The day after the lovely Chiltern 50km Ultra You gotta have a break from Italian SOME days! AND running gives you energy and helps with life and allows for more consuming of buono buono pane e pasta e dolci!
Reminds me, a little trivia: How me and Mio Marioto met!! We met in Madrid. At a race. Naturalmente...:)
The first running of the 100km Madrid to Segovia. Little did I know, that a few years later, we`d be sposato!! AND have the cutest 1 year old bambino in the world! So that`s the story in a very very few little words.. I shall try to find a picture of that that race a bit later, just for the record.
So back to blogging and Italian and emersion
Expat type BLOGS/SITES I HAVE FOUND THAT I LIKE, I hope they don`t mind me linking them [sites not in any particular order]. I think I have a few more, I`ll add them as we go along
Surviving Italy
Married to Italy
Unwilling Expat - The world from Sicily
The dangerously truthful diary of a Sicilian housewife
English Man in Italy
Ricks Rome
The Florence Diaries
Girl in Florence
Tim Parks - a great writer, and Brit living in Italy
And some language blogs-sites, some of which are a little repetition of yesterday, but right now, this is my transportable storage page!! aka "Anchors and Post-It-Notes"
Learning Italian
The Iceberg Project
Babel
Learn Italian for free, LOTS of excercises
DuoLingo
Learn Italian with Lucrezia, lots of lovely podcasts
Conjugate the verb
the BEST in my opinion on-line Italian-English dictionary
What I have recently grasped, I think. Ok its the basics but here goes. Firstly, I am only at the stage of present tense verbs, and a LITTLE of the possato prossomo, thanks to Lucrezia! and a TINY bit of futuro, but only for VERY few verbs mostly the ones out of the Bibs story book.
I am trying to get the present tense ones right first. AND I have understood the concept of a REFLEXIVE verb. That is something you do to yourself so like "farsi la barba" - I am shaving/doing my beard. In Italian, words used in different contexts can take on completely different meanings.
Fare for example, can mean a whole list of things: to do, to make, to produce, to manufacture, to create, to be, to get.
Ok but the verbs I think are probably the most important in Italian, and which I know off by heart now and I need to Make Sentences with, more are
ESSERE - to be, to exist
Presente Passato Prossimo
io sono io sono stato/stata
tu sei tu sei stato/stata
lui/lei è lui/lei stato/stata
noi siamo siamo stati/state
voi siete voi siete stati/state
loro sono Loro/loro sono stati/state
STARE - to be, to stay, remain, stand, be situated, live; to fit, depend (on); to be about to
Presente Passato Prossimo
io sto io sono stato/stata tu stai tu sei stato/stata
lui/lei sta lui/lei stato/stati
noi stiamo siamo stato/stati
voi state voi siete stato/stati
loro stanno Loro/loro sono stato/stati
FARE to do, to make
Presente Passato Prossimo
io faccio io ho fatto
tu fai tu hai fatto
lui/lei fa lui/lei a fatto
noi faciamo abbiamo fatto
voi fate avete fatto
loro fanno hanno fatto
AVERE to have
Presente Passato Prossimo
io ho io ho avuto
tu hai tu hai avuto
lui/lei ha lui/lei ha avuto
noi abbiamo noi abbiamo avuto
voi avete voi avete avuto
loro hanno loro hanno avuto
Now I need to write sentences onto paper with my hands. Thats tonights job.
In the meantime, here are some of my pictures from yesterdays Chiltern Ultra!!! including mio Marito and Babacino, but they are not exactly in order..
And then here is something by Mio Marito about the race, as he does! - Maurizio Crispi`s all things Running Magazine
so this blog post isn`t entirely finished, really, but tomorrow is another day! I need to do work on making my Anchors and writing my Post-It-Notes!!
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