Speak Italian Magically!

I know that I usually write in English on this blog, but you are here to learn Italian, aren’t you? So, I guess you’ll forgive me if I re post here the press release for Awaken your English, my latest book, which is actually an adaptation of my former Awaken your Italian, published at the end of last year.  Read the article and get out the gist of it, by asking yourself the following question:

 What is the article talking about?

When is it published?

What does the author (that is me;-) say about the book?

What does the publisher (Meligrana) say about the book?

Of course what you are going to read is valid for the original book…that is Awaken your Italian!

 Now…Enjoy the article in ITALIANO!

 This was originally published on http://awakenyourenglish.wordpress.com/ 

La Meligrana Editore pubblica un nuovo libro multimediale per migliorare il proprio inglese

Posted on aprile 14, 2012

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Il libro è appena stato messo in vendita dalla Meligrana Editore, giusto in tempo per rispolverare il proprio inglese prima dell’estate.

“Sin da quando la casa editrice è stata fondata nel 2006, abbiamo voluto cogliere ogni novità editoriale e sfruttare le nuove tecnologie per essere indipendenti da ogni logica di mercato e con tale libro siamo usciti fuori da ogni schema“, dice Giuseppe Meligrana, il fondatore della casa editrice.

Risveglia il tuo inglese! Awaken Your English! è “un libro che si può ascoltare ad occhi chiusi e che permette di imparare delle abilità utili e la lingua che le trasmette“, afferma Antonio Libertino, insegnante di italiano per stranieri con certificato Ditals, autore dell’opera.

Questo corso d’inglese per italiani è stato inserito nella collana Multimedia, in quanto offre al lettore degli audio mp3 da scaricare gratuitamente per ascoltare la pronuncia corretta direttamente da Chris Snelgrove, un noto speaker americano.

Gli audio, insieme alla struttura particolare del libro, che contiene testi inglesi con traduzione italiana a fronte o consecutiva, vogliono esporre il lettore/ascoltatore ad un inglese totalmente comprensibile oltre che interessante.

“Qualche anno fa sono venuto a conoscenza delle tecniche di allenamento mentale che gli atleti di tutto il mondo utilizzano per migliorare le proprie performance. Ad un certo punto ho pensato che queste tecniche potessero essere utili a chi volesse migliorare le proprie abilità linguistiche. Da qui l’idea di scrivere prima un libro (Awaken your Italian) per persone di lingua inglese che volessero migliorare il proprio italiano, poi quella di adattare e trasformare questo libro in un corso d’inglese per italiani. E grazie alla Meligrana Editore, a Chris Snelgrove e ad altri, Risveglia il tuo inglese! Awaken your English! è divenuto realtà,” dice l’autore.

Risveglia il tuo inglese! Awaken Your English! contiene cinque lezioni, oltre all’introduzione, al capitolo dedicato alla scienza dietro il metodo e a quelle che l’autore chiama “empowering questions (domande potenzianti)”.

La prima lezione (prendi una decisione) vuole aiutare il lettore a creare un obiettivo chiaro prima di iniziare. La seconda lezione (il tuo posto speciale) guida alla creazione di uno spazio mentale dove rilassarsi e sentirsi bene. La terza lezione (quando sei al tuo meglio) e la quarta (impara dai migliori) fanno ricordare i propri momenti migliori e aiutano a imparare l’inglese da un modello di propria scelta. La quinta lezione (allenati mentalmente a parlare l’inglese molto bene) insegna infine una tecnica di allenamento mentale per provare ogni abilità che si voglia padroneggiare nella lingua inglese.

Ogni lezione, presentata in due versioni (bilingue o solo in inglese), contiene una mappa mentale a colori disegnata dall’autore oltre a delle sezioni di approfondimento intitolate “Your personal coach (Il tuo coach personale)”, “L’angolino della grammatica” e “Questions (Domande)”.

Per maggiori informazioni e un’anteprima del libro:

www.awakenyourenglish.com

oppure sul sito della

Meligrana Editore

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February is usually the month that I dedicate to my self and my personal growth (and to my family as well;-). And this is the time when I read about subjects that I don’t usually read about.

This time I read the book Unfair advantage by Robert Kyiosaki.

Who’s Robert Kyiosaki? He’s a businessman and writer about interesting books about financial intelligence (Rich Dad, Poor dad among others).

