Wednesday, April 28, 2010

About Italian: Making Hamburgers; Gli Uccelli; L'Autostrada

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From Michael San Filippo, your Guide to Italian
Caro Lettore,

Welcome to this week's edition of your About.com Italian Language Newsletter! Read the next installment in one woman's adventure in fluency. Thinking she has figured out how to shop in the outdoor market, our guest author Bonnie ends up with a surprise.

In the About.com Italian Language forums there's a discussion about the term in bocca al lupo, and a community member solicits suggestions for cat names in Italian. There's a lesson on Italian consonants, and a conjugation table for the verb condurre. Plus, listen to an audio phrasebook with vocabulary related to birds (gli uccelli).

Making Hamburgers
Thinking she has figured out how to shop in the outdoor market, the author ends up with a surprise. When Bonnie discovers that she's actually bought ground meat and buns, she makes hamburgers--not what she expected to be eating in Italy.

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Most regions in Italy have their own accent, dialect, and sometimes their own language. The various languages and dialects spoken in Italy evolved over centuries and remained distinct from standard Italian for a variety of reasons.

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