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We all need teachers who have mastered the subject, but we also need our fellow students to help us, and lean on along the way. So join Lee as he stumbles, fumbles, and mumbles through the arduous, but noble task of learning a beautiful new language, Italian. It's all uphill from here, but like anything worthwhile, it's about the journey. So if you're also learning Italian, like Italian, or ate at an Italian restaurant once, you might just learn something, and have a few laughs along the way.
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The legend of Don Juan is one that's been told and retold over the centuries by poets and novelists. His life has been the subject of operas, musicals and film. The earliest reference was in a fourteenth century Spanish play and compiled in book form in the seventeenth century. His life continued to fascinate writers like Moliere, Byron, Bernard Shaw, Pushkin, Shakespeare, Jose Saramago and musicians like Mozart, whose Don Giovanni is a brilliant work that still charms audiences and music lo ...
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In this episode Lee discusses the joy of finally "groking" certain Italian phrases for the first time, understanding the importance of grammar as opposed to memorizing phrases, the areas where Italian and English grammar differ most, how he found out that English vowels suck, how English wasn't always "woke," and the neuroglial connections of langu…
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Lee wants you to join him in his struggle to learn the beautiful language of Italian because maybe you're struggling too, and misery loves company! In this stream of consciousness monologue, Lee talks about why he chose Italian, why speaking the language sounds like singing, his preferred software for learning, his holiday in Italy, his horrible me…
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