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I'm trying to reach a fluent level in English speaking language. My limits are a lots! I need to get confidence with an accent before starting to undestand it. I can't catch long and articulate English speeches... i just get lost in the middle! I can't make long and articulate speeches myself for the same reasons - maybe i need to fix better some grammar rule. I improved a lot my English when i've been in England and had to use it for real. I've study it for years, but few weeks there just improved all i have been studying and made a sense of it all. I think the best way to learn a new language is the more natural one: speaking and listening, trying to communicate what's in your mind. So i joined again this community i've met years ago and i'm searching someone interested in a language exchange. If you're native English speaker and you're learning Italian, just contact me!
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    Vague department What does "vague department" means? When is it used and to say what? Thanks!
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    EN -> IT "It's all too far gone to bother pursuing" Hi, everybody! How do you translate this sentence in Italian? "It's all too far gone to bother pursuing" Thank you! :)
    January 9, 2016
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    Send us or send for us? How would you translate this sentence in Italian: "He's been sending messages for us" Does "for us" mean --> "on our behalf" or "us" is intended as the receiver of the messages? Thank you! :)
    November 28, 2015
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    How can you say "Mi sarebbe piaciuto" in English? Is "I'd have been liked" the right sentece? Thank you!
    November 24, 2015
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    Thank you, Ciro! :)
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    November 14, 2015
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    Is this sentence correct? "your English is to a much higher level than mine"
    November 14, 2015
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    Ciao! Vorrei imparare l'italiano

    Mi chiamo Becca. Studiare l' Studio italiano da due anni all'a università. Mia madre sono nato è nata in Italia, e ho molti parenti italiani. Ho communicare Comunico facilmente con i miei parenti. Forgive me for all the mistakes I make (como se dice?).

    Parlo l'italiano un po solo un po' d'italiano. Non è facile! Aiutami Aiutatemi a migliorare . Grazie!

    I made a translation following your the tenses you used.
    Look "Studiare" is the infinitive tense. You have to conjugate the verb with the subject, that is you, or better, in a subjective way "I". So this is "Io studio" but in Italian you can omit the subject if it's clear and there no doubt about it. So you can just write "Studio".
    You can find the conjugation of this verb here:
    http://www.wordreference.com/conj/ITverbs.aspx?v=studiare

    Even for your mother, that is the subject of the third sentece: your mother IS born in Italy. So, in Italian: mia madre è nata in Italia.
    A difference between English and Italian is that in Italian you have to inflect the subject and the verb, not only coniugate the last one. So you DON'T use "mia madre è nato" but "mia madre è natA" because your mather is a feminine and singular subject.
    Here, the conjugator for "nascere":
    http://www.wordreference.com/conj/ITverbs.aspx?v=nascere

    "Comunico" Do you prefer "comunicate" or "speak" in English? In Italian "speak" is more fluent.. communicate is not wrong but... sounds a little weird in a sentence like this.
    I think we use it for machine: <em>I can communicate with the machine with this protocol - Comunico con la macchina grazie a questo protocollo; </em>or when we want to say that someone can't understand our words/feeling: <em>We can't communicate anymore! - Non ci capiamo più!</em> 

    If you have any doubt, just write me! :)<em> </em>

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    November 13, 2015
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    My first day on Italki I'm a liar. This is not my first day at all. I mean, i found out this site a long time ago, it was a beta version yet but there were many features - a chat, for example... why doens't it have a chat anymore?! - and many free languange exchange students. I just logged in and start to speak.. I saw many online people today, i tried to contact them by messages or sending friend requests - i guess there will be a chat, when i will have some friends..- but the day passed by without any answer :( I really didn't like how annoying it was when you logged in and many people just could write you down and you had no power to stop the more inappropriate ones (how can i say it differently? It sounds awful, does it?) but at the end, that was a kind of practice too, even better than my many "little letters of presentation" of today.. all copied-pasted :D Anyway, today will be another day! And maybe i will find an English language exchange partner. Or a Japanese boy/girl who helps me with some doubt about my "do". I'd be glad to help with the Italian language. Thanks a lot to people who will help me to correct this written. Bye! :)
    November 12, 2015
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    I think it's the best method you can try. As other members said to you, you will be absorbed by the foreing language.
    An advice i can give you is not seeing them in a passive mood: i mean, you HAVE to undestand what are you wacthing. If you don't, just put subtitles on it (in the foreing language or in your language) and try to catch the speech. You can even see something in your language first, then in the foreing language with subtitles after a while, and so on... The important thing is to understand what you're listening a little bit more time after time. You will learn a language in the very natural way doing so, the same you learnt your native one :) .
    PS: and you will become addicted to original language in movies ^^ 
     

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    November 12, 2015
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    November 12, 2015
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