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\"\"<\/b><\/span>E-mail:\u00a0<\/b>bhall6@nd.edu<\/span><\/p>\n

Language:<\/b>\u00a0Italian<\/span><\/p>\n

Location of Study:\u00a0<\/b>Sorrento, Italy<\/span><\/p>\n

Program of Study:<\/b>\u00a0Sant’Anna Sorrento Lingue<\/span><\/p>\n

Sponsors:\u00a0<\/b>Albert J. and Helen M. Ravarino Family International Scholars in Italy Award, the College of Arts and Letters, and the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Blog URL:\u00a0http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/author\/bhall6\/<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

A brief personal bio:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

I am a rising junior from Colorado Springs. I am majoring in Medieval Studies and Italian. I love history–political history, art history, intellectual history, any history–and I am especially fascinated by the transition between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. I take theology and math classes whenever I have time. I love to read, play the cello, and take long hikes in the Colorado mountains.<\/p>\n

Why this summer language abroad opportunity is important to me:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

First, I want to learn more about Italian culture. After all, Italy has produced so much that is worth studying, from the Romans to Dante to Federico Fellini. Second, I love history, and Italy has one of the richest histories in the Western world. However, I can’t fully engage with Italian culture or history until I can do it in Italian. Thirdly, Italian is a major tool for my study of medieval history. I am captivated by medieval sacred architecture, and I plan to spend the spring and summer of 2019 in Italy studying the churches of Rome. This research will form the basis of my senior thesis, and I will need to read and speak Italian in order to access important sources. Furthermore, serious study of medieval history requires proficiency in several languages. Italian will be a springboard for Latin, French, Spanish, and other languages that I will need in the future. I realize that I cannot learn Italian just from a classroom; rather, I need to be immersed in it. The SLA grant is making that possible.<\/p>\n

What I hope to achieve as a result of this summer study abroad experience:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Right now I have learned all Italian grammar, but it is a struggle to bring it to mind when speaking. I want my conversations to be much more fluid. I also want to be able to read Italian quickly. Ideally, I would reach a point where I could read Italian books or newspapers at home for practice and enjoy it. I want to improve my ear for Italian so that I can eliminate simple mistakes from my speaking and writing. I want to start to build a scholarly vocabulary so that I can read, write, and speak about history and architecture in Italian. Most of all, I want to return from Italy this summer inspired and confident and ready to return in the spring.<\/p>\n

My specific learning goals for language and intercultural learning this summer:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

1. By the end of the summer, I will be able to speak Italian without crafting every phrase before speaking.<\/p>\n

2. By the end of the summer, I will be able to read Italian sentence-by-sentence instead of word-by-word.<\/p>\n

3. By the end of the summer, I will have expanded my vocabulary to include both more everyday phrases and more academic terms.<\/p>\n

4. By the end of the summer, I will be able to comprehend Italian spoken at a moderate or high speed.<\/p>\n

5. By the end of the summer, I will have enough confidence in Italian to seek out linguistic interactions, even if they are beyond my level of mastery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E-mail:\u00a0bhall6@nd.edu Language:\u00a0Italian Location of Study:\u00a0Sorrento, Italy Program of Study:\u00a0Sant’Anna Sorrento Lingue Sponsors:\u00a0Albert J. and Helen M. Ravarino Family International Scholars in Italy Award, the College of Arts and Letters, and the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures. Blog URL:\u00a0http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/author\/bhall6\/ A brief personal bio: I am a rising junior from Colorado Springs. I am … Continue reading Hall, Beatrice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-196","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}