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| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5710 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes  Speaks: English*, French | Message 1 of 4 06 November 2014 at 2:02am | IP Logged |
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Hi everyone,
I haven't started studying Italian yet, but for a job application to teach English in Italy, I have to write an analysis of the grammatical errors in a text written by a 'typical' Italian learner of English. For most of them, I can account for the mistakes using my knowledge of French, but I'm stuck on this one: "my heart is beating for me so strong" I've found it difficult to google this one because I really know zero Italian other than what I can decipher via French... But in French I've only heard "mon coeur bat" and not "mon coeur me bat" (except in a song I heard once!). What am I missing that accounts for the interference in "my heart is beating for me"? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nicozerpa Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 4271 days ago 182 posts - 315 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 2 of 4 06 November 2014 at 2:26am | IP Logged |
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It's common to say "Il cuore mi batte" in Italian. The mistake here is adding the "mi" part to the English sentence.
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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4584 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 3 of 4 06 November 2014 at 9:00am | IP Logged |
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Yes, in Italian it is more normal to use the structure "Article (il, la) + noun + indirect object (mi, ti etc.) + verb where English would use Possesive (My, Yours) + noun + verb, in particular when you talk about body parts. Other examples are:
Mi fa male la testa = My head aches (or I have a headache). Mi esce il sangue dal naso = My nose bleeds. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5710 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 4 of 4 06 November 2014 at 8:00pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks... I already knew this with phrases like "my head hurts" because I tend to
interpret it as "my head is causing pain (to me)", but I guess for some reason I couldn't get my head around the verb "to beat" needing an indirect object. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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