Teach Yourself Italian

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The essay of "Teach yourself Italian" was written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published in the New Yorker. Lahiri talks about her interest and devotion to the Italian language she gained. In 1994, she visited Italy for the first time and realizes that she wants to learn the Italian language, she becomes fascinated by it. She says it herself, "for a writer, a foreign language becomes a new adventure." Her mom knew Bengali and Lahiri tried to speak, write, and read it herself but she wasn't as good as her mom. She had an accent and she wasn't able to pick up the language. However, when she went to Italy she knew this was the language she wanted to learn because she had all these questions to ask but little knowledge of how to even say it. She wanted

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