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#Post#: 9046--------------------------------------------------
Chi parla italiano?
DIR By: Aliph
Date: November 9, 2018, 4:23 pm
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In primavera c‘erano ancora Martin, Coligno e KS che parlavano
italiano. Adesso son spariti tutti. KS francamente non è una
gran perdita.
Neal fa il timido e non si azzarda a scrivere neanche una
parola. Peccato.
Chissà, fra i nuovi membri c’e qualcuno che impara la lingua di
Dante?
#Post#: 9048--------------------------------------------------
Re: Chi parla italiano?
DIR By: SHL
Date: November 9, 2018, 4:39 pm
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Neal, go to work on this one cause I can understand a word of
it.
I do know it`s Italian because I got the Italiano part. :)
#Post#: 9049--------------------------------------------------
Re: Chi parla italiano?
DIR By: Aliph
Date: November 9, 2018, 4:52 pm
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--- Quote from: SHL link ---
>
> Neal, go to work on this one cause I can understand a word of
it.
> I do know it`s Italian because if got the Italiano part. :)
>
--- End Quote ---
Don’t you have Google Translate in California ::) ?
Yes, I hope Neal will try a little bit. And maybe there are new
members, or old ones come back.
#Post#: 9052--------------------------------------------------
Re: Chi parla italiano?
DIR By: NealC
Date: November 9, 2018, 6:12 pm
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IO! IO parlo un po' d'italiano! La bella lingua! Voglio
imparare piu'!
Grazie SHL e Sofia, your encouragement has moved me!
Reading the above without Google (Io promeso!)
In the spring you had several people to write to in Italian, now
there is just you. Losing one in particular was not a big loss
:-)
Neal is timid (what is e non si azzarda) and doesnt write a
word. How sad
Not sure how the last line goes, but is it -- Do we have to get
new members to get someone who wants to learn the language of
Dante?
I have heard Chissa, before, what is it?
#Post#: 9053--------------------------------------------------
Re: Chi parla italiano?
DIR By: Alharacas
Date: November 9, 2018, 6:16 pm
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Entiendo (sólo tuve que mirar lo que quiere decir "chissà" y
"fra"), pero no voy a masacrar tu lengua materna intentando
escribirla. :)
Por lo que sepa, Nikola está aprendiendo el italiano.
#Post#: 9055--------------------------------------------------
Re: Chi parla italiano?
DIR By: SHL
Date: November 9, 2018, 8:21 pm
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--- Quote from: NealC link ---
>
> IO! IO parlo un po' d'italiano! La bella lingua! Voglio
imparare piu'!
>
> Grazie SHL e Sofia, your encouragement has moved me!
>
> Reading the above without Google (Io promeso!)
>
> In the spring you had several people to write to in Italian,
now there is just you. Losing one in particular was not a big
loss :-)
> Neal is timid (what is e non si azzarda) and doesnt write a
word. How sad
>
> Not sure how the last line goes, but is it -- Do we have to
get new members to get someone who wants to learn the language
of Dante?
> I have heard Chissa, before, what is it?
>
--- End Quote ---
Good job Neal (and Alharacas too, whatever you said). It´s
always refreshing to find a fellow American who can speak at
least one foreign language.
@Sophia,
I woundn`t call Neal exactly „shy“ (what do we say, a „shrinking
violet“?) but he does pretty good with his Italian. Just keep at
him about it.
And google translate is not that great. I`ve used it but it
doesn’t know idioms, and we use them a lot in US English, and
just gives you gibberish translations. It`s fine for „I have a
dog“ but I wouldn’t trust it for much else. I wouldn’t recommend
using it at the UN in discussing nuclear disarmament. The world
might end of getting blow up over a bad translation.
#Post#: 9056--------------------------------------------------
Re: Chi parla italiano?
DIR By: Aliph
Date: November 10, 2018, 1:39 am
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--- Quote from: NealC link ---
>
> IO! IO parlo un po' d'italiano! La bella lingua! Voglio
imparare piu'!
> Grazie SHL e Sofia, your encouragement has moved me!
> Reading the above without Google (Io promeso!)
> Neal is timid (what is e non si azzarda) and doesnt write a
word. How sad
> Not sure how the last line goes, but is it --
> I have heard Chissa, before, what is it?
>
--- End Quote ---
Neal bravissimo. Complimenti. Te la sei cavata abbastanza bene.
Chissà = is a contraction of chi (who) + sa (knows) and becomes
an adverb that means doubt or at least interrogation. Here it
could be translated by maybe.
Maybe you heard the idiom “si crede chissà chi!” = he believes
to be special = he thinks he is better than anybody else.
#Post#: 9058--------------------------------------------------
Re: Chi parla italiano?
DIR By: Alharacas
Date: November 10, 2018, 2:56 am
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Sofia, let's see if I got that right: "non si azzarda" means
"(he) doesn't dare", and the root is the same as for "hazard",
correct?
#Post#: 9059--------------------------------------------------
Re: Chi parla italiano?
DIR By: Nikola
Date: November 10, 2018, 5:53 am
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Ciao a tutti! Parlo male italiano, ma parlo!
Also, can't resist using exclamation marks, they go so well with
the language.
#Post#: 9060--------------------------------------------------
Re: Chi parla italiano?
DIR By: Aliph
Date: November 10, 2018, 6:19 am
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--- Quote from: Alharacas link ---
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> Sofia, let's see if I got that right: "non si azzarda" means
"(he) doesn't dare", and the root is the same as for "hasard",
correct?
>
--- End Quote ---
Yes. You are totally right. The root must be Arabic. It comes
probably from the word used for dices
زَهْرُ
النَّرْدِ
(Larousse Dictionnaire francais arabe). It is not confirmed by
the Langenscheidt. I will check later on some books about Arabic
etimologies. Zahara mens also to shine. See the University of al
Azhar in Cairo.
Oh do not send me on this path, it is one of my passion!
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