Looking forward to it, Olly. Although my Italian is more advanced, I'll be following you as much as possible - mainly to see how I could have done it better, and also to look into my own language studying methods. All the best with the project!
I love this project--it really inspires me to return to some of the languages I fell in love with whilst at university (e.g. German and Spanish）and finally learn them well. I'm currently learning modern Greek (a bit of a detour). On that note, any chance you may at some point bring out a Greek reader？Thanks!
Hello, I'm Italian. The first issue of italian language is the grammar. Italian grammar is very very hard. But you don't worry, only low percent of the italian people know the grammar and all verb tenses😂❤
I really loved this style of video Olly! Please keep us updated as much as possible with your project :) I can’t wait to watch you take us to Italy! I’m really curious to see if this input based method proves to be effective.
Have a good time with Italian! I started learning it last month because I plan to take a holiday trip there in September. So, I'll be waiting for your advice on good resources, especially for audio input. At the moment, I don't confuse Italian with French (it is my mother language, so maybe I see better what is foreign from French), but much more with Spanish that is another language I am a beginner in.
Good day mate, I am leaving to Italy tomorrow night in order to learn Italian for six weeks and I guess what, I’ve just purchased your mini stories on iTunes. Hopefully the outcomes of both the course and the mini stories are going to manifest themselves in my listen/speaking skills very soon :)
Good luck with new language learning project! I look forward to following your learning progress. I am learning Italian by myself right now. I hope your tips help me to boost my motivation.
Hi Olly!!! So nice to hear that you’ll be learning Italian this summer!!! I’ve been learning Italian for about six months with a native teacher. Of course I am not fluent yet. Thank you for your videos!!! I do keep in my mind the tips that you share with us!!! They are really inspirational and sincere !!! Good luck with your new language!!!🌼🙋♀️
I would like to see a video with clips of your study sessions, not necessarily narrated. More like we can be “flies on the wall” with a short summary telling us what you’re doing in each clip. Thanks for sharing your journey!
Very apropos for you to start your Italian adventure in Covent Garden. I used to live near there for a year back in 2009-2010. It's lovely. Anyway, Covent Garden is England's first purpose-made Italian piazza then popular on the Continent. The English architects who constructed it in the early 1700s wanted to replicate the beauty and proportion of the Piazza San Marco and the many piazzas of Florence, Rome, Vicenza and Siena. So they came up with Covent Garden. :D
Hi Ollie, very interesting project! As you said, you might find tricky mixing Italian with other Romance languages but as the same time it's a bonus starter. I'd really like to help you with the conversation :) if I can!
Yes, I was interested in watching this series, but I had to give up when I discovered that the unfortunate background music made it impossible to concentrate on the content. I tried clicking on a few more of the episodes but they're all the same. Awful.
Olly Richards, do you think there will ever come a point where you'll say: "OK, no more new languages for the next 2-5 years. I just want to work on some of the languages I've already studied." Maybe to become more familiar with kanji or to work on French pronunciation or whatever you feel like working on. It's the age-old question of breadth versus depth. I'd like to hear your take on it.
Good luck on your Italian project, Olly! Let me know if you need anything I can help with :) PS: oh and I just realised I hadn't subscribed yet! Now it's done :))
Ciao Olly, we met and talked in Reykjavik. I'm Jan's friend from Brussels and I just helped him with his Italian project - I'll contact you in private for the details =)
film part of the listening and highlight sounds, words and such that you find enjoyable and explain why or what it reminds you of. that would be fun to watch.
I have just listened to a chat you had with Anthony Metivier where you said that you reached a high fluency in Italian but had neglected it. Surely it has got to be easier as you are just reactivating the dormant memories?
This is something I’m unsure about. It certainly wasn’t high fluency, but I did study for a couple of months about 16 years ago. After that, spanish and Portuguese came along and I forgot Italian within a few months. So at this stage, I’d say my knowledge is probably similar to someone who learned at school as a kid but hasn’t kept it up.
It sound fabulous, but how do you start reading and listening to a language that you’ve never studied before. How do you find beginner material that you can “just about understand” have you had some Italian before ?
i think the experiment would give better results if the target language were harder to learn like german. Because italian is very very similar to portuguese and spanish languages that you already know, so we can anticipate that the results will be good regardless of the methodology you use
Hey Dave. Well yes... I agree with you. But I’m trying to follow my own interests as much as possible. German’s on the list though, so there will be another chance!
thank you for your answer Olly, i like your podcast a lot, i am teaching myself german trying to apply the principles you are using in the italian project. the main problem i have is finding the adequate material, but i am really enjoying the process. thank you very much for your hard work.
