how to dabble in a language: italian edition
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- This whole debate over whether dabbling is okay has given me a headache-- let's just try it for ourselves and decide! For me, I've always thought Italian sounded so beautiful, but I'm here to test out if I'm interested in studying it in the future. What do you think about dabbling? Let's discuss! Thank you so much for coming out to watch.
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Hellooo! My name is Elysse, I’m from the USA and I study digital media production. I have an undying passion for linguistics, language learning, and all the beautiful experiences it has brought into my life ♥️ I hope you enjoy my videos about my journey in language learning, as well as diaries about my travels and life as a curious tree-climber.
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I have too many good things to say that I don’t even know where to start but I think your sense of humor is necessary for my survival
😭😭😭 I appreciate this so much holy crap
" dont you wanna connect to one person for 7 months "
" NO i hate monogamy "
daniela sophia ✅✅✅✅
Dabbling is totally healthy when done in moderation! It helps you stay motivated to maintain your language habits even if your motivation is waning. Go for it! Just don't dabble in too much at once (else, it's at your own risk!).
Study with Melissa of course! i feel like dabbling has to be planned, but it was a super fun break from the usual.
1:53 that's it, that's my one and only issue with the idea of dabbling. people claiming they've learnt a language just cos they spent a week learning a few words and grammar rules. this video is actually dabbling done right. respect from Italy :)
I am learning Spanish and Korean. Then I notice a lady at work who is Ukrainian and hasn’t learned English. I started to dabble in her language. The goal was for saying hello have a small conversation with her. Her response was so heart warming. Now she teaches me new words. She always thanks me for speaking to her in her language. Then I speak to a Ukrainian student in the hall who doesn’t speak English. I just said hello and he lit up like a light. Now he hugs me every time he sees me. For me, this is enough reason to dabble.
Ciao Elysse! Great work so far - you probably realized this by now, stare (used to mean "to be") can only be paired with adverbs (bene/male) whereas if you are using an adjective to describe yourself then you have to use essere. So basically we use stare only to say "sto bene"/"sto male".
Around 10:30 when you're trying to say "I hope you have a good day", you can say it a couple of ways:
In Italian, when you say that you are "spending" a day, you use the verb passare.
When you talk about a day (as in someone's experience during that day - it's a hard concept to explain in English) you use the term "giornata" instead of giorno, which is just the period of 24 hours. Same thing with evening, you use "serata".
So, oggi ho passato la serata con un amico. = Today I spent the evening with a friend.
Have a good day = Buona giornata! (This is wishing someone a good day). Works for talking to one as well as multiple people.
or "Passa una bella giornata" (This is a command, the imperative tense) if talking to one person, "passate una bella giornata" if talking to multiple people.
I'm not sure why you say "passa una bella giornata" as opposed to "...una buona giornata", it may just be a fixed phrase.
When you want to say, "I HOPE you have a good evening", in Italian you have to use the subjunctive tense.
Spero che passi una bella serata (speaking to one person)
Spero che passiate una bella serata. (for multiple people)
In Italian instead of saying "day three", it's better to say "third day", il terzo giorno, using ordinal numbers instead of cardinal numbers.
"Is there any universe in which a G would make an R sound?" :D I cracked a laugh at that one.
Italian for me would be my travel language I don’t really have big goals for it. My biggest languages i want to use the most is Spanish, Portuguese, and Swahili.
Italian and Zulu are my “just for fun” languages, nothing too serious.
Do you speak any languages already?
13:12 YEP I watched that video and I remember feeling the same.
i thought it was worth a try, but hmm... different in practice
This made me so happy! I love languages and sometimes I’m just tryna learn how to have a basic conversation and then move on to another :) This was so fun to watch!
Rebekah Brunson i agree, it’s not always fluency or nothing :P and thank you, i actually spent a lot of time on this one! ☺️
Your Italian accent is so good!
I used to feel like I would know everything about the Italian grammar, because I’m a Spanish native speaker, but then I found there’s something called “Passato prossimo”. Yeah! It’s the kind of thing you learn how to use by using it, because Spanish doesn’t have that grammar structure. Idk if Portuguese shares that with Italian though.
Jorge Andrés Linares Guerra interesting!! i feel like grammar really distinguishes the romance languages when nothing else does.
Passato prossimo doesn't exist in Spanish? Sorry but that's wrong. I'm a native Spanish speaker and the equivalent of passato prossimo does exist in Spanish.
Examples:
Lui *ha mangiato* una mela
Él *ha comido* una manzana
*Siamo stati* a Roma molte volte
*Hemos estado* en Roma muchas veces
The difference is that in Spanish we also have the past simple tense. Italian has it but people don't tend to use it that much. Especially in the north. In the south of Italy people use it much more.
This is the best dabbling that I have ever seen. This. . . this changed my life, thank you. I would for your hand in marriage but I can see that you already are married. Married to the dabbling and I will forever commend you for it. - Internet Child
facts bro
LMAO what is this comment... and the only marriage I have is my marriage with languages hehe
In some regions stare is used pretty much for every use of to be, but it's because of the dialect of that region. Same for what past tense to use: the northern regions pretty much always use the passato prossimo, even when recounting an historical event, while southern regions use passato remoto even to talk about their lunch
Southern is better. I still can't believe northern italians want to impose their version of the language as the "standard"
The way southerners use stare makes so much more sense to me
I couldn’t join the premiere cause I had an italki lesson haha But that’s a great video Elysse!! I really want to learn Italian but I’m not that confident with my Spanish yet and I’m just afraid that I’ll mix them up 🥴
tanya's inspirations no worries, go get that knowledge hehehe. and yeah, that was my big problem so that’s why i don’t think i’ll pursue it further 🤒
Elysse Speaks I totally get you haha but you already speak 3 Romance languages and that’s what I’d like to do too! But Italian instead of Portuguese 🤭
Why did I JUST find your channel I'm in love omg
Wow, your italian is not that bad at all! I'm italian and I think you're doing great. Keep on going!
