TopTen Reasons to Learn Italian

By Dan Hope

The language of love is spoken by more than 66 million people in 30 different countries including Switzerland and Slovenia. Join the crowd. TopTenREVIEWS has compiled a list of ten reasons to learn Italian, just in case you needed extra motivation to learn such a beautiful language.

1. You want to know what those opera singers are saying. (Who is Figaro anyway?)
2. Your relatives are Italian. (And your nonna keeps saying things you don’t understand.)
3. You’re dating an Italian. (That’s amore.)
4. You want to watch the movies of the famous Italian directors. (After all, La Dolce Vita is so much sweeter without subtitles.)
5. You want to read classic literature in the original language. (The Inferno will be that much more caldo.)
6. You’re planning a romantic date with an Italian theme. (When in Rome…)
7. You’re planning to study abroad in Italy. (Be ready to wow all the Italian co-eds.)
8. You don’t want to look like a silly tourist with a phrasebook in hand when you visit Italy. (“Where’s the leaning Tower of Pizza?”)
9. You want to know what exactly you’re ordering the next time you go to an Italian restaurant. (So next time you’ll know the difference between pasta and pesto.)
10. You love the way the Italian language sounds. (L'italiano è così bella.)

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