How hard is it to learn Italian? What about if I am learning it in Italy?

November 1st, 2009 | by admin |

1-10: 10 being the most difficult.. please rank. Also please share any experiences you have had in italy. I am going to Italy this summer for a month, and im really excited, but also nervous! will it help im learning the language there as a class?

well i have never been to Brazil but im learning italian and portuguese. since my native language is spanish and spanish, portuguese, and italian are latin based romance languages. i think it’s pretty easy to learn italian. i had a german friend that was teaching me german and i found it super hard. so it differs for every person to learn. i would rate italian as a 6 . le italiano e multo bello.

  1. 7 Responses to “How hard is it to learn Italian? What about if I am learning it in Italy?”

  2. By nerdylicious on Nov 7, 2009 | Reply

    well i have never been to Brazil but im learning italian and portuguese. since my native language is spanish and spanish, portuguese, and italian are latin based romance languages. i think it’s pretty easy to learn italian. i had a german friend that was teaching me german and i found it super hard. so it differs for every person to learn. i would rate italian as a 6 . le italiano e multo bello.
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    sorry i meant to say i never been to italy but i was thinking of Brazil.

  3. By Señor Mateo on Nov 7, 2009 | Reply

    I’ve heard it’s similar to Spanish.
    And it wasn’t too tricky learning Spanish.
    I would imagine it wouldn’t be too hard in a class.
    Living there once you’ve heard stuff in a classroom would be amazing for you.
    It’s said that once you’ve mastered (Spanish, French, German, Italian), then you can master (whichever three are left) easily.

    Average Guy: You don’t need to be so rude. I’ve heard it before. That doesn’t mean I am ignorant. I’ve never had the chance to work on 3 languages. I only know two. Plus, I’ve seen people that has mastered five languages, being English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German, so naturally, it would make sense that what is said is fairly true.
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  4. By Average guy on Nov 7, 2009 | Reply

    Going to Italy for a month won’t help
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  5. By eeeeellliii on Nov 7, 2009 | Reply

    Hi, I’m Italian girl.
    Italian is very very different from English! Here in Italy we start to learn English at 6 years old, and we continued to learn it until 18 years old!
    So yes, learn Italian is hard, but Italian is similar to Spanish, so if you can speak Spanish it will be easy.
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  6. By ѕσℓє ∂ι gια∂α on Nov 7, 2009 | Reply

    I’m Italian and the Italian is quite difficult, especially grammar. But if you go in Italy as tourists, you do not need lessons
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  7. By Darko M on Nov 7, 2009 | Reply

    Italian is placed in category 1 language in terms of its closeness to English, meaning, it’s one of the easiest languages for anglophone people to learn. Not that it’s the easiest one, though.

    Vocabulary has some similarities (common Latin base – English is even closer to French in terms of spelling).

    What a native speaker of English can find difficult is verbal conjugation. Italian inherited a complex verb system from Latin, and it has four moods – indicative (tenses: presente, futuro semplice, futuro anteriore, passato prossimo, imperfetto, trapassato prossimo, passato remoto, and (mostly in disuse) trapassato remoto), subjunctive (tenses: presente, passato, imperfetto, trapassato), conditional (tenses: semplice or presente, composto or passato), and imperative (presente).

    It’s a total of 15 tenses that have more than one or two forms for all persons. For example, indicativo presente of the verb ‘mangiare’ – to eat is ‘mangio, mangi, mangia, mangiamo, mangiate, mangiano’ as opposed to English ‘I/You/We/They eat, He/She/It eats’

    It’s important that you go there and learn the pronunciation and some conversational phrases. It will do you good, that’s for sure.
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    Studying Italian.

  8. By Luca on Nov 7, 2009 | Reply

    Hi! I can tell you that… it’s right! Italian is hard to lern and if you want to speak this language very well you have to study…
    I’m an Italian boy and if you want to talk with me I will be happy… have you got msn???
    Good bye from Italy!
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