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does anyone here speak italian

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so i'm probably going to take italian at university in a couple years. but in the meantime i occasionally think of phrases i'd like to say to my boyfriend in italian such as "i love you, dearest" or "good morning/night" and for that i use google translate and do some cross-translating to find what seems to be the best translation

but i want to know if any of it's inaccurate

so does anyone here speak italian
 
Birdy said:
Might I ask, does the fact that you're majoring in music have anything to do with this choice?
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little bit x3 nah i took french in high school but the teacher sucked terribly and i'd rather not go back to french and bring up those memories, and i was thinking about alternate languages and i realized the language of music is italian and there's also a fuckton of culture that came out of italy, and i also want to read dante's inferno as it was originally written, so i was like "i wanna learn italian :DDD" so yeah.
 
I don't speak Italian, but if you get yourself a reliable source on the internets (or a coursebook) you should be fine.
 
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Wargle said:
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Io parlo un po' italiano, ma non ricordo il vocabulario. Nel mio hovercraft, ci sono le molte anguille.

Was waffling on posting since I haven't practiced in a while and I wasn't that great to start with, but hey.

Dante's Inferno is even farther from modern italian than Shakespeare is from modern english :/
 
I know a whole bunch of mostly-useless italian words, like colours and animals and such (kangaroo in Italian is canguro if I remember right. adorable). Also I can count up to... pretty far, I think. Italian numbers are so much more dramatic. Forty is Quaranta like it's a big deal watch out guys we got forty here hold on
 
ultraviolet said:
Italian numbers are so much more dramatic. Forty is Quaranta like it's a big deal watch out guys we got forty here hold on
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Personally I find quattordici to be more badass. Calm your tits, Italy, it's only fourteen.
Damnit now I want to start learning Italian again somehow.
 
Viki said:
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because it's supposed to be mio instead or because it varies ? I'D LIKE TO KNOW SPECIFICS I DON'T WANT TO BE SAYING 'I LOVE YOU' TO MY BOYFRIEND IN THE WRONG GENDER *whiiiiiiine*

Io parlo un po' italiano, ma non ricordo il vocabulario. Nel mio hovercraft, ci sono le molte anguille.
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google translate indicates it should be vocabolario
also what's the apostrophe for

Dante's Inferno is even farther from modern italian than Shakespeare is from modern english :/
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and i'm able to read shakespeare with a fair amount of fluency!!! idk why just something about dante's inferno makes me want to be able to read it in its original glory

also: quattordici. if i hadn't just changed my name to augmented second i'd totally make this my new name
 
Augmented Second said:
because it's supposed to be mio instead or because it varies ? I'D LIKE TO KNOW SPECIFICS I DON'T WANT TO BE SAYING 'I LOVE YOU' TO MY BOYFRIEND IN THE WRONG GENDER *whiiiiiiine*
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No, because I didn't see what the post was in response to. Haaah.
Augmented Second said:
google translate indicates it should be vocabolario
also what's the apostrophe for
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I didn't check my spelling, so.

I think it's a contraction of something? It might have been extraneous, haha .... /)_(\ It has been a while.
 
Sangfroidish said:
Personally I find quattordici to be more badass. Calm your tits, Italy, it's only fourteen.
Damnit now I want to start learning Italian again somehow.
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and then a hundred is just 'cento'. whatever man, just a hundred. who even gives a crap, not italy obviously.
 
Viki said:
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Io parlo un po' italiano, ma non ricordo il vocabulario. Nel mio hovercraft, ci sono le molte anguille.

Was waffling on posting since I haven't practiced in a while and I wasn't that great to start with, but hey.

Dante's Inferno is even farther from modern italian than Shakespeare is from modern english :/
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Eh, your Italian still trumps mine a thousandfold.
I know enough to ask "Dov'è il cazzo cesso?" and "Perchè me stai colpendo?", give warnings such as "Cecchino avante!" and "Spia piro!" I can also say a few basic phrases, such as "Il treno è azzurro" and "Io no parlo italiano; sono americano."
I know that and a bunch of pastas and cheeses, really, and at any time I'm prone to slip into Spanish and/or French.
Wish I had more time and dedication for languages.
That said, I should do my Spanish.
 
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