Back in the day, you know, elementary school, we used flash cards for everything. Math, spelling, definitions etc. Flash forward (hahah get it?) to 2005. I used flash cards to help me study for my PMP exam. I find them useful and I'm very good at memorizing in that way.
Tonight I was telling my friend BeagleBabe that I think I'm too late to find an Italian class for our cruise in April. I've been wanting to take a super simple, tourist Italian class and just haven't gotten around to it.
And then I became unemployed and couldn't really defend spending $$ on an Italian class.
Tonight I got home and found this site. I went through ALL the phrases and was happy to find out that some, ok very little, of the Italian I learned while at TASIS came back.
Then I read through them again. And in the second round I realized, I need flash cards. I am, after all, unemployed and so have the time to make me some flash cards.
I simply think learning a few phrases in the language of the country you're visiting is the polite thing to do. And I love that it's something that comes to me relatively easy. I won't, by any means, be able to carry on a conversation, but I will be able to order a beer and find the bathroom.
And that is, after all, all I really need to know.
Buona Sera!!
AKA - Good night
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