any Italians here ??is Italian an easy language to learn?
im 18 im going to college maybe in Dec. im not sure about the college application deadlines here in NYC so anyways i want to learn a new language it seems like it would be fun i already know 3 ,well technically 2 Polish which is my native and English which is my 2nd and i know a little bit of German but its seen a long time since i spoke or write in German so anyways is Italian an easy language to learn ?? my family is from Poland and my parents are actually thinking about moving there after im done with college they do think that im gonna move back there with them but its not gonna happen im probably gonna stay here in USA but move to California or if i decide ot move back ot Europe it will not be Poland sometimes im ashamed of my heritage cause the people there are so disrespectful and prejudiced and full of hate so i was thinking about maybe a country with a warmer climate than Poland so i thought about Italy i was there for the 1st time last year i was in Venice in summer i did enjoy it very much but too many people are there during summer i would love to go back there during summer again just to learn the language im going ot college for veterinary technology to become a vet tech ( in some countries its knows as a vet nurse) i didnt had an opportunity in learning Italian in high school as my high school offered Spanish, Chinese and German ,i took a semester of German i was doing really good but is been like 4 years since i used it
Other - Italy - 5 Answers
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Italian is very much like Spanish, and I take Spanish, which is fairly easy. My Uncle is learning Italian, and by the looks of it it doesn't seem too hard. Good luck. :)
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i dunno about that but i gotta say, i love the italian accent when speaking english, they remind me of the godfather or the sopranos
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i find it pretty easy but again it is very similar to spanish and spanish is my second language.
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In my experience, Italian is easy to get the basics of (basic grammar, vocabulary, etc), but difficult to master. With just a few months of studying, you should be able to communicate with Italians, in terms of asking simple questions, but it will take a long time to master the subtleties of the language. I don't know any Polish or German, but I know that Italian uses several tenses that English doesn't have. Though, they say the more languages you know, the easier it is to pick up a new one :-) GOOD LUCK!
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The Italian language is without any doubt one of the most beautiful languages, a language that seems to capture the extraordinary essence and spirit of Italy. Learn Italian and you will find your time in Italy so much more enjoyable. Italians really appreciate foreigners making an effort to speak Italian, no matter how poor the attempt, you will find Italians will encourage you. How to Start Learning Italian? Learning Italian is easy. I spoke very little Italian on arrival in Italy. All you need to do is a software language course - I did the Rosetta one but there are now far better and cheaper courses. I followed up the Italian software course with a course at the Dante Alighieri School, and I am now completely fluent. I can assure you I am far from a genius so if I can do it anyone can.
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Internal bleeding help
Internal bleeding help?
I just moved back to Italy to be with family. We live in a tiny village far from everything else, dominated by my relatives. There is no running doctor office and the nearest hospital is hours away, even with an ambulance. No one owns a car around here. I have blood in my semen and urine. My mom is a retired nurse and concluded that from the large quantity of blood in my pee it is internal bleeding in my kidneys. It will take 2.5 hours at least to get to the hospital in an ambulance, not including the time it would take to get over here. Is there anything I can do to help myself here at home? Is there any way for me to get help for this?
Other - General Health Care - 2 Answers
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You NEED medical attention. In the meantime drink loads of water.
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first of all, you just wash the part of the body that is bleeding. then cover it tightly with a cloth. that should stop the bleeding for now, but that doesn't mean it's going to cover it forever, so get to a hospital as fast as possible.
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I just moved back to Italy to be with family. We live in a tiny village far from everything else, dominated by my relatives. There is no running doctor office and the nearest hospital is hours away, even with an ambulance. No one owns a car around here. I have blood in my semen and urine. My mom is a retired nurse and concluded that from the large quantity of blood in my pee it is internal bleeding in my kidneys. It will take 2.5 hours at least to get to the hospital in an ambulance, not including the time it would take to get over here. Is there anything I can do to help myself here at home? Is there any way for me to get help for this?
Other - General Health Care - 2 Answers
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You NEED medical attention. In the meantime drink loads of water.
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first of all, you just wash the part of the body that is bleeding. then cover it tightly with a cloth. that should stop the bleeding for now, but that doesn't mean it's going to cover it forever, so get to a hospital as fast as possible.
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Sunday, August 7, 2011
Could you check my paper for spelling or grammar mistakes
Could you check my paper for spelling or grammar mistakes?
Translation 4 Our neighbours have changed their minds and are going to Spain instead of going to Italy on their holiday. We should hope that they don't go forever. Don't sign the contract without looking at it. This morning I missed the bus and had to wait for the next one, which didn't come on time. The building cought fire but the firemen managed to put out the fire. I advice you to learn the poem by heart. Suddently the lights turned off, but the spokesman kept on speaking everyone there to much surprise. One of the students passed out when he saw the nurse. Atleast a half an hour past before he gained consciense again. Never suspend anything to morning if you can do it today. It would have been best for you to tell the truth right away. I have said it to him again and again, but he never seems to remember anything. His aunt inherited him with alot of money. Did you lend the woman in the next house your sewing machinge? All resolution must be returned in the end of the test. The acident is on some level his fault. I don't recall having heard this before.