He tells what he learned about after attending a conference by dr. Buckminster Fuller (Who’s he?)

There he heard him saying:

I don’t work for money. I dedicated all my life to serve others. […] The more people I serve , the more effective I become”.

This is loosely translated from the Italian edition of the book that I own, where it’s written:

“Io non lavoro per il denaro. Ho dedicato la mia vita al servizio degli altri. […] Più persone servo, più efficace divento”.

Robert Kyiosaky also writes about what he calls the laws of compensation / le leggi del compenso (I’d have translated it compensazione, but I am not the translator of the book;-):

1. Reciprocity: give and you’ll receive / Reciprocità: dai e riceverai.

2. Learn to give more. / Impara a dare di più.

3. Have a leverage effect on the power of the financial instruction that increases in geometrical proportion / Abbi un effetto di leva sul potere dell’istruzione finanziaria in proporzione geometrica.

In an interesting article posted on the Success Magazine website, Kyiosaki himself writes that:

“Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

How can you learn something useful for your Italian learning from this book? Is that even possible to learn something related to Italian learning in this book?;-)

Let me tell you about another important point that Kyiosaki writes about.

The cone of learning by Edgard Dale.

I actually hadn’t read about this, so for me it was a great thing to read about.

By looking at it, you can notice that:

The more passive you are, the less you learn. The more active you are the more you learn.

And you’ll learn a lot more when you do these things:

Doing a dramatic presentation.

Simulating the real experience

Doing the real thing.

MMMM….How can I correlate this with language learning?

I already know that some authors talk about what is called silent period…(Marvin Brown and Vera F. Birkenbihl)…and they do affirm that if you want to really acquire a language and especially the proper pronunciation even if you are more than 6 years old, you need to do a lot of passive listening of comprehensible input (or listening in a relaxed way as I let you do in Speak Italian Magically and Awaken your Italian).

I also agree on what is said on the cone of learning….

So what is my conclusion?

That after doing a lot of passive (or relaxed) listening of comprehensible input (i.e. : Italian that you really comprehend), you really need to be active and SPEAK!!!

How can you speak?

You can come to Italy or you can talk to any Italian through Skype…Or you can make some role play (like the ones that you usually do in a school that uses the communicative approach). Or you can also do some shadowing (See Prof. Arguelles).

But what’s more important…HAVE FUN WHILE LEARNING AND SPEAKING ITALIAN!!!

And you, what do you think about all this?

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You are all invited to this FREE virtual event!

https://www.facebook.com/events/248038048597662/

Just join and share with your friends interested in learning Italian. It is a podcast with the audio portion of Awaken Your Italian…For FREE! It’s 2012 and I want you to Awaken Your Italian!

So just by joining and sharing the above event you’ll get to know the link where to download

An audio course of over two hours of real Italian FOR FREE!

And it’s a different kind of course, because the goal of this is to EMPOWER you and make you FEEL GOOD while learning Italian.

You can listen to a preview of the audio (just 12 minutes, but you’ll get more than 2 hours if you join and share the event) below:

When will you get it?

 Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Just a couple of weeks!

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What questions could you ask yourself to learn Italian faster?

Don’t you  know the power of questions? If you haven’t already, check what I wrote on this article of mine.

Then come back here, to know more about solution-focused questions…

What are they? What do you think?

Now, let me tell you briefly about solution-focused interviewing…

Developed in the 1980s by De Shazer and Berg, psychologists at the Brief Family Center in Milwaukee, it has been adapted to work in other fields, such as coaching (see Jackson and McKergow, authors of The Solution Focus).

It contains the following principles:

1) The class of problems is distinct from the class of solutions…Focus on solutions, instead of problems: what is your ideal perfect future? If you are here is because you want to speak Italian very well, aren’t you?

2) The client is the expert. You are the one who knows what’s best for you, what part of the learning you need to focus more on.

3) If it works, don’t fix it. If you are very good at doing something in Italian (for example you are so good at ordering cappuccinos;-), why should you change the way you do it?

4) If something works (better), do more of it.  If you find that something really helps in improving your Italian, what about doing more of it? Do you think this would help?

5) Look for “differences that make a difference”.  Do you remember that time you spoke Italian very well (or any other foreign language)? What made that difference that made you act that way? What  made everything work out so well?

6) If something does not work, do something else. If learning any tiny detail of grammar, didn’t lead you to fluency, why don’t you do something else?

