Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 15:32:31 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>, Marco Molteni <molter@sofia.csl.sri.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000408153231.008a8450@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004081513100.81871-100000@peloton.runet.ed u> References: <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com>
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At 15:14 08-04-2000 -0400, Brett Taylor wrote: >I'm heading over to Italy in late June for a bike tour for 9-10 days - >anyone know any good software/books to help learn enough so I'm not >totally lost when I get there? Here's the first phrase you need to learn: "Non capisco Italiano." It means "I don't understand Italian." The Italians, in general, are quite willing to find a way to communicate with foreigners who don't speak their language. Best of all, unlike people from one of their neigboring countries, they couldn't care less about foreign accents. If you are trying to talk Italian, no matter how broken, they will not pretend they don't understand just because you don't sound exactly like them. I learned Italian very quickly by watching Japanese cartoons on a Roman TV station. The drawback of that method was that the first things I learned were phrases like "uccidetelo" (kill him!) and "eliminatelo" (eliminate him!). But, I have retained those to this day! :-) Cheers, Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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