ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German
| Message 57 of 75 14 January 2010 at 4:46am | IP Logged |
Finished up to track 7 of Michel Thomas Advanced Italian Disk 4 while walking.
He was teaching the present and past ("perfect") subjunctive.
When I got back I looked them up in my Big Green Book of 555 Italian Verbs.
It really helps to see the conjugations in print in a table but it is important to hear
them as well.
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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5851 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| Message 58 of 75 14 January 2010 at 6:44pm | IP Logged |
Grazie, ChiaBrain, di mostrami il "Easy Italian Reader", questo è una cosa differente di miei "Easy Readers". Il tuo libro ha un livello del principiante, ma io non sono una principiante. Ma per i principianti dell'italiano mi pare di buona qualità e non è tan caro!
Buon sucesso per il tuo studio!
Fasulye
Edited by Fasulye on 14 January 2010 at 6:45pm
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ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German
| Message 59 of 75 15 January 2010 at 12:15am | IP Logged |
Grazie Fasulye.
if you can recommend any books for future study I would greatly appreciate it.
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ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German
| Message 60 of 75 18 January 2010 at 5:48am | IP Logged |
I finished Michel Thomas Advanced Italian today. Interestingly he recommends doing a lot
of reading and suggested finding articles with interviews so as to see the spoken
language. Interesting because Kato Lomb was saying she learned languages mostly by
reading.
I also finished reading and all the exercises of Chapter 3 of Complete Italian Grammar.
It was about Articles and the next chapter is about Adjectives.
I've done lesson 51 of Assimil but still need to do the second wave part by translating
the English of chapter 2 to Italian. I did the first two lines. I get frustrated. I read
a post on here where someone was saying that they needed to listen to 20 minutes of the
target language before they did this part. Perhaps I will try that. Its probably a good
way to separate languages if you are studying more than one concurrently.
I watched Elektra (the 2005 film) in Italian with English subtitles.
I think I will head to bed and read Easy Italian Reader now...
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densou Senior Member Italy foto.webalice.it/denRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6136 days ago 120 posts - 121 votes Speaks: Italian*
| Message 61 of 75 18 January 2010 at 10:06pm | IP Logged |
ChiaBrain wrote:
I watched Elektra (the 2005 film) in Italian with English subtitles. |
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Why didn't you pick an 'Italian original movie' rather than a dubbed one ? ;)
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ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German
| Message 62 of 75 19 January 2010 at 6:10am | IP Logged |
Credo che sia vero. Ascoltare l'Italiano parlato primo di fare traduzione mi aiuta.
(I believe its true. To listen to spoken Italian before making a translation helps me.)
Ho trovato dei registrazioni che mi piacciono moltisimo. Sono di la storia Romana
antica.
(I've found some recordings that I like a lot. They are of ancient Roman history)
I'm not sure if I said that correctly. Corrections appreciated.
Anyway, I found some recordings of spoken Italian that I'm looking forward to listening
to. I really enjoyed the one I listened to on the Punic wars while walking. I
understood most of it. There were some words I didn't know and some parts I wasn't
completely clear on, but it was fun. I didn't know Rome and Carthage were allied
against Pyrrhus before the first Punic war.
I found the recordings in iTunes when I switched my country to Italia and searched
podcasts but you can get them from here:
http://www.gaudio.or
g/lezioni/storia/romana/storia_romana.htm
I finished translating Assimil lesson 2.
I really would like to do more but its almost midnight here. Unfortunately the need to
work to make a living is a big obstacle in the way of ... well, living!
I think I'll read more of the Easy Italian Reader before I go to bed. I've finished up
to chapter 13.
densou wrote:
ChiaBrain wrote:
I watched Elektra (the 2005 film) in Italian with English
subtitles. |
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Why didn't you pick an 'Italian original movie' rather than a dubbed one ? ;) |
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Well... I wanted to see Elektra anyway and I came across a version in Italian on the
Internet. I don't seem to find many Italian movies at the Blockbuster video. Their foreign
section is rather small. I use Netflix but sometimes they are dubbed in English even when it says
the language is English. Ive seen a few lately that I'll list later.
If you can suggest some, I'd appreciate it.
Edited by ChiaBrain on 19 January 2010 at 6:30am
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| Message 63 of 75 19 January 2010 at 12:27pm | IP Logged |
delle registrazioni
moltissimo
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ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German
| Message 64 of 75 20 January 2010 at 6:07am | IP Logged |
staf250 wrote:
delle registrazioni
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Grazie moltissimo!
I thought "registrazione" was masculine so i used "dei"
Anyway. It's late so I have to keep this short. Maybe Ill expand it tomorrow.
I Listened to some Italian podcasts while walking.
I read and completed the exercises for the first section in the adjective chapter of
the grammar workbook. I had to write out some 30 sentences. I feel like its going to be
slow, but I think writing things out helps.
I did the listening/reading part of Assimil lesson 52.
I'm going to read more of the Easy Italian Reader now. I finished another chapter last
night.
I can't believe its midnight here already. I could go on for a few more hours with this
stuff but I really need to go to bed.
I really have to find out a way to make money without working. Having to work for a
living really gets in the way of... well, LIVING!
Edited by ChiaBrain on 20 January 2010 at 6:09am
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