Words & Wordplay - 2 Answers
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5) The building caught fire, but the firemen managed to put out the fire 6) I advise you to learn the poem by heart 7) switch the wording around on this one.. try: Suddenly the lights turned off, but surprisingly, the spokesman continued to speak to everyone there 9) At least a half an hour passed before he gained consciousness again 13) He inherited a lot of money from his aunt 14) Did you lend the woman in the next house your sewing machine? 15 seems to be worded very wrong.. im not sure what you're trying to say 17) The accident is, on some level, his fault OR The accident is on some level, his fault
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Well, you don't have any quotation marks around what people are actually saying. Also "his aunt inherited him with a lot of money" sounds weird. (ps, a lot is 2 words, not 1)
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Translation 4 Our neighbours have changed their minds and are going to Spain instead of going to Italy on their holiday. We should hope that they don't go forever. Don't sign the contract without looking at it. This morning I missed the bus and had to wait for the next one, which didn't come on time. The building cought fire but the firemen managed to put out the fire. I advice you to learn the poem by heart. Suddently the lights turned off, but the spokesman kept on speaking everyone there to much surprise. One of the students passed out when he saw the nurse. Atleast a half an hour past before he gained consciense again. Never suspend anything to morning if you can do it today. It would have been best for you to tell the truth right away. I have said it to him again and again, but he never seems to remember anything. His aunt inherited him with alot of money. Did you lend the woman in the next house your sewing machinge? All resolution must be returned in the end of the test. The acident is on some level his fault. I don't recall having heard this before.
Words & Wordplay - 2 Answers
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5) The building caught fire, but the firemen managed to put out the fire 6) I advise you to learn the poem by heart 7) switch the wording around on this one.. try: Suddenly the lights turned off, but surprisingly, the spokesman continued to speak to everyone there 9) At least a half an hour passed before he gained consciousness again 13) He inherited a lot of money from his aunt 14) Did you lend the woman in the next house your sewing machine? 15 seems to be worded very wrong.. im not sure what you're trying to say 17) The accident is, on some level, his fault OR The accident is on some level, his fault
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Well, you don't have any quotation marks around what people are actually saying. Also "his aunt inherited him with a lot of money" sounds weird. (ps, a lot is 2 words, not 1)
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Monday, August 1, 2011
What's going on with this "relief" effort in Haiti
What's going on with this "relief" effort in Haiti?
Help me out here, folks......I live in Italy, but am an American citizen.......Italian TV news is a bit beyond my comprehension...and I don't think CNN is giving the us "straight skinny" OK.....I hear a lot about $10 million here....."rapid response" there.....outpourings of relief from the U.S....China.....etc. etc... THEN.....CNN pops up and it's the "Dr. Sanjay Gupta Show" complete with clips of him performing battlefield neurological evaluations on babies and so on......people needing surgery and being turned away.....while a hippy upper middle class American tourist gets private jet evacuation to the 'States... For all the rhetoric and back-slapping, there seems to be very little hard relief..... Where are the U.S. Hospital ships? Where are the heavy duty helicopters? Where is the emergency infusion of battlefield hospitals and doctors and nurses and antisepetics and surgical rooms that the U.S. is capable of providing? It's going on 2 weeks!! Haiti is not on the other side of the world! What gives? Sorry Ratz, I got my times screwed up...it "seems" like 2 weeks........however, is the main airport in Haiti operational? Have they airlifted in a few hundred Marines for security?......I can appreciate the " bottleneck" phenomenon, but that's what battlefield commanders are responsible for........or are they all preroccupied with the Middle East?
Current Events - 5 Answers
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The earthquake happened Jan 12th, so no it hasn't been going on 2 weeks. All of those supplies are there, or have been sent, but there is a bottleneck. There are no roads, no infrastructure, no government, no command on the ground organizing everything. It's been hard to get stuff to the actual people. They dropped food from helicopters but they caused riots.
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All the Haitians are being evacuated to America and other parts of the world as its no longer habitable but of course if they die while they are waiting then thats just too bad. I heard there was room in this place in Louisiana - name escapes me for the minute - something about Katrina - no it escapes me. I hope that updates you.
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air port is full no control tower, no radar roads blocked ports destroyed ships Travel very slowly in short no land water or air Access to bring every thing in quickly
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The news reports that I am hearing is that there is an immense stockpile of emergency relief supplies at the airport and a steady flow of it still arriving but delivery of the emergency relief supplies to the quake survivors is just flowing at a trickle. It's my understanding that they are waiting for ground troops to arrive and set up and secure distribution sites.
