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| alcina Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6701 days ago 51 posts - 54 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French, Italian | Message 25 of 27 28 August 2006 at 4:14pm | IP Logged |
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I only knew it's a river because I studied the opera. Classical rivers are
referred to with alarming regularity in operas! However, as the person singing is the personification of Music I'd say it's entirely reasonable to assume that "Permesso" is the personification of Permission or something...the words being the same! :) I have Italian on my wish list. But it's at "just dabbling" status now. Of all the languages to sing in it is, for me, by far the best...but I don't sing any more, so the reason for learning it is less urgent. Instead I'm concentrating on the languages I know best and trying to get those to some basic level of fluency. It's actually a moot point if I currently know German better than Italian, but I thought that knowing French and German fairly well would be more versatile than French and Italian, hence my second target language is currently German. That and the fact that my Italian knowledge is largely centered around 17/18th century love poems and dramatic librettos and I think nothing of using "voi" when asking for a cup of coffee and refer to drinking "l'onda di Lete", but could I ask for a hotel room in Florence?...nope! :) Alcina <- (my screen name is the title role of a Handel Italian opera! :) ) Edited by alcina on 28 August 2006 at 4:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| linguanima Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6722 days ago 114 posts - 123 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Spanish, French Studies: Italian, Latin, German | Message 26 of 27 08 September 2006 at 8:49pm | IP Logged |
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I presume that if you understand Latin, operatic Italian will become intelligible to you.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6707 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 27 of 27 13 September 2006 at 10:03am | IP Logged |
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I presume that you will have to know some Italian first. Then maybe you can find some Latin words in older, poetic versions of Italian which have been lost in later versions.
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