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I did my utilities online, changing names for utilities is just a call and I have dine it in the last 10 years here in Venezia.

Love your content! I'm starting up my YT channel and hoping I can reach the same level next year <3

Il tuo vlog molto interessante. 😊

My plan is to use this amazing podcast ive found on Spotify and music in general. Also Italian club and listen and learn as i do everything gym, cleaning, work ect. Then eventually one to one tutoring when i can string a sentence together also will definitely check out your 30 day looks interesting.

I'm 3 months into studying italian. I've written extensive notes................and never looked at them again after writing them. Complete waste of time. You are 100% correct. I live in New York but I'm starting to think the only way to really speak Italian is to live in Italy. Otherwise, I just don't use it enough even though I study every day.

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Greeat! specially with the subscribers goal, only 3k to go, good luck!

Thanks for the video and the template! It's motivating 💪

I'm a linguist who has learned a handfull of languages myself as well, and I just want to say I didn't completely dissagree with anything you said in this video, You know your stuff. Nicely done! :) Thanks for sharing

I suggest you to cut the hunger with a "merenda" in the afternoon, which is like a snack we usually take around 4/5 pm. It can be a sandwich or some pastry, up to you. Not everyone has it, but it's really helpful if you're like me, who gets hungry every 2/3 hours 😂

Thank you so much❤

Loved the content and the video as well ❤

Thanks for the encouragement! I think I will get your template. I’m also going to Prague in Oct! Have fun!

Hi we are glad to see you happy us we want and I hope you great day

We lived in Italy for a year, and I agree with everything you said! When we first arrived, I would make eye contact and smile with people and they would just stare. I missed my clothes dryer and air conditioning for sure. We met our Italian friends in Santa Fe, NM a few weeks ago and it was very hot. However, they all came into restaurants with hoodies and the wife brought her puffy coat and scarf (it was the middle of August!). I will admit I was freezing in one restaurant but I didn't have a hoodie the car with me. Another Italian friend that has lived in the US for 10 years and has 6 children still hangs their clothes instead of drying them. I thought for sure she would have changed her laundry habits since she has a clothes dryer. I loved living in Italy and experiencing the differences in culture, but I have to admit that I like our conveniences in the US.

Our burocracy is sooo slow and bad, you're totally right 🤣 I can also confirm that dryers are not common at all. They are almost a mythological creature in apartments (at least the ones for rent). About screens it's a little more common to have install them if you buy a house, but often if you are renting it you don't care to install them because, at the end of the day, you're basically gifting them to the house's owner. Some people don't mind that, but many do. If we talk about air conditioning instead it's a little more common, but also it depends from where do you live. In southern Italy it's hotter and people tend to use it more (maybe it's not as hot as most of the US?). But the economic point of view is also correct, not just for buying it, but also for using it. So even when we have it we try not to use it if not necessary. @Shea Jordan sei qui da due anni? Ottima pronuncia!

Soooo,once again...WHY are you living in Italy,when so many things are bothering you??? Anything???

none of these culture shocks are really not anything really shocking. some seem great. the opposite of culture shock

This video was so helpful and informative! Thank you for the info! Like you said, there’s definitely kind of a lack of information out there about the whole process. I’m currently in the process of researching student visas, and I was wondering if you renewed yours specifically for another language program? And I’m assuming you renewed it from Italy? I wasn’t sure if you could renew the initial six-month or one-year visa for language a language program for another year, and have had trouble finding answers! Thanks again for a great video!!

Agree with most, but not all: lunch time IS a break, during which one takes advantage in order to have lunch, and it should be about one full hour. I am Italian (but lived 32 consecutive years in the US), and I can't stand the staring, as some folk stare into your car when you drive by, especially in small town... I once gave them the middle finger, you should have seen their face! Also agree with their quite common habit of passing in front while you wait on line... not everyone does it, and not everyone is that rude, but it is frequent, and the culprits feels like the "outsmarted you", with a smirk on their face. 100% right about how everything is disorganized and made difficult: always recall last time I moved before coming back to Italy, how in about half an hour on the phone (it was in 2006) I had gas, electricity, all the utilities contracts done... here is such a headache! Even opening a Bank account will take for several days! Selling your old car, to buy a new, or maybe another used one? Here everything MUST be done (very expensively) through a Notary Public! AC: I'd be dead without it in Summer!!! Impossible to sleep with 30 Celsius in a room! I keep it at 23.5, and low speed fan, and not blowing directly on my face either... When we were without Air Conditioning we'd be tossing and turning all night long, turning the pillow hoping the other side would be cooler... getting up exhausted the next morning. You didn't mention the mattresses! Recently (the last 10 years, I guess) there has been an improvement, otherwise most Hotels (3 and 4 stars) had very hard and uncomfortable mattress. Recall being able to feel the metallic coils with my fingers in a 4 stars that was boasting having had France's Prime minister Mitterrand as guest!

your eyes woww

Salad is a contorno, we don't eat it after but with the second course.