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Because there is no magic wand that can be waved and everything made better. Before you can distrubute the relief supplies you have to clear the roads. Before you can start clearing the roads you have to repair the airfield. Before you can repair the airfield you have to get your equipment and repair personnel there. Anything too heavy to be moved by air (bulk supplies and fuel, heavy construction equipment, heavy trucks etc) has to wait for the port facilities to be repaired. The ironic thing here is that I was one of the initial responders to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. I was working in the operations section of a joint task force whose mission was to help coordinate relief efforts. When we hit the ground we did the math and immedeatly realized that there was very little we could do to help people in the first few days. The only usable highway was choked with refugee traffic and our only 'usable' airfield had no working air traffic control equipment, no electricity and no usable fuel. We had aircraft blowing tires on landing because of debris on the runway. The first thing we had to do was clear the runways. Then we had to fly in the equipment to unload the aircraft. Then we had to fly in the people and equipment to process the supplies after they were unloades. Then we had to fly in fuel. Then we had to fly in trucks. And only then could we even think of moving relief supplies to people. And the worst thing about all of this was - we did the math and discovered that there was no way we could move the necessary tonnage of relief supplies to the people who neede them in time. .
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Help me out here, folks......I live in Italy, but am an American citizen.......Italian TV news is a bit beyond my comprehension...and I don't think CNN is giving the us "straight skinny" OK.....I hear a lot about $10 million here....."rapid response" there.....outpourings of relief from the U.S....China.....etc. etc... THEN.....CNN pops up and it's the "Dr. Sanjay Gupta Show" complete with clips of him performing battlefield neurological evaluations on babies and so on......people needing surgery and being turned away.....while a hippy upper middle class American tourist gets private jet evacuation to the 'States... For all the rhetoric and back-slapping, there seems to be very little hard relief..... Where are the U.S. Hospital ships? Where are the heavy duty helicopters? Where is the emergency infusion of battlefield hospitals and doctors and nurses and antisepetics and surgical rooms that the U.S. is capable of providing? It's going on 2 weeks!! Haiti is not on the other side of the world! What gives? Sorry Ratz, I got my times screwed up...it "seems" like 2 weeks........however, is the main airport in Haiti operational? Have they airlifted in a few hundred Marines for security?......I can appreciate the " bottleneck" phenomenon, but that's what battlefield commanders are responsible for........or are they all preroccupied with the Middle East?
Current Events - 5 Answers
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1 :
The earthquake happened Jan 12th, so no it hasn't been going on 2 weeks. All of those supplies are there, or have been sent, but there is a bottleneck. There are no roads, no infrastructure, no government, no command on the ground organizing everything. It's been hard to get stuff to the actual people. They dropped food from helicopters but they caused riots.
2 :
All the Haitians are being evacuated to America and other parts of the world as its no longer habitable but of course if they die while they are waiting then thats just too bad. I heard there was room in this place in Louisiana - name escapes me for the minute - something about Katrina - no it escapes me. I hope that updates you.
3 :
air port is full no control tower, no radar roads blocked ports destroyed ships Travel very slowly in short no land water or air Access to bring every thing in quickly
4 :
The news reports that I am hearing is that there is an immense stockpile of emergency relief supplies at the airport and a steady flow of it still arriving but delivery of the emergency relief supplies to the quake survivors is just flowing at a trickle. It's my understanding that they are waiting for ground troops to arrive and set up and secure distribution sites.
5 :
Because there is no magic wand that can be waved and everything made better. Before you can distrubute the relief supplies you have to clear the roads. Before you can start clearing the roads you have to repair the airfield. Before you can repair the airfield you have to get your equipment and repair personnel there. Anything too heavy to be moved by air (bulk supplies and fuel, heavy construction equipment, heavy trucks etc) has to wait for the port facilities to be repaired. The ironic thing here is that I was one of the initial responders to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. I was working in the operations section of a joint task force whose mission was to help coordinate relief efforts. When we hit the ground we did the math and immedeatly realized that there was very little we could do to help people in the first few days. The only usable highway was choked with refugee traffic and our only 'usable' airfield had no working air traffic control equipment, no electricity and no usable fuel. We had aircraft blowing tires on landing because of debris on the runway. The first thing we had to do was clear the runways. Then we had to fly in the equipment to unload the aircraft. Then we had to fly in the people and equipment to process the supplies after they were unloades. Then we had to fly in fuel. Then we had to fly in trucks. And only then could we even think of moving relief supplies to people. And the worst thing about all of this was - we did the math and discovered that there was no way we could move the necessary tonnage of relief supplies to the people who neede them in time. .
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