I think German is a very easy language. It’s very similar to English. And honestly easier to me. I had a very hard time learning English and still get confused and I went to school in America at age 12.
Your approach to listening and reading with Lingq would be interesting - will you listen first with no transcript, then listen reading along? Will you try and write out or shadow what you hear, or is that output so not allowed?
I’m basically trying to get as much input as possible, so no writing. I usually listen first without reading, but I’ll experiment with material at different difficulty levels.
Ciao! molto interessante! Alla fine del tuo "silent period" se vuoi parlare un po' in italiano, contattami pure! Sono language learning enthusiastic e seguo tutti gli TH-cam polyglots come te! Daniela from Venice, Italy
Btw the first month i went to french i have done a work away. In the family we didnt speak to much, so i spend a month doing like nothing to improve my french. I know people that went in uk and after 3 month didnt learn anything ( because they spoke more italian than english) So is not always a good idea to move to another country to learn a language.
Ah gotcha. Thought maybe you'd retained some. Maybe some of the basics will come to you quicker having learned a bit before. Either way I'm sure you'll smash it. Best of luck man!
Olly Richards Hi Ollie, your website says that Italian was the 2nd language that your learned and have gone on to learn 7 more? So you’re not strictly a beginner?
Images from libraries and no books to show? Lol. I'm a native Spanish speaker and learning Italian has proven to be tricky. Of course the beginner level is easy to attain, but as you advance it becomes more and more difficult to avoid spanish constructions in italian. Of coyrse it is possible to get a high level of any language as an adult and that it's not necessary for you to move to that country to get that level... But you need good study materials. And some youtube videos are never coming to be enough lol
Hi Olly I really wanted to listen to this video, but that jazz music was so loud and annoying I couldn't focus on anything you were saying. If I want to hear jazz I will put on a jazz music video/audio. Please can you reload this video without that extremely annoying background noise.
This is interesting. But why would I trust a teacher who thinks it's a good idea to have bombastic ballroom music playing in the background? It's counterproductive and just awful.. 🥴🥴🥴
Looking forward to it, Olly. Although my Italian is more advanced, I'll be following you as much as possible - mainly to see how I could have done it better, and also to look into my own language studying methods. All the best with the project!
Thanks Sylvia, I hope to get some tips from you!
I love this project--it really inspires me to return to some of the languages I fell in love with whilst at university (e.g. German and Spanish）and finally learn them well. I'm currently learning modern Greek (a bit of a detour). On that note, any chance you may at some point bring out a Greek reader？Thanks!
Hello! I'm Greek and i have to admit its a pretty difficult language. How are you doing?
Same here for Norwegian.
The background music is AWFUL and totally unnecessary!
@@lara02rex13 Hello, not bad. Thanks for your message! Greek is challenging indeed! What languages are you learning?
Great video! But it was a little hard to hear you over the music, maybe lower it a bit when you're speaking next time?
Thanks for the feedback. I thought I’d lowered it quite a bit, but I’ll lower it more next time
@@storylearning I hope you do -- I can barely stand to listen to this video, as curious as I am, with that jazz organ in the background.
Agreed. Absolutely no need for the music! You are interesting enough ☺️👍
Hello, I'm Italian. The first issue of italian language is the grammar. Italian grammar is very very hard. But you don't worry, only low percent of the italian people know the grammar and all verb tenses😂❤
I really loved this style of video Olly! Please keep us updated as much as possible with your project :) I can’t wait to watch you take us to Italy! I’m really curious to see if this input based method proves to be effective.
Me too! I’ll try my best, and at the very least try to end up with a good video in italy!!
Good luck. I will be particularly interested about how you find interesting and compelling content.
Cheers Stephen - I'll make a compelling list!
going to watch this! Love this as I am bilingual (Italian - English), now learning Spanish and very interested in the input based method.
Have a good time with Italian!
I started learning it last month because I plan to take a holiday trip there in September. So, I'll be waiting for your advice on good resources, especially for audio input.
At the moment, I don't confuse Italian with French (it is my mother language, so maybe I see better what is foreign from French), but much more with Spanish that is another language I am a beginner in.
It’s an interesting experiment when other languages are in play!
Good day mate, I am leaving to Italy tomorrow night in order to learn Italian for six weeks and I guess what, I’ve just purchased your mini stories on iTunes. Hopefully the outcomes of both the course and the mini stories are going to manifest themselves in my listen/speaking skills very soon :)
That’s awesome ... enjoy your trip!!
