Comments on: Beginner Lesson #5 - Talk About Being Hungry…and Thirsty…and Tired in Italian! http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/ Learn Italian with Free Podcasts! Whether you are student or a seasoned speaker, our lessons offer something for everyone. We incorporate culture and current issues into each episode to give the most informative, both linguistically and culturally, podcasts possible. For those of you with just the plane ride to prepare, check our survival phrase series at ItalianPod101.com. One of these phrases just might turn your trip into the best one ever! Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:03:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Marco http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-667 Thu, 08 May 2008 01:30:00 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-667 Here is the page with all the information about the current and some of the future series! http://www.italianpod101.com/help-center/the-courses/ Ciao Here is the page with all the information about the current and some of the future series!

http://www.italianpod101.com/help-center/the-courses/

Ciao

]]> by: Marco http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-611 Thu, 01 May 2008 02:39:16 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-611 In the next we days we are going to have a nice page with detailed explanations to how to best approach the various lesson levels we have published and also the lessons that we are going to!!! A presto Marco In the next we days we are going to have a nice page with detailed explanations to how to best approach the various lesson levels we have published and also the lessons that we are going to!!!

A presto
Marco

]]> by: Cinzia http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-602 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:53:00 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-602 Ciao Renato! Come stai? Si, io ho studiato le ligue straniere e anche giapponese:wink:- I have studied the foreign languages,and also japanese. For your studies I can give you some advices; the sound "Z" can be usually found in the last syllable of the words like "casa" - house "mese" - month instead you have the "SS" in words like "insalata" - salad "salto" - jump I hope it's clear, but the best way is the constant practice with the various sounds! Thank you again for joining and following us. Ciaoooo Cinzia:mrgreen: Ciao Renato!
Come stai?
Si, io ho studiato le ligue straniere e anche giapponese :wink: - I have studied the foreign languages,and also japanese.

For your studies I can give you some advices; the sound “Z” can be usually found in the last syllable of the words like
“casa” - house
“mese” - month
instead you have the “SS” in words like
“insalata” - salad
“salto” - jump

I hope it’s clear, but the best way is the constant practice with the various sounds!

Thank you again for joining and following us.

Ciaoooo
Cinzia :mrgreen:

]]> by: Rene http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-581 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:59:19 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-581 Ciao Marco, I, too, am interested in knowing the difference between the Newbie course and the Beginner course. Would you please email me the information? Grazie mille, Renato Ciao Marco,

I, too, am interested in knowing the difference between the Newbie course and the Beginner course. Would you please email me the information?

Grazie mille,
Renato

]]> by: Rene http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-579 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:46:04 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-579 Ciao Cinzia e Marco: Cinzia ha scritto: > You are right! in some words the S in italian sounds like a Z (like in ZEBRA in english) I have a question: each time I learn an Italian word do I need to memorize in which words the S sounds like Italian SS and in which words the S sounds like the English Z in Zebra? Grazie! Renato Ciao Cinzia e Marco:

Cinzia ha scritto:
> You are right! in some words the S in italian sounds like a Z (like in ZEBRA in english)

I have a question: each time I learn an Italian word do I need to memorize in which words the S sounds like Italian SS and in which words the S sounds like the English Z in Zebra?

Grazie!
Renato

]]> by: Marco http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-377 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:28:07 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-377 Dear Peter, I have sent an email reply yesterday. Please check your spam filter to see if it has been blocked. Ciao! Dear Peter,
I have sent an email reply yesterday.
Please check your spam filter to see if it has been blocked.
Ciao!

]]> by: Peter http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-376 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:05:27 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-376 Dear Marco, Can you please explain more fully the interconnection between Newbie and Beginner lessons? I have sent an email to the site but have not received a reply. I don't find it entirely satisfactory that there are two introductory series running together-the difference between them unexplained - but apparently not being self contained. Sorry to be critical but if I am learning a language at an elementary level I don't think that I should need to run two courses together. Dear Marco,

Can you please explain more fully the interconnection between Newbie and Beginner lessons?

I have sent an email to the site but have not received a reply.

I don’t find it entirely satisfactory that there are two introductory series running together-the difference between them unexplained - but apparently not being self contained.

Sorry to be critical but if I am learning a language at an elementary level I don’t think that I should need to run two courses together.

]]> by: Marco http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-369 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:22:55 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-369 Dear Peter, You are right we should have mentioned it. Adjectives were covered the previous week in Newbie lesson #4. Please take a look. A presto Marco Dear Peter,
You are right we should have mentioned it.
Adjectives were covered the previous week in Newbie lesson #4.
Please take a look.

A presto
Marco

]]> by: Cinzia http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-367 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:08:51 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-367 Ciao Renato, si hai ragione! You are right! in some words the S in italian sounds like a Z (like in ZEBRA in eng) and the weird thing is that this word in particular -ZEBRA- in Italian has to be read with a strong sound like in ZATTERA (punt) in fact in LATIN the Z was a sonorous variant of the S. So good point! Thank you very much Grazie mille! C! Ciao Renato,
si hai ragione!
You are right! in some words the S in italian sounds like a Z (like in ZEBRA in eng)
and the weird thing is that this word in particular -ZEBRA- in Italian has to be read with a strong sound like in ZATTERA (punt)

in fact in LATIN the Z was a sonorous variant of the S.