After reading thoroughly several books on the subject, including 1001 solution-focused questions by Frederike Bannink, I thought to introduce solution-focused questions to Italian learning…So in Awaken your Italian, you’ll find 12 of them.

And as a special bonus to the readers of this blog, here you also have the spoken version of them with Kevin Macleood’s music to download  to your mp3 reader and a sentence game to have fun with!

Click on mp3 to listen to what I call domande potenzianti (empowering questions) . Click on Start to play the game I created;-)!

Domande Potenzianti

If you enjoy this kind of game, check this other page out!

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Hello everyone!

Just a quick note to tell you that the eBook version of Awaken Your Italian! is available on Amazon.com!

They are offering it for FREE to launch it, only for today!

Here’s the link:

 Awaken Your Italian - Volume 1

I decided to spread the content of the paperback in 5 ebooks, so that you can try the approach and enjoy it…Then you can decide with your own time to go on with the lessons!

Every volume includes 2 audio files to download.

Here are the links to all volumes:

Volume 1 - Volume 2 - Volume 3 - Volume 4 - Volume 5

Remember that the paperback edition with all the content is available at:

Create Space

Insert the following discount code before checking out to save: 3264T874 Click here and Awaken Your Italian!

Buon divertimento e buon risveglio!!!;-)

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Imagine just for a moment that you were asked to lift 365 pounds even if you haven’t been training for several months…

What would your first reaction be?

Mine would have been “Dai, che dici?“:-)

And what if they told you that if you got relaxed and imagined the lift vividly, you would actually do it?

Would you believe it?

This was the situation in which Charles Garfield found himself in 1976, when he met a group of Soviet doctors. By the way, who’s Charles Garfield? He’s the author of several books…and also the one I’ll tell you in a little while.

Before reading further, answer this: Have you ever read about mental training? What do you know about it?

Stop for a moment and create a little and quick mind map about it…

Then look a the following mind map, which I made out of the 1984 book “Peak Performance” by C. Garfield and H. Z. Bennet.

Well, this is my personal and quick mind map, so let me resume it for you.

This is actually about the pillar of mental training: VOLUNTARY RELAXATION, which according to the authors can be achieved with two 15 minute sessions a day in three months…Very quickly here are the steps:

1) First you need to EXPLORE your body, voluntarily tense it and then relax;

2) Then you need to focus on DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING. The authors suggest the following pattern:

• fill in your lungs completely, breathing in through your nose;
• hold your breaths for ten seconds;
• release your breath with a sight of relief, exhaling through your mouth.

[I talked about a different and also effective pattern on this post]

3)  The AUTOGENIC TRAINING phase, where you (in sequence and in the due time):

• mentally “wear” a relaxation mask;
• feel your body heavy;
• feel your  body warm;
• calm your heart;
• create warmth in your stomach;
• cool your forehead.

4) once you are deeply relaxed you add MENTAL REHEARSAL.

Of course this is just a quick summary of the Peak Performance book, that, although dated (it’s 27 years old!),  contains a lot of useful information about the subject.

Sometimes, I wonder what you think while reading these posts…

And I imagine you asking me: “And what has this to do with Italian learning”?

Well, some principles of mental training were already in my Speak Italian Magically book, even though the relaxing phase was not so deep as the one required by Peak Performance standards.

Several months ago, after reading an article of Tim Ferris, I thought “why can’t I  adapt mental training techniques to let you speak better Italian in shorter time than normal”?

So, I researched the subject and found out about several authors (Ivan Barzakov, Ed Strachar, Richard Bandler and Garner Thomson, Rubin Battino, and many more) who have talked about mental training,  learning, taking decisions and following them through.

And then I realized that you don’t need three months to mentally train. It could be much faster than that.

And I started to put everything together, connecting the dots, as I enjoy to say, to create my new book, which I consider my contribution to 2012, as a year where we’ll have a better world.

In fact, 2012 is about to come and many are talking about the implications that this year might have. Pessimists imply that this would be the end of the world, optimists say that this will be the year of the AWAKENING. What do I think about?

Well, of course, I am a positive person, and as that, I AM SURE THAT something positive will happen by the end of the next year.

What will happen?

Who knows…Anyway, I do think that everyone should contribute to a better world.

And then I thought, how can I contribute to a better world, being just an humble Italian teacher for foreigners?

Of course it’s been  a while that I’ve been thinking about an answer to this question.

