Taking Italian at Wake?

ginnyvere
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:20:44 +0000

I took Italian at Wake and loved it. Spending a semester at Casa Artom was fantastic. What language have you taken before this? I think that people coming from Spanish had an easier time with the vocabulary, but I think that people coming from French (which is what I was doing) had an easier time with the grammar.

At the time, the Italian department had a reputation for being kind of hard graders. My lowest grade in college was in my first Italian class, but that was likely because I signed up for the course that combined Italian 111 and Italian 112 into one semester. So I was doing two semesters of work, in a language that I’d never taken before, in one semester. I think that I would’ve done much better if I’d taken it at a slower pace. And I’ve heard that there have been some staff changes in the Italian department, so only one of the professors that I’ve actually had (on campus and not in Italy) is still at Wake.

And when all else is said and done, I feel like I know Italian pretty well, which should be what’s really important.