¶ Intro / Opening
You are listening to Dialogue Frog's short and sometimes silly conversations for listening, imitation, and shadowing practice. Today is episode 5 and we're talking about language.
¶ Language Proficiency and Italian Study
How many languages do you speak, Luke? Probably one half, because I'm not even sure I know English that well. I'm glad I have you on this podcast that's about English conversation. No, you speak English quite well, even as a native speaker. Thank you. But you studied Italian. You studied French. Um, yep. I forgot all of my French and most of my Italian. Non capisco. Capisco. Capisco. I did not. I guess I studied French in high school. But I definitely do not.
¶ Losing Languages and Relearning Italian
It can slip away pretty quickly. If you don't use it, you lose it. Well, I use my car keys, and I still lose those all the time. Well, that's just you. Would you like to keep learning Italian, though? I know you're busy.
Yeah, I think it'd be fun to revisit it. And occasionally I'll come across a little bit of Italian text or something, and I'm like, oh, hey, I can... understand that even if i don't grasp all the grant the even if i don't remember all the details of the grammar and stuff i can still get the basic meaning of the sentence so yeah it It does stay in there somewhere. And there's a lot of cognates between English and Italian. Yeah, for sure.
So when I decided taking a trip to Italy, I can hire you as my tour guide and you can translate menus and museums. Yeah, it depends on what you... You know, I could probably order fish on accident if I was trying to order spaghetti. That's awesome because I don't like fish. So if you could learn how to not order fish, that'd be great. Okay, today we talked about Luke learning Italian. If you'd like a transcript or vocabulary list for today's episode, please go to our website at www.dialogfrost
And we'll see you next time. See you.