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05-06-2015, 01:50 PM
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And why do you learn Italian? This makes no sense. Do you want to understand what Caruso is singing?
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Ah Chris why not, frex Oh soave fanciulla, o dolce viso di mite circonfuso alba lunar is the opening words of what has to be the worlds greatest love duet.
I will admit that my French is getting rusty as is Florences Japanese but she still speaks Spanish, Potuguese and Italian.
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05-07-2015, 02:12 AM
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My comment was ironic, of course. I never learned Italian, but when I "read" an Italien text I get a clue what it is about. I got some Latin knowledge, I understand French, so many words of the Italian language are in a way familar to me by deriving.
For my ears Italian is the most beautiful language which I know, Arabian the ugliest.
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05-07-2015, 07:06 AM
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Italian is nice to listen to. There was something on TV, a TED talk I think, that discussed languages and pointed out speed changes that Italians use to add feeling to their sentences. In that regard Italian has a musical component to it that most languages do not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDLQ04ybyl0
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05-07-2015, 07:09 AM
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I have to laugh.
When I worked with the Italian cobbler I asked him once about how to spell an Italian word. He laughed and said there is no spelling. You write it how you say it!
hehe.
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05-07-2015, 07:32 AM
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Italian is nice to listen to. There was something on TV, a TED talk I think, that discussed languages and pointed out speed changes that Italians use to add feeling to their sentences. In that regard Italian has a musical component to it that most languages do not.
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Agreed. To my ears, Italian is easily the most beautiful spoken language. I remember a time when my wife and I were at the Piazzale Michelangelo overlooking Florence at sundown with a group of Italian schoolgirls within earshot. Their chatter was as beautiful as a flock of songbirds.
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06-28-2015, 01:04 PM
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Similarly Russian
You: Bbi - formal
Tbi - informal
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вы - pronounced "vuij" (note: letter "j" is jodated)
ты - pronounced "tuij" (same as above)
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06-28-2015, 01:18 PM
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вы - pronounced "vuij" (note: letter "j" is jodated)
ты - pronounced "tuij" (same as above)
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Hiya, tovarich.
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06-28-2015, 02:15 PM
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вы - pronounced "vuij" (note: letter "j" is jodated)
ты - pronounced "tuij" (same as above)
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This may well be a hangover from Tsarist times when the court language was French. In French the formal form of address is "vous" and the familiar is "tu".
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06-28-2015, 02:48 PM
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Up until a few years back Thee, Thy and Thou were still in use in Yorkshire, except thy tended to coma out as tha
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06-28-2015, 02:51 PM
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вы - pronounced "vuij" (note: letter "j" is jodated)
ты - pronounced "tuij" (same as above)
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Jodate in Spanish is not very nice.
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