La lingua d'italia e bellissimo!

In high school, I didn't take Spanish or French like normal kids. I took Latin. It's generally not a spoken language (but NEVER tell a Latin scholar it's a dead language), so I can't really speak it, but I can read it decently well and if I were Catholic, I could generally understand the Pope. But I'm not Catholic, I'm LDS, so I came to BYU and decided I needed to take a language. So I took Italian for a year. It's still rough, but I'm getting there. Although the class, especially 102, was torture, I'm glad I learned it. One thing I did learn while in Hawaii is that it's SUPER useful to speak another language so you can talk to each other in that language in front of other people. An example: really weird guys from Japan were talking to us. They were UH students. We wanted to leave. So with my broken Italian and my friends' basic Spanish, we were able to communicate that to each other without them knowing. They spoke to each other in Japanese so I don't feel bad at all. I just wish more people knew Italian. I wish I knew Italian, for that matter. Actually, I can get by fairly well conversing in Italian. I'm definitely not blessed with the gift of tongues, that much I know. Before I took Italian, I wanted to learn a Cyrillic and Asian language in addition to the Romantic language, but after the battle with learning Italian, that desire is not so strong. Still, my boyfriend speaks Ukrainian and Russian (he served in the Kiev mission) and his parents are mission pres. of the Russia Yekateringsberg mission (I don't know if I spelled that right at all) so I'd like to learn one of those languages. I'd rather learn Ukrainian, for some reason I like the less common of languages (like choosing to learn Italian, which is only spoken in Italy or Latin, which is only spoken in the Vatican) but with my terrible multi-lingual skills, or lack thereof, who knows.

Tutto io conosco e che io non capisco niente quando un RM d'italia parla velocemente, per esempio la mia professoressa per la classe da cento e due. Mamma mia!