English gym

Steerpike ha scritto:However, I care a lot speaking correctly in Italian, so I'd like to can speak well also in English.

The first part of the phrase is mostly correct, while the second part is a mess.
The correct form would be...
"However, I care a lot about speaking correctly in Italian, so I'd also like to be able to speak well in English."

Thank you for the correction. Maybe I could try to write in an English forum, to learn the correct forms.

It would be simpler to just chat with some englishmen :) Try IRC!

Ieri ho fatto in anticipo gli esami d'inglese. Volevo farli a Settembre, ma un mio amico mi ha convinto a farli visto che erano facili. Ho studiato tutto 2 giorni prima dell'esame. E... Superato. Così non vi scasso in estate.

Cosworth117 ha scritto:Ieri ho fatto in anticipo gli esami d'inglese. Volevo farli a Settembre, ma un mio amico mi ha convinto a farli visto che erano facili. Ho studiato tutto 2 giorni prima dell'esame. E... Superato. Così non vi scasso in estate.

What?

Rasputin ha scritto:

Cosworth117 ha scritto:Ieri ho fatto in anticipo gli esami d'inglese. Volevo farli a Settembre, ma un mio amico mi ha convinto a farli visto che erano facili. Ho studiato tutto 2 giorni prima dell'esame. E... Superato. Così non vi scasso in estate.

What?

Bastardo.

I did the english test in advance yesterday morning. I had them on Settember, but a friend of mine convinced me to do that test because were easy. I studied all english program two days before the exam. And... I passed that! So I will not break the boxes (?) for all summer.

Oh fammi riposare!

OkOk

Tentando di tradurre la frase :
così non vi scasso per tutta l'estate
mi è venuta questa traduzione:
so you don't piss off for(?) me, in the summer
o questa
so i don't bother the hell out of you, in the summer
Quanti errori ho commessi e quale potrebbe essere la migliore?
Ed eventualmente qual'è quella che si usa nello slang americano e inglese effettivamente?

Darrow ha scritto:Tentando di tradurre la frase :
così non vi scasso per tutta l'estate
mi è venuta questa traduzione:
so you don't piss off for(?) me, in the summer
o questa
so i don't bother the hell out of you, in the summer
Quanti errori ho commessi e quale potrebbe essere la migliore?
Ed eventualmente qual'è quella che si usa nello slang americano e inglese effettivamente?

so you don't piss off for(?) me, in the summer

should be

So I don't piss you off all summer or So I don't piss you off for the whole summer

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so i don't bother the hell out of you, in the summer

should be

So I don't bother the hell out of you all for the whole summer

Cosworth117 ha scritto:Ieri ho fatto in anticipo gli esami d'inglese. Volevo farli a Settembre, ma un mio amico mi ha convinto a farli visto che erano facili. Ho studiato tutto 2 giorni prima dell'esame. E... Superato. Così non vi scasso in estate.

Which language are you speaking?

This is such a great topic! I love it! I'll fill it, can I?

I love every foreign language.

Notice ha scritto:This is such a great topic! I love it! I'll fill it, can I?

I love every foreign language.

Go ahead Notice. English, Spanish, German and a little French are welcome

Steerpike ha scritto:

Cosworth117 ha scritto:Ieri ho fatto in anticipo gli esami d'inglese. Volevo farli a Settembre, ma un mio amico mi ha convinto a farli visto che erano facili. Ho studiato tutto 2 giorni prima dell'esame. E... Superato. Così non vi scasso in estate.

Which language are you speaking?

It would be more correct to say "What language are you speaking?" as 'Which' implies there's a list to choose from.

PaperJack ha scritto:

Steerpike ha scritto:

Cosworth117 ha scritto:Ieri ho fatto in anticipo gli esami d'inglese. Volevo farli a Settembre, ma un mio amico mi ha convinto a farli visto che erano facili. Ho studiato tutto 2 giorni prima dell'esame. E... Superato. Così non vi scasso in estate.

Which language are you speaking?

It would be more correct to say "What language are you speaking?" as 'Which' implies there's a list to choose from.

There are only about 6000 languages...

Io a novembre mi trasferisco a Sidney e non so dire nemmeno una parola d inglese...

You can use this thread to practice. Rasputin and Diva can help you.

Maylea83 ha scritto:Io a novembre mi trasferisco a Sidney e non so dire nemmeno una parola d inglese...

E potresti anche raccontarci qualcosa...

Wow! Why are you going to Sidney?

Maylea83 ha scritto:Io a novembre mi trasferisco a Sidney e non so dire nemmeno una parola d inglese...

Hai un mp

*Valerio* ha scritto:

Maylea83 ha scritto:Io a novembre mi trasferisco a Sidney e non so dire nemmeno una parola d inglese...

E potresti anche raccontarci qualcosa...

