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[Namekuseijin]

Sabem o que acho mais incrível? Como português, espanhol e italiano são línguas tão próximas, o que torna possível a leitura sem muito esforço ou uma educação mais formal. Vocês certamente me entendem, não? Estava lendo a wikipédia italiana sem muito esforço, e embora para alguns vocábulos não houvesse equivalente em português, pelo contexto consegui interpretar corretamente.

tudo graças ao bom e velho latim...

acho que vou me arriscar em algum clássico italiano, mas não ainda Dante. Pelo menos, parece mais fácil do que poesia francesa...

[beppe]

Bravo, il portoghese lo leggo abbastanza facilmente. Non lo spagnolo. E' il contrario per ascoltare. Capisco facilmente lo spagnolo, meno il portoghese, anche se ho lavorato per qualche mese in Brazil

Certo che ti capisco, benissimo. Leggi Guareschi, costa pochi soldi.

[Namekuseijin]

"ascoltare", I didn't knew quite what to think. Quick go to it.wikipedia: "ascoltare con interesse tutto ciò che il professore dice"

haha, fica evidente que se trata de "escutar/listen to"...

BTW, it's not difficult either to try to speak either spanish or italian by reading aloud. I have to say I had Roberto Benigni in mind while reading it.wikipedia entries yesterday...

don't know "Guareschi", do you mean the cartoonist for sure?

[beppe]

Originally Posted by Namekuseijin

"ascoltare", I didn't knew quite what to think. Quick go to it.wikipedia: "ascoltare con interesse tutto ciò che il professore dice"

haha, fica evidente que se trata de "escutar/listen to"...

BTW, it's not difficult either to try to speak either spanish or italian by reading aloud. I have to say I had Roberto Benigni in mind while reading it.wikipedia entries yesterday...

don't know "Guareschi", do you mean the cartoonist for sure?

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovannino_Guareschi

[Sil_liS]

Originally Posted by Namekuseijin

"ascoltare", I didn't knew quite what to think. Quick go to it.wikipedia: "ascoltare con interesse tutto ciò che il professore dice"

In Romanian, that sentence is "asculta cu interes tot ce zice profesorul".

[AnneT]

Originally Posted by beppe

http://www.ibs.it/ebook/guareschi-gi...858613139.html

"Don Camillo en de kleine wereld"
Again a book I read in Dutch, years ago!
But Namekuseijin's suggestion to have a look at the Italian Wikipedia is excellent too!

[Namekuseijin]

Originally Posted by Sil_liS

In Romanian, that sentence is "asculta cu interes tot ce zice profesorul".

very close too.

why the germans needed to be such party poopers?

[Shinra tensei]

Originally Posted by paola

no Beppe please please, not Alberoni! He is so vapid, so empty, so shallow... ok, then, those may be the reason if you need something really plain to learn Italian

I have to agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A beautiful, very intersting book for children is

"La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia" of Dino Buzzati (even if not yet available on IBS...)

It's a story of a group of funny, genuine bears that invade Sicilia.

Actually, "Le avventure di Pinocchio" of Carlo Collodi is much more famous

http://www.ibs.it/ebook/collodi-carl...809753952.html

http://www.ibs.it/ebook/collodi-carl...858503362.html

but i prefer the first one. Pinocchio is excessively moralistic for me.

[paola]

Hi all,
just found another provider of italian ebooks, the Libreria Universitaria - they say they have 300.000 titles, but I haven't explored it in any detail yet. I was looking for Shinra Sensei's tip of Buzzati (which I have not read), but they haven't got it either.

[beppe]

Originally Posted by Shinra tensei

I have to agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A beautiful, very intersting book for children is

"La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia" of Dino Buzzati (even if not yet available on IBS...)

It's a story of a group of funny, genuine bears that invade Sicilia.

Actually, "Le avventure di Pinocchio" of Carlo Collodi is much more famous

http://www.ibs.it/ebook/collodi-carl...809753952.html

http://www.ibs.it/ebook/collodi-carl...858503362.html

but i prefer the first one. Pinocchio is excessively moralistic for me.

Originally Posted by paola

Hi all,
just found another provider of italian ebooks, the Libreria Universitaria - they say they have 300.000 titles, but I haven't explored it in any detail yet. I was looking for Shinra Sensei's tip of Buzzati (which I have not read), but they haven't got it either.

This is very useful and interesting. Would you mind, both of you, to repost your great contributions on the new thread that I am trying to use as a reference for Italian ebooks.

just as an encouragement, I give you a little bit of karma. I know that it is silly, but ...

BTW Shinra tensei, I saw that you posted there. I will put your suggestion in the TOC. Thank you.

[beppe]

I am going to ask to a moderator friend of mine to help me to sort out this problem of two threads competing. LOL

[paola]

Originally Posted by beppe

This is very useful and interesting. Would you mind, both of you, to repost your great contributions on the new thread that I am trying to use as a reference for Italian ebooks.

just as an encouragement, I give you a little bit of karma. I know that it is silly, but ...

BTW Shinra tensei, I saw that you posted there. I will put your suggestion in the TOC. Thank you.

ah, I hadn't eralised I was sriting in two different topics

and thanks for the massive K, I feel very very competent now

[beppe]

Originally Posted by paola

ah, I hadn't eralised I was sriting in two different topics

and thanks for the massive K, I feel very very competent now

Yeah. I contacted the mighty moderator and something will happen. You can follow the operation on my page. In the visitors' messages. That's one of the purposes of them. This is a very efficient site. Right in the cloud.

You are very very competent.
Let me assume a very serious face