bufe01,
I wholeheartedly agree. I learned more Italian in a few weeks than I had in many months while living in Italy. My sweetie gave me a vocabulary list in the morning and no lunch until the test was done successfully. A second list was then handed over for the test before dinner and no dinner if failed. A third list followed dinner and the incentive for success on that one was well worth the extra study required. One found it very easy to bone up for the final daily exam.
