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By Eri Banno, Yutaka Ohno, Yoko Ikeda

Moment version of the main extremely popular instructing textual content ebook at the jap language, masking talking, listening, studying, and writing to domesticate total language skill. every one lesson within the revised variation contains a new part dubbed tradition Notes

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In R2 this would be non sapevo che . . , or non (ne) sapevo niente del fatto che la bottiglieria fosse . . The reported version (B) is R3. Grammar The reflexive in bermelo (A) disappears in consumarlo (B). Sequence of tenses: the first sentence of A is vague (andavo . . ho trovato) B pedantically expresses the anteriority of the first action: essendosi recato. The demonstrative tutti quei in (A) makes sense because it refers to something in the immediate context. In the impersonal language of the written statement (B), it is replaced by the definite article i.

As the dialect-speaking population acquired Italian as a second language, many dialect words entered the regional vocabularies of Italian, usually undergoing some “Italianization” in the process. A survey carried out by R¨uegg in 1951 asked 124 persons from 54 provinces what name they used for 242 different concepts: only one, “strong black coffee served in a bar,” was given the same name by all informants: espresso. Such rich geographical variation is still a major feature of spoken Italian. This first list contains words and constructions that are widely recognised as “typical” of Italian as spoken in the North, Center, and South of Italy.

C ved dopo pranzo? nn posso devo andare a casa xke c sono i miei e m dicono se m fanno part sab o dom OK!!!! voglio sapere subito!?!?!? dimmeloggi pome ti kiamo 4 5 vabbe c sent + tardi ciao xxx ciao amore ricorda ke TVTB This may be deciphered as follows: Ciao Gigi!! Dove sei? Ciao amore, sono in segreteria di Facolt`a, devo fare l’iscrizione per il secondo semestre. E tu che fai? Sono in biblioteca a studiare l’inglese ma che palle:-( L`ı come va? Cazzo! sono qui dalle 7 e 30 e c’`e ancora una fila di 100 persone.

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