A Test of My Italian Skills
For my Italian language class, I was given the assignment of writing a paper about an average day in my life. The paper had to be exactly one page long and have perfect spelling and grammar. This is a beginner class, but our teacher felt that months of class time has left us with enough skill to write a full paper in Italian on our own. In order to make sure that my paper was written correctly, I had to use an Itallian grammar check website to examine my text.
Even though the topic of the paper was simple, I was drawing a blank on how to write it. I thought about all of the words I knew in Italian and all the ways I knew to write sentences, and I couldn’t come up with anything. I was over thinking the whole thing. I took a step back and decided to just write the whole paper in English, and then translate it into Italian, sentence by sentence. This was much easier to do because I could gather my thoughts more easily. Once everything was translated, I ran the paper through the grammar checker and everything was perfectly written without any …
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