HOW TO LEARN ITALIAN (I'M IN ITALY, IN LOCKDOWN)

[@lucreziaoddone]

Hi Katie! Thank you so much for featuring my channel in your video!! I'm super happy you find my content useful! :))

[@TheQKatie]

Ciao, Lucrezia!! Grazie a te!! Sto sorridendo così grande vedendo questo commento 😁❤️🙏

[@alemassa6632]

@@TheQKatie Sto sorridendo tanto vedendo questo commento.

[@ThatGirlCoCo12]

Lucrezia, you’re the BEST!

[@quelodequelo]

Some italian songs are pure poetry and when you understand them you realize how lucky you are in living in Italy. A plus is that you memorize the song I suggest by difficulty: Via via - Paolo Conte Ma il cielo è sempre più blu - Rino Gaetano Azzurro - Celentano L'anno che verrà - Lucio Dalla La donna cannone - De Gregori

[@TheQKatie]

Oh, this is awesome! Adding them to my queue now...

[@quelodequelo]

@@TheQKatie ask for more when you finish those 5 and when you don't understand something, glad to be useful ☺️

[@lislearnitalianwithsongs]

@@TheQKatie Speaking of songs, you might wanna check out … No, wait, non sarò così sfrontato! Great video as usual Katie!

[@alanhoyt9453]

I learned Korean as an adult and I agree that listening was the key. I'd listen and repeat before I understood. That helped me hear the words and the grammar. Then I looked up the words that I couldn't get out of my head and like magic they were mine! Good luck with your Italian. I'm enjoying your content!

[@TheQKatie]

Wow, Korean. Cool! Thanks for watching.

[@trakalosabby]

You are a genius! Thank you! I live in the states and I'm trying to learn Italian❤

[@TheQKatie]

In bocca al lupo!

[@ks_design3414]

Do you need a penpal? I'm learning english and l Iive in Italy. We have the opposite situation 🙂

[@albaeaston3440]

@@ks_design3414 I live in the Uk and have my whole life. I'm learning Italian, would love a penpal!

[@johnoliver2022]

Sei bravissima ! Con una tale italian routine in pochi mesi il tuo italiano sarà sicuramente perfetto !!! Great !

[@christa333]

Yo! You've picked some great channels to watch: Lucrezia, Alberto, and Easy Italian are all on my sub list, too. Grazie for the LingQ and Anki suggestions.

[@TheQKatie]

Prego! in bocca al lupo ;)

[@erichenderson6515]

One of the best ways to learn a new language is to start with the small words and lead the way up to the big words, that's how I learn a new language.

[@TheQKatie]

Yeah! Starting with the basics is always the way to go!

[@netrgm]

Amo tuo site. Usiamo gli stessi insegnanti. Adoro Lucrezia. Stai vevendo il sogno. I hope to move to Italy one day too. A small village near the water. Meraviglioso!!! Ray in NY

[@korteccia]

Time, the most precious resorces of all! Have a nice, good practicing and learning italian and its thousands, crazy dialects across the boot!👍

[@giulianorossi7628]

Brava, Katie! Imparo l'italiano da un anno e mezzo qui in Brasile e anch'io guardo il canale di Lucrezia, lei mi ha aiutato tantissimo! Sono d'acordo con te, questa immersione nella lingua è fondamentale per impararla. Ti consiglio anche il canale/podcast chiamato Podcast Italiano e il canale The Pillow. Saluti!

[@TheQKatie]

Grazie per tutti i consigli!

[@giacomocicognani1908]

in Romagna, la domenica si "dovrebbe" mangiare la pasta in brodo ( passatelli, cappelletti) o la domenica o per le feste.

[@michelescannone9708]

I tuoi video sono divertentissimi. Brava, goditi il nostro Paese!!!

[@ThatGirlCoCo12]

I love your videos!! I recently started with an Italiana tutor. I have had sei lezioni! Thank you for some really good advice on the resources you shared. I also LOVE learning Italian with Lucrezia. She is my favorite !!!

[@katmolesworth]

Grazie per questo video. Sto imparando l'italiano da due anni ma ho davvero bisogno di fare di più!

