Would Love to Learn Italian / myLot

@noni1959 (13162)

United States

August 9, 2026 6:55pm CST

I'm not motivated today, and feel this overwhelming urge to non far niente. I'm trying to remember how to say this in various ways. Maybe I'm meaning non ho voglia di fare niente? I wish I kept with learning Italian so when I visit there in a year or two, I'll have the basics back. It's hard learning a new language, and believe for me, the hardest is running the words together and not slowly sound them all out. Maybe the rolling of the r's where needed is a top thing too. I sound awful. My top things to know before I go: "where is the toilet?" (Do they say toilet, bathroom, restroom?), "who has the best gelato and pizza?" I want to go to the Isle of Capri and know they speak English, but would still be polite to learn some Italian. What languages other than your own do you speak? Have you wanted to learn other languages?

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Amber

@AmbiePam (124508)

• United States

Even if I knew Spanish (since it’s so widely spoken here) well, I doubt I’d try to speak it around here if English was also an option. Even if I were in Mexico, I’d try English first. Why? Because I sound m like a gringo trying to speak correctly in Spanish. Anyway I slice it, I just know they’d be the laughing at the middle aged white woman trying to communicate correctly. Now, you, you I have the utmost confidence to get the enunciation and proper accent in Italian right.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (239859)

• Walnut Creek, California

I lived in Italy for a year and spoke fluent Italian (for a 4-year-old). But I have forgotten most of it. Sigh.i

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@DaddyEvil (176733)

• United States

I took French classes in high school but have forgotten a lot of what I knew.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (15132)

• Ireland

15m

@noni1959 Dov'è il bagno? I’ll be in Italy at the end of August. I get by in Italian but not without much hesitation and generally getting things wrong but I always manage and have great fun doing so. I do speak French and Irish.

Judy Evans

@JudyEv (385953)

• Rockingham, Australia

23m

I used my French in France but often after a few sentences they'd converse in English. But if you didn't try French first, they wouldn't bother with English.

Jimbo45

@Ineeddentures (42540)

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I speak 3 languages English French Bad Sometimes it's best just to speak English If we mess up trying to do the Italian by trying to be polite, they might laugh at us in Italian and we don't know what they mean dov'è il bagno?

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Xavier Bage

@franxav (14630)

• India

38m

I want to learn Italian too.