Homemade Italian Pronunciation

I was in a meeting 1997, bored out of my
skull, all I had to read was an Italian phrase
book, it amused me so much, I wrote Italian
phrases all over the agenda, later I pasted it
all into my scrapbook and practiced declaiming
“Fatale destino” and “siamo perduti” –
without the help of an Italian native speaker -
it made my friend Diana laugh; she was fluent in
Italian after marrying an Italian guy; when she
heard my homemade Italian pronunciation!