[@TheQKatie]

molto bene! sono impressionato!

[@lucasbim]

Wow! Lot's of resources, I think is time to go for a third language (native portuguese, english and now starting italian)! Grazie

[@kishens1]

I adore these type of videos and vlogs - so, so cool! Your recent videos have been superb and have made lockdown tolerable ❤️

[@TheQKatie]

Gotta Keep it Quirky through all this! Thanks for always watching!

[@maurocarnevale6395]

I hear you in order to have confidence to understand english mother tangue people. You've a very clear spoken english.

[@fabianabecatini6743]

Thanks for your videos!

[@feliciakooistra]

Genius! Thank you so much for your tips

[@TheQKatie]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!

[@jimstonebraker6885]

Hey Katie! Great tips on a study program and I was happy to see that you are using all of the same KZbin channels I have been using, starting with Lucrezia being top of the list, and Easy Italian next. I will look at LingQ as that was new to me. I would only suggest that you find a couple of language partners in Italy with whom you can do a language exchange regularly. This is easy with Zoom or some similar tool. They don’t have to be local. Committing to regular, weekly language exchanges with someone who wants to improve English while you practice Italian is invaluable. It has made a huge difference for me.

[@TheQKatie]

Hi Jim! Thanks for this! Yes, that's what my iTalki lessons do for me 😊 It would be awesome if I could find friends who were willing to do that with me, too! In the meantime, paying for a language partner on the internet is definitely helping!

[@jimstonebraker6885]

@@TheQKatie Hi Katie. Yes, for sure some kind of lessons that you pay for are important, in my experience. I have been taking formal language lessons with other students from a native Italian speaking teacher for about 3 years. But I also have found that having one or more language partners with whom I do the language exchange has really accelerated my learning and my confidence. I currently have 4 different language partners in Italy with whom I do the exchanges every week. I found them via a Facebook group for Italian-English language exchange (Italian - English exchange). It has become a second, and somewhat different type of accountability for me as I prepare something to discuss for each exchange. It should be easier for you to connect with someone, being in the same time zone in Italy. If you have the time, I think it would help you. My wife and I just recently found your channel and we are enjoying your "discovery" of Puglia!

[@bonnieoliver219]

Fantastico! Very informative and fun.

[@josephpalumbo3876]

We do the same things, except I’m in the US, and I must drink coffee first thing. Non bevi caffè? I will be moving to Bitetto, my great-grandfather’s comune. Thank you, your channel is very helpful!

[@alessandrocecconi5957]

That's pretty much what I used to do when I decided to improve my (american) english. I didn't use the verb "learn" because, as you may have heard, here in Italy, theoretically, english is mandatory in school but it's really rare (I'm pretty sure you had a chance to witness it first-hand! Lol) to come across an italian who is able to speak such good english since school can only teach you some basics or fundamentals: too bad that's not even enough to hold an informal conversation! 😁 So I do really appreciate your dedication aimed at reaching your goals like learning italian in this particular case. I know what it means since I went through that as well. By the way, since I'm a movie buff, even though I normally prefer watching old movies, I'd like to recommend one of the best italian movies of the last decade so you will easily find it on any platform: "Perfetti Sconosciuti" aka "Perfect Strangers" (2016). I just hope you haven't seen it yet! haha Anyway, I'm glad I stumbled on your channel...keep it up!! 👍

[@TheQKatie]

I’ll add perfect strangers to the queue! I love movie recs! Grazie!

[@alemassa6632]

You have to become fluent in Italian to understand the differences in dialects. To learn a dialect is a monstrous feat, it's like to learn a different language. In Italy we have thousands dialects.

[@angelao3273]

Love this! I’m an American learning french. I love seeing people learn languages and their methods!

[@TheQKatie]

Hi! Thanks for watching -- and high five for your French skills!! 🙌

[@Bradamante68]

Congrats on your Italian!

[@TheQKatie]

Grazie!

[@kekkokayak]

bravissima Katie!

