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[geekchick]

I appear to have mostly-unintentionally given away the secret that the way to my heart is through my ribcage Italian.  Sheesh, you people are awfully quick on the uptake. (I'm looking at you, winterbadger. )

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[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Si!!

[geekchick]

That's the kind of thing I like to hear from a cute chick. ;)

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

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[geekchick]

Right now, I'm picturing an Italian dub of "When Harry Met Sally". ;)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

A couple of years ago, we stayed at a hotel in Quebec city on our way home from the Maritimes, and got curious about Quebecois porn on the hotel pay-per-view. It just looked like an American porn film badly dubbed into French. Lots of "Oui! Oui! Oui!". We were rolling. :-)

Oui oui oui oui, all the way home.

[geekchick]

Lots of "Oui! Oui! Oui!". We were rolling. :-)

*laugh* I can only imagine...badly dubbed porn. Eek.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Ciao, bella signorina! ;-)

[geekchick]

*grin*

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, that's about my limit for Italian. I'd have to dig out the DVDs of Breaking Away or The Godfather movies to come up with much more. :-( I know just enough to get my face slapped in probably about 10 languages. :-)

[geekchick]

I'm not entirely sure that quoting "The Godfather" has the effect you're looking for. *gigglefit*

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Heh. No, probably not.

[geekchick]

Well, one never knows, I just thought I'd check to make sure. =)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Haven't tried it. I'm sure someone out there would get into it. *shudder* ;-)

Or any Roberto Benigni movies

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

Those are great for picking up random conversational Italian.

Given my Latin schooling, Italian comes fairly easily.

[winterbadger]

and, see, i thought i was going to try learning arabic or farsi. i can see that italian just leapt to the top of my list. :) well, after four years of latin, it can't be that hard, right?

spero soltanto che quella lingua sarà il sentiero al suo cuore, donna bella

[geekchick]

Hey, two languages I also contemplated picking up; well, contemplated studying, anyway, since I don't think it's so easy to just "pick up" Arabic. And people still haven't seen us in the same room at the same time. ;) L'italiano è molto facile a paragone di quelle lingue.

[winterbadger]

Well, work would really (just because it's what my bioss has work for right now) prefer it if I learned Mandarin. But I'd like to develop a deep familiarity with a culture and its history, religion, politics, etc. And both Arabic and Farsi (or maybe Hindi) strike me as being linked to cultures I'd like to study *and* that the US government is going to be in conflict (prefereably just diplomatic and economic) with for the foreseeable future.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Tutto il a destra allora. Adore voi, desidero fare funzionare le mie
mani tramite i vostri capelli, giocarvi i giochi di parola con, fare
l'amore su un balcone spagnolo che trascura un piccolo plaza arancione
a Madrid, squeal al vostro maiale, massaggiare i vostri piedi,
assagiare Scotches, prendere un giro della bicicletta attraverso
Bruges. E tenerlo fine, spesso.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Okay... who'd you get to translate that for you? :)