{"id":20288,"date":"2026-06-17T09:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/?p=20288"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:46:07","slug":"how-studying-italian-changed-my-college-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/how-studying-italian-changed-my-college-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"How Studying Italian Changed My College Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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By Lilian Crawford<\/strong><\/p>

Studying Italian has been one of the most unexpectedly meaningful parts of my college\u00a0 career. When I first enrolled in Italian, I was simply looking to fulfill a world language\u00a0 requirement for my major, but I quickly fell in love with the language. The courses that were\u00a0 once academic obligations became one of my favorite times of the week, and I continued\u00a0 signing up for Italian classes even after finishing my major requirements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

During my sophomore year, my professor recommended that I use the skills I learned in\u00a0 the classroom to study abroad in Rome for a semester. I am so thankful that she pushed\u00a0 me to travel to Italy because it was easily the best experience of my life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

While I was living in Rome, I began to gain a deeper understanding of what a gift language is\u00a0 and how it connects people. As I stumbled through my broken Italian, I found that people\u00a0 were so quick to befriend me just because I tried to speak with them in their native tongue.\u00a0 I learned that speaking Italian or any new language isn\u2019t about perfection, but intentionality\u00a0 and a desire to communicate deeply with others.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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I will always be grateful that the experience of learning Italian was part of my college years.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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