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StarcrazyAngel Triglot Groupie China Joined 5991 days ago 47 posts - 61 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin
| Message 81 of 164 05 March 2014 at 11:08am | IP Logged |
Sorry I've been quiet. Moved to China a few weeks ago and only just got online. I have to
admit that I did very little Italian study in February apart from one language exchange
and a film. Hope March will be better. Do we have any challenges for March yet? How is
everyone else's language study going?
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| agantik Triglot Senior Member France Joined 4627 days ago 217 posts - 335 votes Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: German, Norwegian
| Message 82 of 164 05 March 2014 at 1:12pm | IP Logged |
Why not a grammar-oriented challenge for March? Choose a grammar point you want to study thoroughly, or
a tricky one you wish to master, and try to write 20 sentences ( is 20 too much or too little ?) containing that
specific grammar point.
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| StarcrazyAngel Triglot Groupie China Joined 5991 days ago 47 posts - 61 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin
| Message 83 of 164 05 March 2014 at 1:26pm | IP Logged |
Sounds like a good idea to me. With 20 sentences I'm sure that grammar point would stick
in your head.
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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5199 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 84 of 164 06 March 2014 at 11:45am | IP Logged |
That grammar challenge sounds perfect - I was just about to write in my own log that I've decided it's about time to learn to use the passato remoto. I already understand it well since I've read a few books, but I can't use it very well and I was thinking that writing would be the best way to practise it. I've managed to get by fine without it so far, but recently I seem to have suddenly been having a lot more conversations about things that happened when I was young or when I was at school or the history of my family or whatever and I've been struggling.
I still haven't done the February challenge, as it was an extremely busy month! I'll try to catch up and get that done in the next few days.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 85 of 164 07 March 2014 at 7:10pm | IP Logged |
I'm going to practise the particles. Just saving some links that I found useful, maybe someone else also will :)
ne
mica
verbs like andarsene, cavarsela - I think I'll just look for examples and add them to anki.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 86 of 164 08 March 2014 at 3:29pm | IP Logged |
Before I write come up with more sentences: is this correct? (although the particles are my focus in this challenge, it's important for me to get the rest of the grammar right as well)
1. Ne ho visto ballando quando pensava che era solo. (quando pensava di stare solo)
can it be said that ne is sometimes the accusative of lui? also, *pensava che stava solo somehow seems wrong to me. or is it better to use fosse/stesse?
And I hope the literal meaning of "stare" doesn't clash with the actual meaning of the sentence?
wow what a long post about just one sentence :P
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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5857 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque
| Message 87 of 164 08 March 2014 at 5:52pm | IP Logged |
I think after "pensava che" you'd generally use the congiuntivo.
From Wikipedia:
Quote:
Verbi di pensiero ed opinione
A differenza di altre lingue romanze, in Italiano i verbi di opinione e pensiero quali credere, pensare, ritenere, sostenere, reputare, ecc. reggono il congiuntivo nella proposizione subordinata:
Penso che tutti siano ancora là.
Il portiere sostiene che Marco sia andato a casa prima dell'incidente.
Credo che fosse molto contento di essere stato promosso.
In questi casi, l'uso del congiuntivo è obbligatorio nell'italiano standard, soprattutto nel registro formale. L'uso dell'indicativo
penso che tutti sono là
denota una sintassi meno sorvegliata ed è quindi sconsigliabile in diversi contesti (ad esempio nella lingua scritta). |
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EDIT: Also, did you mean pensava or pensavo?
Edited by Crush on 08 March 2014 at 5:54pm
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6589 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 88 of 164 08 March 2014 at 6:28pm | IP Logged |
I meant pensava.
io pensavo, lui/lei pensava
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