78 Emanuela Cardetta ∙ emanuela‐cardetta.com ∙ italian language My TOP 3 articles: Imparare le lingue Le difficoltà della lingua italiana per uno slovacco Attenzione alla punteggiatura! About me: I'm an Italian freelance interpreter and translator. In my free time I like travelling, reading books both in Italian and in the other languages I know, tasting wines, listening to music, playing the violin and walking in the countryside. Currently my working languages are English, French and Slovak, but I also studied Spanish (for three years at school), Chinese (for two years at the university) and German (last year, attending a course). I started studying English when I was 8 and French when I was 11. I immediately fell in love with foreign languages: that's why I went to a high school specialised in foreign languages and after that I realised I wanted to become an interpreter, so I studied “Conference Interpreting” at the university. In 2010, when I was still studying at the university, I started learning Slovak. Since then I never stopped learning the language and in 2012 I moved to Slovakia for a year. In 2014 I got a C1 certification in Slovak language. Last year I started learning German, but in the future I'd like to learn some more Slavic languages, such as Czech and Polish. TIPS & TRICKS FOR: Vocabulary learning: For every learning stage there is a different method. For the first stages of the learning process I recommend reading simple texts. As I like reading newspapers, one method I like is reading articles in the language I want to learn about topics I'm already familiar with, so that it's easier to understand. At the beginning reading the headlines is already enough, and then the difficulty should increase. Then, I take a notebook and I draw two columns: in the first one I write the new words in the foreign language and in the second one their meanings. This way I can cover the second column and try to remember the meanings of the words in the first column (and vice versa). Finally, I record the text and the glossary on an audio file (I use Audacity but any audio recording program is fine) and then I listen to the audio file when I go walking and I try to memories the new words. In the second stage of the learning process, in addition to working with written texts, I also recommend working with audio files. Another nice way to enrich your vocabulary is using Anki, an app you can install on your smartphone that you can use every day to repeat new words. Learning grammar: When you start learning a language you need to learn some basic grammar. In my opinion the best way is to attend language classes or to buy a good grammar book. But it's very important to do a lot of exercises after studying the rules; otherwise the grammar will not be very useful.
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