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    "He came back from a trip down there one time'". What does it mean exactly? La He came back from a trip down there one time and was upset because he said Uncle Fabrice treated him like a dunce in front of customers. His father was called Bonaccio, most probably a nickname with the ironical meaning of "a good, stupid fellow," while to Leonardo himself another nickname, Bigollone (dunce, blockhead), seems to have been given. He was sent to various schools, but was generally regarded as a dunce, and when he was sixteen years of age he entered his father's foundry, working for seven years with no wages beyond a little pocket money. He passed from the school at Kilkenny to Trinity College, Dublin (1700), where, owing to the peculiar subtlety of his mind and his determination to accept no doctrine on the evidence of authority or convention, he left the beaten track of study and was regarded by some as a dunce, by others as a genius. British school children, already the language dunces of Europe, will soon no longer be obliged to learn any foreign languages.
    October 19, 2014
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    potere, riuscire and essere capace...

    Recently I discovered I've been overusing the verb Potere and I've now been introduced to the words Riuscire and Capace. I'd like to understand the different situations in which I'd use these three words:

    Here's what I think is true:

    I would use Potere when discussing something I need permission for?

    Also use Potere when there is some constraint, or something


    Non posso uscire a presto stasera. (I can't go out early tonight)
    Puoi mi portarmi un'altra carta? (would you bring me another card?)

    Riuscire:

    to succeed, to manage, can, to be able
    to come out, to turn out, to come off, to be successful, to succeed
    non riuscire - to fail


    I would use Riuscire when discussing something I can or cannot do-- in terms of ability...
    Non riesci giocare calcio con un braccio rotto. (You can't play soccer with a broken arm)

    You can not play anyway! Not the best example ????. this is better:

    Non riesco a colpire il bersaglio (I fail to hit the target ... I could but I'not not good with gun, bow..etc)

    Riescono a nuotare adesso perché hanno preso prendono dieci lezioni.(They can swim now because they took ten lessons)

    Essere Capace di:
    I would use as an adjective when describing ability or capacity to do something?
    Sono capaci Di lavorare qui (They can work here)
    Non sono capace a di parlare francese. 

    Non so parlare francese (I can't speak French)

    Which word would I use when saying:
    I can't eat cereal because I am allergic to gluten *would this be like I'm not permitted to, or I physically am not

    Non posso mangiare cereali perché sono allergico al glutine


    I can't buy you that dress *does the word choice change depending on my reason? ie. if I can't buy it because I don't have money vs. I can't buy it because it's too short and it would be more of a permission thing?*

     

     

    Non sono capace di comprare quel vestito (non ho abilità per farlo, in ex blocco psicologico, oppure it is online and I'M not god with computer... because I lack of some skill...)

    non posso comprare quel vestito (qualsiasi motivo ..any reason .. Ok anyway)

    non riesco a comprare quel vestito (not enought money or time or for my lack of ski 

     


    I would appreciate corrections in my sentences and also in my understanding of these three words and the situations in which I'd use them? Other examples are welcome.

    Grazie per tutto!

    you're welcome

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    October 17, 2014
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    Health and food I have read a lot of book about relation between food and health. In Italy, people is proud of the so called "mediterranean diet" and they think that eating pasta, pizza and mozzarella is the best way to feed and stay well. Unfortunately, few people do not know that's dramatically wrong! First of all, the scientific study that invented the expression "Mediterranen world", is at least a hundred years old, was conducted in greecian isles and proved a positive correlation beetween absence of so called "wealth deseas" and eating not refined cereals, legumes, wild edible plants, 2-3 portion of fish per week and one portion of meat per month! It's very different from what the most of common italian people eat now... Isn't it?
    October 17, 2014
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  • Corrected

    La mia famiglia

    ciao a tutti!

    Io ho una famiglia grande con cinque persone. Mia madre è un ragioniere e ha studiato al Washington University in D.C. per il suo MBA. È molto simpatica e ama fare giardinaggio e cucinare. Quando aveva 19 anni, ha viaggiato al Germania per studio. Dopo la scuola in Germania, ha viaggiato attraverso l'Europa, l'Italia e Austria.

    Lei non è creativa ma mio padre è molto creativo; scrive libri per bambini nel tempo libero. Il suo vero lavoro è nelle farmacie e lavora tutta la settimana per sostentare la familgia. È molto intelligente e ha tanti libri ovunque. Gli piace la musica dei canti latini (latin chants).

    Ho una sorella e un fratello (sono gemelli) che si chiamano Julia e Nicholas. Julia ho studiato inglese al Wellesley College (una università solo per ragazze). Adesso abita con il suo ragazzo a Boston. A mio fratello piace il computer e lavora in un ristorante.

    La mia famiglia è pazza perché ha sette gatti ma amiamo tutti.

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    October 17, 2014
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