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I've been struggling with learning Italian most of my life. The core issue (I believe) is that none of my relatives actually spoke Italian. My grandparents spoke Abruzzessa, Bergamesa, and Piedmontese. These dialects sound nothing like National Italian. Nothing at all.
My father and mother did not learn "Italian" until after I was a teenager, and by then I was ruined by thinking that all the languages I grew up hearing were Italian when they weren't.
I have spent the past five years forgetting the amalgamation of dialects I collected as a child, so I'm hoping that when I go back to learn Italian now, I'll have a clean slate. It's quite embarrassing to whip out my Italian passport and not be able to speak the national language.
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