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So yeah, I'm taking classes in Italian for fun and to expand myself to trilingual, since I have a basic understanding of Latin and a somewhat fluency in Muscovite Russian, though the second one won't help me. Any tips to make this go smoothly?

eat lots of pasta.

I don't know if this works for anyone else, but I like finding (for independent Spanish study) either English videos with Spanish subs or Spanish videos with English subs and focus watch them. It's a good way to keep up with vocabulary and verbs in my down-time. Some things always get lost in translation, but certain words and phrases always start to stand out for me and give me a better understanding.

In a similar vein, find the Italian version of Sesame street, or other children's programming.
learned that from the Hulk, and Farscape.

Remember to add "-A" to the end of english words.

For instance, when introducing yourself you would say, "It's-a me, Mario!"

Use the Captain Richard Francis Burton Method. Hole up in a room with a prostitute that speaks the desired language for three days/weeks and come out speaking a new tongue. He spoke over 29 languages fluently...

Go hang out in the pizza place at the Cardiff Circle shopping center, across the road from Shore Mall.

Insult an Italian family restaurant's tiramisú to learn how to curse.

Watch italian dubbed anime... it's how i did it (ok, to be fair, my language is pretty closely related and i had learned french in school).

@Li3n said:

Watch italian dubbed anime... it's how i did it (ok, to be fair, my language is pretty closely related and i had learned french in school).

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But... italian dubbing is one of the worse dubbings in the world!

Silver Jelly;310003][quote=@Li3n said:

Watch italian dubbed anime... it's how i did it (ok, to be fair, my language is pretty closely related and i had learned french in school).

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But... italian dubbing is one of the worse dubbings in the world![/QUOTE]

It can't be as worse as the Polish dubbings. One time, when I was in Krakow for a week, I happened to see FernGully on local telly. It was dubbed by a single, James Earl Jonesesque-voiced man with the English original just barely audible in the background.

North_Ranger;310021][quote=Silver Jelly;310003][quote=@Li3n said:

Watch italian dubbed anime... it's how i did it (ok, to be fair, my language is pretty closely related and i had learned french in school).

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But... italian dubbing is one of the worse dubbings in the world![/QUOTE]

It can't be as worse as the Polish dubbings. One time, when I was in Krakow for a week, I happened to see FernGully on local telly. It was dubbed by a single, James Earl Jonesesque-voiced man with the English original just barely audible in the background.[/QUOTE]

O_O

I had forgotten about countries that have not exactly dubbing, but more like voiceovers.

And speaking of ferngully, here's a bit of trivia: the spanish version is dubbed by just one actor doing all the voices.

His voices for both main characters are awful...

Silver Jelly;310003][quote=@Li3n said:

Watch italian dubbed anime... it's how i did it (ok, to be fair, my language is pretty closely related and i had learned french in school).

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But... italian dubbing is one of the worse dubbings in the world![/QUOTE]

You should have seen our dubbing in the 90's... i think it was just one guy reading a synopsis or something... duck dodgers stunned me when it 1st showed up, as the dubbing was incredibly good (and i actually prefer it to the original english, but that's because Mel Blanc being dead).


But the idea was that hearing the language helps a lot with learning it... and as i recall they weren't mangling their own language (i would not be surprised if our dubbings where done by monkeys in the 90's).

There was one dubbing company here in Finland that was infamous for offering children's programming dubbing that sounded like everybody was just phoning in:


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- Embedding disabled, again. God, the first one makes my ears bleed even now...




Let's just say all of these clips sound like William Shatner singing. While stoned. With a coconut crab having a vice-like grip on his balls. It's that bad.

Man, that almost looks like parody dubbing!