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(September 4, 2014 at 4:57 pm)oukoida Wrote: Thanks CM
Anyway, where exactly did you go last time? We southerners often complain that the more you go north, the more coffee sucks
I did a 10-week study abroad in Macerata and mostly traveled around the hill towns around Macerata and north of Macerata/Rome. I got down to Naples but no further south than Salerno.
We did the major/tourist cities like Rome, Florence, Venice, Verona, Vincenza, but also did Urbino, Ascoli Piceno, Montegiorgio, Urbisaglia and other, smaller hill towns around Macerata.
On my own (with friends) I got to see Lucca, Pisa, Naples, Salerno, Pompeii, and Milan, and Calderola as part of my studies (I was there on an architecture study abroad)
One thing I regretted not doing was going south and seeing where my Grandpa operated from when he was in the Army Air Corp in WW2... Oh, well. Next time. If I ever get back to Italy...
(September 4, 2014 at 6:02 pm)oukoida Wrote:
It seems I managed to overcome the pants shitting! Surprise!
(turn English subtitles on if you wish to understand my Italian rambling at the end of the video)
"That's fine-ass pizza, bitch!"
I could understand a handful words of your Italian section, and they weren't when you said "Buona notte" My Italian was never great to begin with (I wouldn't even have classified it as "good") so I could only pick out random words here and there with no idea what you were actually saying.
When I turned on subtitles, though, I could pick out more words. (Hope you did well on your oral exam!)
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
September 5, 2014 at 11:24 am (This post was last modified: September 5, 2014 at 11:26 am by Losty.)
(September 4, 2014 at 6:02 pm)oukoida Wrote:
It seems I managed to overcome the pants shitting! Surprise!
(turn English subtitles on if you wish to understand my Italian rambling at the end of the video)
Omg will you marry me?
I love the way you talk with your hands. So dang cute! It's really cool that your English accent sounds more natural that your Italian accent.
Which reminded me of this joke I heard a comedian tell about violence and video games. Something like, imagine if video games made you violent when we were kids. kill kill KILL
~is that you Satan?
No it's me, Mario (in the fake Italian accent)
Anyways, I loved it. Let's hear American accent next
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(September 5, 2014 at 10:26 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I did a 10-week study abroad in Macerata and mostly traveled around the hill towns around Macerata and north of Macerata/Rome. I got down to Naples but no further south than Salerno.
We did the major/tourist cities like Rome, Florence, Venice, Verona, Vincenza, but also did Urbino, Ascoli Piceno, Montegiorgio, Urbisaglia and other, smaller hill towns around Macerata.
On my own (with friends) I got to see Lucca, Pisa, Naples, Salerno, Pompeii, and Milan, and Calderola as part of my studies (I was there on an architecture study abroad)
One thing I regretted not doing was going south and seeing where my Grandpa operated from when he was in the Army Air Corp in WW2... Oh, well. Next time. If I ever get back to Italy...
If you ever get back to Italy, be sure to visit the South East (Eastern Basilicata / Apulia) as well! It's quite different from Naples and the Southern Thyrrienian coast in general.
By the way, did your Grandpa operate in Brindisi? After the armistice it was the command center of all allied operations in Italy, IIRC.
(September 5, 2014 at 10:26 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: "That's fine-ass pizza, bitch!"
I could understand a handful words of your Italian section, and they weren't when you said "Buona notte" My Italian was never great to begin with (I wouldn't even have classified it as "good") so I could only pick out random words here and there with no idea what you were actually saying.
When I turned on subtitles, though, I could pick out more words. (Hope you did well on your oral exam!)
I think I wasn't speaking with an accent in the Italian section, so it was easier to catch. You know, next time, I'll do a video of me speaking first with a light accent then slipping to full blown dialect It's another language
(September 5, 2014 at 11:24 am)Losty Wrote: Omg will you marry me?
Sorry lass, I'm already taken
(September 5, 2014 at 11:24 am)Losty Wrote: I love the way you talk with your hands. So dang cute! It's really cool that your English accent sounds more natural that your Italian accent.
Which reminded me of this joke I heard a comedian tell about violence and video games. Something like, imagine if video games made you violent when we were kids. kill kill KILL
~is that you Satan?
No it's me, Mario (in the fake Italian accent)
Anyways, I loved it. Let's hear American accent next
I'm not that good at American accents, but I'll try that next time too
Oh, by the way, I passed the exam (27/30)
Thanks for the support!
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
(September 5, 2014 at 1:36 pm)oukoida Wrote: By the way, did your Grandpa operate in Brindisi? After the armistice it was the command center of all allied operations in Italy, IIRC.
I can't remember the name of the place he was... I know he flew out of a base in southern Italy, and crashed-landed in Wales, around Swansea.
Quote:I think I wasn't speaking with an accent in the Italian section, so it was easier to catch. You know, next time, I'll do a video of me speaking first with a light accent then slipping to full blown dialect It's another language
Oh, boy! I was picking out words like "tempo" and "giorno" and "piccolo" and "questo" so if those get lost amongst an accent I'd be totally lost! :p
Quote:Oh, by the way, I passed the exam (27/30)
Thanks for the support!
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
September 6, 2014 at 5:22 am (This post was last modified: September 6, 2014 at 5:23 am by Lucanus.)
(September 5, 2014 at 7:01 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Oh, boy! I was picking out words like "tempo" and "giorno" and "piccolo" and "questo" so if those get lost amongst an accent I'd be totally lost! :p
Generally the things that change with Italian accents are more like the rhythm and the melody of your speech, and sometimes some vowels are pronounced slightly differently. Of course it's completely different with dialects. Within my dialect for example, "tempo" becomes "timb' ", "giorno" is discarded altoghether and replaced with "dì", "piccolo" becomes "p'ccnunn" and "questo" becomes "cuss". :S
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
(September 6, 2014 at 5:22 am)oukoida Wrote: Within my dialect for example, "tempo" becomes "timb' ", "giorno" is discarded altoghether and replaced with "dì", "piccolo" becomes "p'ccnunn" and "questo" becomes "cuss". :S
Curious...
In portuguese:
Time is tempo (like italian)
Day is dia (like your dialect, a bit)
little is pequeno, but you can further shrink the thing you're talking about with a suffix and it becomes pequenino (tiny), or even further becoming pequenininho (very tiny). notice something like your p'ccnunn in there? (oh, we use 'que' for the same sound where italians use 'che')
"Dì" is used in standard Italian too, but it generally sounds archaic or very very formal...
I did know about pequeno, but I never thought about its similarity with "p'ccnunn"!
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
Actually, the "c"s there are "soft": they are not pronounced as a "k" but as a "tch", like in "itch"... It's very similar nonetheless!
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
My Italian was never great to begin with (I wouldn't even have classified it as "good") so I could only pick out random words here and there with no idea what you were actually saying.
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