*I know Heta and I are supposed to share a blog, but I don't exactly know how to do that! So I am just posting my own for the person we talked to. ( sorry)

1. We talked to Mr. P.
2. We chose him because he speaks Spanish, which is similar to Italian in many ways. Also, we had easy access to him because he is our teacher too.
3. We discussed the benefits and difficulties of learning a new language and the similarities between Italian and Spanish. Also, we discussed how we should begin the process of learning Italian.
4. He helped us by showing us what kind of travel guide we should use to learn our basic Italian. He also told us stories about people who earned more money because they knew multiple languages, which obviously motivated us. He also helped us decide how much we should learn within our eight week span. He provided us with examples of Spanish and Italian words that we almost the same.
5. Our next step for the project is to learn Italian through the schedule we made for our pitch. Eventually, we will be speaking to real-life Italians in actual Italian!

Today I learned how to say a few words and phrases!!

luomo- man
donna- woman
mela- apple
io- I (pronoun that goes in front of the verb)
Tu mangi la mela- you eat the apple
Io sono la razzaga/donna- I am a girl/woman

My 20 Time Project

*Heta and I talked about doing a joint project. (Maybe) Also, I am going to help out with or be a part of Georgia's soccer camp project.( I didn't know if I should write anything about it or not)

Final Goal/Accomplishment: 

• I want to learn as many Italian words, phrases, verbs, etc as possible. 
• I would like to learn enough to communicate with actual Italians when I visit Italy over spring break.

• To be successful with this topic, I obviously need to know more Italian. I need to know that it will be awkward talking to random Italians when I am in Italy. Also, I need to know how to organize my learning style because I am not learning Italian with a teacher, like I learned most (or little) of my Spanish. 

• I already know some basic Spanish, which might help my learning of Italian; this could make learning Italian a bit easier. Also, there are Italian travel guides that can help me in Italy if I happen to forget.

• It will be difficult to try and learn Italian along with my core classes and along with soccer season. Also, the communication part of this project will be difficult for me because I am a very awkwardly shy person around people I don't know. Having to speak Italian to random people in Italy will be simultaneously interesting and difficult!

• This project can be done in or out of class. I can practice Italian anywhere, since I will mainly be using an app on my phone that will help me learn it.