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I'm looking to find someone or a number of persons who're willing to give some of their time to help me improve my italian. My girlfriend is from Marche and i cannot communicate with her parents or some of her friends without someone bilingual being present. I need to reach an intermediate level of B1/C1 by september/december respectively. I would ideally like to meet someone who would challenge me to learn something more and more for every time we chat. I am not so confident with speaking, i love the language and i crave learning it. I've been learning for about 6 months now, but it hasn't been a very fast pace. I am striving for the language as i had started with nothing. I was studying arabic for a while and was teaching english as an excuse to be in the middle east, although i feel like i had squandered the time i could have learnt arabic, i learnt well how to teach english. So i'm confident i can provide some good tips. I also dont want this to happen again. I'm from ireland, belfast, and apart from language learning i like to sing & play traditional music on the uilleann pipes & feadog. I like to dance social dances from here, i'm studying my PhD in chemistry and i also enjoy cooking.
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    Pier Paolo Pasolini

    Pier Paolo Pasolini was an italian director of movies , writer and poet , born in Bologna in 1922. 

    Not only was he a director but also an author because since he wrote most of his own screenplays. 

    Pasolini was a man full of contradictions: on one hand he was a great intellecual man with prophetic ideas about the media's political influences on people and society.
    On the other hand he was a man possessed by an insane sexual passion for the young boys.
    One of most important Pasolini's movies is " Accattone ", realized released in 1961.
    It was also his first movie at all .
    The screenplay, also written by Pasolini taking inspiration (or inspired by) by his novel " Una vita violenta", is about the every day life of a working class guy in the degraded suburb of Rome.
    During all his life and all his artistic career, he was always most interested of the life and the problems of poor people from the periferical areas of the city.
    He also shared these stories in his famous long novel of 1955 " Ragazzi di vita " ( The Ragazzi ).
    Pasolini was murdered in 1972 by one of these boys whose he had dated.
    His dead body was found on the beach of Ostia, a seaside near Rome.
    I admire this author for the beauty and the depth of his artistic works, as the movies, as the novels and poems.
    I also like his clear vision of life and of history and the way (in which) he told (the story of) the existence of the italian working class in the early sixties. 

    To be more realistic , as Vittorio DeSica before, he frequently picked his actors from the street.

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    July 20, 2013
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    I want to change myself

    Hi there!
    Recently I've received a really hard lesson from life.
    A month ago I met a boy who seemed to me more different than the other boys that I've met before.
    He was so polite, tender and sweet with me and seemed to me that he really cared about me.
    I know... one month is not enough to understand who the person in front of us really is. 

    The problem is that i feel this lack of love since the beginning in my life...maybe it's because my parents left me alone when my brothers were born.
    I was only two years old the first time and maybe I felt a lot of pain thinking that they had abandoned me.
    Perhaps for this reason, I suddenly get attached to people who shows me some interest or friendship.
    And I fall in love very often .
    So I thought this boy was so pure and innocent, and instead  (however) recently I've understood (found out) that he lied to me and made fun of me.
    I'm very disappointed now and I'm angry with myself.
    I'm thirty years old and still act like a teenager...
    I want to change myself so I've decided to stay alone for a while and to not look for anyone !

     

    Great life choice...Great english... 

    *we would place really is after the subject and description...

    *to find out = to get a revelation/understanding

     

    i.e. At the time, i never knew who 'my colleague from work' really was, i found out later that he had strong ties with the Mafia. 

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    July 20, 2013
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    if you're looking good traditional music that isn't fake for the tourists, you should try the cobblestone on north king street. one of the most ornate of Europes oldest manuscripts is in trinity university library, with a new page open every day, it's called the book of Kells. there's many places, street names, statues to mark the remembrance of Irish independence and how much it cost the Irish people, the remembrance garden is good also as it might spark your interest in the mythology here. There's a high street called ''Grafton street'' which is famous for buskers (street musicians/actors). however i suggest that if you're really interested, to make an account on this website www.couchsurfing.com and join the Dublin group... you can use the forum to ask questions about the city or if people want to meet up for a coffee & chat or a walk around the city. Although the culture here is very fluid, if you went to a pub by yourself you can end up having a good time just chatting to people you dont know, and you don't really need to worry about men annoying you here, irish men aren't so forward like italians, you can tell them to go away and they'll mostly leave you alone, if they dont then you can get angry with them and they'll back off. Oh and try to stay away from some areas like finglas (or at least during the night) ... if you live there use a taxi, they're generally quite cheap in comparison to the rest of europe. rob
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    August 25, 2012
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    One is the equivalent of Lei in italian... you can be extremely polite by using it... however, it doesnt conjugate like he/she the same way as Lei does with lui and lei in italian.
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    August 15, 2012
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