Villa
April 04, 2010, 01:48 PM
I teach Spanish on Monday and Wed. nights to adults. I teach Italian to adults on Tues. and Thursday nights.
I'm having the time of my life. Would teach for free. I received a scholarship from the Italian government and went to
an Italian university in 2007. Rented an apartment in Perugia, Italy and went total immersion. I had lived in Italy for 2
years before that. Last summer I spent a month in Italy. I also received a scholarship and went to school in Mexico
in 1996. San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
I also speak French and Portuguese.
I wrote the following from my experiences learning languages:
Be an impersonator like Rich Little if you want to learn another language by Villa
Rich Little is one of the top impersonators of famous people in the world.
Rich studies their voices and then imitates the sound of their voice and
mannerisms. Last summer I visited my Italian friend in Vicenza, Veneto, Italia.
He's a teacher and talks constantly. I recorded him speaking Italian and then
listened to my recordings over and over until his speech patterns and the language
he spoke seemed to be coming from my own mouth. Later I visited in Milano, Italy and
the people there told me that my Italian was not only very good, but that I spoke with the
Italian of an Italian from the Veneto region of Italy!
From this experience of imitation, it occured to me(has occured to me) that learning a language is
the same as learning to be a language impersonator! To employ this simple technique,
buy a collection of Italian/Spanish/French/Portuguese audio books and/or languages conversations
on CD and then listen to them over and over until they seem very familar
to your ear and then imitate them. Italians have told me I speak as if I was born in southern Italy
as I've listened and then imitated their speech patterns and sounds by repeatedly listening
to recordings of that area. I've learned to imitate Spanish conversations from CDs of people
from Mexico, Cuba, Argentina,Colombia, Peru, and Spain. I can make my speech imitate language
sounds as if I've lived in those countries by listening and then imitating their regional language
and accents. A Colombian told me that I sounded like those who live in his home town in Colombia.
I accomplished this fete by listening to a conversation repeatedly between two Colombian brothers.
A fellow from Guadalajara, Mexico said I sounded like I was from Guadalajara because I had listened to
people from there. A Mexican fellow, while listening to my Spanish, told me he was attempting to figure
out what part of Mexico I was from by my accent. He said that I spoke perfect Mexican Spanish and
he thought I was Mexican! And all this from listening and then imitating!When I went to Cuba people
I met there asked me if I was from Mexico. One time I spoke like a Cuban when I was visiting in Mexico
and the Mexicans there thought I was Cuban! When I speak Spanish with my Italian accent people think
I'm from Argentina.
My point is that if you love languages like I do, simply listen and then imitate the language!
I'm having the time of my life. Would teach for free. I received a scholarship from the Italian government and went to
an Italian university in 2007. Rented an apartment in Perugia, Italy and went total immersion. I had lived in Italy for 2
years before that. Last summer I spent a month in Italy. I also received a scholarship and went to school in Mexico
in 1996. San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
I also speak French and Portuguese.
I wrote the following from my experiences learning languages:
Be an impersonator like Rich Little if you want to learn another language by Villa
Rich Little is one of the top impersonators of famous people in the world.
Rich studies their voices and then imitates the sound of their voice and
mannerisms. Last summer I visited my Italian friend in Vicenza, Veneto, Italia.
He's a teacher and talks constantly. I recorded him speaking Italian and then
listened to my recordings over and over until his speech patterns and the language
he spoke seemed to be coming from my own mouth. Later I visited in Milano, Italy and
the people there told me that my Italian was not only very good, but that I spoke with the
Italian of an Italian from the Veneto region of Italy!
From this experience of imitation, it occured to me(has occured to me) that learning a language is
the same as learning to be a language impersonator! To employ this simple technique,
buy a collection of Italian/Spanish/French/Portuguese audio books and/or languages conversations
on CD and then listen to them over and over until they seem very familar
to your ear and then imitate them. Italians have told me I speak as if I was born in southern Italy
as I've listened and then imitated their speech patterns and sounds by repeatedly listening
to recordings of that area. I've learned to imitate Spanish conversations from CDs of people
from Mexico, Cuba, Argentina,Colombia, Peru, and Spain. I can make my speech imitate language
sounds as if I've lived in those countries by listening and then imitating their regional language
and accents. A Colombian told me that I sounded like those who live in his home town in Colombia.
I accomplished this fete by listening to a conversation repeatedly between two Colombian brothers.
A fellow from Guadalajara, Mexico said I sounded like I was from Guadalajara because I had listened to
people from there. A Mexican fellow, while listening to my Spanish, told me he was attempting to figure
out what part of Mexico I was from by my accent. He said that I spoke perfect Mexican Spanish and
he thought I was Mexican! And all this from listening and then imitating!When I went to Cuba people
I met there asked me if I was from Mexico. One time I spoke like a Cuban when I was visiting in Mexico
and the Mexicans there thought I was Cuban! When I speak Spanish with my Italian accent people think
I'm from Argentina.
My point is that if you love languages like I do, simply listen and then imitate the language!