More Italian

[telophase]

I didn't want to go through the book for class before class, so I went out this weekend and got the Barron's Italian now! book, which is a workbook with blanks to fill in and word searches and crossword puzzles because I'm (a) a kinesthetic learner and need to write something down or type it in to remember it and (b) twelve. Hence me throwing some vocab down here as well. :D



altro - other
americano/americana - American
anche - also, too
come - how (what)
di - of, from
e - and
io - I
italiano/italiana - Italian
Lei - you (polite) - capitalized
lieto/lieta - delighted
ma - but
molto - very
no - no
origine - origin
sì - yes
signore - Mr., sir
signorina - Ms., Miss, young lady
vero - true


anch'io - I too
d'origine - of origin, originally
no?/vero? - no?/right?/aren't you...?
un altro - other (masc)
un'altra - other (fem)


Come si chiama? - What is your name? (polite)
Il piacere è mio! - The pleasure's mine
Mi chiamo ... - My name is...
Molto lieto/lieta - (I am) Delighted (to meet you) (male/female)
Piacere! - The pleasure is mine!
Vi presento.../Le presento... - Let me introduce you to... (plural/polite, singular)


Verbs -

(io) sono - I am
(Lei) è - you are (polite)



Come si dice in italiano? - How do you say this in Italian?
si chiama - is called
lei - she
lui - he
lui/lei presenta - he/she introduces

La professoressa si chiama Maria Giusti. Dina Siracusa è americana, ma è d'origine italiana. Anche Paul è d'origine italiano, ma è americano. Giusti è italiana, e lei presenta Mark, un altro americano d'origine italiano.

(I have no idea if the above is completely correct [I'm thinking the è ought to be si] ] - this workbook wants you to summarize the riveting conversation presented in the beginning, which is an Italian class full of American students with ancestors in Italy, introducing themselves to each other. I smell a Pulitzer.)

Comments

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Mark is definitely gay. No red-blooded heterosexual American male would wear that sweater-vest, even if he were metrosexual.

Now that I'm home, I looked 'origine' up in my new Italian dictionary, and one of the examples, sure enough, was 'd'origine italiana.' Huh.