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 Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:27 pm
Welcome to the Italian General Discussion! This is where we discuss everything related to the Italian language, including, but not limited to:
-asking specific questions about Italian vocabulary and grammar (people who can speak Italian fluently can help answer others' questions)
-recommendations for Italian dictionaries, websites, etc
-and everything else about the beautiful langauge of Italy! 3nodding
Please note that although speaking in Italian is allowed here, it is not mandatory.
Let's start off with a few facts about the Italian language:
Spoken in: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Slovenia, Vatican City, Istria county of Croatia
Total number of speakers: c70 million
Language Family: Romance Languages (along with Spanish, French, Romanian, and others)
Regulated by: Accademia della Crusca
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:31 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:32 pm
DICTIONARIES/GRAMMAR BOOKS ETC www.wordreference.com
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:33 pm
If anyone here has any other reccommendations for websites/dictionaries/grammar books etc, please feel free to tell us about them in this thread.
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Spanish Nerd Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:54 pm
Parlo poco italiano. Il sesso e difettoso per l'ambiente. lol
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:33 am
spanishnerd99 Parlo poco italiano. Il sesso e difettoso per l'ambiente. lol O.o ... Italian e (similar) al espanol. (I probably made a bunch of mistakes in there lol)
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Spanish Nerd Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:06 am
Proudly_Jewish spanishnerd99 Parlo poco italiano. Il sesso e difettoso per l'ambiente. lol O.o ... Italian e (similar) al espanol. (I probably made a bunch of mistakes in there lol) Can't help you on this one. xd Don't worry I hardly know enough to get by. 4laugh I know that spanish is very similar to italian...that's why I've learned some. heart
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:01 pm
spanishnerd99 Proudly_Jewish spanishnerd99 Parlo poco italiano. Il sesso e difettoso per l'ambiente. lol O.o ... Italian e (similar) al espanol. (I probably made a bunch of mistakes in there lol) Can't help you on this one. xd Don't worry I hardly know enough to get by. 4laugh I know that spanish is very similar to italian...that's why I've learned some. heart Yeah... I know a bit of Italian too, though I think you know more than me. I can pick it up pretty easily since it's sort of similar to French ninja
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 3:53 pm
Buongiorno. Mi chiamo Luna...Okay, I'll just quit doing that. Uh, here's a site that offers translations of words from Italian to English/English to Italian. They do the same thing for French and Spanish, just to let you know. It's www.wordreference.com. It's actually pretty good. I gotta go practice the piano so, uh, arrivederci!
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 3:56 pm
luna1990 Buongiorno. Mi chiamo Luna...Okay, I'll just quit doing that. Uh, here's a site that offers translations of words from Italian to English/English to Italian. They do the same thing for French and Spanish, just to let you know. It's www.wordreference.com. It's actually pretty good. I gotta go practice the piano so, uh, arrivederci! Grazie, signorina. Buonasera.
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Spanish Nerd Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:25 pm
Buona sera a tutti! Mi chiamo Megan, e sono una studentessa di italiano e letteratura al Ohio State Universita'. Amo le lingue, ma italiano e' la mia preferita. Per tre anni, ho abitato a Gaeta, una piccola citta' in Italia.
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:44 pm
Firemaiden Buona sera a tutti! Mi chiamo Megan, e sono una studentessa di italiano e letteratura al Ohio State Universita'. Amo le lingue, ma italiano e' la mia preferita. Per tre anni, ho abitato a Gaeta, una piccola citta' in Italia. wow, I managed to understand everything you said ^_^ French and Italian really are similar 3nodding
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Spanish Nerd Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:56 pm
Io caspisco...e parlo spagnolo!
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:32 am
Piangi?
Does anyone know what that word means? I'm running crew for the Opera La traviata, and the entire thing is in Italian--so I understand bits and pieces of it with my Latin, but I really don't have the vocabulary, especially because I've been translating the Aeneid, and you need to know six different words and their connotations for 'sea'. So, I have very few conversation vocab words.
Sadly, I came in during tech week, which isn't a surprise really, but I don't have a score, which has the translation in it. However, I would really like to know what "Piangi" means, because...Alfredo's father, I'm not sure of his name, sings it at Violetta about six times. So I'm curious. Thanks to anyonew who can find out!
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:48 am
Firemaiden Buona sera a tutti! Mi chiamo Megan, e sono una studentessa di italiano e letteratura al Ohio State Universita'. Amo le lingue, ma italiano e' la mia preferita. Per tre anni, ho abitato a Gaeta, una piccola citta' in Italia. Wow! Your command of Italian is...spectacular!
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