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Old 06-06-2010, 05:28 AM   #31
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I believe the http://xdxf.revdanica.com/down/index.php dictionary site is down. Does anyone know if it has moved or if something else similar is available? Thanks for the help ahead of time.
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Old 07-05-2011, 04:35 PM   #33
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I'm holding my reading of Dante, Ariosto and Petrarca for when I'm fluent in italian...

that's the only way to read poetry: to learn the language they were written in. Too bad I'm right now trying my best at french and latin... hopefully classic italian is closer to its roots.

Gotta admit the only modern italian literature name I'm used to is Umberto Eco. And, uh, Liberatore and Tamburini...
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Old 07-06-2011, 07:38 AM   #34
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I'm holding my reading of Dante, Ariosto and Petrarca for when I'm fluent in italian...

that's the only way to read poetry: to learn the language they were written in. Too bad I'm right now trying my best at french and latin... hopefully classic italian is closer to its roots.

Gotta admit the only modern italian literature name I'm used to is Umberto Eco. And, uh, Liberatore and Tamburini...
Dante is atrociously difficult even for an Italian that has studied it in school, 4 hours a week for the last 3 years of high school. A hard, stony hard hermetic poetry. Rime petrose he called them. Ariosto is simply unaccessible.

I would dare to suggest you to read Calvino. A great European novel is La Coscienza di Zeno by Italo Svevo. And if you want to try some hard Italian, try Carlo Emilio Gadda. A very easy one is Guareschi. My wife is reading Lessico Familiare by Natalia Ginzburg. She is ecstatic with it. I also love Primo Levi.
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Simpaticissima. Scusa il tono sciocchino. Adesso lo porto a livello.

Buonassera Signora,
Sono felice di fare la sua conoscenza.
Allway isthay oreignfay alktay isway onfusingcay emay, ecausebay Iway on'tday understandway anyway ofway itway.
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up something that certainly, without any doubt, belongs to you.
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I would dare to suggest you to read Calvino. A great European novel is La Coscienza di Zeno by Italo Svevo. And if you want to try some hard Italian, try Carlo Emilio Gadda. A very easy one is Guareschi. My wife is reading Lessico Familiare by Natalia Ginzburg. She is ecstatic with it. I also love Primo Levi.
Thank you for the suggestions!
I'm learning Italian, although I'm don't have a large vocabulary yet. But I read 'De bekentenissen van Zeno' by Italy Svevo in Dutch, so maybe that will be manageable for me!
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Thank you for the suggestions!
I'm learning Italian, although I'm don't have a large vocabulary yet. But I read 'De bekentenissen van Zeno' by Italy Svevo in Dutch, so maybe that will be manageable for me!
How nice. If you want to practice and acquire some familiarity, I would suggest Guareschi. He is easy, simple, with a delicate humoristic and surreal vein.
Also the short stories of Calvino: Marcovaldo.
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hah, so I've heard of those names and some works.

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Thank you for the suggestions!
I'm learning Italian, although I'm don't have a large vocabulary yet. But I read 'De bekentenissen van Zeno' by Italy Svevo in Dutch, so maybe that will be manageable for me!
hint for broadening your Italian vocabulary:

http://it.wikipedia.org
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Just for reference, I am going to post here Italian ebooks in Italian that in my very modest opinion could be interesting to somebody who wants to practice reading in Italian.

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

http://www.ibs.it/ebook/calvino-ital...852015922.html

http://www.ibs.it/ebook/svevo-italo/...854125889.html

http://www.ibs.it/ebook/alberoni-fra...858600047.html
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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

Can I also add to your list two freebies:
http://www.ibs.it/ebook/ser/serpge.asp?grts=y
the "Fu Mattia Pascal" is probably for more proficient readers of Italian, but nevertheless beautiful. NO clue about "Viva Las Vegas", but it's free

Real pity that IBS do not stock any of Primo Levi's book in EPUB (indeed, I could only find two books, both pdf).
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I believe the http://xdxf.revdanica.com/down/index.php dictionary site is down. Does anyone know if it has moved or if something else similar is available? Thanks for the help ahead of time.
Kakarot98, if you click on your link you will see that this site ain't down, but it is very "Russian-orientated". If you change the download format from "xdxf" to "Stardict" you will find dictionaries that will work with your Onyx Boox 60.

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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

Can I also add to your list two freebies:
http://www.ibs.it/ebook/ser/serpge.asp?grts=y
the "Fu Mattia Pascal" is probably for more proficient readers of Italian, but nevertheless beautiful. NO clue about "Viva Las Vegas", but it's free

Real pity that IBS do not stock any of Primo Levi's book in EPUB (indeed, I could only find two books, both pdf).
Alberoni is a monster, but his considerations on friendship are unique.
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Alberoni is a monster, but his considerations on friendship are unique.
you are indeed right, it is just that I find his style so unsufferably, condescendenly patronizing that it gives an off colour to anything he writes - I jsut can't stand the man
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