My Italian husband and I share a love of language and grammar and often amuse ourselves by conjugating verbs and doing other nerdy things that help each of us learn the other’s language better.
One of the stickier points, of course, is pronunciation. Although Italian grammar is more difficult overall, one good thing about the language is that every letter in a word is pronounced, and there’s usually just one or two ways to say each letter or group of letters. That’s why people look at me funny when I say “How do you spell that?”—because the words are, indeed, spelled exactly how they sound.