[@olgasampis9745]

Listening. I have RAI for a few years, and I listen it,watched every days…. It helps I had some learning But not much But liked music, films Etc Try to talk as much as I can

[@gregorythomas2674]

Lucrezia rocks!!!

[@TheQKatie]

I agree!

[@vontravel]

I cannot believe you learnt Italian so quickly! Your brain must be very superior! Congratulazioni I speak only two. I would love to speak Italian!

[@TheQKatie]

☺️

[@tamiresdasilva9019]

the "boh" part is so real lol

[@TheQKatie]

it's the best expression!

[@Micetticat]

Sì è decisamente un bel copridivano :)

[@TheQKatie]

Haha! Grazie!

[@flaviospadavecchia5126]

Imparare una nuova lingua è sempre un'avventura meravigliosa - goditela! :D And once you're fluent, have a go at learning Tranese ;)

[@TheQKatie]

Hahaha ok!

[@kevinmandrile5074]

I'm italian 🇮🇹, and even tho i've studied english for years in school i'm never been good with it at the time, couse i wasn't really interested in learning it, and i think that's a big part in learning an entire new language, especially if it's compleately different from yours. Then, after a few years after finishing school, i started watching english KZbin videos, and even tho i could tell that i liked them, i couldn't understand almost a single word, couse i had already forgotten all i've learned in school. So i decided to learn english on here, by having fun watching videos, not specific ones for english learning, but like the Markiplier's ones, wich is actually the first american youtuber that i started watching. It wasn't that easy, but not even that hard, after all english is probably one of the easiest languages to learn, definetly easier than italian. I started understanding more and more with time, learning how to read and write actually in the comments section, practicing the speaking part of it with myself, but most importantly i started thinking in english. It might seems an obvious thing to do, but it's actually something that i've never done before like 5 years ago, i've always used to think in italian, and like tried to translate everything in english on the spot, wich obviously didn't worked couse italian and english are too much different from each other, so the process was too much slow. So when i tried to think in english for the first time, that's when i've actually started learning it, everything was faster and easier than ever, english wasn't a different difficult language anymore, but just a second one that i was using. Untill then i've always prefered italian to english, couse it was my mother tongue, but now i like them both the same way, couse they both sounds natural to me now. Most of the time now i think in english even when it's not necessary, maybe for keeping practicing it, or maybe just couse i really like it, i don't even know. Just recently, in the last year or so, i've actually started even dreaming in english, something that i never thought would ever happen, but hey, never say never right? Now i love watching movies, TV series, playing video games, listen to music, reading books, and of course watching KZbin videos in english, actually most of the content that i consume now is in english. I love the fact that this language actually gives me the opportunity to talk with people from all around the world every day on here, actually having a lot of really good, polite conversations, wich is something that i thought was definetely more rare. With time i've also learned that in order to really learn english, you don't need just to think in english, you need to think like an "english" person, or in my case, american person, couse even tho we are similar as people, we are somewhat different in the way we think, if that make sense. And that is just couse of our cultures, that are very different from each other, so i had to learn to think like i actually was american when i started thinking in english, in order to do it propperly. So now it's like i have two different personas, one english, one italian, they are very similar to each other, but different at the same time if that make sense. But the most important thing, is that i love them both the same way. I don't have a favourite one anymore, and is very quick to switch from one to the other, at least for me, i can do it on the spot. So anyway, sorry for the long comment, but i felt like this was the right place to explain people how i've learned a compleate different language from mine, couse it might help someone, you never know. If someone told me how to do some of these things before, i would've definetely learned english faster than this, but hey, better late than never, right? Plus, this might be a long comment, but at least one of the pros of english is that its words are usually shorter than the italian ones, so it's definetely faster to read. And that is why i love them both, couse they both have different pros and cons. The only time when i prefer italian is when i'm really angry, couse nothing is like your mother tongue when you need to swear. All of this being said, hope you have a great day everybody, even tho it's almost 10 pm here in Italy right now but whatever, stay safe if you can, bye 😉👍🇮🇹👋❤. I'm here from the Julie Nolke's post from two weeks ago btw, she's awesome!!! And you're awesome too Katie!!!

