vuoi (vuole?) parlare italianese

[Alameda]

please please I beg on my knees

Io sto scrivendo un essay questa settimana, anchora 3000 parole...yawn.

Poi questo pomerrigio accompanio mia mamma al'aereoporto perche va in Italia per un po per fare compania alla nonna.

Eek, 3000 parole? Bona fortuna!

Mi piace iri al aeropuerto it's always exciting!

Ah Annunziata, glad they are safe home!

Today porto dd e una sua amica a una festa. Ds va a teatro con mia madre, then tonight andiamo tutti a cena da nostri amici.

Tomorrow abbiamo invitato degli amici a pranzo. Busy, but it's nice to catch up.

Lafata, what is your essay on?

Buona sera a tutti!

Oggi mi sembra che sia stata molto produttiva la mattina. Sono andata al museo con i bambini, dove c'e un'esibizione con dinosauri. Poi, siamo tornati a casa, e ho fatto una traduzione dal greco. Phew!

Domani abbiamo una festa di compleanno del miglior amico di DS1, e bisogna andare il pomeriggio per comprare un regalo.

Franca May I just ask you a question? I remember that when I was in Italy people said "la mia madre", but I notice that you just say "mia madre". Is this a regional thing? (I was in Tuscany)

Alexpolis yes, it is a regional thing, in Tuscany they will say "la mi' madre" or "la mi' mamma"

In general, it usually is:
Vado al mare con mia madre or

vado al mare con la mia mamma (more colloquiale)

Have a lovely weekend!

Grazie, Franca!

I am a little unclear on some of the grammar points like that, although I usually have no trouble with general communication!

Franca - I'm comparing some aspects of Swedish and English education.
It's interesting enough, but I'm too excited about my impending house move/new job to focus really.

Alexpolis - I do that usually, but with first names!
Proper Italian would be something like - 'Teresa e Sara sono andate al cinema' but in my Northern rural bit of Italy we'd probably say 'La Teresa e la Sara sono andate al cinema'.

FataTurchina that structure sounds so familiar to me, I am sure I heard people saying it. La Chiara, la Giovanna... But not Il Gino, il Marco, etc. Only with women's names. Perhaps I just had a high percentage of dialect-users in my social circle!

It's typical of Northern Italy. If you ever read the sublime "lessico famigliare" written by Natalia Ginzburg in 1960, she too uses la paola, il Marrio etc.

Lafata your essay sounds v. Interesting.

that's one of my things to revise (or learn for first time in my case) and according to my tutor it is correct to do that when talking about anyone (who presumably isn't there) unless the following two exceptions both apply: you are related to them and there's only one of them? Confused. How serious is it to omit or use the wrong possessivo thing?

Comu interissanti, davanti io nun avia sentatu 'il Gino, il Marco.'

Stasira sugnu molto stanca. Bleurgh. Non vedo a Downton Abbey, e dumani figgi mie riturnanu a scuola, grazzi deo. Vui pensiti ch'idda criscuni e tuppanu sneaking up on one another wearing Scream masks and shouting 'BOO' but NO

Speriamo che vida e serena pi tu!

Ciao - early night for annunziata then? Sono also molto stanca but that's all I ever say these days, I didn't even see (il) commissario montalbano last night!

this time next week will be in Sicily if I can find the energy to pack some things it has to be warmer there, or at least brighter?

Mmm aiu aspittari pi DH, finiri travaggheri a 11.

No Montalbano? Ah, ma si in Sicilia ti stisso prestu!

Chistu tempu prossimo semmana?

Si ummmm sabato? Vado con lover of frutti di mare (not mia sorella sadly) am going to be' brave and try everything - if I don't die of fatigue first

good luck staying awake until 11!

Sooo lucky! I am glad you got someone to go with you! I wonder if the olives are done yet, caponata is really fresh this time of year, the pears and the chestnuts. Oh I want to go!

Io svigghiaru, the DC essenu GGRRRRRR. They all have to sit at the table to do their homework/studying. DS (22) keeps producing the stupid mask and scaring DD (19). She keeps complaining that 'they are like, breathing so loud and IT'S PUTTING ME OFF'. DS2 (17) is farting. DS3 is deliberately not studying. DS4 is encouraging them. DD2 is weeping over maths. Oh yes, I will be awake.

(Do you want to take any of them with you? If not me? Have them ALL!)

Mmmmm caponata, mi piace molto. Haha, no grazie, would rather take you - am going to get away from that sort of thing!

Well, Alameda, often it is still quite mild in Sicily at the beg of Novemeber, so keep your fingers crossed!
This weekend the weather has been gorgeous even in Milan, there must have been at least 22 degrees and a lovely sunshine.

I hope you manage to summon up some energy to pack, you will feel better once you are in Sicily and in front of a nice granita al caffé!

Ciao e buona settimana a tutte

:)

It will be so amazing!

Ah, ora tutti sonnu sedinu e aiuda DD2. Sunnu cumpitu veramenti.

Buongiorno a tutti!

Oggi e' venuto l'autunno, e piove. Forse le nuvole si sono perdute, cercavano la via per andare in Inghilterra e sono venute qua.

Sono a casa con il mio bambino pio piccolo, chi sta ballando alla musica dal radio.

Ora per fare un te', mi sembra...

Buongiorno alex, buongiorno a tutti. È buio and come si dice 'foggy'? Non mi sento molto bene as usual ma mainlining berocca and coffee. Questa casa looks like the setting for a documentary about what happens to mad people when they are left to fend for themselves in the wilds of The Community.

Ciao a tutte, "foggy" si dice nebbioso.

Qui é grigiastro, ma caldo.
Sono appena tornata a casa, perch[ il Lunedì faccio la volontaria in un asilo nido. Anche casa mia is a mess, after the weekend it is appaling.

Ciao a tutti, c'era nebbioso ch'anche sta mattina ma li era iu ora.

Tu bambino e dolce, Alex! Awww.

Casa mia e brutta, anchio, sugnu vergugnusu. Aiu a pulire pi Natale. Gahhh.