And of course there’s no right answer to this.

This book  is just one of my answers to it.

And what’s the title?

RISVEGLIA IL TUO ITALIANO! AWAKEN YOUR ITALIAN!

Enjoy it! Insert the following discount code before checking out to save: 3264T874 Click here and Awaken Your Italian!

Ebook version will come soon!

Buon Natale e felice anno nuovo da Antonio!

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Read this article through for the answer…Anyway, who’s Tim Ferris?

He’s the author of the book on the picture on the left. It’s also available in Italian here.

I was reading an interesting article on his Blog where he said that the “the ideal system — and progression — [ to learn a language] is based on three elements in this order…

1. Effectiveness (Priority)
2. Adherence (Interest)
3. Efficiency (Process)”

As far as effectiveness is concerned he actually meant that “you need to select the right materials to learn a language. Practical fluency is impossible without the proper tools (material). Teachers are subordinate to materials, just as cooks are subordinate to recipes.”
That sentence makes me think. What if I could forget about levels  and teach to the genius which is inside everyone? So,  a seed has been planted into me:

What about creating a piece of  material that can let people learn Italian and useful skills at the same time?
Ferris writes then about adherence:

“Review, and multiple exposures to the same material, will always present an element of monotony,which must be countered by an interest in the material. […] If you have no interest in politics, will you adhere to a language course that focuses on this material? […] Oftentimes, it is best to select content that matches your interests in your native language. […] Use the target language as a vehicle for learning more about a subject, skill, or cultural area of interest.Do not use material incongruent with your interests as a vehicle for learning a language – it will not work.”

By reading this text I realized that this is what I usually do when I want to learn a language. I select a piece of material I am really interested in and the I’ll do my own best to understand it and master, so that I can learn something new or a new skill.

After all Stephen Krashen in his book The power of Reading affirms that you learn much faster and more if you read out of interest. And he tells about a boy who wasn’t very good in writing and after reading a lot of novels he astounded his teacher, who actually couldn’t believe he  had written that piece of essay by himself.

Besides, there’s a teaching method, called CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), that teaches skills and school subjects through the second language. This way conveying both content and language. And this is  what I usually do with a dear student of mine every week. We talk and read about what happens in the world. This is a subject very interesting to him, and to me as well.

But, then I thought:

What kind of content or skill can I convey that is interesting, compelling and useful as well?

And the answer is what you could find in the new book of mine that is about to be published: skills that help you refresh Italian and master any other skill that you need to learn faster in your everyday life.

If this seems to far fetched wait just another little while and judge for yourself.

Another question came into my mind: I know that multiple exposure to the same material in different times is the best way to master it (NEUROSCIENCE says so),  and how can I still keep interesting? A reviewer of my Speak Italian Magically book had the answer for this:

“If you first listen and read along to the English, then just listen, then repeat the experience with the all-Italian version, you’ll have lived out the same little scenario four times, each time getting progressively further into experiencing Italian as a spoken language that you understand without getting bored of it before moving on to the next session”.

After reading that, I thought: Mamma mia!:-)  I already have a method that helps people have multiple exposure to the same material and it is in the”how to use this course” section of Speak Italian Magically. In fact, there I tell about seven different ways to be exposed to the same material. And of course you can still be creative and come up with new ones. (And lately I have been singing those texts with my Students, having a lot of fun, even if we are not good singers at all;-)

Tim Ferris goes on talking about efficiency:

“It matters little if you have the best material and adherence if time-to-fluency is 20 years. The ROI [Return on investment, Nota di Antonio]  won’t compel you. Ask yourself: Will this method allow me to reach accurate recognition and recall with the fewest number of exposures, within the shortest period of time?”

I had the answer  to this too because I know for sure that if you are in a state of relaxed alertness you learn much faster. The idea of creating a new book was all there:

A course teaching skills that also help learn skills, (and this is very interesting and compelling for me and for many people I know. What about you?) and be exposed to a fair amount of Italian language, that can also be learned much faster than with traditional approaches.

To know more about this new project of mine, stay tuned (sign up to the newsletter if you haven’t yet) .

I just want to tell you that it will be the ideal sequel to Speak Italian Magically and will be suitable especially for people who already know a bit of Italian. Even though absolute beginners will be able to understand it too;-). How is that possible?

I always want to create material that can give something new to me and people that already know my work, so it will be something different.

