I got a book

I purchased the book "Italian in 10 minutes a day" at Barnes & Nobles. It's pages are reminiscent of elementary school text books.

Entry

velocità = velocity

doppio = double (like doppio espresso, two shots of espresso)

esiste = exist

voce = voice (vox in latin)

troppo = demasiado (Spanish)

Dictionary (Free Resource)

http://it.wiktionary.org

Wiktionary is a wiki based free dictionary, it is available in many languages, Italian being one of them.

Italian Podcast (Free Learning Source)

http://www.learnitalianpod.com/

I came across this free podcast, it is available through iTunes. I'm currently downloading episodes directly through my iPhone. It seems like the episodes are free, but they sell learning tools and the transcripts of the episodes. I'm going to use these to get used to hearing Italian.

Italian Spiderman

Rispetti le donne!

Making connections

CIBO = FOOD
CIBO sounds like CHIVO (Spanish).
CHIVO = GOAT

Eat a goat. I check out at the supermarket and all the food in the cart is made of goat.

The hacking begins.

I've decided to learn Italian, this journey into a language will be unorthodox, mangled, and probably reliant on my own idiosyncrasy. I want it to be an experience in learning to learn, for the sake of learning. The approach is one of a tinkerer, a programmer hacking the language learning process, the kind taken by kids who used to take apart toys and make new ones.

Italian is the destination, this effort is the vessel.
SOS signals are being broadcasted.