Learning italian?

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1. Jacob
   

   Italian dialect is renowned as romance dialect, it Is voiced by more the 62 million persons in Italy, Switzerland, san Marino, Vatican town Malta, France, Slovenia and Croatia. If you are a entire beginner then I would propose you to purchase Italian pouch lexicon, start hearing to Italian pieces of music, watch Italian videos shows.
   In Switzerland, Italian is one of four agent tongues, uttered chiefly in the Swiss cantons of Grigioni and Ticino. It is in addition the agent terminology of San Marino, as well as the main terminology of Vatican City. It is co-official in Slovenian Istria and in part of the Istria County in Croatia. The Italian terminology taken on by the state after the unification of Italy is supported on the Tuscan dialect, which beforehand was only obtainable to higher class Florentine society. Its development was in addition effected by other Italian dialects and by the Germanic terminology of the post-Roman invaders.
   Italian derives diachronically from Latin and is the closest national language to Latin. Unlike most other Romance languages, Italian retains Latin's contrast between short and long consonants. As in most Romance languages, stress is distinctive. In particular, among the Romance languages, Italian is the closest to Latin in terms of vocabulary. Lexical similarity is 89% with French, 87% with Sardinian, 85% with Catalan, 82% with Spanish, 82% with Portuguese, 78% with Rhaeto-Romance, and 77% with Romanian. 

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2. Guest844
   

   i found a site that help you a lot
   
   http://italian.about.com/

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3. Guest3207
   

   Learn to speak English first.
   
   The BBC does a good online beginners Italian course called Italian Steps. Google it.

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