suzukaze Triglot Senior Member Italy bit.ly/1bGm459 Joined 4602 days ago 186 posts - 254 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Spanish Studies: German, French, Swedish, Japanese
| Message 65 of 164 09 January 2014 at 8:35am | IP Logged |
agantik wrote:
What about a nice January challenge? Any ideas dear fellow members of Team Forza? |
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I've seen other teams having an "Introduce yourself" challenge. You can make it as detailed as you like depending on your level:explain why are you studying Italian, what are your goals for this year, what's your experience with this language.... If you have just started learning Italian one or two brief sentences would suffice :)
Do you think this could be a good first challenge?
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garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5207 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 66 of 164 09 January 2014 at 12:01pm | IP Logged |
I agree with the "Introduce yourself in Italian" challenge. Some of us have already done it, but for those who haven't, feel free to do so now!
I've not had any objection, so I'm making Forza the official team name.
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Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4215 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish
| Message 67 of 164 09 January 2014 at 3:04pm | IP Logged |
garyb wrote:
I agree with the "Introduce yourself in Italian" challenge. Some of us
have already done it, but for those who haven't, feel free to do so now!
I've not had any objection, so I'm making Forza the official team name. |
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I like the name. Luckily you didn't name it "Forza Italia"...
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 68 of 164 29 January 2014 at 11:20pm | IP Logged |
A couple of years ago I posted a link to the online videos and transcripts in several foreign languages at LangMedia.
Since I first stumbled on the site, the colleges involved have added more videos (and their transcripts). For your interest, here are the Italian ones:
Italian in Italy (includes some video reenactments of situations described in phrasebooks; a handy way to see the link between stock phrases and body language)
Enjoy.
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Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5865 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque
| Message 69 of 164 30 January 2014 at 12:54am | IP Logged |
Sarnek wrote:
garyb wrote:
I agree with the "Introduce yourself in Italian" challenge. Some of us
have already done it, but for those who haven't, feel free to do so now!
I've not had any objection, so I'm making Forza the official team name. |
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I like the name. Luckily you didn't name it "Forza Italia"... |
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"Forza Italia" vuol dire qualcosa? Ho visto che c'era un partito politico con quel nome, ma...
I just saw this group. Good luck everyone, i'll be sure to follow along :)
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suzukaze Triglot Senior Member Italy bit.ly/1bGm459 Joined 4602 days ago 186 posts - 254 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Spanish Studies: German, French, Swedish, Japanese
| Message 70 of 164 30 January 2014 at 8:50am | IP Logged |
Crush wrote:
"Forza Italia" vuol dire qualcosa? Ho visto che c'era un partito politico con quel nome, ma... |
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Yes it does; the name came from the cry of sport supporters and means "Go Italy!" :)
Edited by suzukaze on 30 January 2014 at 8:51am
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Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5865 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque
| Message 71 of 164 30 January 2014 at 10:51am | IP Logged |
Ah ok, thanks! I thought it was similar to the fascist "¡Arriba España!" in Spain. "Go Italy!" doesn't sound so bad :P
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agantik Triglot Senior Member France Joined 4635 days ago 217 posts - 335 votes Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: German, Norwegian
| Message 72 of 164 31 January 2014 at 5:21pm | IP Logged |
How about a new linguistic challenge for February? Any suggestion out there?
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