PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5468 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1
| Message 49 of 177 30 January 2015 at 11:00am | IP Logged |
tristano wrote:
I'm participating at the Italki challenge (20h of lessons in the month of february) with
Spanish. I already scheduled a couple of lessons, I will study it intensely during all
that month and maybe also in March (I'm going to have a travel in Spain in April).
So this is my plan, activate this language in 1-2 months with tutoring.
If successful I can replicate this experience with other languages. Like we say in Italy,
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Excellent idea!
I'm very keen to see what it does for you (iTalki challenge). Good luck!
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 50 of 177 30 January 2015 at 12:18pm | IP Logged |
Merci beaucoup!
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nikolic993 Diglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 3772 days ago 106 posts - 205 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English Studies: Italian, Mandarin, Romanian, Persian
| Message 51 of 177 30 January 2015 at 1:43pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for suggesting "Boris" Tristano. I watched the first episode yesterday and I laughed my ass of. My favorite scenes were the ones in which Rene says: "Cagna maledetta!" and the one when he imagines the blowjob scene "Ma certo piccola, puoi dire quello che vuoi". hahaha :D
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 52 of 177 30 January 2015 at 2:00pm | IP Logged |
hahaha you just had a little hint, this series is brilliant (for what concerns me, the
best ever made in Italy). ;) I think there isn't a single episode where I didn't laugh my
ass of :)
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PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5468 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1
| Message 53 of 177 31 January 2015 at 4:01am | IP Logged |
Hi tristiano,
Thought this may or may not be useful: inf_contact_key=d96aca82c44010a2359133d9504f12fed0fd740bc5a0 ce5c555ac08a6f524c7e">italki
Challenges
PM
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 54 of 177 01 February 2015 at 1:23pm | IP Logged |
Hi, thanks for sharing this link, it raises some
good points to be kept in mind.
Huge hype for my first Spanish conversation!
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pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5720 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian
| Message 55 of 177 02 February 2015 at 11:02am | IP Logged |
I just came across something interesting in Le Monde so I thought I'd share it with a fellow French learner. And it's made by an Italian!
It's L'Avventura - Les aventures dessinees d'une Italienne a Paris.
It's seems useful for moments when you don't feel like reading serious stuff but it's still in your TL.
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 56 of 177 02 February 2015 at 11:26am | IP Logged |
Thank you very much @pesahson! It seems quite cool, I add it to my material!
I spent the weekend in Belgium, I had the opportunity to speak some (very little)
French. Unfortunately I was there with a French guy and an Italian guy and not to
exclude the other Italian guy we were forced to speak English :( Atually my Italian
friend is studying French but doesn't want to speak it (he's around A2). Because of
that, the waiters in the restaurants were quite confused because we were talking
English between us but the three of us understand and speak French to various degrees.
On a side note, one waiter was answering to me in English even if I was speaking in
French and I had the serious temptation to answer back in Dutch, but then I thought
that I didn't want that the staff of the restaurant spit in my dishes :D
Another thing that I discovered about myself is: apparently the way I speak English is
sometimes impolite. Since words like 'crap', 'shit' and 'f**k' are quite normal in tv
series and they are not very offensive in Italian and most of the people I know use
these words when they speak Engilsh I just thought that it is a 'colourful' way to
speak, but apparently it is indeed offensive. So I have to polish my dictionary. Also
I don't speak in that way in other languages.
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