TWIST AND LEARNING

  I’m beginning to understand something The picture is the introduction by Charles Bukowski to Ask the dust written by John Fante . I bought this book on a stall eleven years ago. Many times I started to study English and I never reached big results. Currently, I practice with Duolingo for two years, also I started to use the app Elsa to exercise my pronunciation. Many years ago I tried to read English books, especially children's fairy tales, then I read with many difficulties "The old man and the sea" and a few short stories by John Fante and others. Being able to read English books is my main target. A few weeks ago I started to read Charlotte's web , this is a children's novel but every chapter contains dozens of unknown words for me. There are many strange verbs and nouns that I do not know. Today I accidentally found John Fante's book and I read the introduction (I tried to read it many times without achieving the end), and immediately I understood all

  The lego bricks teach a lot of things. You start to build simple structures, then you learn to build complex structures, every time more complex. You take bricks from your brick container and you become more able every day. The same happens in English learning, you start to acquire words, verbs, a little bit of grammar, and build simple sentences, then you acquire other little parts of English, and you build sentences more complex, and you start to understand snippets of conversation. Many times you write trivial phrases so like you build childish structures, but you slowly improve your knowledge of English or build better things with legos. The most important thing is to spend time having fun because learning something can be funny. In Italian I would have written it like this, more or less:  I mattoncini lego insegnano molte cose. Inizi col costruire strutture semplici, poi impari a costruire strutture complesse, ogni volta più complesse. Prendi i mattoncini dal tuo contenitore d