Where is Ray Vecchio when I need him?

[primroseburrows]

Hey, O Wise Friendslist, do any of you speak Italian? If so, could I get a rough translation of this article? I'll make you virtual doughboys. Don't send me to Babelfish, because I can't bear to read their translations.

Honestly, I'll try to make a real post again someday. For now, I'm off to non-LJ friend Sandra's house with my brand-y new S&A S3 DVDs. Eeeee!

P.S. peacey, I will be around later on tonight. Most likely not until after ten. *hugs*

Comments

[newleaf31.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, thank you for this reply! I'm a total language GEEK, and you're exactly right, I was curious about the parts I couldn't make sense of. I'm glad to see that several of those parts involved idioms... always tough! Reflexive and subjunctive forms were always the verbs that killed me, and alas, it seems they still do. :p But translating this was really excellent practice, and I really enjoyed it. Thanks again for clearing up my ?? places! You've given me some new vocabulary and helped me understand some tough constructions. :D

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Jeebus, woman, how many languages DO you know? Thank you, thank you so much for doing this! You seriously rock so hard the neighbours complain. *dances you around*

Could I share this with my mailing list? I haven't even read it yet, I wanted to fangirl you first. Reading's next. *does tarantella*

I really want to learn more languages. Broken Spanish does not count as Something I Know. They're offering French and German this fall at the local community college. Hmm.

[newleaf31.livejournal.com]

Jeebus, woman, how many languages DO you know?
Thirteen, wow, how I need a life.

Anyhoo, you're welcome! :D Sure, totally share it -- Italian's one of the languages that I feel reasonably secure in, and revbiscuit says it's a decent rendering, so I won't be fearing that some Italian will read it and go, "WTF? Was this translated by monkeys?"

Languages = much fun! The key is finding what you're comfortable with. For myself, I can learn to read, and at least to some degree write, any language in the world, no problem, but learning to SPEAK and understand SPOKEN languages makes me really, really anxious. So I hated the German (for speakers) class I took, but really enjoyed the French (for readers) class. Also, French, like Italian, is a very user-friendly language for English speakers. Lots of cognates and logical (for English speakers) grammatical forms. Paradoxically, German is (IMO) a real beast, despite the fact that English is itself a Germannic (as opposed to, say, Romantic, like Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, etc.) language. And given your Canada fetish? I'd look into that French class, chica!

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love languages! I've been told I have a good ear for them. mr_t00by was once told by a native German that his accent was indistinguishable from a native speaker. So I figure if I take German he can help me. Amd I LOVE Italian.

And given your Canada fetish? I'd look into that French class, chica!

See, that's the problem. I don't want to learn Parisian French. So I have to ask the professor if he's down with the Québécois. And maybe, and I know it's a pipe dream, but maybe even teh Acadian.

[newleaf31.livejournal.com]

YOU HAVE OUT-LANGUAGE-GEEKED ME. Two different kinds of French you would like to know? Neither of which are the "official" French? Yes, you have out-geeked me. *prostrates self*

[revbiscuit.livejournal.com]

I'm a total language GEEK

Me too. I know exactly how you feel. ::is geeky with you::

[newleaf31.livejournal.com]

Gah, I love it when I meet other language geeks! Non-language-geeks just never understand. But really, they don't know what they're missing!

*joins in geeky songfest*