See and Savor Italy!

 

There are many ways to learn a language. Whatever way you choose studies have shown that you learn best when you learn with an interest. Art, architecture, history, travel, fashion, design. Use your interest as a starting point with related vocabulary and grammar that will keep you engaged then branch out from there.

 

I decided that since my travels in Italy centered on culinary and cultural traditions what better way to learn the Italian language than through learning words and phrases associated with food. After all food is the universal language!

 

So we'll start at the table but our conversation won't end there and like many dinner table conversations we'll soon be talking about everything.On occasion you'll receive a special offer for club members from CosituttiMarketPlace for a product or recipe to learn the language through a tasting that follows the "courses" of a typical Italian meal.

Let's begin with some basic grammar and words associated with an Italian meet and greet, some proven strategies for building your language vocabulary and why gender in Italian can be confusing.

There are many regional dialects in the Italian language . If you come from an Italian family you probably heard your parents and grandparents speak a little differently that what you learn in an Italian language class. That's because you are learning classical Italian based on the Tuscan dialect popularized by Dante Alighieri.

Dante is credited for standardizing the Italian language and the dialect of Tuscany making it the basis for what would be the official language of Italy and making Dante the "Father of the Italian language". That's not to say everyone agreed with him. There was much debate over the centuries on what should govern the establishment of a modern Italian literary and spoken language.