Language lessons

When I first arrived Italy I understood that I have to learn Italian while living here, to make the life easier and enjoyable. During the the office hours it is all ok. But when I leave the office and and in the heart of Rome, especially when I am in the market for shopping, I realize that language is really a communication barrier in front of me.
Till today I was studying on my own. It was ok, but not efficient as I need.
Here in Italy everything is on hold during summer, even language schools. It was same at WFP. When I asked about the lessons, I am told that, they are on holiday now, and will be starting in the September. And finally today, Italian course for beginners is started. I think I was the first person registered :)
But actually this was obvious that I would attend Italian lessons, it is not the news. The news is I also started French lessons. Yes I am studying both Italian and French.
In my team two widely spoken languages, apart from English of course, are Italian and French.
A few weeks ago when we were chatting with some colleagues, one told that, I could study both. That time I didn't think that it is a good idea. But now, I see that, it was a good idea.
Last week I made my mind up and decided to take both lessons and started French lessons on Friday.
So now on Monday and Friday, I am attending French lessons, on Tuesday and Thursday attending Italian lesson.
Will see how it goes :)

thanks to Google Translator :)

These days I am struggling with the language here. I have just received a mail from the local bank here, but it was all in Italian.
And what I did is pasted all the letter to Google Translator and cliked 'translate' button, then a magic happened and all the letter was translated in English. This is really a great service.
Try and use it, and it is very stabil and reliable.

Here is an example part of the letter to show how powerful it is:

ITALIAN PART
Luglio 2009

Autenticazione forte per l'accesso a SCRIGNOInternet Banking

Gentile Cliente,

La informiamo che a partire dal 23 luglio 2009 sarà possibile personalizzare il livello di sicurezza dell'accesso a SCRIGNOInternet Banking.

L'autenticazione forte, già obbligatoria per le operazioni dispositive, potrà infatti da Lei essere resa necessaria anche per il normale accesso alle funzionalità informative del servizio.
...............

ENGLISH TRANSLATION
July 2009

Strong authentication for access to SCRIGNOInternet Banking

Dear Customer,

We inform you that from 23 July 2009 you can customize the security level of access to SCRIGNOInternet Banking.

The strong authentication, which is already mandatory for running the operations, you may indeed be needed even for normal access to informative features of the service.
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You see, it is great :)

thanks to Google...