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Leonardo
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Personal Quest to Learn Over 20 Languages
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9-Aug-2013, 9:59 AM

twister111 said:

Leonardo said:

twister111 said:Un poco è maggiore che niente.

A little bit is better than nothing.
Allow me to correct you on that:

"Un po' [un pochettino] è meglio di niente." 
Grazie mille!

Leonardo said:


Once again, I applaud your ambition and your determination, and I humbly offer my help. Feel free to PM me.
Tì ringràzio! So I was thinking about what to PM you but I felt my question would benefit others here too. Do you know of any interesting Italian shows or movies I may not be aware of?

Ehhh.... Tv in Italy is comprised of 85-90% American (or British) shows dubbed in italian. What's produced locally is utter crap IMHO. Movies might be a good bet,
Ah, I was afraid of that. Got the same opinion on twitter. The movie I got recommended was "la vita è bella". I watched it once after that.

Ugh, I haven't seen that movie in years, mainly because after that, my opinion towards Roberto Benigni radically changed. I now think he's an annoying, pretentious prat (based on what I hear him say on tv).
I can still watch, and find funny, some of his earlier films, like "Johnny Stecchino", "The Monster", and "Nothing Left to Do But Cry".

 

It's something that I've been doing with other languages and other shows/movies already. Though none of my DVDs/Blu-rays have Italian as an option for the audio/subs. Curiously though a couple of them have it as an option for the menus. Recently though I have found a site with Italian subs on tv shows. I'm going to go watch Arrow like that.

Yeah, if you mean DVDs bought in the USA, I'll bet it will be next to impossible finding language tracks other than English and Spanish on them. Either look for torrents with the "ITA" tag (though with most movies you'll have to look for the translated title), or just look for regular DVDs on Amazon.it or similar sites.

 

Had no idea you were going to do that. Ironically I'm not sure what to say other than thank you!

Non c'è di che. Hai un PM.

 

Come stai di oggi?

The correct form would be:

Come stai oggi?

or

Come state oggi? (in case you meant 2nd person plural).