Reply #70: Believe me, my son didn't have the $$ for tutors either! [View All]

[napi21]

He learned Italian by being there! Think about it. You HAVE to learn the money system just to be able to buy groceries or even go to a restaurant and figure out if you're getting the correct change. You learn a lot almost by osmosis. Most of us know the work Ciao. It's because we've heard it often enough and relate to it. He's been there 3 1/2 years now. He's still not a great Italian orator, but he knows enough to communicate what he needs to. A fellow I worked with really surprised me when he told me his monther had brought him to the US from Germany when he was 12. He didn't know ONE work of English! His mother put him in school, and although the kids were pretty nice to him, he learned most of his English through comic books. Yu've got the pictures that depict the throughts and actions, and he said they were the biggest help. To speak to him today, you'd never guess he wasn't born somewhere in the US. He has no accent at all, but still remembers how to speak very fluent German.

It can be don, and fairly easy, as long as you have the will to learn.