Wanna Know Exactly How To Master Any Language?
I got good news for you. The amazing polyglot Luca Lampariello showed up in Berlin and we had a good long chat about language learning. And the best part is …
We've got it on video!
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Anthony: Hi, this is Anthony Metivier. I'm here with Luca Lampariello, and we are doing a very special interview. We are here in Berlin. I live in Berlin but Luca is visiting.
Luca: Yes.
Anthony: We thought, "Well I'm the memory guy and he's the language-learning guy." We both operate in the same sort of industry so to speak, because his business is memorizing words and my business is helping you memorize them. It's really not a business. It's more like a passion.
Luca: Yes.
Anthony: For people who don't know you, you've got dozens upon dozens of videos on YouTube that train people in a particular brand of language learning, but for people who do know you, which I think probably many, many people who are watching this already do, one thing I've noticed is that we have never heard much about your personal life and I mean I don't even know if you have a ‑
Luca: You meant to pry. You want to know the real secrets.
Anthony: The real stuff, like the dirt; for one thing, I've never asked you if you have a middle name.
Luca: Yeah, actually my name is Luca, everybody calls me Luca, but my other name is Vittorio because my grandfather, that's my grandfather's name. The Italian tradition is to call a son or a daughter after your grandmother. It's an old tradition coming from the south. I don't know if it's the same thing in Canada. He is actually my father's mother. His name was Vittorio. He was a physician, a doctor who used to be in World War II unfortunately, and he was in Africa. Unfortunately, I never got to meet him. My mother told me he had very interesting stories to tell about World War II. Because one of the things I like the most, apart from language, is history.
Anthony: Did any of those stories survive that you remember from your grandmother?
Luca: Yeah, I remember a lot of things that my mother told me. Not only my grandfather actually, my other grandfather as well and my grandmother, I got to know my two grandmothers and they were telling us about what happened in World War II. One is from Calabria which is deep south. The Americans and the Allies invaded Sicily and then went up to Calabria, and my other grandmother actually comes from the north of Italy. I've got the whole family from everywhere in Italy. So I have all these different traditions and also dialects. One thing that I never say is that my grandmother when I was a little kid just talked to me in Calabrese dialect. I learned that as well.
Anthony: Well that's a lot of different parts of Italy but I know you are living in Rome at the moment. Is that where you were born?
Luca: Yes, that is exactly where I was born and I've been living there for 34 years almost because I'm turning 34 actually in two days.
Anthony: Thirty-four in two days.
Luca: Thirty-four, I'm an old man.
Anthony: Well happy birthday in advance.
Luca: Thanks.
Anthony: But you've also lived in Paris?
Luca: I lived in Paris for three years. I lived in Paris and Barcelona.
Anthony: Okay so the thre
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