Italian for Beginners
Cute movie. You might want to peep it. I enjoyed it thoroughly and enjoy a good laugh every now and then. I went with the Drunken Masta, my fellow Foreign Movie Buff. Other foreign movie buffs: Hockey Dude, and well, hm. That's it. I guess no one likes to read the subtitles these days.
I won't get into the movie, but I will say that learning a second language is a whole new planet. If you have never done so in your whole life, you're missing out on some crucial things, and I don't mean just ordering at ethnic restaurants, but a whole world view that lays out there just waiting for you. I can vouch for it myself, speaking french and some spanish here and there. I know for a fact that it has helped me move out of my comfort zone to be in another country yet feel at ease because I know the language. I know that people treat you a little different if you just make the effort to talk in their native tongue. I know that my life has been enriched, but that's just me.
One thing's for sure, it's nice to go to Europe and find that other tongues are spoken readily. Here? Speak another language, and your public funding is jacked. Go figure. So much for progressive life in the US.
Voodoo
Wednesday, March 20, 2002
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