Category: Language

Learning another language is never easy. Well, I can’t really talk from vast experience. I once spent two months studying Spanish in Mexico when I was in my twenties but that never got me to any real level of fluency. It did allow me to get around reasonably well and I’m still surprised that I can […]

The title of this post, as many will recognize, is a line from a Robert Frost poem. The poem uses it as an allegory for the decisions one makes in life at various junctures and how a life unfolds from there. One rarely returns to those decision points to take the other path. So it […]

Learning Italian will probably always be a struggle for me. I’m always amazed when I talk to someone and they say that they just “picked it up”. I know that languages come easily to some people. The lovely D seems to understand spoken Italian better than I do which drives me nuts. Perhaps that’s because […]

After resuming the study of Italian sometime last spring I have done a number of things. I found my old textbook (Da Capo), my Italian/English dictionary and the indispensable “201 Italian Verbs” and started self study. Of course I was inspired to do this after attending the biweekly Gruppo Italiano meetings at which coffee is […]