Why Start with the Alphabet? I'm Not in Preschool!

You are right! You are not in preschool... but you are beginning to learn a new language with new sounds... maybe sounds that are completely different to those of your mother tongue!

Do not be scared to start from the basics! When you learned your mother tongue language around the age of 2 you learned by repeating the sounds that you heard from those around you... you didn't jump immediately to grammar... right?!

For those of you who have taken some of my beginner's courses... I know what you are thinking… AGAIN??? haaaa Giulia you are obsessed with this!

Well it’s not an obsession but it’s the building blocks of a language… Italian is often defined as a "phonetically spelled language” (lots of debates on this topic!)… but this means that each written symbol USUALLY corresponds to a single sound… so if you get the sounds of the Italian alphabet down you are half way there to pronouncing everything correctly!

Obviously there are exceptions… but hopefully I convinced you watch the video and learn the alphabet first so that you can then easily move on to those exceptions!