Nope. Not too interested in the literature of the area. Not enough to learn the language
The Shrike Send a noteboard - 20/09/2013 04:17:46 PM
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You've got Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Boiardo, Torquato Tasso, Pietro Aretino, the poets of the Sicilian school, and other minor authors, and then after an admittedly long lacuna, you have Manzoni, Leopardi, Lampedusa and Verga, and then you have the modern authors like Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco, not to mention all the opera libretti in Italian.
You've got Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Boiardo, Torquato Tasso, Pietro Aretino, the poets of the Sicilian school, and other minor authors, and then after an admittedly long lacuna, you have Manzoni, Leopardi, Lampedusa and Verga, and then you have the modern authors like Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco, not to mention all the opera libretti in Italian.
Besides, it's so easy.
Reading it in translation is enough for me. I have my German, my English, and my Russian. I guess I have/had Czech too. And now I am learning French. I'd be more interested in reading English literature in depth before exploring Renaissance literature in its original languages.
NSSP: I'm learning Spanish!
- 18/09/2013 03:41:12 PM
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Good for you!
- 18/09/2013 05:15:23 PM
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You'll probably be fluent in about 6 months at most. It's easy.
- 18/09/2013 06:58:49 PM
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Re: You'll probably be fluent in about 6 months at most. It's easy.
- 20/09/2013 03:05:35 PM
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You will need to learn the subjunctive. Very much so.
- 20/09/2013 03:43:53 PM
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Re: You will need to learn the subjunctive. Very much so.
- 23/09/2013 03:21:07 PM
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Ah, but a question isn't a statement of uncertainty. It's a request for information.
- 23/09/2013 03:59:00 PM
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Is Duolingo one of the apps you have downloaded?
- 19/09/2013 05:23:35 PM
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It is quite good in some ways.
- 19/09/2013 06:54:44 PM
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Italian is one of those languages I've never wanted to learn.
- 20/09/2013 12:33:49 PM
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There isn't enough Renaissance-era literature that you want to read?
- 20/09/2013 03:53:17 PM
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Nope. Not too interested in the literature of the area. Not enough to learn the language
- 20/09/2013 04:17:46 PM
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A quick question.
- 20/09/2013 05:48:18 PM
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I think that is a very subjective question.
- 20/09/2013 06:36:50 PM
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You would like Leopardi's thoughts on the two languages found within his Zibaldone
- 21/09/2013 09:11:15 AM
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I will have to look in my copy of the Zibaldone on that one.
- 22/09/2013 04:26:11 AM
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I want to say it's in the late 3000s, early 4000s, but I'm uncertain
- 22/09/2013 07:53:07 AM
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Bolivia is pretty amazing and has a good exchange rate, though you'll need a visa. *NM*
- 25/09/2013 04:37:18 PM
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