Going great! Benissimo! Today we had a quiz on numbers up to fifty, which were dictated and then we had write down both the numerals and the numbers in words. Piece o’cake!

It’s more fun for me now that we’ve gotten past the “Hello. My name is Scott. What’s your name? I am from Indianapolis. Where are you from? Good-bye.” phase. I want to learn the rules and vocabulary so I can construct my own ideas. So many students, at least if they’re on their first (or second?) language, are afraid of learning grammatical rules and want to stay conversational. For me, if I’m learning conversational style, I still need to know how to conjugate verbs so I can understand why/when to use the -e ending and when to use the -iamo ending and that kind of thing.

Anyway, it’s fun learning a new language in a real class! A presto!

Current music: Soundtrack from 1492: Conquest of Paradise