waiters, read the food menu and the wine menu. While waiting for service, check the back of wine bottle labels.
My favourite colour translation pages are those which show the colour with the words printed in the middle. You could print one off and stick it on the wall above your desk. Glance at it throughout the day.
Learning Plan
Learn ten words a day. That's 3650 in a year, a pretty good working language. Each weekend revise the week's words. The last weekend, revise the month's words. Learn one sentence a day. Or use Earworms, the Berlitz system of repetition of phrases, and play the disc it during breakfast.
See my previous posts on other languages. (Come back for more later - I am revising and adding to the language posts throughout today.)
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, language teacher, author and speaker.
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