[@DCT876]

Your English has come a long way very well done

[@kevinmandrile5074]

@@DCT876 Thanks man, i really appreciate this, much love from Italy!!! 😀👍🥰🇮🇹👋

[@DCT876]

@@kevinmandrile5074 much love from jamaica my friend 🇯🇲...italy is such a beautiful country with amazing food and culture I hope to visit someday

[@TheQKatie]

Kevin!! I absolutely LOVE this comment -- thank you!! (And thanks for coming over to my channel to say hi! Julie Nolke is the best, I love her!) Your story is incredible and so inspiring. It really makes me excited to keep up the practice I'm doing (and especially watching things on KZbin!) ❤️ What part of Italy are you from? I'm loving it here in Puglia, and I'm also excited to travel around the country and explore, as soon as COVID allows me to do so! That's a major reason why I'm so motivated to learn Italian: I want to speak with the locals anywhere I go in this country!

[@kevinmandrile5074]

@@TheQKatie I'm from Cuneo, Piemonte. Don't warry Katie, you're definetely gonna get there, just keep up the good work and the results will definetly come.😉👍

[@nicolacopetti5265]

U can consider yourself Italian when you start doing "scarpetta". BTW ur Italian is better than my English 😅

[@TheQKatie]

Grazie! Usiamo sempre la scarpetta, è la invenzione italiana più importante, secondo me ;)

[@RIcoRick74]

Nice video and beautiful channel! You also have to master Italian hand gestures language :D We can talk without saying a word!

[@TheQKatie]

Good point haha 🤌🤌🤌

[@DennisMerwood-xk8wp]

@@TheQKatie In my 6-months working as a motorcycle mechanic in Milano among young Italians I learned first how to curse in Italian. And how to make very rude hand gestures. LOL

[@joshuafagans7534]

Wait. This all happens before coffee? I was thinking how learning a foreign language while people are wearing masks would be incredibly hard. I always try to learn a least some of a language when I visit another country. I wish I was better at it. I think my goto Italian phrase was "Mi scusi"

[@TheQKatie]

Welllll sometimes coffee comes first 😉.

[@MC-rr5iz]

Hi Katie! Try this channel: It’s Elyssa not Alyssa. It ca be inspiring: she’s the best Foreign Italian speaker I have ever heard in my life, and that’s including my mom who is living in Italy since 50 years now.

[@TheQKatie]

Thanks for this!

[@StefanoCanepa1970]

Io non devo imparare l'italiano ma applichero` i tuoi metodi per migliorare il mio inglese (I don't have to learn Italian but I'll use your way of learning to improve my English (this is an example of working around something I don't know how to translate litterarly). Bye from Galway (Ireland).

[@TheQKatie]

Good luck. Hope it helps!

[@wellaciccio2362]

remember that there are MANY Italian realities, each beautiful on its own and each one with different convenient things.

[@TheQKatie]

Thank you, that's beautiful ❤️

[@frankbellio7321]

Ciao Katie, Ho studiato l'italiano fino all'età di 16 anni dopo che la mia famiglia è emigrata in Australia, quindi ho imparato a parlare l'italiano correttamente dai miei giorni di scuola. Dopo essermi sposato e essermi trasferito, avrei parlato l'italiano proprio a chiunque capisse l'italiano, ma mi ci è voluto del tempo per rendermi conto che quando andavo a trovare i miei genitori di tanto in tanto, il mio italiano si converteva di nuovo in dialetto veneziano e di nuovo in italiano vero e proprio dopo le mie visite. Quindi, l'ho usato a mio vantaggio quando ero a Venezia nell'aprile 2019. Ho parlato inglese con mia moglie (sono turisti), cambiato in italiano con gente e commentava quanto bene parlo la lingua (turisti rispettosi). Poi li ha scioccati passando al dialetto veneziano dopo ho detto loro che ero nato lì (lui è uno di noi!). Il numero di acquisti che abbiamo fatto con uno sconto dopo hanno scoperto è stato così delizioso.

[@TheQKatie]

Bravo!

