Let's talk about Italian (1 Viewer)

[Martin]

To make people feel a little more comfortable in here, let's have a thread where we can talk freely about Italian, but in English.

Do you like it? Do you speak it? Would you like to know it? Do you already have a history with it?

Tell us

 

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[Fake Melo]

I don't speak it, but I want to learn. When did you learn Italian you sick freak

 

[Martin]

From Melo's facebook page:

Knows Italian, Urdu, Chinese, Norsk

Pretty much over the last 18 months.

 

[JuveJay]

C'è qualcuno qui che parla inglese?

 

[Fake Melo]

From Melo's facebook page:




Pretty much over the last 18 months.

Chinese

 

[Azzurri7]

Are we in class? If so, can I sit beside you Marts?

 

[Martin]

Are we in class? If so, can I sit beside you Marts?

No, you will sit among the students.

 

[Fake Melo]

If Juventuz was a high school, Martin would be the teacher

 

[Azzurri7]

No, you will sit among the students.

I usually sit beside a girl when I was in highschool but I see none of the girls here are attending your classes yet....I'll wait.

 

[RAMI-N]

I always like Italian but couldn't learn it... I had to learn Japanese because I went to Tokyo and then had to learn German because I was coming to Germany
So, I didn't have time to learn Italian.
I want to learn it, even if I'm 60 years old

 

[Azzurri7]

If Juventuz was a high school, Martin would be the teacher

One hell of a teacher... The kind of teacher you'd call by his name and not his profession.

 

[JuveJay]

One hell of a teacher... The kind of teacher you'd call by his name and not his profession.

Non parlare inglese in aula!

 

[Azzurri7]

What's aula?

 

[JuveJay]

Classroom

 

[Azzurri7]

Eu non sono Italiano... parte of me is Bergamo, papa vieni dela Bergamo...

 

[Kate]

Excellent idea, Martin. But I am a nerd so I enjoy this sort of thing

 

[Ali]

Always wanted to learn Italian. How does it compare to nordic languages?

 

[Martin]

Always wanted to learn Italian. How does it compare to nordic languages?

It's quite different. The sentence structure is not the same and you have to get used to how pronouns are used differently, for instance:

- I drive the car.
- (Io) guido la macchina.

Io is usually left out because it is inferred from the form of the verb (different for every person). When you use a pronoun instead it moves to stand in front of the verb:

- I drive it.
- (Io) la guido. (I-it-drive.)

Negation comes before both pronoun and verb:

- Jeg gïør det ikke.
- (Io) non lo faccio. (Jeg-ikke-det-gjør.)

And vocabulary wise there are many roots in common with English, so many words you can guess. But there are also many roots that don't appear in English. Typically words that come "later" in human history, like "organization" = "organizzazione" are borrowed, while words that came early are not "foot" = "piede".

 

[The Curr]

I would've done it at school but my school only did French, German and Spanish. I did Spanish instead.

 

[Martin]

I would've done it at school but my school only did French, German and Spanish. I did Spanish instead.

Then you are well along to Italian anyway, because they have great many similarities. You need to know what basic verbs like querer, poder, ir, hacer, ser, tener are in Italian, and such basic verbs are almost always different from language to language. (But beyond that many are the same or similar.) Once you have that you can probably read some Italian right away.

The great thing about learning a language from a certain language family is that the better you know it, the more of a head start it gives you with another of the same family.