It occurs to me that this is probably something I should have asked about before now, but no one ever accused me of being particularly good at thinking ahead.

In not too terribly long, here, I'm going to abandon all you fine folks (temporarily, I promise) to spend some time in Tuscany for an art retreat. I'm very excited! But I also realized that I don't really know any Italian at all. I was hoping maybe I could beg the favor of someone here who does speak Italian to teach me how to read and write it, so that when I go overseas I'm only held back by the mute thing, not by a language barrier too.

I'll buy cookies?