Dryers in itlay don't have a market because in half of the country houses have terraces instead of roofs, and people love to dry up their clothes with the sun. In the south even in January you can dry outside. We have wires on the terraces, wires out of the windows and balconies. Most of italian houses got balconies.

windows doesn't have screens because they are claustrophobic and don't let air and light come in. Also bologna doesn't have all these bugs and mosquitoes. My parents in the south of Italy have windows with screens but just to the house by the sea because they are at ground floor and it's full of mosquitos. I think generally in the countryside it's more common to have screens but usually you can open them allowing to have more air and light when you wish.

Hang drying clothes is the way to make them last longer. A dryer will ruin clothes over time!

Just got back yesterday from a month long road trip through Italy. I drove through Bologna on the way to Venice, so I must have driven just a few miles (oops, "kilometers") from where you live. Anyway... this video is spot on. The only other shockers I would add are the aggressive driving and narrow streets that can make one's blood pressure go through the roof. Napoli was crazy.

Io da italiana con duolingo sto imparando lo spagnolo e il rumeno. Lo spagnolo è da 2 mesi che lo studio,mentre il rumeno ho iniziato la settimana scorsa. Per ora mi sto trovando bene

If you had lived in NJ, you wouldn't have had any culture shock. :)

Speaking of thrillers, a while back, you mentioned a book called The Silent Patient. I finally got around to buying it and WOW! Loved that. (I recommended Jhumpa Lahiri for you, and I'm wondering if you gave her a read?)

it's my first time to watch your video! Thank you for sharing your study routine!!

Congiuntivo, noooo! 😅 Do you have trouble understanding, normal Italian? I have a fear that when I go to Italy, I won’t understand anyone lol

hi how do you do?eco summer Hellasgood bye

La tua passione per il perfezionamento dell'italiano è meravigliosa, una persona dedicata, curiosa e non pressappochista, Dio ti benedica 😍😻 Subjunctive's use rules is a grammar part in which even us native Italians have difficulty, I for example often put subjunctive even where it is not needed, but the subjunctive makes our language not two-dimensional, but three-dimensional, more expressive, and certainly not too easy x'D

Ducklang app is awesome for Italian. It’s all about quick vocab learning, no extra stuff to slow you down. My Italian vocab has improved a ton since I started using it.

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Salve Shea! I am studying Italian!! I was a Spanish language learner, but fizzled out at the B2 level. This summer, I was inspired to learn Italian. I will revisit some of your older videos. I have a food blog, so I am trying to speak a little with various business owners to show I care about their culture. Right now I am mostly through the A1 level. Italian is a beautiful language for sure. ❤

Non capisco perché gli Americani debbano chiamare tutto ciò uno shock culturale. Che shock? È semplicemente uno stile di vita diverso dal tuo. Non sono cresciuta credendo in Babbo Natale, ma non è strano né scioccante, è semplicemente diverso. Basta.

8:31 Salmons don't grow in the Mediterranean, and it is not an ocean, but a sea, there is a difference :)

The things about not having certain things in our homes I think might be influenced, in your case, by you living in Bologna, it's a city with an awful housing market and the few places you can rent might not be kept the best (but true, AC is not that common, but screens on our windows? I wouldn't survive without and everyone I know has them, also I live half an hour from Bologna so yeah).

You are very sweet and charming and very, very young. #1. Have you renewed your license lately a t a Regisry stateside? And “lines”. Oh -please - this is NOT a show stopper. You will get to your place in the line exactly at the place you entered. So let’s see. . . Fabulous food, cake for breakfast, loads of vacation time . I’m missing what’s to hate. Trust me young lady you WILL look back on this time with a sense of loss! Revel in every second while you are being so mistreated. Lol

Una marea di luoghi comuni e generalizzazioni, come se Bologna fosse tutta l'Italia e co e se casa sua in affitto fosse una qualsiasi casa di proprietà nel resto d'Italia. Sulla burocrazia, unica cosa che è vera.

You're a real Italian because the gesture at 2:11 proves it. Approved!

PLEASE DO A PART 2