Teach me your language I teach you mine

[Pashen'ka]

^ Yep, right!


p.s.
I'm a bit ashamed now 'cause I realise I could think instead of the word "cuore" (heart)...
But then again, in everyday italian we use the word "culo" much more often...only in poems and in songs' lyrics is the other way round!

 

[stersita]

^ True!

 

[xmodel citizen]

^


Ehm, ok, let's start with the latter...
With the "G" it's the same as with the "C", so when it's followed by an "A" it's hard (like the english "g" in the word "game"

The "G+N" is pronounced like the spanish "ñ"


p.s.
Anyway, "sega" means also "saw", "sawing machine"...

LOL, thanks for the help! Ironically enough, Sega is a game console in the US. I'm so awful though, I told people "Fammi una sega" was a "Nice Italian greeting", which maybe it could be if you wanted a saw Sorry, I'm going to hell, I know!

PS: How do you say "Fammi"

 

[stersita]

^

 

[Pashen'ka]

LOL, thanks for the help! Ironically enough, Sega is a game console in the US.

Now that you name it, I think that there should be something like that here too (dunno for sure, I hate consoles... )

I'm so awful though, I told people "Fammi una sega" was a "Nice Italian greeting", which maybe it could be if you wanted a saw Sorry, I'm going to hell, I know!

PS: How do you say "Fammi"

Do you know hot to pronounce "femme" in french? If so, just add an "ee" (as in "see") at the end. stress on the "a" ("Fàmmi")

Stop, wait a sec, I'm not supposed to teach these sorta things, am I?

 

[xmodel citizen]

^ Hahahahahaha, thanks for the help! It's horrible I know, but I prefer to learn the bad stuff. It's so much more entertaining to say it in a foreign language rather than english because people don't know what you're saying. My friends and I made up a lovely little song in Tagalog (a Filipino language) that we've told people is a "children's song"

 

[Pashen'ka]

^ I understand what you mean, but what happens if you run into an italo-american?

 

[xmodel citizen]

What better way to make friends than to speak to them in their native tongue? And I suppose "Fammi una sega" could be useful in some parts of town

No, I also learn little sayings and phrases so I can be nice in many languages. I wish I had started learning when I was younger, but I'm doing fine in Spanish, it's just frustrating because I want to hurry up and learn everything

 

[Pashen'ka]

^ Imho once you'll speak spanish, you'll find it very easy to learn italian as well! I'd just suggest not to learn them both at the same time, 'cause it could be quite confusing...

 

[stersita]

^ Imho once you'll speak spanish, you'll find it very easy to learn italian as well!

Are you sure, cause I speak Spanish and Italian seems so complicated

 

[Pashen'ka]

^ Ok, ok, but I hope you will admit that anyway it's the easiest language to speak for spanish speakers (and the other way round)

 

[stersita]

^ Yeah!! I saw a vid in Italian not long ago and understood most of it...it's easy to understand, but not to write etc. Maybe if I start learning Italian I'll find it easier than French, I just haven't tried! ...Yet

 

[xmodel citizen]

I've also heard that it's very easy to learn Portuguese once you know Spanish or vice versa. Or, it's at least easy to understand it when it's spoken. I don't know about French, everyone says it's very hard.

 

[Pashen'ka]

^ Imho french is simple, but then again, the dialect of my town is a bit similar to it (mostly, pronunciation-wise)...

As for portuguese, to me it ain't true at all...particularly when we talk of the portuguese spoken in Portugal, which is very hard to listen to imho (I can understand some brazilian portuguese instead, their pronunciation is much nicer imho... )

 

[BerlinRocks]

I remember that my Italian teacher in highschool knew all the people that learnt spanish at the same time... because in their assignment there were always at least one spanish word or spelling... she was mad!
for my part, i learnt german so I don't know... but a lot of people told it was confusing learning italian when you already learn spanish... but maybe this is because pupils are lazy!!

honestly, french is hard... and even for french people... I swear that sometimes I hear a so wrong grammar that I wanna ***********... but I think for "latin europeans" it's not hard!!! esp. italians and spanish...

I learnt : italian, german, swedish and english... and the easiest is ENGLISH! and then italian (voc. is easy for french etc. but grammar is boring...) and of course german & swedish are the harder imo. but for swedish when you enough know german and english... it's pretty easy.

 

[evisu donna]

I guess it all depends on what your mothertongue is... For North Europeans the german languages (german, dutch, swedish, danish etc) are a lot more easier to learn than all the roman languages (spanish, italian, french etc).
Sometimes I really wish I wasn't from the north!

 

[stersita]

^ I think so too... BerlinRocks do many people speak Spanish in France? Cause when I went to Paris last summer and tried to practice my French at restaurants, all the waiters spoke Spanish

 

[BerlinRocks]

^yeah a lot of people know spanish...
when you go to college (the french Collège, it's before highschool) you have to learn 2languages... and 80% of the pupils learn spanish & english...

 

[xmodel citizen]

I think those languages are the most useful because they're used so much throughout the world. I suppose it would also be helpful to learn Chinese or Japanese, but I know that Chinese is ridiculously hard to learn.

 

[Ingunn]

Tell me what you want to say in Norwegian and I'll translate for you =D