Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Corso di inglese

Ciao a tutti chi mi consiglia un valido corso di inglese su cd? Grazie a
tutti"

 tutti"
 Just CD or multimedia?
 What style of course? e.g. general / young adult / business...
 What level are you?
 What is your budget? ;)
Zz

 tutti"
These are both very good:
English Grammar in Use With Answers and CD-ROM (A Self-Study Reference and
Practice Book) by Raymond Murphy... for Intermediate Students:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/052152931X/taijiquan-21
and for Elementary Students:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521559286/taijiquan-21
 (from
Amazon.co.uk
).
Zz

Io pensavo a qualcosa di qualche azienda italiana...se non conosco l'inglese
mi è difficile partire dall'inglese!

 mi è difficile partire dall'inglese!
Ma ti conviene a partire dall'inglese. E meglio cosi.
Trust me!
Zz

 Trust me!
Mah, ora vedo, secondo te in quanto è possibile riuscire a parlare un buon
inglese? Diciamo che non sto tanto male in materia... possibile in 6 mesi?

 inglese? Diciamo che non sto tanto male in materia... possibile in 6 mesi?
Probably. Ma cosa vol dire "buon"?
:)))

 :)))
Nel senso di parlare senza difficoltà

 Nel senso di parlare senza difficoltà
Si. Sei mesi vanno bene. Devi eat, drink, sleep in English.
Stavo scherzando prima! Scusa.
Six months is a *sufficient* amount of time to learn a *fair* amount of
English, depending on the person and the situation. It could take you a
lifetime! If you are older than 5, your chances of obtaining a natural
fluency are somewhat reduced (sorry)!
Ciao,
Zz

Ho 16 anni, non sono tanto vecchio :-)

 ... non sono tanto vecchio :-)
Prova con quel libro di Murphy for elementary students. In tanto, sarebbe
utile, anche se sembra difficile al inizio.
Good luck!

 Good luck!
Ok grazie

 Nella comprensione sei ancora al livello "disperazione" dopo sei mesi.
Concordo. Sperare di parlare senza difficoltà inglese in 6 mesi da zero è
una utopia.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo

Giovanni Bajo wrote:
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I hope that is what I implied.
In my own case, I could more than get by in Italian after 6 months... I only
studied it about for 2-3 months, but had the great advantage of living in
Italy and, after 3 months, moving to small town with no other English
speakers. I had to live, work and play in Italian. I started to dream in
Italian before too long, and continued to learn the language in my sleep!
With the right conditions, 6 months of language learning can yield
surprising results... (they would be surprising if they were any good!!)
:)
Zz

 surprising if they were any good!!)
Then, I hoped this was implied by me. I was really going to add something
along the lines of "Of course, just living in an English-speaking country
with no other italians around you would be invaluable", but then I reckoned
it was more than obvious :)
So, you really learnt a decent Italian in 6 months? That's amazing.
I know a girl, who's from Israel. After 3-4 months she was in Italy, she
could already get the meaning out of most conversations (and she didn't
study it beforehand!) In like 1 year, she was more than able to speak a
little Italian and join conversations. But the big problem is that, by the
looks of it, her Italian has improved much since. She also found an italian
boyfriend who could speak a decent english, and she never began studying
Italian. That's a shame in my opinion.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo

That's a shame in my opinion.
This doesn't look natural either. "I think that's a shame." or "That's
a shame, in my opinion.", maybe?
-- 
Adam Atkinson (
gh...@mistral.co.uk
)
GIANT WAVES DOWN QUEEN MARY'S FUNNEL

 a shame, in my opinion.", maybe?
Yes. You must forgive my commas, I just write down the flow of sentences,
the way I would actually say them.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo

 
Or "greatly improved" or "improved greatly"
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 I don't know. Sorry.
Don't we just love languages. Thanks for your corrections!
-- 
Giovanni Bajo

 Don't we just love languages. Thanks for your corrections!
Think about milk. "a little milk" is ok, but "a good milk" isn't.
For whatever reason, you say "I speak good Italian" but "I speak a
little
Italian". I think the "a" is glued to "little" since "a little", "a lot
of"
and so on are fixed phrases. "I speak terrible Italian", "I speak
strongly-accented Italian" and most other things I can think of
don't have an indefinite article.


 Think about milk. "a little milk" is ok, but "a good milk" isn't.
This is because, in the former instance, "milk" is, say, a 
'countable'amount; in the latter, it's not.
sq