Ciao amore from Denise! I just need to share the highlight of my day today. I have this italian cell phone that delivers tons of text messages in Italian to me all the time. I've just gotten so used to looking at them and immediatly deleting them because I don't ever understand it. Well, today I got a text message from my phone service again. As usual, I instinctivly went to the delete button and then froze in mid-action. I was looking at a message in Italian that I could understand! It was a miracle! It was just as if suddenly I knew all the words there! And it was so simple, I had to wonder to myself, "Why didn't I understand this before?" Anyway, it was great! So I now understand the following message in Italian: "The telephone secretary informs you that you have 1 new message. To listen, the number is 42020. To receive the number that called via SMS press 0 after you listen." Isn't that sooo cool! It's amazing that such a small accomplishment can make me soo happy! Capische?
About Me
- mccollaum fam
- Hello! Our family is now living in Italy! My dad is in the army and my mom stays home and does all the real work. All of us kids are attending school and working hard to learn italian. There are 5 kids: 2 boys and 3 girls.
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Yeah! It's the simple things that makes us happiest, funny huh?
It's good to start understanding things. I remember that feeling from when I was learning portuguese. As a side note, who wrote this post? Jess?
That's great!! It must feel good to start getting that intuitive feel about the language.
Denise wrote this post. But as soon as I showed it to Jessica, she understood it too! She's far ahead of me though!
hahaha. i think i've had a few moments like that. right now i'm trying to learn some Russian...i'm not at that point where i can understand anything, though. really, i'm just trying to discern letter sounds.
i think that every time i come to the mccollaum's blog, at least one pic pops up that couldn't load from my prior visits. It's like i get a new picture everyday :) except it really just means my computer is slow or something...
Nice! It looks like your time has arrived. Good job.
come on, more posts!
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