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anyone speaks italian?

VincenziVincenzi Veteran
edited March 2011 in General Banter
and if so, where did you learn it?

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  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    Yes, I'm bilingual, and I have spoken it fluently all my life. My mother is Italian.
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    I can speak a little italian seeing as I had an italian girlfriend for 3 years, who in fact speaks 4 languages and has a wider vocabulary than I do in my own language...
  • VincenziVincenzi Veteran
    I have studied it for some years because I plan to live there someday.
    I've family there, and got interested in traveling after starting to make art.
  • ZaylZayl Veteran
    I used to speak very little bit of Italian, of the Sicilian persuasion, when I was very little. As my Mother and her side of the family used to speak it as their primary language amongst themselves. However once that side of my family was no longer in my life I slowly forgot all of it.

    Which bothers me, whenever I hear it I get an itch in the back of my mind like I should know what they are saying, but I can't :(
  • hermitwinhermitwin Veteran
    I just love it when Italians speak english with a thick accent.
  • VincenziVincenzi Veteran
    @hermitwin

    ...I relate that accent to italian-american mafia; but it may be because of the parodies.
  • prettyhowtownprettyhowtown
    I know a little. www.livemocha.com! :D
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    E allora, adesso che lo sai, che ne vuoi fare?
    perche la domanda...?
  • zenffzenff Veteran
    Italian emoticons should be much bigger and more expressive than what we have available here. This is more like a Norwegian forum (in terms of emoticons). :orange:
  • VincenziVincenzi Veteran
    @federica

    ...I was just curious.
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    lmao @zenff. Yes, I can relate to that stereotype. Stereotypes are pretty negative to put onto a person, but they come from some sort of truth. My ex girlfriend was often VERY passionate about things and when Italians talk you can see how passionate they are about, well everything. Mostly their culture :p Are there any emoticons that talk with their hands...
  • RenGalskapRenGalskap Veteran
    Are there any emoticons that talk with their hands...
    This works on my computer, but may not work on others, depending on the font.

    >\
    :-)
    >/

    Years ago, when I was a mechanic, I worked for a shop foremen whose grandparents had all come to the US from Sicily. When he wanted to know if I had finished repairing a car, he would ask "Feex-a-feex?" He would also sometimes substitute Daglia d'oro espresso for the regular coffee in the coffee machine, and referred to it as "Daglia Dago".

    My brother-in-law's mother came from Foggio. His use of the dialect is usually humorously obscene, so I won't repeat anything I learned from him.

    Mostly I stick to butchering Norwegian and Spanish. So far, Italian has been safe from my depredations.
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    I only know a few words of Italian, I couldn't string a sentence together. I know a bit more of German, but even then with German I couldn't get by in Germany. I can however speak enough Thai to get by day by day, I wouldn't claim to be fluent though, it is a language that is so different from any western tongue.
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