{"id":875,"date":"2006-07-24T21:59:27","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T01:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/buongiorno\/"},"modified":"2007-07-28T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T17:31:09","slug":"buongiorno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/buongiorno\/","title":{"rendered":"Buongiorno?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I don’t want to sound like I’m coming off as a know-it-all or anything, but, in general, I’d say I’m not exactly an idiot. Sure, we all have our moments, but I very definitely fell into the “nerd” end of the high school ecosystem, and I’ve got that whole “ivy-league lawyer” thing going for me. But stick me in a language class, and I’m like a blithering 5 year old.<\/p>\n

No, wait. A 5-year old would probably pick this stuff up better than me.<\/p>\n

If you can’t tell, I had my first Italian lesson at Berlitz tonight. tongue-tied doesn’t begin to describe how I did. Try saying “aereo”, pronouncing all of the letters (there are no silent letters in Italian) (hint: it’s something along the lines of “ah-eh-rrrrrr-eh-yo”).<\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/p>\n

Not to mention the fact that I did take about 8 years of spanish, so when I wasn’t mangling the italian with english bastardizations, I was somehow translating it into spanish in my head instead. <\/p>\n

OK, it wasn’t that bad. Or, it actually was that bad, but I’m basically supposed to be a blithering idiot at this stage of the game.<\/p>\n

Hopefully by the end of this 5-week, 3 days a week, 2 and a quarter hours a day class, I’ll be able order dinner once I’m in Milan.<\/p>\n

Ciao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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