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Post by jean on Feb 19, 2012 13:21:00 GMT
Is anyone watching this?
Am I only enjoying it because I can pretend to be practising my Italian while pretending not to look at the subtitles?
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Post by trubble on Feb 19, 2012 16:16:59 GMT
No.
Because of the subtitles. I like to fall asleep and listen to dialogue.
But it got a fantastic write up somewhere so I nearly attempted it.
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Post by aubrey on Feb 19, 2012 17:10:55 GMT
I usually think I can understand the dialogue in subtitled films etc when I want to rest my eyes for a bit. It usually takes 2 or 3 minutes for me to realise that I can't (or I fall asleep).
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Post by Weyland on Feb 19, 2012 17:23:17 GMT
I usually think I can understand the dialogue in subtitled films etc when I want to rest my eyes for a bit. It usually takes 2 or 3 minutes for me to realise that I can't (or I fall asleep). I wouldn't have a hope in French or Italian. Can rub along with German, and Swedish is really an obscure dialect of Geordie, so Wallander is a piece of kaka. |
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Post by jean on Feb 22, 2012 18:57:47 GMT
I was quite surprised to hear people calling each other stronzo.
You hear it a lot in Italy, but I'd have thought it was a bit too scatological for broadcast use - but my Italian teacher says it's not nearly as rude as it sounds to us.
(For anyone in any doubt, the definition of stronzo in my Italian dictionary is pezzo di sterco sodo, di forma cilindrica.)
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Post by Weyland on Feb 22, 2012 20:09:30 GMT
I was quite surprised to hear people calling each other stronzo.You hear it a lot in Italy, but I'd have thought it was a bit too scatological for broadcast use - but my Italian teacher says it's not nearly as rude as it sounds to us. (For anyone in any doubt, the definition of stronzo in my Italian dictionary is pezzo di sterco sodo, di forma cilindrica.) Turd? In Dutch, stront means shite. That's the end of today's Cultural Tip. |
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Post by jean on Feb 22, 2012 23:25:14 GMT
Very good! That's very interesting! There are hardly any words in Italian that are from Germanic origins, and the similarity there is too great to be an accident. Just as it was getting really interesting! |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 23, 2012 8:34:52 GMT
Just as it was getting really interesting!OK, here we go: slappe drol is a Dutch equivalent of big girl's blouse, more or less. Literally loose stool. And in Italian? |
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