So good point!
Thank you very much
Grazie mille!
C!

]]> by: Peter http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-362 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:16:17 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-362 You introduce "stanco" but don't appear to mention that this should change with gender if I remember correctly. You introduce “stanco” but don’t appear to mention that this should change with gender if I remember correctly.

]]> by: Rene http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-361 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:28:53 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-361 Question about pronunciation. (questo è un post noiso) :wink: Is the Italian 's' pronounced as /z/ (as in English 'zebra')? For example: is 'cosa' pronounced /koza/, cosi pronounced /kozi/? Grazie mille, Renato Question about pronunciation. (questo è un post noiso) :wink:

Is the Italian ’s’ pronounced as /z/ (as in English ‘zebra’)?
For example: is ‘cosa’ pronounced /koza/, cosi pronounced /kozi/?

Grazie mille,
Renato

]]> by: Marco http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-317 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:49:02 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-317 Magari! I wish! Magari!
I wish!

]]> by: Jacqueline http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-307 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:00:02 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-307 Ho fame! :mrgreen: Avete pizza? :mrgreen: Ho fame! :mrgreen: Avete pizza? :mrgreen:

]]> by: Cinzia http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-228 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:42:07 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-228 per Gustavo :razz: Caro Gustavo, la verità è che non solo gli spagnoli lo dicono, a Napoli, in seguito alla dominazione spagnola, il dialetto napoletano ha preso molto dallo spagnolo arcaico, perciò anche io ... con la mia famiglia spesso ho usato "tengo fame"! :oops: Grazie infinite per i tuoi ottimi commenti! Cinzia per Gustavo
:razz:
Caro Gustavo,
la verità è che non solo gli spagnoli lo dicono, a Napoli, in seguito alla dominazione spagnola, il dialetto napoletano ha preso molto dallo spagnolo arcaico, perciò anche io … con la mia famiglia spesso ho usato “tengo fame”!
:oops:

Grazie infinite per i tuoi ottimi commenti!
Cinzia

]]> by: Marco http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-216 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:08:26 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-216 Il tuo post non è boring (noioso) per nulla! Non ho mai cercato le ragioni per l'uso di "tengo", ma il tuo ragionamento è molto giusto. Infatti è nelle regioni del sud Italia che si usa "tengo" e queste regioni sono state dominate dalla Spagna per molti anni, durante il Regno delle due Sicilie. Ciao Marco Il tuo post non è boring (noioso) per nulla!
Non ho mai cercato le ragioni per l’uso di “tengo”, ma il tuo ragionamento è molto giusto.
Infatti è nelle regioni del sud Italia che si usa “tengo” e queste regioni sono state dominate dalla Spagna per molti anni, durante il Regno delle due Sicilie.

Ciao
Marco

]]> by: Gustavo Enrique http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-212 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:34:08 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-212 È possibile che alcuni italiani dicono "tengo fame" invece di "ho fame" a causa di un'influenza della lingua spagnola sopra gli anni? Molti dei miei compagni di classe che parlano lo spagnolo anche l'italiano dicono "tengo fame" invece di "ho fame" perché si sono abituati dire il verbo "tengo". Anche se è inesatto, nel'lo spagnolo il verbo "tenire" vuol dire "avere." È possibile che lo spagnolo così la prossimità geografica e le radici vicine delle lingue potrebbero essere la causa per quest'anormalità. Questa è la mia teoria. Ciao e mi dispiace se è un post molto "boring!" Gustavo È possibile che alcuni italiani dicono “tengo fame” invece di “ho fame” a causa di un’influenza della lingua spagnola sopra gli anni?

Molti dei miei compagni di classe che parlano lo spagnolo anche l’italiano dicono “tengo fame” invece di “ho fame” perché si sono abituati dire il verbo “tengo”.

Anche se è inesatto, nel’lo spagnolo il verbo “tenire” vuol dire “avere.” È possibile che lo spagnolo così la prossimità geografica e le radici vicine delle lingue potrebbero essere la causa per quest’anormalità. Questa è la mia teoria.

Ciao e mi dispiace se è un post molto “boring!”
Gustavo

]]> by: Cinzia http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-210 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:07:20 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-210 :oops: thank youuuuu!!!! grazie grazie grazie! =) Cinzia :oops:
thank youuuuu!!!!

grazie grazie grazie!
=)
Cinzia

]]> by: Marco http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-207 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:47:51 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-207 Grazie markystar! Continua a seguirci per favore Keep following us please Grazie markystar!
Continua a seguirci per favore
Keep following us please

]]> by: markystar http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-200 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:05:04 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-200 hahahahahaha, cinzia is hilarious! questa lezione e` magnifico! :cool: hahahahahaha, cinzia is hilarious!

questa lezione e` magnifico! :cool:

]]> by: ItalianPod101.com http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-170 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:30:04 +0000 http://www.italianpod101.com/2008/03/12/beginner-lesson-5-luca-are-you-okay/#comment-170 One of the most useful Italian phrases is <em>Ho fame!</em> "I am hungry!". It's like a magic word, say it politely and your Italian friends will cook a tasty meal for you! Ciao One of the most useful Italian phrases is Ho fame! “I am hungry!”. It’s like a magic word, say it politely and your Italian friends will cook a tasty meal for you!
Ciao

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