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Topic Started: Dec 15 2006, 12:12 AM (638 Views)
Loseven
Said the man to the lady.

I think that's a useful way to learn the language too. :) Cool.

Where have you been in Italy? :)

I live near Rome.
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Queen of the Cosmos
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La vrai reine du Cosmos

waxc3
Dec 18 2006, 12:06 PM
Queen of the Cosmos
Dec 18 2006, 10:25 AM
waxc3
Dec 15 2006, 07:09 AM
Queen of the Cosmos
Dec 15 2006, 06:55 AM
My mother tongue is french,

she does what now! :woot

:lol

J'admire tes prouesses a trouver un autre sens a mes phrase :)

I admire your prowesses has to find another direction has my sentence :howyoudoin

Wow, you guys are sooooooooooo smart, here is a hug for both of you
*hug*
And the queen's double chocolate cookies too!
*hands cookies*
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Karppa
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Oh friends...

kickstart
Dec 19 2006, 01:15 AM
Oh, and don't feel bad about not understanding music lyrics.  Even people who speak english have a hard time figuring it out.  And when you do find out what they're saying, most of the time the lyrics still don't make sense :shrug

Or the lyrics are so stupid that you start to hate the song you've always loved now that you understand what it's all about. *EEP* <- sharp inhale
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QUOTE (kickstart @ Dec 19 2006, 01:15 AM)
Oh, and don't feel bad about not understanding music lyrics.  Even people who speak english have a hard time figuring it out.  And when you do find out what they're saying, most of the time the lyrics still don't make sense

Or the lyrics are so stupid that you start to hate the song you've always loved now that you understand what it's all about. *EEP* <- sharp inhale


:yes So true, so true. Although, once in a while you end up liking a song because you finally get the lyrics.

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Where have you been in Italy?

I live near Rome.


I've been to Florence, Venice, and Matera (an ancient city near Bari). I'd love to see Rome and Pompeii, Sardinia, lake Como, the Dolomites...you name it. I watch the Giro d'Italia every year and love to see the cities it runs through.
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Loseven
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Hey, kickstart it's really cool hearing this. I'm glad you like so much Italy. :D
You visited a lot of important cities. Venice sucks for me. I don't like it at all. I know it's a particular city, but it's also an impossible city where to live for me. And I hate the smell of humidity.
I've never been to Matera, but I know it, of course. There are the famous "sassi di Matera" whcih I've heard of a lot of times.
Just curious, have you learnt some any italian words or expressions? :)
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god damnit

Karppa
Dec 19 2006, 07:54 AM
Or the lyrics are so stupid that you start to hate the song you've always loved now that you understand what it's all about. *EEP* <- sharp inhale

Haha that was how I felt about the Hey You song in Guitar Hero. I loved playing it but man, what horrible lyrics.

"Hey you you're nodding you, what's this all about?"

:frusty :doh
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SocRATes
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I think Italian's a very useful language--but, of course, I'm a huge opera fan. (That's how I started learning Italian, in fact: from Saturday afternoon at the Met. I learned some pretty weird words, that way. Ha, ha.)

I try to avoid speaking French or Italian out loud, though. People with Scottish accents just should not speak certain languages. I don't sound too bad speaking Swedish, or even Japanese, but French and Italian use a lot of vowel sounds that stick in the Scottish throat. I've wanted to learn Cantonese for ages, but if I can't even speak French properly (and I've lived in Canada for years), I'd butcher that.

As far as misheard lyrics go--man, I think English is the single WORST language for that. There are so many words that sound similar or identical. Also, people seem to adopt a weird, broad-voweled accent when singing in English, which is nothing like regular spoken English at all. Then, you get non-English-speakers singing in English, which leads to such beauties as "I can make a song for all poofy love."

My father has a very impressive language repertoire: he reads at least four dead languages (Latin, ancient Greek, Anglo Saxon, Old Norse), and I have no idea how many living ones.
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Loseven
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It's really difficul to pronunce italian for scottish throats.
I take lessons of english conversation once a week and the teacher is english but has lived in italy for 20 years.
Well, she knows italian as a native speaker but she's very bad at speaking. She has a lot of difficulties.
Anyways, this happens also to italian people who speak english. Thei pronunciation, most of times, is not good.
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I think Italian's a very useful language--but, of course, I'm a huge opera fan. (That's how I started learning Italian, in fact: from Saturday afternoon at the Met. I learned some pretty weird words, that way. Ha, ha.)
OMG, Socrates, I've just gotten into opera! That's so cool. *high fives* I don't listen to the words though, because the music is so gorgeous but the storylines are so ridiculous!

LO7, I don't really know any expressions in Italian, just vocabulary. I don't have anyone to talk to so it's just me repeating what I hear in my lessons. I do find that Italian is much easier for me to pronounce than French. Those R's! In French, half the time I'm not sure how to pronounce a word when I read it. In Italian, I'm usually right most of the time. I doubt I'll ever become fluent, but even speaking a little is better than nothing.

I have to say that Canadian French seems easier to understand when spoken than Parisian French. Something about the accent maybe?
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