Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Ho fatto degli errori in questa lettera? Grazie

Ciao
sareste così gentili da correggermi la lettera che devo spedire ad una
pen-friend australiana?
( il simbolo "_" indica il mio commento, mentre le parentesi fanno parte del
testo da inviare)
Mille grazie
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Dear ****,
how are you? _un altro modo per cominciare chiedendo come sta il
destinatario?_ I'm so happy you've written to me! How I envy you spending
your summer holidays: you know, here in Europe it's Autumn _ o autumn? not
"fall", because I'm writing to an Australian, and not American, person_ (I
dare say winter), and of course I go to school every day but _except?_ on
Sunday (by the way, you don't go to school on Saturday, do you? How lucky
you are!). This is the third out of nine month of school, and I'm looking
forward to having Christmas holidays, which last about a fortnight: from
Christmas Eve to Epiphany... at least some rest!
Thank you very much for your wishes. It was my birthday just 10 days ago,
and now I am 16! To tell the truth it wasn't much more than an ordinary day,
you know, school, classes and everything, but at least I ate a delicious
cake and blew out sixteen candles. Here in Italy teenagers often celebrate
their birthday going to a pizzeria with some friends... maybe I'll do that
next year... I'll see.
Anyway, did you really go to Japan with school? I think it's fantastic!
Well, perhaps you had a few  problems with speaking Japanese, but nowadays
English is spoken everywhere.
In my school third-year students usually spend four days on a trip, but we
never go abroad unless in the 5th year, when we often have a trip to
England, France, German or Spain. 4th year student may also go abroad on a
school trip, but it is not very common. In fact this year (well, next May)
I'll spend four days in Trieste (North East of Italy) with my schoolmates.
By the way, if next year you'll attend  the last year of school, High School
in Australia last four years, instead of the 5 Italian years. Well, you're
lucky then!
I've also read that you'd like to get a gap year and travel a lot after
leaving school. Here in Italy students don't usually get a gap year, but a
schoolmate of mine, whose mother is English _ British non va bene, vero?_
told me that her cousins had got (gotten in Australian English or only in
American English?) it travelling all over the world. Is that what you'd like
to do? If you can afford it, it's great!
I don't know which University I'll attend, but I still have two years to
think it over.
Anyway, do you really like Drama? Maybe in your school there are drama
courses in the afternoon, but in mine there are no afternoon extra courses
after the ordinary morning classes. And so you'd like to be an actress,
wouldn't you? It would be such a great job!
I see you also play the sax, so you most play jazz music, don't you? I
mainly play classical music, but sometimes modern music, too.
This year I'm also attending harmony and composition classes, and I've just
written my first piece of music for 3 instruments: piano, violin and flute;
it's modern music, but not of course rock or pop music.
Unfortunately I don't have Art at school any more, but when I attended
"Scuola Media"( a three-year school that is between _ the?_ primary and High
school), I liked to paint_ painting?_ very much, mainly landscapes.
I didn't understand very much what you've written_wrote?_  about your
driving licence, perhaps because in my country we get driving classes and
get a driving licence only if we're of age (18).
I see you also enclosed a photo of you; if I'm not wrong you're the girl
with five badges_ in realtà sono spille, ma lei dice badges_ on your blazer.
You were all wearing a uniform: in Italy we don't wear them; I don't know if
it's fair or not, but I'd prefer to wear it at school: it's very smart!
Anyway, you're all three very nice!
As 25th of December is near, I wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy
2005! ...and of course great summer holidays!
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Riccardo.
P.S. As promised, I enclose a photo of me
P.P.S.This time it won't take 3 months to answer, will it?
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I'll spend four days in Trieste (North East of Italy) with my schoolmates.
"I'll be spending four days" è meglio.
E' troppo lungo.
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 E' troppo lungo.
Caspita, se ho fatto così tanti errori in metà testo, figuriamoci nella
seconda metà...
Comunque grazie mille :-)
Bye!

Bye!
faccio parte due più tardi :) e per favore dimmi se ho fatto degli
errori in italiano.
Caio!

Caio!
"Caio" and "Tizio" are names of Latin origin often used to mean a person
[any person] in examples, specially about legal matters.
For instance: "Se Caio aiuta Tizio a suicidarsi, commette un reato?"
Ciao! ;)
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Ciao! ;)
Oh no!! How can I get that wrong!!! My confidence is shattered, I'm
never writing in Italian again! ;)


http://tinyurl.com/3pqbd
 
"known as Ice" and I know it's not his fault really :)


http://tinyurl.com/3pqbd
 
I'm an idiot. He wrote "Io direi cosě".

P.P.S.This time it won't take 3 months to answer, will it?
Quello che hai scritto non è sbagliato, ma io scriverei:
"It won't take 3 months to answer this time, will it?"
Complimenti Ricardo, il tuo inglese è molto meglio del mio italiano.

Complimenti Ricardo, il tuo inglese è molto meglio del mio italiano.
It seems pen friends really helped improving his English :)
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 It seems pen friends really helped improving his English :)
 
 "helped to improve" :)
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>"direi che"
or also:
"Io direi "to tell you the truth" , è più comune"
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Yeah, whatever...

  "helped to improve" :)
o helped improve?
mi sorge un dubbio quanto una casa...
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Yeah, whatever...

 mi sorge un dubbio quanto una casa...
Spiacente di demolirti la casa, ma credo non cambi niente.
Ciao, FB
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"The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean—so
Bunbury died."
"He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians."
("The Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar Wilde)

 errori in italiano.
Ah, ma allora sei inglese?
Comunque ho corretto un po' il testo che hai scritto, ma non pensare di aver
fatto più di 2-3 errori. ;-)
Anyway, thank you very much!
Tschüss,
Enrico il Pentolaio
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produce un articolo scientifico." (dal "The Wit of Medicine")

 Complimenti Riccardo, il tuo inglese è molto meglio del mio italiano.
Dici davvero?
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"pen friend"  ha scritto nel messaggio:
ooooooooops, ho copiato ancora la firma di "Enrico il Pentolaio" :-DDD
Comunque grazie mille, jonny!

 produce un articolo scientifico." (dal "The Wit of Medicine")
Ops volevo copiare la frase del pentolaio, e invece ho copiato la sua firma
tutta intera...

Anyway, thank you very much!
You're more than welcome.

Dici davvero?
Sě, avrei fatto piů errori di te se avevo scritto quello che avevi
scritto in italiano.

"Io direi "to tell you the truth" , è più comune"
Thanks.

I am not clear here: what did Riccardo want to say? 
That the legal age to drive a car in Italy is 18, here it's 17.

 Spiacente di demolirti la casa, ma credo non cambi niente.
tra helped improving / helped to improve / helped improve ?
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Yeah, whatever...

tra helped improving / 
"helped in improving", perhaps.
helped to improve / helped improve ?
These two seem quite the same to me.
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 These two seem quite the same to me.
I can't see any difference though I'd definitely say "helped improve"
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Yeah, whatever...

 scritto in italiano.
Infatti si dice:
"Avrei fatto più errori di te se avessi scritto in italiano quello che hai
scritto (tu).
;-))
Comunque ho spedito oggi la lettera.
Tschüss,
Enrico il Pentolaio
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 Enrico il Pentolaio
Giusto per chiarire, "pen friend" scrive dal mio computer, ma è mio cugino
;-)
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 You're more than welcome.
Bene :-))
Tschüss,
Enrico il Pentolaio
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Inglese d'Inghilterra immagino :-)
Sě.
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;-))
Grazie.