Lingua Italiana

Yes, the importance of language. The spoken and written thoughts that connect us to each other, become the sheer intimacy that we share.

Some exchange students go to a country that has the same language they do. But I ask the question, “Why fly half way across the world and not hear a different language?”. Then some travel to another country knowing a good amount of the language, which is good. They will enjoy their exchange, much more richly. Then you have kids that have absolutely no clue what the language is, to you, I feel very very bad. This is because the majority of this trip is going to be you learning the language not the culture…

You may say. MICHAEL! You don’t know the language. True, but I will be taking lessons to learn it. And knowing pretty much all of grammatical structure of Spanish, I can apply that to Italian.  They are both romance languages.  I am sure it can’t be that much different.

Oh, and I’ve got 5 months before I leave. I’m just itching to go. Not because I know it will be perfect, because if my life continues it’s route, it most likely won’t be. I do hope it will be the best I can make of it.

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