In the end, I just want to thank Tim Ferris very much . If it wasn’t for him this book might have not been written. I haven’t read your books yet, but I am sure I’ll do! And the answer to the beginning question…”Can Tim Ferris help you speak Italian faster?”…For me is YES…He has wonderful good points on that article. What do you think about?

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Do you remember the song that sang “BREATHE”?

Don’t you know it?

I found a Youtube video for you. Here’s the song:

But, wait a minute: wasn’t this a blog about learning Italian? What does the song has to do with Italian learning?

Read further and you’ll discover.

Last month I purchased a biofeedback device…an IOM, to be precise.

Why did I do that? Well, because lately I’ve been interested in tools to improve my mind and body…and I read that it is possible nowadays to check and control your personal bio signals through these little machines called biofeedback (even though the one I bought is actually an active feedback machine)…And I read that you could even control your hearth rate and relax very deeply.

Wasn’t this a thing that only yogis could do? After all when I was at school, a teacher taught me that we cannot control our heart, as it is an unvolontary muscle.

Uhmmmm….Did I believe the teacher? Yes, of course. But then I started suspecting that this wasn’t totally true when I started to practice meditation last year. But, what could I do? I didn’t have anything to prove that teacher wrong (even if by now it really doesn’t matter anymore ;-)…Untill I bought this biofeedback machine and  realised that through a simple breathing pattern I could slower my hearth rate! And the producer of this machine says that “the achievement of a ten second sine wave pattern [of the heart] correlates with optimal functionality of the major bodily systems including blood pressure, cognition, the immune system and mood”.

Then another AHA moment happened to me. What if I used this breathing  pattern before learning something? Would this help? After all they say that it helps with cognition too.

I tried it and I am very happy for doing it.

The consequence of the breathing pattern is that you get deeply relaxed. Does being relaxed help in learning a language?

According to prof. Stephen Krashen it does.  This American professor actually offered a set of hypoteses on the acquisition of  a second language. One of them is the affective filter hypotheses. By it prof. Krashen refers to the affective factors which may block or facilitate acquisition. And being relaxed does help with the acquisition of a language.

The breathing  exercise is very simple…and in my opinion it can improve any learning experience. But this is just my opinion. I’ll leave it up to you to try it.

If you want to try it with the Speak Italian Magically audios…just get your mp3 reader ready just before starting the process.

Here’s how to breath before learning Italian or anything else:

Sit quietly and still your body. Close your eyes and  focus on your breathing. Slowly breathe in (while counting in your mind from 1 to 5 inyour own personal rythm) and slowly breathe out (while counting in your mind from 1 to 5 in your own personal rythm). If you find your mind wander, just aknowledge it, accept it and start again with the breathing pattern. Continue for at least 5 minutes (and not more than 20, they suggest) and then let the audio start (click on play). Continue with the same breathing pattern while listening.  At the end, just take three faster deep breaths for you to awake and strech your muscles. NEVER DO this exercise while driving cars or any machine, as while practicing it you are supposed to be focused on your breathing, not on the car!

I still think that it’s all about connecting the dots and I hope this blog post helps you connect the dots too .

Buon divertimento!

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I was reading a book about learning (and the title is actually: “About learning” by Bernice McCarty) and I was magnetized by a quotation of Sidney Jourard. Here’s what he says:

 We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is.

Someone - our parents, teachers, analysts - 

hypnotise us to “see” the world

and construe it in the “right” way.

These others label the world, attach names

and give voices to the beings and events in it,

so that thereafter, we cannot read the world

in any other language

or hear it saying other things to us.

The task is to break the hypnotic spell,

so that we become

undeaf, unblind, and multilingual,

thereby letting the world speak to us in new voices

and write all its possible meanings

in the book of our existence.

Be careful in your choice of hypnotists.

- Sidney Jourard

Then it just came to me that it’s all about beliefs.

I don’t remember where I read this sentence, but it popped in my mind: “Whatever we believe we can achieve”.

If we believe that we can start and learn another language, we’ll succeed. If we tell ourselves that we’re not ever going to master this new language, we won’t…actually, we won’t even try to start and learn it.