[@nicolasizzo8559]

Io sempre scrivo in Italiana. Ogni mattina, io faccio la storia mia sul Instagram en Italiano. Scegli tenere provando!! La nonna mia lei piaceva di parlare italiana.

[@Lupinthe3rd88]

Can I suggest the channel ' Weilà Tom ' for learning italian.

[@MarkVJenkins]

Hi Katie, for perspective, how much Italian did you know before you moved to Italy?

[@TheQKatie]

I did two weeks of a course in Rome in 2018 so I could have basic knowledge for when I was researching for the Italy section of my book. So, not much. I brought a translator/friend with me for a lot of that part of the book. My French was way better than my Italian at that time. Now it’s the complete opposite!

[@MarkVJenkins]

thank you! You give me hope and inspiration that I might be able to move to Italy and learn the language someday!

[@lenase7396]

Fare la scarpetta ahaha! Le gioie della vita.

[@kevinmandrile5074]

Decisamente!!!🤤

[@TheQKatie]

@@kevinmandrile5074 @LenaSe Il migliore!!

[@it-girl2203]

3 words LISTEN TO MÅNESKIN (the italian ones!) 💁🏻‍♀️They are so good

[@TheQKatie]

I love them!

[@Bradamante68]

I tried to write several times about the RAI site where you may find a great archive of movies and series, all free, but youtube keeps deleting my message because there was a link. Anyway the site is raiplay just add the 3w before and the it at the end. I wanted to suggest you a comedy movie that was set in your area, and is about an historical fact La disfida di Barletta. The movie is Il soldato di ventura, starring Bud Spencer.

[@TheQKatie]

Wow. Thank you! This is amazing. I'm totally going to do this ASAP!

[@Bradamante68]

@@TheQKatie you’re welcome. I am disappointed because I checked (as I wanted to rewatch it now) and Il soldato di ventura is no longer available on the RAI site. Sorry! Anyway there are many different movies and series and is also possible to replay anything that was broadcast in the past days.

[@mjchuang11]

I’m in the US and the italian subtitles and italian audio on Netflix don’t match at all so it’s not very helpful for me to learn as i’d like. Anyone has the same problem?

[@alessandroagnelli]

Complimenti, il tuo italiano è davvero molto buono 👍

[@TheQKatie]

Grazie mille!

[@bellogabriella9160]

Brava

[@chrisperez6881]

What's the name of the vocabulary app you use?

[@TheQKatie]

Anki app!

[@PainKillerMr]

you can learn italian watching Luca Giurato videos... he is an extraordinary teacher

[@francescacasini4694]

The main issue with Italian movies is that they're packed with regional accents (Roman accent mostly, since Rome is the city of cinema here 😑) and dialects! You'd better watch your favorite American movies dubbed in Italian. Dubbing is a thing here!

[@tanino111]

Guardo volentieri i tuoi video, anche se sono Italiano.

[@TheQKatie]

awww grazie per questo!

[@annapietrograzia3840]

Kylie Flavel has some good language videos too 🙂

[@TheQKatie]

I'll check them out. Thanks!

[@cboals]

It’s all relative. Compared to me you’re an Italian genius.

[@TheQKatie]

Ha, you're getting there, though!!!!

[@paolaserafino5313]

Katie ti consiglio un podcast free in italiano: "Morgana" su storielibere.fm. Parla di donne fuori dagli schemi. Ti piacerà 😉 Il tuo italiano è super. Next step dialetto tranese 😁

[@TheQKatie]

Grazie per la dritta! Ascolterò! Sembra molto interessante! 🙏

[@felixmbandandayitabi4536]

Scarpetta is the voluptuous part of a meal

[@DCT876]

I'm trying to learn french during quarantine

[@TheQKatie]

Nice! How's it going? Any tips?

[@DCT876]

@@TheQKatie lol it's not going very good ...I'm struggling alot with grammar and pronunciation but I'm determined to learn the language becuase I want to attend Le Cordon Bleu, Paris in the near future

[@humbleman79]

Do you find that the locals talk more in dialect than Italian? I’m curious to see if it seems like you have to learn two languages to make friends.

