vuoi (vuole?) parlare italianese

[Alameda]

please please I beg on my knees

In cullo al ballena, mi penso, no lupo! But I think that is rude, or it used to be?

We never planned them all, they just kept coming!

Si dice anche "in culo alla balena"!

I don't think that in bocca al lupo means anything bad for the lupo? Or am I missing something?

Ah, that's what you said Annunziata! I read "in culo alla ballerina" instead of balena

cullo sounds pleasingly rude :)

like enculé? (sp?) in French

Bad spelling

Crepi is bad for the poor old wolf!

crepi il lupo?

Ah yes, of course!!!!!!!!! No povero lupo, we don't want him to die.

and x post again with crepi!

ma on balance I think I prefer the mouth of the lupo to that part of the balena

Good luck with the verbs Alameda, Italian verbs are horrible. I learned them and then promptly forgot them all again the second I finished my Italian A level!

Thanks for the good luck wishes everyone, the response I know is 'che crepi il lupo' as well.

Speaking of lupi - has anyone else ever heard of this slightly terrifying ninna nanna which I remember from my childhood -
"ninna nanna ninna oh.
questo bimbo a chi lo do
lo daremo al lupo nero
che lo tiene un mese intero"

there's other verses too but the lupo one is the one that sticks in my mind.

is that from one about coffee beans?

Andiamo, ai iri nutriri miei figghiu, a presto!

hungry

does listening to various ninne nanna on YouTube count as 'studying'?

Ciao ciao ragazze

ciao! Are you actually Livia from insp. montalbano? And are you good at making irregular verbi fly out of the text book and into people's heads?

Ciao! Comu va le verbi? Any better?

Aiu pulito la cucina e stiraruti, sonu stancarisi.

well you've taught me two new ones now! Pulire and stirare, new concepts and new verbs :)

but otherwise, umm

(both regular, transitive, the -are one is first conjugation and ire will be something else)

God, I don't even know what that all means!

It will be fine, no worries! Sogni di oro cara :)

oh that is beautiful, thank you and to you!

(transitive I think means it involves something else, like you iron things, you clean things whereas sognare and dormire can be intransitive in that they can just happen without needing some object to complete them but of course they can be transitive too - not that it actually matters )

anyway from now am simplifying things and have decided there are two main sorts of verbi: ones that end in -are (most of them?) and ones that don't

and any other sort of sub classification is optional

NOW I can sleep

CIAO A TUTTI

cosa ha fanno?

you are always too busy doing valuable things!

am setting up a message board for my new classmates, everyone is miles apart which is the way of things in Suffolk and some go to different classes but we share a tutor and lesson content, so we can discuss things online or arrange to meet between classes etc - anyway, any ideas for what to call it? And where to host it?

Ciao Alameda!

I think Italian verbs fall into 3 groups - 'are' 'ere' and 'ire', and in each of those there's a regular pattern of endings for them (the regular verbs at least!)

Your message board idea sounds great - we have one for my uni cohort and everyone uses it and is really supportive on it. Ours is on facebook, and I know some friends who do a lot of collaborative work via google documents but that might be a bit too 'worky' for your needs.
Names hmm parliamo insieme (might be a bit cheesy maybe) Il messagiero ?

Io oggi sto molto bene perche'......the best of the jobs I applied to yesterday called me today and I've got an interview for Thursday. This job would be perfect for me so I've cosmic ordered it on the cosmic ordering thread!

ciao! Was just hovering on brink of registering parliamo.me.uk actually!

thank you, you are right about the verbi of course