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  1. Martin

    05 Prima della partita a Roma

    Note: There is a reading fail in the first sentence. "alle quindici" sounds like "al quindici". :doh: If you listen very closely you can hear the second half of "alle", but it's not enunciated correctly. Prima della partita a Roma Delneri: Ragazzi, la partita comincia alle quindici(1)...
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    04 Arrivati a Roma

    Arrivati a Roma Grygera: Eccoci(1) a Roma, finalmente! Aquilani: Evviva, la mia città! Krasic: Sì, sì, lo sappiamo. Dopo tutto questo tempo in autobus voglio prendere un caffè. Aquilani: Lo puoi prendere vicino allo stadio, c'è un bar. Sissoko: Ci(2) hanno anche dei panini? Ho fame(3)...
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    03 In autobus

    In autobus Bonucci: Che(1) lungo viaggio! Dove siamo adesso? Buffon: Vicino a Genova. Bonucci: Mister, perché non prendiamo l'autostrada(2)? È più veloce! Delneri: Perché non ho il portafogli(3). Non posso pagarla. Aquilani: Ma come possiamo pagare la benzina? Delneri: Zitto tu...
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    Tips for vocabulary study

    Some of you have mentioned reviewing the vocabulary in the lessons. I'm here to tell you that the way you learned to study vocabulary in school might not have been the state of the art (shocking, I know). To make a long story short there is a method that you can use to learn all kinds of...
  5. Martin

    Where are you guys?

    The response to the course so far has been rather modest. All you people who said you wanted to participate and who sent me PMs saying you're excited, where are you? So far we have heard mostly from Romance people, those guys who speak Spanish, Romanian etc, they have an easier start. But...
  6. Martin

    02 Parliamo di macchine

    Parliamo di macchine Grosso: Ehi Luca, che tipo di macchina(1) hai(2)? Toni: Ho una Ferrari blu. Grosso: È quella(3) lì fuori, accanto alla Volvo? Toni: Esatto. Di chi è la Volvo? Grosso: È di Legrottaglie. Per lui la cosa più importante è la sicurezza stradale. Legrottaglie: Ho anche...
  7. Martin

    01 Presentando Luca Toni

    Presentando Luca Toni Delneri: Ragazzi, questo è Luca Toni, il nuovo attaccante. Del Piero: Luca! Sono contento di rivederti! Toni: Ciao, Alex! Ciao a tutti! Amauri: Ma Luca, sei bravo o no?(1) Perché io... Krasic: Tu(2) non(3) sei bravo a nulla! Delneri: Buoni, ragazzi! Domenica c'è(4) la...
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    Lesson index

    Index 00 Introduction 01 Presentando Luca Toni | Exercises Theory: A short introduction to Italian sentences Theory: Verb tenses 02 Parliamo di macchine | Exercises Theory: Genders 03 In autobus | Exercises Theory: Verb infinitve + pronoun 04 Arrivati a Roma Theory: Redundant pronouns 05 Prima...
  9. Martin

    00 Introduction

    The course for Juventini This is an introductory course to Italian. It assumes that you understand English. And it's for Juvenini. If you're not interested in Juventus (or at the very least, calcio) then you will not know what the heck it's all about and you'll be really bored. Tough break...
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    Italian course to start soon!

    Good things don't always come to those who wait, but this time they do. We are now ready to launch our absolutely unique, off the charts brilliant Italian course. We kinda need a working forum for this, so barring any unforeseen downtime we begin on August 13. I have written a course for you...
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    Türkiye

    More prisoners in Turkey than in China now? Army leadership resigned in protest over the government's claims of a coup d'etat and so many journalists in jail that they're publishing their own paper? Wtf? Turk, can you explain?
  12. Martin

    Apple Causes Religious Reaction In Brains of Fans

    "In a recently screened BBC documentary called 'Secrets of the Superbrands', UK neuroscientists found that the brains of Apple fans are stimulated by images of Apple products in the same areas as those triggered by religious imagery in a person of faith. According to the scientists, this...
  13. Martin

    thinkpad anyone?

    Looking to get a new laptop these days, thinking of this one: http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/nlind/LenovoPortal/en_NL/catalog.workflow:item.detail?vt=5&GroupID=220&Code=NV13CMH&hide_menu_area=true&hide_ad_area=true&current-category-id=E6BB4B397B824876B193FE3E9AE025D6 Your...
  14. Martin

    Please add [sup]

    Marty, can you add a tag for superscript? To translate into the HTML tag of the same name. It's needed for an upcoming feature :eyebrows: Runtime test: this is in superscript
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    Who's interested in an Italian course?

    Let's see how many people would be interested in following a course in Italian. :cheesy: It's not something I can organize overnight, but I've been thinking about it and I have an idea about how I would do it. :cool2: Let me just say that it is a matter of writing course material, so once...
  16. Martin

    Let's talk about Italian

    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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    Aquí se habla italiano, Paco.

    Bene bene bene. Insieme a Kate abbiamo deciso di sviluppare un po' questa zona desertica. Venite a trovarci qui, dunque, che si parla di tutto. Non dico della Juve, perché è una cosa talmente ovvia che, insomma, ci abbiamo detto molto tempo fa tutto ciò che abbiamo voluto. Per esempio, che...
  18. Martin

    Internet in Korea

    The rumors seem to be true. Probably not the same in North Korea.
  19. Martin

    Inno a Silvio per il Nobel per la pace

    :lol2: :lol2: "L'Abbruzzo si risveglia incredulo", senz'altro :D
  20. Martin

    Why are "artistic" movies so weird?

    Anyone wants to shed light on this? Not that I've seen hundreds upon hundreds of movies like this, but among the few dozen I've seen (latest: Rashomon) it seems to happen a lot, namely: Emotional reactions out of proportion with the context. What is that about? There are so many scenes...