How’d it go?
In bocca al lupo Olly, a te e a tutti quelli che come te stanno imparando l'italiano! :D
Grazie Marco!
Hey Olly, Ben here! I enjoyed watching this first video.
Good luck with new language learning project! I look forward to following your learning progress. I am learning Italian by myself right now. I hope your tips help me to boost my motivation.
Thank you Aleksandra!
Hi Olly!!! So nice to hear that you’ll be learning Italian this summer!!! I’ve been learning Italian for about six months with a native teacher. Of course I am not fluent yet. Thank you for your videos!!! I do keep in my mind the tips that you share with us!!! They are really inspirational and sincere !!! Good luck with your new language!!!🌼🙋♀️
Thank you!
Hello Olly, I'm sure you could definitely get to a native level just by living with us, cheers from Italy
Haha is that an invitation?
I would like to see a video with clips of your study sessions, not necessarily narrated. More like we can be “flies on the wall” with a short summary telling us what you’re doing in each clip. Thanks for sharing your journey!
Logistically a bit tricky, but I’ll see what I can do!
Very apropos for you to start your Italian adventure in Covent Garden. I used to live near there for a year back in 2009-2010. It's lovely. Anyway, Covent Garden is England's first purpose-made Italian piazza then popular on the Continent. The English architects who constructed it in the early 1700s wanted to replicate the beauty and proportion of the Piazza San Marco and the many piazzas of Florence, Rome, Vicenza and Siena. So they came up with Covent Garden. :D
Good job on "converting":)) A lot of Input is the best way to learn. Good luck Olly!
Hi Ollie, very interesting project! As you said, you might find tricky mixing Italian with other Romance languages but as the same time it's a bonus starter. I'd really like to help you with the conversation :) if I can!
I’m very interested in this project but the background noise is so irritating.
Yes as long as u can immerse in the country u will learn it
Yes, I was interested in watching this series, but I had to give up when I discovered that the unfortunate background music made it impossible to concentrate on the content. I tried clicking on a few more of the episodes but they're all the same. Awful.
Olly Richards, do you think there will ever come a point where you'll say: "OK, no more new languages for the next 2-5 years. I just want to work on some of the languages I've already studied." Maybe to become more familiar with kanji or to work on French pronunciation or whatever you feel like working on. It's the age-old question of breadth versus depth. I'd like to hear your take on it.
That’s a great question. I will make a video about it.
Meu bisavô nasceu na Itália
Good luck on your Italian project, Olly! Let me know if you need anything I can help with :)
PS: oh and I just realised I hadn't subscribed yet! Now it's done :))
Thanks. What can you help with? :)
Ciao Olly, we met and talked in Reykjavik. I'm Jan's friend from Brussels and I just helped him with his Italian project - I'll contact you in private for the details =)
@@linguaEpassione i have always wanted to go to iceland, what is it like in reykjavík
film part of the listening and highlight sounds, words and such that you find enjoyable and explain why or what it reminds you of. that would be fun to watch.
Good idea
Yes when you can live in the country of t the language you are learning is best way .
I prefer the Matrix method where you download the language in 30 seconds.
Maybe you can record your weekly updates in a different location in London each week.
That’s a nice idea!
I have just listened to a chat you had with Anthony Metivier where you said that you reached a high fluency in Italian but had neglected it. Surely it has got to be easier as you are just reactivating the dormant memories?
This is something I’m unsure about. It certainly wasn’t high fluency, but I did study for a couple of months about 16 years ago. After that, spanish and Portuguese came along and I forgot Italian within a few months. So at this stage, I’d say my knowledge is probably similar to someone who learned at school as a kid but hasn’t kept it up.
Thanks for the reply.It will be interesting to see how quickly it comes back after 16 years.
I suspect my knowledge of Es and Pt will be more helpful than the traces of Italian that remain. But we’ll see!!
Olly Richards I made the mistake of trying to learn Italian after Spanish and just got totally confused!
Occupational hazard!!
It sound fabulous, but how do you start reading and listening to a language that you’ve never studied before. How do you find beginner material that you can “just about understand” have you had some Italian before ?
i think the experiment would give better results if the target language were harder to learn like german. Because italian is very very similar to portuguese and spanish languages that you already know, so we can anticipate that the results will be good regardless of the methodology you use
Hey Dave. Well yes... I agree with you. But I’m trying to follow my own interests as much as possible. German’s on the list though, so there will be another chance!
thank you for your answer Olly, i like your podcast a lot, i am teaching myself german trying to apply the principles you are using in the italian project. the main problem i have is finding the adequate material, but i am really enjoying the process. thank you very much for your hard work.