[@TheQKatie]

The locals definitely talk in dialect with each other quite a bit! Mostly if it's friends or family speaking to each other. I don't think we'll have to learn dialect, but I do think once we make more friends here, we might naturally pick up some of the dialect!

[@tarno_bejo_]

Is italian truly so close to french?

[@TheQKatie]

I think in a lot of structural ways it is. I learned french as a student and used it a lot in my travels and I feel like that basic knowledge is helping me pick up italian a lot faster.

[@tarno_bejo_]

@@TheQKatie Interesting. I ve asked some french people. And they didnt notice it (well, probably because they were young people X-P ).

[@miaballester3978]

It would help if you talk to yourself in Italian from the get go.

[@albaeaston3440]

I think the hardest part about learning Italian as UK citizen is not having anyone who speaks Italian to help!!

[@TheQKatie]

I know the feeling!

[@MrGeko3]

Wow, Barbero's book can be a tough one! If you want to listen to him talking about this, you can find his lecture here on youtube: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4mrn4qvlL2Nbbc&ab_channel=GregorioGrasselli . He talks pretty fast tho. Continua così e buono studio! :D

[@TheQKatie]

Ah. Cool! Grazie!

[@NN_ahsh]

Ciao.. ogni tanto fai un video anche in italiano.. ciaooooo

[@TheQKatie]

Sì! Devo!

[@mizhard]

Oh no Katie! Don't trust Professor Barbero, he uses to miswrite congiuntivo!!! He is a master, he is totally fond of his matters as historian, but often he mistakes congiuntivo using imperfetto.

[@MrBubu1370]

Sei a posto con la grammatica italiana, non l’ho mai capita manco io.....😱

[@olgasampis9745]

Ciao bella Bell canale Qui una latina che ha imperato a parlare il italiano Non è facile per noi.debíamos prima imperare un po’ Put italiana in our keyboard Listen to Eros, Laura, música in italiano….

[@pile333]

You look after Katee Sackhoff a bit.

[@TheQKatie]

Well, I am a mandalorian, so that makes sense 😂

[@johnoliver2022]

P.s.: anche io vedo le lezioni di Lucrezia :D

[@m4d3y3m00dy]

Is this a good channel? Boh! :D

[@cecilialorusso9506]

I'm italy 😅 Ciao

[@TheQKatie]

Ciao! hahaha

[@doc7440]

Giovedì gnocchi , venerdì pesce ,sabato trippa .

[@kevinmandrile5074]

A quanto pare a Roma sapete come godervi la vita eh? Buon per voi!!! 😉👍

[@doc7440]

@@kevinmandrile5074 : Grazie :) , ma non sono romano , io funziono a polenta :|

[@kevinmandrile5074]

@@doc7440 Un polentone come me allora!!! Ancora meglio!!!

[@TheQKatie]

Ooo solamente a Roma? O tutto Italia? (Adoro polenta, anch'io!)

[@kevinmandrile5074]

@@TheQKatie Non lo so, di solito dicono che siamo noi del nord che mangiamo tanta polenta, per questo ci chamano polentoni, io sono piemontese. Felice che piaccia anche a te Katie!!! 😉👍

[@lowlifeuk999]

Come on, Italian is not that difficult, alphabet is the same, vocabulary is shared at around 50% with English (though a fair bit of "false friends" ) and, last but not least, rules of pronunciation are easy and with very few exceptions. After so many years I still have to check pronunciation for the occasional new word ... I am learning Anglish now, have you ever heard about it Katie ? It's English as if the Battle of Hastings (1066) had never happened ...

[@francomamazza4852]

💐🍾🍷🍷

[@tombartram6842]

4.22 pretty young woman looking for passers-by to chat and practice. MASSIVE advantage.

[@lorenzoproietti4974]

Lucrezia Is boring try Callmedidi

[@lunatic7700]

quanto odio questa parola"lockdown" e tutti i trogloditi che la usano!

[@MrBubu1370]

Magari usi la parola social...... te possino :)

[@emerdigiorgio3594]

You only want publicity for yourself!