What it’s like to not be fluent in Italian while living in Italy

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Okay, I will be real with you all. I really thought that just simply living in another country would help me become fluent in another language naturally. While that may be true in some cases, when you work in English, live with English-speaking roommates, and spend an entire nationwide lockdown guarded against human interaction and then transition into a world where human interaction is minimal….well, you can connect the dots here, I am not fluent in Italian.