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Just arrived in France and struggling to come to grips with the language? Check out Expatica's tips on learning a foreign language.Natalie Lorenzi now lives in Italy. But as a professional language teacher herself, her tips here apply equally to learning any language even while her anecdotes refer to her own adventures in learning Italian.
The moment had arrived for my Italian lessons to bear fruit. After having lived in Italy for only two months, a colleague invited me to a local soccer team's end-of-season dinner.
If you wait for perfection, you'll never communicate
Our group of monolingual English speakers sat clustered together at one end of the banquet table. A bilingual friend served as a buffer, translating snippets of Italian conversation that drifted our way from the other end of the table. After the antipasti, first and second courses, salad, wine, dessert and coffee, the evening was finally winding to a close.
And then it happened. Paolo, the team's leader, leaned back in his chair.
"Natalie," he called to me from across the room. "Ti piaceva la cena?"
The clinking of espresso cups against saucers ceased. Everyone stopped chatting and turned their gazes toward me. Gulp.
I wasn't ready to make my Italian-speaking debut in front of thirty strangers, but at least I had understood his question; he was asking if I had enjoyed the dinner. Luckily, I knew just what to say.
"Si, ho mangiato tutti," I said, smiling.
A moment of silence, then the eruption of laughter. Not mere giggling, mind you. More like roaring. Some even had tears streaming down their faces.
I thought I had answered, "Yes, I ate everything." Obviously, something had been lost in the translation. With a smile still plastered on my red face, I leaned toward my bilingual friend and hissed, "What's so funny?"
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