Newsgroup: italia.genova.discussioni
Titolo: Giapponese a Genova

Scusandomi con chi non conosce l'inglese, trascrivo la mail che il
socio giapponese di un mio nipote che vive e lavora a Denver gli ha
scritto descrivendogli il suo viaggio a Genova ( e' stato qui per un
Congresso ).
Non e' una barzelletta, e lo scrivente e' un cittadino giapponese puro
sangue socio di mio nipote.
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From: Masaki Itagaki [mailto:
mita...@microsoft.com
] 
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 3:27 PM
To: Riccardo Schiaffino; Nina Abbud; Barbara Inge Karsch
Cc: P. Vanni
Subject: My Day One in Milan and Genoa??
Hi Riccardo
Thank you so much for the detail information. I have something I want
to share with you.
 First of all, I stayed at Milan instead of Genoa L Due to severe
weather condition, the airplane could not land at Genoa. I’m so glad
that I was sleeping at that time, but at least a few people were
praying as far as I heard later L Anyway, once I was awake, I was in
Milan. Air France put us in a hotel close to la stazione. So next
morning, I tried to grab a train to Genoa. I never though of taking a
train, so before I went to bed, I flipped pages in the chapter of
TRAIN, learning phrases to buy tickets, check time, trains, etc. I
really wanted to practice my Italian, so I was very excited before I
went into the station. Now what? Everything was an automatic ticketing
machine!! Unfortunately machines don’t understand my Italian….:-(
Anyway, I went to one of them and tried to buy a ticket, using the
touch screen (I still mumbled like “Vorrei, un biglietto per Genoa…”
to the machine, which made me somehow depressed….). I stopped mumbling
when I saw nine names of the stations in Genoa on the screen. “My
gosh, which station is closest to the hotel…?!?!). Calm down! I walked
to a public phone to try to call to the hotel. All I need to say is …
 Pallo Inglese?
But now what? None of the phones don’t accept coins. All for telephone
cards. All right. Things should have changed since I was in Italy ten
years ago. So I purchased two cars of 5 Euro. I don’t quite remember,
but at least it took me 10 minutes to give up a call. Who the heck
knows that you need to tip off a coner of the card before you use
it….!!! Then one of a local guy with a black T-shirt with lots of
paint stains came next to me, and poor me!! I needed to ask some help
from the guy. The guy tried to manage the card, but eventually he
could not even get a call. The trick was the card was only for local
calls (Milan-> Genoa = a long distance call??). He finally used his
own prepaid card, then I could finally know the nearest train station
– Stazione Principale!! He was really nice except that he asked me 12
Euro for the call. 20-second call to Genoa = $15 ?!?! Anyway, I kindly
gave the two telephone cards to him, and he seemed to be glad. 
The train was good. Prima Classe!! Everything was comfortable except
that I always needed to watch station names since there was no in-car
announcement. Now I’m in Genoa. “Mi son de Zena!” (I can’t spell any
of these words correctly since I don’t’ know the words!!). It’s
practice time again. Yes, taxi! Since I was thinking of taking a taxi,
I memorized many phrases!! I found one and said:
 Buongiorno. Come Sta?
 Just as in my Berlitz phase book, the taxi driver replied.
 Bene, Grazie, e Lei? 
 I’m sure he was the one who did that cassette tape recording. The
voice was also the same J 
 Now it’s my turn!!
Mi porti a Ramada Hotel (notice this is pronounced as “Ohtel” J)?
 Then his smile was suddenly vanished!! He started explaining a lot of
stuff, but none of the phrased were not in my Berlitz phrase book L
Gosh, now I’m sure that he is not the guy in the cassette tape
recording! But as far as I could interpret his gestures, it looked
like the hotel was very close. So I tried to pull out a map and say
one phrase I barely remembered…
 Puo indicarmi….
 I knew it continues as “…la cartina…something something”, but before
I finish the wonderful phrase from my Berlitz phrase book, he cut me
and tried to drag me to the street. I don’t think he was very
nice….:-( To the direction that he pointed out, I could see the sign
of “Ramada”. Unfortunately the hotel was just in front of the
station!! So apparently I lost the reason to take the taxi, I also
lost the chance to practice my Italian, too. 
 So today’s highlight!! Riccardo, I went to Da Vittorio. My gosh! It
was excellent!!!!!! I had a small salad, spaghetti vongore and gerato
fruits salad. The spaghetti was rather small, but it tasted so great.
I’m coming back tomorrow, too. I also got the place of Friggitoria, so
I’ll be there as well. Thanks, Riccardo for nice suggestions!!
 Oh, how about my Italian practice at the restaurant? That was OK, but
the waitress did not seem to like my speaking Italian. So basically I
looked around what other people were eating and said.
E quella …? 
 Then pointed the one I guessed in the menu. I worked perfectly fine.
But next time, I’ll learn some phrases to ask for some suggestions. I
know “Puo consigliare…” but this phrase is always followed by some
complicated words, so I can’t remember it. Do you know if there is any
convenient phrase I can use when I don’t know what to order?
 Anyway, this is basically my Day One in Milan/Genoa. I hope it will
be better tomorrow…
 Grazie!
Masaki 
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Benedetto Zaccaria

 Masaki 
Simpatico il nipponico :-)
-- 
                L'opinionista del Secolo XIX, Maurizio Maggiani
        \ | /   riceve ordini da chicche e sia.
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Accipicchia che coraggio !!!
Chi di noi andrebbe in Giappone da solo con un libriccino della Berlitz 'Il
giapponese in tre giorni'  ????
Congratulazioni al giapponese !!
Io penso che un italiano prima di tutto si metterebbe al sicuro contattando
preventivamente qualche italiano in loco e facendosi prelevare e
accompagnare dall'inizio alla fine, senza badare a spese.
Almeno io farei così...<hahahahaha>
John.

 non ci ha pensato
i led cazzo i led! ma perchè non ci ha pensato !?!?!
magari aveva altro da pensare tipo
www.camera.it/_dati/leg13/lavori/stenografici/sed338/amoz01.htm
Dalla pagina 12 si eveince che non ne ha avuto il tempo
Francesco

Dalla pagina 12 si eveince che non ne ha avuto il tempo
 Interessante documento storico. Non ho ne' il tempo ne' la voglia di
leggerlo tutto con attenzione, ma penso che le critiche almeno in parte si
possano considerare condivisibili...
 Mi chiedo solo se negli anni successivi tutte quelle persone che hanno
firmato le mozioni abbiano continuato a darsi da fare per incentivare il
trasporto su rotaia rispetto a quello stradale.
 Sicuramente sul sito c'e' tutto... tu che sei bravo a fare questo tipo di
ricerche... Sono trascorsi 8 anni... almeno gli ultimi 4 o 5!
		pgg
 

 		pgg
Tu quoque?
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 incentivare il trasporto su rotaia rispetto a quello stradale.
ma intendi anche le opere osteggiate dai NOTAV :-p?
A proposito sei a favore o contro la TAV ?
fra

A proposito sei a favore o contro la TAV ?
 Che non si sappia troppo in giro, ma non me ne puo' fregare di meno.
		pgg