Italian Class

I'm taking Italian class here at Polimi. They have two levels apparently, super beginner, where I feel OK but am one of the by far best students, and then, foreigners that speak Italian. There's no intermediate level, really. So you have to learn on your own for a while.

In the beginner class, on the first day we just practiced asking and answering introductory questions. Come ti chiami? Di dove sei? Quanti anni hai?

On the second day, we worked on some vocab, and then regular verb conjugation for verbs ending in -are, like mangiare (to eat) and cantare (to sing). It was actually quite good for me, since the other Italian learning things I have been doing have focused more on conversational stuff, and I really like to have a strong grammar background. With the informal style, I hadn't really understood the rules for regular verbs.

These classes are of course full of foreign students, all of whom speak English at a decent level. One of the guys in the class is one of Marcello's students who I work with, and he knows several other people in the classes. After class on Wednesday we went out to an Irish pub to watch the AC Milan vs. FC Barcelona game. (One of the guys in the group is a Barca fan... he had to cheer quietly!) AC Milan lost the game 2-3. It was actually a pretty exciting game.



My drink for the evening was a pear Magners. Quite yummy. Our waitress was also distracted by the game, so there was no chance of a second drink until after the game!