To you

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We came well prepared. We are the 2 only foreigners we know that learned italian BEFORE coming to Italy. Its absurd but people worry about coming here and later in learning how to communicate.

I really cant understand.

We were told by the house owner there was a school here that teaches Italian and after some time we found it. They need the documents proving the person is italian or is legally living here to make the registration (wich means my wife is doing it and I'm not).

Also means that they dont support illegal imigration. Yet I heard there is a church here that teaches illegal people.... To hell with them.

I was really amazed and scared with this chinese guy doing the registration before us. The teacher had to ask the time of the class he would want making numbers with her fingers and writing the numbers in a paper. Im still not sure he got it.

Anyway, when we talked to the teacher, she guessed my wife was from Switzerland - based on her appeareance - but after we started to talk she could be certain our accent was from Brazil.

This was the first sign of this truth in our adventures: we would never be seen as italians. Maybe I can if I dress like them but my wife doesnt have the looks of an italian thats for sure.

Italian people expect us to have trouble with the language and more than once they started chatting in english. And its a fact most italians arent ready to speak in english.

"Può parlare in italiano (You can speak in italian)". Thats easy to fix.

It was when an old man was walking in front of us and realized he didnt want to go that way and turned to us that I understand what I say in this post. Without hesitation he moved his arm like opening passage and said "to you".