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The Italian language, straight derivation from the Latin language (Which has always been important for Italian literature) is a quite difficult language, due to the incredible polymorphism of his words and sentences and the large number of exceptions in its rules. Of course this doesn't apply for those who come from Latin countries such as Spain or Portugal since especially Spanish is very similar to Italian.

The only easy thing about Italian is the pronunciation: with just 5 or 6 rules you should be able to read correctly almost all the Italian words without mistakes and of course without understanding almost anything of them.

If you already can understand some Italian probably you'll sometimes find it hard to understand us when speaking each other. Don't worry, you still can understand Italian, but many of us, during informal conversations, are tempted to use pronunciation and words from the roman dialect that compared to Italian is much more smooth.