mi chiamo beccacat

[beccacat]

so j & i started italian last night--what fun! our teacher is this lovely woman in her late 60s/early 70s who is charming, funny, a tad absent-minded, proud of her heritage, and yes, you guessed it, italian. we kind of made an entrance, walking in late by about 10 minutes, but for us, that's not bad. (yes, we had intended to go early, but i was a

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[madlaxx]

I had an Italian boss for 2 yrs and learnt cusswords and had 2 German coworkers who taught me German no-nos.. :) All other Italian that I am familiar with comes from watching the food network, also from living in NYC for a while (back to cusswords). So while i can be really offensive in many languages, I don't think I can carry on a conversation in those .. anyway once I let my words loose, noone will want to converse with me. Good luck on your Italian.

[beccacat]

see, that's where i think you're wrong. if you know all the taboo words, and nothing but the taboo words, i think scads of people are going to want to talk to you! think of how lively & colorful you will appear to be...

[madlaxx]

I'll be colorful all right - black and blue from people hitting me for calling them &**#%.

[beccacat]

ha!

ok, you may be right... but still, i may hit you up for teaching me some of those some time later... purely out of intellectual curiosity, of course ;)

[quesrah]

Si tolga e pantaloni!

I tried to teach myself Italian one summer from a set of tapes and a phrasebook. All I really remember was this one phrase that was supposed to be useful if you went to the doctor's office (though I think it's pretty generally useful): Take off your pants.

[beccacat]

you are right--i can imagine that being handy in all kinds of situations... ;)

prob'ly i'll save that one for the second time i meet a person, though...

[elliedale9]

You're learning Italian? That's SO cool. It's something I've wanted to do for a while now.