Mio marito son anni che cerca di convincermi a partire, suo fratello sta li e ogni anno ci offre l opportunità di stare a casa sua per un anno e un lavoro ad entrambi ma fin ora non me l ero sentita, ora la crisi comincia a farsi sentire anche a casa mia e sopratutto da quando è nato mio figlio penso che li lui avrebbe piu opportunità sia di interagire con gente molto piu aperta sia per la lingua sia ovviamente un domani per il lavoro.
Perciò abbiamo deciso di buttarci! Io ti pare ancora sto in ansia pero voglio darmi/ci quest opportunità di cambiamento, speravo da sempre di andarmene dal mio paese ma non credevo tanto lontano...

Fuggite sciocchi!(cit.)
Fai benissimo a mio parere!

Brava Maylea, fai bene a far fare questa esperienza a tuo figlio... Noi siamo una famiglia internazionale e abbiamo vissuto all'estero per un po' di anni... vedrai che il tuo bimbo ti ringraziera' per questa bellissima opportunita' che gli offrite!

So, what about some practice Maylea? Come on!!

Have you studied English in school?

Diva ha scritto:So, what about some practice Maylea? Come on!!

Have you studied English in school?

Thought you'd say "at" school

By the way guys, how can i improve my pronunciation? Concerning reading and listening i think i'm pretty good as i learned a lot from movies and stuff, and i don't have big problems regards understanding a fluent english speech(unless it's in some weird accent), but i don't talk a lot in english(actually i basically never talk in english) and the next year i plan to give my IELTS exam, which also consists of an oral part in which the pronunciation takes a big part of the final result.

I mean, is it just a matter of practice or there's some way to become at least not embarassing?

Pick up american girls

Tomhet ha scritto:which also consists of an oral part in which the pronunciation takes a big part of the final result.

Maybe that's why I had such a bad score in the oral part of my IELTS exam.

Tomhet ha scritto:By the way guys, how can i improve my pronunciation? Concerning reading and listening i think i'm pretty good as i learned a lot from movies and stuff, and i don't have big problems regards understanding a fluent english speech(unless it's in some weird accent), but i don't talk a lot in english(actually i basically never talk in english) and the next year i plan to give my IELTS exam, which also consists of an oral part in which the pronunciation takes a big part of the final result.

I mean, is it just a matter of practice or there's some way to become at least not embarassing?

Watching CNN helped me a lot, as well as watching movies in original (English) language...but at the time, I was living in a place where I could speak the language daily, and with native speakers, too

Rasputin ha scritto:

Tomhet ha scritto:By the way guys, how can i improve my pronunciation? Concerning reading and listening i think i'm pretty good as i learned a lot from movies and stuff, and i don't have big problems regards understanding a fluent english speech(unless it's in some weird accent), but i don't talk a lot in english(actually i basically never talk in english) and the next year i plan to give my IELTS exam, which also consists of an oral part in which the pronunciation takes a big part of the final result.

I mean, is it just a matter of practice or there's some way to become at least not embarassing?

Watching CNN helped me a lot, as well as watching movies in original (English) language...but at the time, I was living in a place where I could speak the language daily, and with native speakers, too

Yeah, i think that's the issue, i mean, i also watch a lot of contents in english without subtitles, sometimes stuff from CNN as you suggested, and also english bloggers like Pat Condell and so on, but the problem is that i can't reproduce the accents in a fluent speech and so i thought about the practice, which i think we can all agree is probably the best way to learn a new language.

Also, i wasn't planning to follow the course as i have a lot of other stuff to do at the university, that's why i asked if there was another way to improve pronunciation(in the IELTS course the teacher asks questions, assigns us some activities like speaking with our classmates and so on) but i might try to follow at least the speaking sessions if that's necessary.

I think that by now i'm very very good at pronouncing those porn-like exclamations

Rasputin ha scritto:

Diva ha scritto:So, what about some practice Maylea? Come on!!

Have you studied English in school?

Thought you'd say "at" school

"In" is okay too... no need to show off!

Tomhet ha scritto:I think that by now i'm very very good at pronouncing those porn-like exclamations

I've just red again my post... what a fucking horrible syntax!

Maylea, I'll tell you something...
If you can, watch a bit of Australian television or videos... Have you ever heard this accent?
Each time I speak with Australian people I don't-get -a-word! Not one! (and each time I speak to english speaking people, if i don't understand, I'm sure they're Australian! - Strine!)
Am I the only one?

(Ps. Correggetemi senza problemi)

Talking about accents, this video is cool:

Tomhet ha scritto:Talking about accents, this video is cool

I saw this! I was looking for american people imitating italian accent
I showed it to a friend of mine and she's didn't hear any differences among the (english) accents...

No differences? Wow, the first two were almost incomprehensible for me whilst the others were mostly fine

Tomhet ha scritto:Talking about accents, this video is cool:

Ahah, one of my teachers of last semester's classes really had an accent like the Italian one in this video.

