Tutti gli italiani ed italofoni - venite qua.

[Virgil]

Aw, I want a genuine italian mother to cook for me! (so tired of cooking for myself!)
Have never been to Rome...but I think, if i got the chance to go back to Italy, it would be to Firenze or Venice. Venice during il carnevale must be gorgeous!

Ocaiaionally my Italian mother still cooks for me. She lives close by.

Oh I must Venice is absolutely gorgeous. Florence is nice, but I can't imagine any place more beautiful than Venice.

[mir]

Dovrebbe installare una tastiera italiana... è molto più facile così.
Ma poi, ci sono sempre pagine come questa, dove può scrivere usando gli accenti.

Ana, TVTB. mi hai salvato!

Virgilio - lucky you!! Italian food is wonderful. Especially the pizza and gelato; all of us exchange students have gained pounds in piu! (Hmm . . . for some reason that accent site isn't working for me . . . but now that I know they exist, I'll look for another!!)

Carnevale was yesterday here, I think; I didn't do anything, but all week there have been little kids walking around in costume - far too cute!

[Virgil]

Ana, TVTB. mi hai salvato!

Virgilio - lucky you!! Italian food is wonderful. Especially the pizza and gelato; all of us exchange students have gained pounds in piu! (Hmm . . . for some reason that accent site isn't working for me . . . but now that I know they exist, I'll look for another!!)

Carnevale was yesterday here, I think; I didn't do anything, but all week there have been little kids walking around in costume - far too cute!

My mother makes great pizza (way better than pizzarias), but unfortuantely she doesn't make gelato. Hard to find gelato in the US.

[Silvia]

Hard to find gelato in the US

...I've been told US have the best gelato!

[Virgil]

...I've been told US have the best gelato!

Where? Please tell me so I can rush out and get some. My wife loved the gelato in Florence. She couldn't stop eating it. Actually neither could I.

[vheissu]

Ocaiaionally my Italian mother still cooks for me. She lives close by.

Oh I must Venice is absolutely gorgeous. Florence is nice, but I can't imagine any place more beautiful than Venice.

Well, you definetely are lucky! My dad (who's greek though) gets in the mood from time to time and cooks me something reminiscent of the years we used to live in Milan. He makes an awesome carbonara.

Yes, I think I'd like to visit Venice, more so than Florence...

Il gelato di Sicilia e' fantastico!!

[Taliesin]

I have been participating in the opera chorus of "Il Trovatore" and found that it has given me just the sufficient vocabulary to become a serial murderer in Italy.

Sei tu dal ciel disceso o in ciel son io con te? - I'll say this to some beautiful looking young lady who will be my next victim. She, smitten by those beautiful words and my smashing charisma will of course come with me.
I'll take her to some nice place in the countryside at dawn break and describe the nature to her to distract her attention.
Vedi le fosche notturne spoglie de cieli sveste l'immensa volta.
Sembra una vedova che alfin si toglie i bruni panni ond'era involta!

While her attention is distracted, I'll tie her up. Now I can begin torturing her to death.

Urla pur!

Also, a mocking death knell would be quite ironic and nice.

Miserere d'un alma gia vicina alla partenza che non ha ritorno.
Miserere di lei Bonta divina.
Preda non sia dell'infernal soggiorno.

When the police catches me and I am taken to court I will defend myself by saying she was evil and wicked and therefore my act was righteous:

Ella stessa!

and I'll point also out that she was obviously a witch:

Sull'orlo dei tetti alcun l'ha veduta in upupa o strige talora si muta.
In corvo tal'altra piu spesso in civetta sul'alba fuggente al pardi di saetta.

Since the Italians are Catholic they will surely believe that she was a witch and I will be set free as a hero and I can start looking for my next victim.

Perfect plan!

[crisaor]

And we also have things such as the subjunctive of the pluperfect, still, somehow most of the foreigners I have met feel the need to insist that Italian is a very easy language - particularly if they do not actually speak it. I get particularly amused when, just after having stated that, they use French as an example of hard language (whose grammar is nearly identical with Italian, not to mention some 80% of lexical similarity...).

Here's a foreigner who would happily claim the exact oppposite. I had a much easier time learning english than italian. As a side note, I've also been told of french's similarities in grammar. Perhaps I'll try that next, in a few decades.

Ma alla fine, non direi che l'italiano sia stato la mia lingua madre. Può darsi che lo era, e mio padre mi parlava ogni tanto in italiano quand'ero piccola (nonostante questo fosse, per la maggior parte, un italiano dialettale misto col croato - molti anni dopo mi ha detto che aveva

Dove sei nata, Anastasija?

Alora,chi ama le canzoni italiane?Celentano,Mina,De Andre etc.?Quella mussica e davvero unica!

Ho un problema con questo, la musica italiana no mi piace niente, e tutti i cantanti mi sembrano iguali.

[Scheherazade]

I have been participating in the opera chorus of "Il Trovatore" and found that it has given me just the sufficient vocabulary to become a serial murderer in Italy.

Just checked my "101 Reasons To Sing Operas" guide but this one is not listed. So, now, we have 102 reasons to sing operas...

[Remarkable]

Ma dai,dove sono andati tutti gli italianophoni?Mi avete anche fatto venire la voglia di mangare...

Crisaor,a me,la musica italiana e quella françese mi fanno davvero piachere.Sono le piu grandi,e l'italiani non sono per niente uguale,sono,in fatti,cosi originale...

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Ciao, Anastasija,

Non parlo molto Italiano, ma capisco poco perché parlo francece. Ciò è il mio pranzo e sto ascoltando Eros Ramazotti.

/Claes

[mir]

Sono andata a pranzo oggi alla casa di un'amica mia . . . abbiamo mangiato gnocchi, e per merenda, nutella - i cibi piu buoni!!

Sembra k tutta la musica in Italia - specialmente sul radio - e in Inglese! Sto cercando per qualche cantanti belli italiani.

Taliesin - dimmi in quale parte d'italia vuoi andare, cosi posso stare sufficientamente lontano O_O

[Logos]

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