Learn Italian for Travel

Ileana Gantt shares her expertise on language learning based on her experiences as an immigrant, language learner, Spanish professor and chair of the World Languages Department at Butte College. 

A fun conversation with polyglot and Brazilian native, Luciana Crawford about the importance of language learning and utilizing language for travel as well as for a better life experience. 

Explore the many uses of this very short but very important word. 

Learn phrases to wish people well, including saying congratulations, good luck, happy birthday and many more.

Learn when to use and how to form the imperfect past tense, through the presentation of vocabulary and the sharing of a short personal story. 

I'll introduce relevant vocabulary and then tell the story of the first time I went to Italy. 

Learn to construct the present perfect tense utilizing the verb 'essere'

In this first podcast, I will be introducing vocabulary included in the story, as well as explain various grammatical rules. The vocabulary, Italian transcript, and translation are found in the blog section of my website: learnitalianfortravel.com. Grazie!