Niques ha scritto:Maylea, I'll tell you something...
If you can, watch a bit of Australian television or videos... Have you ever heard this accent?
Each time I speak with Australian people I don't-get -a-word! Not one! (and each time I speak to english speaking people, if i don't understand, I'm sure they're Australian! - Strine!)
Am I the only one?

(Ps. Correggetemi senza problemi)

No, you're not the only one.
I'm not speaking about me, I grew up on oil fields: Arabs, Indians, Australians, Americans from everywhere (have you ever heard Texans?), English and Scots. I pratically understand who ever speaks or tries to speak English. Eccept Chinese, but I don't understand them not even when they speak Italian

Tomhet ha scritto:No differences? Wow, the first two were almost incomprehensible for me whilst the others were mostly fine

I didn't say she understood all the accents in the same way! I meant to say that she really had no ears!!! They were all the same for her! (and all incomprehensible, of course, though she studies english at school with a native english and in the afternoon with a british woman, and she watches movies etc..)

Ah! That's odd...

Tomhet ha scritto:Ah! That's odd...

I even give her lessons (si dice repetitions, esiste? Boh)

Spoiler:

Niques ha scritto:Pick up american girls

Or Scottish...

Niques ha scritto:Maylea, I'll tell you something...
If you can, watch a bit of Australian television or videos... Have you ever heard this accent?
Each time I speak with Australian people I don't-get -a-word! Not one! (and each time I speak to english speaking people, if i don't understand, I'm sure they're Australian! - Strine!)
Am I the only one?

(Ps. Correggetemi senza problemi)

I first heard Australian speakers some 4 years ago, and it was weird at least... Good morning in her pronounciation became something like "gid moaning"... I hope she was just unable to clearly speak rather than being the typical Aussie speaker....

Niques ha scritto:

Tomhet ha scritto:Ah! That's odd...

I even give her lessons (si dice repetitions, esiste? Boh)

Spoiler:

"Classes" is ok too.

davide ha scritto:I first heard Australian speakers some 4 years ago, and it was weird at least... Good morning in her pronounciation became something like "gid moaning"... I hope she was just unable to clearly speak rather than being the typical Aussie speaker....

I cito you!
I've met several Australian people... They all speak like this!
Once I was smelling some soap because of the stink of the train... They asked me if that stink was normale and I explained that's wahy I had a piece of soap with me... They couldn't understand me... Then of them said something like: "Oh, sep!"
Maybe that's just me... But I always understand american people...

I don't know... I had another chance to chat with an Aussie and he sounded pretty normal, but I also have to say his parents were Italians (from Valtellina), this might have influenced his speaking....

Niques ha scritto:

davide ha scritto:I first heard Australian speakers some 4 years ago, and it was weird at least... Good morning in her pronounciation became something like "gid moaning"... I hope she was just unable to clearly speak rather than being the typical Aussie speaker....

I cito you!

The word is "Quote"!

Also, I don't really have any problems with australians. I think it's because I'm used to hearing all sorts of accents from voice-chatting online with friends.

PaperJack ha scritto:

Nick ha scritto:I cito you!

The word is "Quote"!

Really?



However, that could be a good advice for (to?) Maylea! She should speak at least with her australian relatives during these months!

I want to seriously try to improve my english this time because I usually go to some pubs where there are many foreigner students. I have sometimes a little bit difficult to talk with them. So I'm trying to improve english both in free time (with videos, etc.), and when I go to the pubs. I think that practice is important at least teory.

If a read the first pages of this topic I understand that my old english was really sucks (more of that I think). I have already improved it from then, but I have still much to learn.

I'm afraid because there are many beautiful foreign girls in my city, and I want to try to pick-up them.   

I hope to try to learn english at evening, when I don't study. With an hour of practice a day, how many time I need to speak this language fluent?

Cosworth117 ha scritto:I want to seriously try to improve my english this time because I usually go to some pubs where there are many foreigner students. I have sometimes a little bit difficult trouble to talk with them. So I'm trying to improve english both in free time (with videos, etc.), and when I go to the pubs. I think that practice is important at least (?) tHeory.

If a I read the first pages of this topic I understand that my old english was really sucksed (more of that than I think). I have already improved it from since then, but I have still much to learn.

I'm afraid because there are many beautiful foreign girls in my city, and I want to try to pick-up them pick some up.    

I hope to try to learn english at in the evening, when I don't study. With an hour of practice a day, how many much time do I need to speak this language fluently?

Hi Cos, sorry for the late reply but I noticed this post yesterday evening only.

I can't answer your question because I can't hear you, but aside from a few little mistakes and something thah just doesn't make sense to me (see question mark) your spelling seems to be ok.

Go ahead if you like   

Thanks.

At least: http://www.wordreference.com/iten/almeno%20quanto

I wanted to write "Penso che la pratica sia importante almeno quanto la teoria".

Cosworth117 ha scritto:Thanks.

At least: http://www.wordreference.com/iten/almeno%20quanto

I wanted to write "Penso che la pratica sia importante almeno quanto la teoria".

Ok "I think practice is at least as important as theory"