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I am a Web engineer and a Ditals certified teacher. I like teaching Italian (most of the times to friends, for free) and learning foreign languages and culture. I want to maintain and improve my English, recover my poor French, learn Japanese at medium level or fluent, learn basics mandarin Chinese. As a hobby I play with two small sites related to language: italianpenpals.org and kissako.it (absolutely not comparable with Itaki that I consider splendin: a masterpiece for functionality, usability and design/looks) On Italki I hope to find native speakers of Japanese, English, Chinese and French for language exchange via email and chat.
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  • Corrected

    la partita di calcio

    Forse sapete che oggi sia  è/c'è la seconda partita fra FCB e Real. L´altra settimana la mia squadra (fcb) ha perso 2:1 quindi dobbiamo vincere almeno 0:2. Ma se il Real fa un gol (1:2) e dopo il tempo supplementare nessuno ha fatto ancora un gol ci sono i calci di rigore. Non posso guardare i calci di rigore perché sono troppo nervosa per questo spero che la mia squadra vinca nel tempo reguolare. È una partita molto difficile ma tutto è possibile! Per il fatto che Lewandowski gioca sono molto ottimista. Si deve essere sempre ottimistia al calcio perché con l´atteggiamento giusto tutto rende diventa più facile. Si deve lottare per riportare la vittoria! Il sentimento dopo una vittoria è impagabile, si realizza che l´allenamento ogni settimana vale la pena.
    Spero che ci sia una partita buona con la vittoria per i rossi.
    Forza Monaco <3
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    May 2, 2017
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  • Commented
    @Alan thank you, found that post and read it yesterday evening
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    October 21, 2016
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  • Commented
    Thanks for your comment, my problem is only with the correspoindence between pinyin and sounds, I have started comparing all the "sources" I have for pinying sounds and they do not seem to agree, at least that is my impression. I will try to put them online hoping that a native speaker can tell me whether they are right, or which ones are right. Maybe I am exaggerating but I start considering possible that some of the pinyin apps asked a native speaker with bad knowledge of pinyin, or with an accent, to record the sounds
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    October 21, 2016
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  • Commented

    Tyy@@@ thank you, I hope it is so, at least in part.

    Actually the course uses two native speakers, and sometimes they seem to pronounce in a slightly different way, ex. the negative particle one pronounces it with p the other with b

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    October 20, 2016
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  • Commented

    I write very concisely my suggestions, more detail later on.

    I found extremely useful:

    - PImsleur Japanese

    - Heisig's method for memorizing kanjis, be aware of its features before you decide to use it,
      a very clear discussion at http://kissako.it/content/kanjis-heisig-method

    - Anki (flashcard program)

    - Speater (iPhone app with A/B repeat)

    - Watching homu dorama with English subtitles (even though I don't understand it)

    I am finishing pimsleur now, my plan at the moment is:

    - Pimsleur + Heisig

    - Assimil + 3 kanji/vocabulary books to complement Heisig

    - Genki


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    October 20, 2016
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  • Commented
    @Lauren James My problem is that the sound I hear in zai jian in the course seems to me the sound corresponding to jin in my pinyin app.
    The fact that all pinyin learning app I found on Android seems to have some mistakes makes my doubts bigger
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    October 20, 2016
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  • Commented
    @Bean I use Pimsleur that is only "vocal", rather famous and very expensive so I would assume they use a native Chinese speaker.
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    October 20, 2016
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    Pinyin and real sound of Chinese words

    I am trying to learn pinyin and find it extremely difficult because several times the sound I think I hear in audio courses does not seem to correspond to the pinying in the various pinyin learning apps or courses.
    This happens even for elementary words like Zài jiàn, when I hear jiàn  within Zàijiàn in courses the sounds to me seems the sound of jin.
    Is it me unable to correctly understand sounds or is there some difference between spoken language and pinyin? 
    Does some other learner have this problem?


    October 20, 2016
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  • Answered
    A complemento delle risposte precedenti: "Sappiamo che i vestiti non ci (si) addicono" normalmente si direbbe: "sappiamo che (questi) vestiti non ci stanno bene" (don't suit/fit us well). Il signifcato non è identico al 100% ma forse è questo il significato che la frase originale cercava di esprimere. La stessa espressione si usa per taglio di capelli Etc. ("Quell'acconciatura non le sta bene", "Quel vestito non le sta bene, la ingrassa ..." "Quel vestito non le si addice" significa più che altro che il vestito non corrisponde alla persona, o alla sua personalità (ex. ad una persona molto timida non si addice un vestito con colori molto vivaci o una minigonna)
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    October 13, 2016
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  • Answered
    http://italianpenpals.org/content/web-test-italian
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    October 4, 2016
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