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Post by cerbys on Nov 4, 2010 15:22:01 GMT -5
Unfortunately here in Italy it's difficult to find people who supports the underdogs in the NBA (because only few people follows it frequently and satellite TV just shows you the best teams). Generally it's full of bandwagoners...till last may they were all cheering for Cleveland, now is Miami's turn. I forgot to say that almost half of the italians that knows NBA support the Fakers because of the fact that Bean used to play in Italy.
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Post by freshnthehouse on Nov 4, 2010 15:52:48 GMT -5
I forgot that Kobe grew up in Italy. I think I read somewhere that he can still speak Italian.
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Post by cerbys on Nov 5, 2010 8:38:08 GMT -5
I forgot that Kobe grew up in Italy. I think I read somewhere that he can still speak Italian. He generally speaks italian with vujacic (who played in Italy)...his italian is still good!! |
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Post by eja117 on Nov 5, 2010 9:58:54 GMT -5
Eu no capisco Italiano muento bene, mais eu parle fracais, lietuva, anglais, et un poca portuguese. Eu tento? Eu vorre apprendo meunto lingues. Capish?
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Nov 5, 2010 14:04:59 GMT -5
KP cerbys (that's like a tommy point only better) for that great story! I very much enjoyed it! Thank you for sharing!
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Post by cerbys on Nov 5, 2010 15:03:10 GMT -5
Eu no capisco Italiano muento bene, mais eu parle fracais, lietuva, anglais, et un poca portuguese. Eu tento? Eu vorre apprendo meunto lingues. Capish? What language is it? Portuguese? I can understand it because Portuguese (or what else it is  ) comes from Latin (like Italian, Spanish, French and many others...). I would like to learn other languages too...Spanish first of all, I went to Spain this year and I felt ashame that I couldn't speak their language (although I could understand them very well and they could understand me too). |
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Post by freshnthehouse on Nov 5, 2010 18:49:52 GMT -5
Good to have you around, cerbys. I still think it's amazing how many people are bilingual. I took German as an elective in high school, and I just couldn't figure it out. Made me appreciate the work people put in to learn other language(s).
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Post by eja117 on Nov 5, 2010 21:33:59 GMT -5
I have listened to some Italian tapes, but have no idea how to spell it, so I was trying Italian and I guessed on two words and inserted Portuguese and hoped they were the same. Like the word "I". I don't know how to spell it. In Portuguese I think it's eu, and in spanish I think it's Yo.
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Post by cerbys on Nov 6, 2010 5:01:08 GMT -5
I have listened to some Italian tapes, but have no idea how to spell it, so I was trying Italian and I guessed on two words and inserted Portuguese and hoped they were the same. Like the word "I". I don't know how to spell it. In Portuguese I think it's eu, and in spanish I think it's Yo. You did't go that far from writing in Italian, I'm not joking, I did understand what you wrote  ... In Italian the word "I" is much more similar to the Spanish rather than the Portuguese. Saying the truth is similar even to English because "I" you traslate in "IO" (that's the only similarity between the two grammars)... |
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Post by cerbys on Nov 6, 2010 5:04:11 GMT -5
Good to have you around, cerbys. I still think it's amazing how many people are bilingual. I took German as an elective in high school, and I just couldn't figure it out. Made me appreciate the work people put in to learn other language(s). To me it was quite impossible to learn German...it was like a war between me, the grammar and the sintax and at the end they won. |
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Post by eja117 on Nov 6, 2010 6:52:53 GMT -5
I only speak 4 languages so far, so I'm still learning. Reading and writing is way harder
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Post by FLCeltsFan on Nov 9, 2010 9:35:52 GMT -5
I took 4 years of French in high school and minored in it in college (major was math) and even with all that I was never fluent. Could be because I had a Chinese French teacher for 3 of the years in high school and in college they spent more time on French literature so I read and wrote much better than I spoke. But I haven't used it other than the odd word here and there on TV and have forgotten much of what I learned.
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Post by eja117 on Nov 9, 2010 14:53:20 GMT -5
I took 6 years of French and didn't get fluent. Got decent though
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Post by cerbys on Nov 9, 2010 14:53:55 GMT -5
I took 4 years of French in high school and minored in it in college (major was math) and even with all that I was never fluent. Could be because I had a Chinese French teacher for 3 of the years in high school and in college they spent more time on French literature so I read and wrote much better than I spoke. But I haven't used it other than the odd word here and there on TV and have forgotten much of what I learned. I was lucky...when I was 13 I had an exchange in a French family, I went there for a week, living in a family, and then my corrispondent came in Italy for a week. There you have to speak French otherwise it's going to be a big problem  I han an other exchange when I was at the High School, another time in France, different region. And the last year of high school I took a stage in France for 20 days, I was working in a restaurant. But now my french is not that good, if I don't practice it I'm going to lose it... By the way, eja117, 4 languages are quite a lot...it's good if you want to learn more |
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Post by eja117 on Nov 9, 2010 22:44:02 GMT -5
4 languages is like a European 9 year old. I'll get better
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