Cheers Dave!
I think German is a very easy language. It’s very similar to English. And honestly easier to me. I had a very hard time learning English and still get confused and I went to school in America at age 12.
Your approach to listening and reading with Lingq would be interesting - will you listen first with no transcript, then listen reading along? Will you try and write out or shadow what you hear, or is that output so not allowed?
I’m basically trying to get as much input as possible, so no writing.
I usually listen first without reading, but I’ll experiment with material at different difficulty levels.
Legal ser poliglota conhecer outras culturas e pensamentos diferentes
Start from this:
In bocca al lupo!!!
Signed:
One who's struggling the other way round
Ciao! molto interessante! Alla fine del tuo "silent period" se vuoi parlare un po' in italiano, contattami pure! Sono language learning enthusiastic e seguo tutti gli TH-cam polyglots come te! Daniela from Venice, Italy
Thanks Daniela, please send me an email!
I’m learning Italian and in just a couple days I can get this jist of this comment
Btw the first month i went to french i have done a work away.
In the family we didnt speak to much, so i spend a month doing like nothing to improve my french.
I know people that went in uk and after 3 month didnt learn anything ( because they spoke more italian than english)
So is not always a good idea to move to another country to learn a language.
Hey Olly. I thought you already knew Italian? Didn't you learn a bit at the start of your language journey?
Yep - about 17 years ago for a couple of months. It’s pretty much extinct though. I suspect my knowledge of Pt and Es will prove more useful.
Ah gotcha. Thought maybe you'd retained some. Maybe some of the basics will come to you quicker having learned a bit before. Either way I'm sure you'll smash it. Best of luck man!
Olly Richards Hi Ollie, your website says that Italian was the 2nd language that your learned and have gone on to learn 7 more? So you’re not strictly a beginner?
Olly, I don’t see the link to your resources; you said they would be below in the comments.
do danish, danish is pretty easy
"England about to win the world cup" It aint coming home son ;)
And you are correct.
Do you have a list of language learning levels and how to tell what level you are?
Where did you get the books?
I’ve been learning Italian for 3 months now
You’re 3 months ahead of me!
Olly Richards you will definitely have an easier time with the sentence structure the I’m struggling hahaha
Good Luck!
Good luck!
Thanks Nik
The links (3 of them) are broken and send you to a Spam site.😕
Images from libraries and no books to show? Lol. I'm a native Spanish speaker and learning Italian has proven to be tricky. Of course the beginner level is easy to attain, but as you advance it becomes more and more difficult to avoid spanish constructions in italian. Of coyrse it is possible to get a high level of any language as an adult and that it's not necessary for you to move to that country to get that level... But you need good study materials. And some youtube videos are never coming to be enough lol
I'm very glad that you're learning a "brother language"....by the way, I adore Spanish...che lingua meravigliosa ♥️🇪🇦♥️
Hi Olly
I really wanted to listen to this video, but that jazz music was so loud and annoying I couldn't focus on anything you were saying.
If I want to hear jazz I will put on a jazz music video/audio.
Please can you reload this video without that extremely annoying background noise.
Hi Olly , if you know spanish already, learning italiano would not be difficult
The music got a bit annoying. Good luck.
30 degrees !
Bonjour!
Crazy music, ahhh
kitchen airlifted oil fillings viva!!!
How did you maintain all your other languages during these 3 months?
I didn’t really, other than occasional speaking. But you don’t lose much in 3 months if your other langs are strong.
About to win the Worldcup 😅 greeting from Paris
0:30 this video did NOT age well
0:34 that comment didn’t age well
It's very difficult to concentrate on what you're saying when you have background music playing!
Forza!! :)
ciao
Get rid of distracting music
How can you not speak for 1 mos, yet not work on your pronunciation.
Non è possibile quasi nessun italiano sa parlare bene L'italiano non si può imparare in tre settimane
2018 was before the pandemic. That was during social interaction times making learning easier.
You aren't going to work at all on your pronunciation in the 1st mos.?
Parlo un po' di italiano
I have started learning Italian, but only about 30 minutes to 1 hrs a day. I dont like LinQ.
This is interesting. But why would I trust a teacher who thinks it's a good idea to have bombastic ballroom music playing in the background? It's counterproductive and just awful.. 🥴🥴🥴
Lol in all his “languages” he know very little
My listening skill is so bad.
The back ground music prevents me from listening to your voice.
Please remove it.
Sorry about that
I hate the music, no need for it, your voice is enough