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Seriously… about half of my Italian class is comprised of Spanish speakers (looking for that easy A), and when they speak and read, they pronounce it their way. It annoys me so much.

There's one Armo person in there aside from me and Hovig, and her last name is the same as mine, so my professor was telling me to talk to her to figure out if she's my cousin or something…

And then there are like 2 or 3 Italian people in there as well. And one of them lives in Monrovia! And like my professoressa says, "Study group!"
I think there are two others that live here as well (as from me of course), e sono tutti ragazze. Ma so Isabella non gradirebbe che.


Still learning.

Noel. I should just slap you for saying that.
They all have A's so far. Most of them don't even look into the book or just skim it and they know it already.

Plus she's not grading the accents and such.
For instance, the word città.
Mostly everyone pronounces it as "cheetah" Instead of placing the emphasis on the à.
I could list more and more, but I'm just using that to prove my point.

And the grammar shouldn't be difficult to those that already speak Spanish compared to those that only speak English because of the discrepancy from English to Italian rather than Spanish to Italian.

Etc, etc.

So the Spanish speakers are there for the easy A.

Dude, she might not be grading those things, but maaaaan do I learn so much.
Partially because I actually want to learn it. So I'm making sure I get the fullest out of it. But she did mention something similar to this, "I've been very lenient on the grading, so I'm going to be a lot more strict in the later chapters, so everyone's going to need to work even harder."

And I'm totally up for that. Either way. I am going to get that A in the class. So far that's what I have. mrgreen

Oh crappo, I need to present myself this Friday, to the class, and why the Italian culture interests me.
5 minutes of
*Art: The architecture, statues, paintings done by DaVinci, Michelangelo, etc. And music and songs sung by the various Italians.
*The natural beauty of the country.
*The wine.
*The ... supposedly Italians and Armenians are buddy-buddy-- and I never knew this... so why not become friendlier with my buddies by learning their language!?
*This one lady that claimed something of mine...
*What else?

Oh, how could I forget the food!?
I was probably satiated enough to forget it..

What chapter/page/material are you guys on so far? Being a stricter teacher I also imagine that she has you guys running faster through the book than my lenient teacher. All the work that we do in our workbooks, we write out on the board every day. And yesterday we spent the whole day covering the prepositions (del, dalla, sui, etc) just 'cause one girl didn't understand it, and the entire class followed with her. Then we got to ... Now I want to list them out to see how many of the eight I can remember from the hour study I gave it yesterday.
sopra Above; on top of
sotto Below; under
dentro In; inside
fuori out; outside
davanti (a) vI wrote what I thought down there
[brain is still on sleep mode]
um...
davanti means "Before; In front of" right?
dietro After; behind
vicino (a) Near; Beside; Next to
lontano (da) Far from

That's all them! Sweet. Now to go back with smaller font to see if I can remember their meanings.

Alright, so basically we're both on the same page with what's happening.

How many quizes and tests have you had so far?

Same, just no test today... since I have only Anthro day and didn't ev... Yea, only had Anthro today.

So your teacher is strict, but she still gives you guys the easy stuff..

I don't see what's too difficult in it. *shrug*
The only thing I'm having a slight problem with is listening comprehension and then giving my answer back orally.
It's not that I don't understand what's going on, it's just that sometimes the people in the recording, their voices are weird, and I don't understand some of them while the others I don't even break a sweat trying to understand them. And then in some of the other recordings, there's someone who speaks SUPERFAST, that person that speaks at a normal pace and the one that s.p.e.a.k.s. v.e.r.y. s.l.o.w.l.y.
My responses though, it takes me a little longer than a majority of the group because I'm trying to find the words, make sure the grammar structure I have is correct, and then make sure any prepositions or whatever that I have are correct as well--all in my head of course.
But while writing it down on paper it's much easier.

I REALLY need to find someone to speak to me in Italian so I can converse and learn it that way.

You Noelani, since we are taking Italian, it would be very good for us to speak it with each other whenever we can speak it when together.
Other than that I don't know anyone else I can speak with.

Anyway, it's time I go do the online listening exercises.

Well, we respond both orally and on paper. She encourages us to answer the questions orally before we write them down though.
Of course, on the tests we can't respond orally or else the entire class would know the answer. So it's just a practice that we do.
And I'm glad you know what I mean 'cause I thought I was the only one with the problem.
But hey, after repeating it two or three times, I get about 70% of what's being said, if not all of it.

And we were late today (because of Hovig), so I didn't present anything.

I asked my professoressa what dialect we're learning, and she said we're taking the Tuscan dialect. I did not know that.

Anyway... yea, what happened to you? I haven't seen you in weeks.
And Hovhanness has his problems when I speak to him.
For instance, today I was telling him L'aula del corso di letteratura inglese, and he kept going off on how I was mispronouncing l'aula though I was saying it correctly. He somehow heard me say sono instead of del corso. That guy's just deaf and very rude. So I just don't bother learning the vocal aspect with him.
Just the writing and such.