Episode 11: The Point of No Return
Here we are in week eleven of this journey and I’m supposed to be getting a tutor to help further my pursuit of learning Italian. As my wonderful...
Read moreEpisode 10: Your Guess is as Good as Mine
My wife is going to Saudi Arabia day after tomorrow, and it’s weird, the most terrifying thing to me is that I don’t know what’s up there at...
Read moreEpisode 9̷ 666: Sh*t’s Getting Spooky
“Ho la peste” means “I have the plague” in Italian. The plague, as we all know, refers to the bubonic plague, or Black Death, which struck Italy hardest...
Read moreEpisode 8: Lost in the Supermarket
When I was first approached about doing this here column for Rosetta Stone, the premise, if you can believe it, was pretty open ended and it was more...
Read moreEpisode 7.2: Putting My Shirt on One Leg at a Time
Hola Amigos, I know it’s been a while since I rapped at ya, but things have been nuttier than a Payday truck exploding in the middle of a...
Read moreEpisode 6: All I Know Is That I Don’t Know Nothin’
They say that you shouldn’t ever start out any sort of conversation or extended monologue with negative vibes, and I agree, which is why I’m bringing this up...
Read moreEpisode 5: Catching Flies with Chopsticks
Are y’all familiar with the idea of “avoidance behavior?” Clearly, even if you’re not, it doesn’t take a brain scientist to figure out the gist of what it...
Read moreEpisode 4: Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
In my most recent Italian lesson, the Rosetta Stone in-app police stringently discouraged me from moving on and told me to go back and retake the last lesson,...
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