Re: Anyone studied Italian in Italy?


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... My daughter learned quite a lot in one month. She's able to carry on
... simple conversations with my Italian friends and neighbors. However,
... she had studied Latin, which has much more complicated verb
... conjugations than Italian.

Latin, French, Italian, Portuguese - all have complicated verb
conjugations. BTDT. Learn
one, and learning the others becomes a walk in the park. Portuguese even
has an extra verb
conjugation, just to make you tear your hair out.


Latin has active verbs

then has passive verbs

then has deponent verbs ( verbs with passive form and active meaning )
then semi deponent verbs ( a few tenses active form, a few tenses passive
form )
since in Latin the order of words in a sentence is casual..
you can translate a sentence only if you can recognize a verb.
from the verb you will recognize the subject.. and then the different cases.

in the old times.. in middle school.. in Italy we were reading already DE
BELLO GALLICO
some professors liked student to learn a few pages by heart
( everybody knows Gallia divisa est in partes tres.. )
in high school.. Cicero was the preferred author.. even if it was terribly
difficult.
but also Vergil was studied by heart.
Even if the pronunciation of Latin is not sure.. it is sure that poems were
read in a way that included.. jumping.. ( salio.. saliens )
Saliente means a part were the reader should make a jump ( saltus )

In any case.. I defy anybody to say that learning verbs is a walk in a park.
Irreguliar verbs are the most important ones.. and must be learned one by
one.
For sure. Italian verbs and french verbs are no joke.
I guess Spanish and Portoguese have the same irreguliar verbs.. and probably
rumanian has
It is even difficult to find Italians that can speak italian properly
using properly subjunctive and conditional tenses,,
Only the upper educated class uses them normally..


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