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Koko wrote:Question: is it a good idea to do a language like HV for a TAC?
dEhiN wrote:My roommate is Bulgarian, and maybe once you learn some stuff you can teach me how to say hi!
dEhiN wrote:PS. If you haven't already done so, you may want to join the UL Skype chat. There's one specifically for Romance languages and in it Italian is sometimes used. So if you're looking for a way to practice what you're learning, and don't have anything local, try the Skype chats. There are a few native Italian speakers on it.
Koko wrote:Здравей dEhiN! Как си?
(Ciao dEhiN! Come stai?)
È stato un dialogo familiare. Perché siete coinquilini, suppongo che non debbia essere formale.
Could it be possible to do a TAC and a partial challenge? Like I do the full year with IT and BG and do like a SAC with EL and DE while still doing the full TAC?
dEhiN wrote:Grazie, però...
È stato un dialogo informale. Visto che siete coinquilini, suppongo che non debba essere formale.
What do siete and che mean?
Also in Italian, does si create a "sh" sound, akin to ci creating a "ch" sound? So should siete be pronounced "shete"?
dEhiN wrote:Koko wrote:Здравей dEhiN! Как си?
(Ciao dEhiN! Come stai?)
Grazie, pero...I can't read Cyrillic .
IpseDixit wrote:dEhiN wrote:Grazie, però...
"Thanks" is quite a weird answer to the question "how are you doing?"... at least in Italian...
He never actually answered the question. He was just thanking Koko for attempting to teach him some Bulgarian.
BTW, isn't ma a more common way of saying 'but' than però in Italian?
No offense or anything
but I doubt dEhiN really knew how to say 'but' in Italian to begin with.
IpseDixit wrote:ma can be only in the beginning of a sentence
Why should I feel offended? Or maybe you was referring to dEhiN?
Well, now he does. I don't get your point...
Koko wrote:@vijay: like in English, it is possible to start a sentence with a conjunction.
vijayjohn wrote:dEhiN wrote:Koko wrote:Здравей dEhiN! Как си?
(Ciao dEhiN! Come stai?)
Grazie, pero...I can't read Cyrillic .
And couldn't be bothered to look it up on Wiktionary? Oh well, here it is in Roman script
Zdravey dEhin! Kak si? (note: stress falls on second syllable of zdravey)
IpseDixit wrote:dEhiN wrote:Grazie, però...
"Thanks" is quite a weird answer to the question "how are you doing?"... at least in Italian...
vijayjohn wrote:Yeah, I mostly meant dEhiN, although I also just have an unfortunate tendency to apologize too much or worry that I'll say something offensive to somebody in general.
Koko wrote:@dEhiN: Здравей! Как си?= Zdravey! Kak si? IPA: [zdravɛj | kak si] (don't palatalise like IN^ Russian: that doesn't happen)
Koko wrote:…Speaking of this, am I the only one who absolutely hates when people say you can't start a sentence with and??!! It annoys the hell out of me and it takes all of my energy not to punch them straight to oblivion! Have you not read good literature ? THOUSANDS OF SENTENCES BEGIN WITH AND !! *sigh* And the same goes for "but." (though and is the one that gets me… ) I had this one teacher (same one who denied the possibility of simultaneous speaking) who said this and I lost respect for her even more, it was way below -9000 respect levels. It wasn't even for formal writing that she said this!!
dEhiN wrote:no offense taken Vijay, but I did know però was but in Italian
molto grazie (can I say this, like muchas gracias in Spanish?)
vijayjohn wrote:Yeah, I mostly meant dEhiN, although I also just have an unfortunate tendency to apologize too much or worry that I'll say something offensive to somebody in general.
You sound like you should've been a Canadian instead of an American!
vijayjohn wrote:dEhiN wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Yeah, I mostly meant dEhiN, although I also just have an unfortunate tendency to apologize too much or worry that I'll say something offensive to somebody in general.
You sound like you should've been a Canadian instead of an American!
But isn't that an Indian thing, too?
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