The Bilingual Brain.

Recent research supports what teachers have always  known: learning a language has a positive impact on brain physiology. The findings show that our primary language forms our minds and our perceptions: it affects the way we think and process information.  Researchers studied Italian and English speakers and found that Italians read and process information faster, even when reading words from other languages (learning a language, playing a musical instrument and solving word puzzles are listed as three important activities that keep the human brain active and healthy. Learning a language is listed first among these activities.)

(from Nature Neuroscience.)

A few easy ways to learn Italian.

There are many reasons to learn Italian:[ family history,  job opportunities, vocabulary enrichment, travel]  but it may help to think about some specific reasons:

• you can read Dante's La Divina Commedia, indisputably one of the seminal works of world literature
• you can research your family history without hiring an interpreter
• you can understand and sing along with the great aria's in Italian opera,
• you can ignore subtitles in Italian language films, and perhaps best of all,
• you can speak to your grandparents,
• you can speak to Italians when you travel overseas
• you can teach your children and grandchildren the language of their rich and precious heritage

   A few Ways to Speak Italian Quickly.