Now, let me tell you about another great author I came across recently. His name is Lee Pulos, who’s recorded an audio course about the biology of beliefs. Just at the beginning of his course he talks about “waking hypnosis”. An example will explain what he means. He actually tells the story of the natives who hadn’t ever seen large ships before Magellano got there. And when the explorers got there, natives received them as though they were gods.  Magellano tried to explain that they were human beings just like them and they used ships to get there. Do you know what? They didn’t believe it.  They actually couldn’t see ships. Why? Because no ship was existing in their world before, so those ships did not exist. Lee Pulos clearly explains about the power of beliefs, both positive and negative and it’s quite an interesting (and surprising) program to listen to.

What do you really really believe?

Have you tried to answer this question?

Have you ever thought about the fact that what you really really believe is what you fear the most?

This is what Heather Macauley Noell , authress of a great novel that I enjoyed very much, says about beliefs in her audioprogram, How to get better. She actually quotes “The result book” by Arlo Wally Minto. And there you can find a wonderful example:

 ”What are some of the things you believe in? You might answer God, gravity, myself, night and day. These
are things we might all believe in, but there are things we believe in stronger than any of these. The
simple truth is that the things we believe in stronger than anything else are the things that we fear. I
will guarantee you, if you are walking down a narrow path through the woods and you come face to
face with a grizzly bear, you are going to believe in that grizzly bear stronger than you ever
believed in God or gravity or yourself or anything else. If you believed in God that strongly, you
would be getting answers to all your prayers, but you’ve probably never prayed with that much
energy and emotion. You see, fear is the same thing as belief except that you put more energy and
emotion into something you fear and so it becomes a stronger belief.

[…] allowing your problems to be O.K. will solve 90% of your problems in life without even directing any attention to the problem.

The simplicity that makes this work is this: Have you ever worried about something or feared
something if you knew it was O.K.? No! If something’s O.K., you don’t worry about it or fear it.  “

Why have I talked about beliefs and what has this to do with learning Italian?

If you want to really start and learn Italian, you need to check what you really believe about your power to learn the language. Answer sincerely and write down your beliefs.

After doing it, ask yourself: “Do these beliefs are useful to my goal (learning Italian in this case)?”

If the answer is no, can you imagine a world where they were just O.K. (as Wally Minto puts it)? Besides, what about substituting them with positive ones?

I have already talked about the power of affirmations, but please keep in mind that if you really feel as though they are true to you, they will  really take the place of the older and negative beliefs you might have now.

As I am writing this article, the following sentence pops in my mind:

It’s all about connecting the dots! Sta tutto nell’unire i puntini!

It’s all about connecting the dots! Sta tutto nell’unire i puntini!

It’s all about connecting the dots! Sta tutto nell’unire i puntini!

So, are you ready to connect the dots and speak Italian now?

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It’s finally available online and in its printed version the guide Pronto Estate 2011.

Click on the picture or here to flip through its pages for free!

Why am I writing about this guide? What has it to do with the learning of the Italian language? Well, one of the most effective ways to learn a foreign language is to read things that you are interested in and you understand. Professor Stephen Krashen says clearly so in his book “The power of reading”. And the guide Pronto Estate not only offers interesting contents, allowing you to discover the beauties of Tropea and nearby, but also comprehensible to the international audience. And how is all this possible?

The guide is written in three languages (Italian, German and English) and, even if translations are not literal, they will allow you to fully understand the text contents presented and to pretaste your holiday in Calabria. What is missing to make it an even more useful device to learn the Italian language?

The only missing thing is the audio!

Talking about this, it comes to my mind an ancient chinese proverb:

“I listen and forget, I read and understand, I see and remember, I do and learn”

So, what would happen if you read, listen, see and do at the same time?;-)

Start and click on the guide link, then open it, flip through its pages, look at it, print it, copy it on your Italian woorkbook and then come to Tropea and practise your Italian! How much faster would you learn?

This is only a little piece of advice of how you could use the guide…but as I was saying, the audio is missing, or it was missing, because I volunteered to record the reading of the guide and I put it at everyone’s disposal!

You can listen to a preview here:

http://media.podiobooks.com/prontoestate/PB-ProntoEstate2011-05.mp3 

All the rest will be available on http://www.podiobooks.com/title/pronto-estate-2011/  from June, 27th, for free!

Please bear in mind that this is advanced Italian, written for Italian people and not for foreigners. Anyway you will be able to understand it thanks to non literal translations that you can find on the downloadable pdf. If you are looking for easier Italian input click here!

If you want to read this article in Italian, click here!

Buon divertimento!

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