Thank you! Will do!
Another great video of yours! Thanks for sharing. Professor X here. Stay safe.
i love this concept! i feel like i dabble a lot with korean, learning bits and pieces on and off, no real goal in sight, but its simply fun. and with german i try to actually get somewhere etc
dabbling really doesnt have to be harmful and im thankful you made a video about this : )
è strano ma hai quasi un accento greco/spagnolo quando parli italiano! ma sei brava, non ti scoraggiare!
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Omg I love that song sooo much, I was always in love with opera thanks to my mom. I cry a lot when I hear it😂
YASSS it's so powerful
THIS IS SUCH A NICE VIDEO
also I am always referring to languages as relationships but I find it a super useful metaphor! (currently recovering from my abusive relationship with Russian)
oh and also I would really like to dabble in Italian soon. But this was such a joy to watch!
Ophelia Vert THANK YOUU aside from studying i did spend a meticulous amount of time on it lolol. and yeah, for me italian didn’t prove such a good partner 🤒 i kind of was losing motivation as i went so that’s never a good sign, especially for dabbling. i know you’re already into french though so you might love it!!
I remember the danish movie "Italian for Beginners" (from Dogma95 aesthetic).
I think dabbling languages is so healthy, at least when you do other language more seriously, like a healthy distraction.
Hi Elysse! I did end up posting that Pimsleur review on my channel if you want to check it out! (You mentioned you wanted to see it in the top chat during the premiere of this video.) Hope it helps!
Study with Melissa hell yes! i actually went looking for you and couldn’t find 😂 thanks!
@@elyssespeaks Ah yes, the qualms of a small channel haha. But thank you!
Me encanta como sos! Aprendo mucho con vos, estoy aprendiendo italiano e si ti piacerebbe possiamo parlare a little while
i know im a few months late but i search up top italian songs and somehow came across an italian radio that gives top 10 songs of each week. and the only song i found interesting is Luci Blu lmao
I'm Italian and I have to say you speak almost perfectly! It's so hard to hear an American who doesn't have a strong accent in Italian, but I guess it's related to the fact that you speak the other romance languages. Good job girlll!
14:40 yes, the Kazakh universe: ғ sounds like a French R
We do have a differentiation. Just not official. You all/Y’all.
I love your personality! 😄
omg, your persuaded me to became a polyglot!👍👍☆☆☆☆☆ I'm currently learning
Italian, and it's the second foreign language I am about to learn⚡☂️⚡
LETS GOOOOOO
Peggio and peggiore can actually be used in the same way! You’re super good 😊💓 if you want some music/ tv raccomendations let me know
could you give me movie/series recommendations?☺️☺️ preferably that are on netflix haha
I Made the same mistake with the alphabet
I loved that. I love to dabble ❤
I used to learn italian but without noticing I quitted it.
I think I wasn't in love with it as I was before. Now seeing you. I remember that I miss it. Gotta get back 😱 I miss Lucrezia ❤
EU sei o que estava passando na sua mente, quando você fez esse vídeo. a nossa língua provém do Latim então cada idioma que vêm do latim são semelhantes, então você fica encontrando palavras iguais, isso meio que faz seu cérebro se perguntar, hey já vi essas palavras antes, já vi!!! ´´mas será no português ou espanhol, não lembro! vou revisar meu espanhol e português``. Eu sou brasileiro conheço as regras do Latim, imagina pra uma pessoa que não veio, Deve ser bastante difícil manter as línguas com as semelhanças vocálicas e escritas diferentes. GOOD GIRL, keep it up, dont give up on that language. kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Any plans to learn latin? I remember in the movie Back to School, Robert Downey Jr. played a freshman registering for classes, and he mentions he got latin and ancient greek, but they didn't have Sanskrit and that blew his whole dead languages motif. I started as an italian major in college, but switched to German because it seemed there were more opportunities with that. But Italian will always be my first love, and still watch RAI channels on Mobdro so I can get my Italian news and variety shows
I think I love opportunities to actually speak, so i've never had much of an interest in ancient languages. And yeah, there's always that special lang that will steal your heart!
Absolutely...and Pavorotti singing either "Nessun dorma" or my favorite "La fleur.." from Carmen...on Sunday mornings with iced coffee...the best!
I really like the background of your video.
"I'm glad you asked". I got the reference
1:12 I don't like monogamy and I'm serious, really.
Can I learn two languages in a same time??
absolutely!
Hey, so I watched that video of learning Italian in 7 days, and I was wondering if you say that that is not reliable, how he could already speak amazing at the end of that week. Would love it if you answer, love your videos!
As for a trooper I up the playback speed so you're speedtalking ;). I think on one hand as someone who's studied other languages if you get a tutor or language partner they'll be impressed with how quick you pick stuff up. On the other hand you're not as likely to put so much time into this language either since well you have lots of other languages already. I studied lots of Japanese and finally I'm studying Korean. It's so terrible how when I try speaking Korean (which I'm bad at), I'll say Japanese words without even realizing it. I hope that doesn't happen to much to you.
2:20 LOL 😂
15:50 You've written "my mic is an asshole I'm sorry" and I read it as "my mic is in my asshole I'm sorry". 😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Hey, keep going.
You are pretty and smart.
At least for me 😄
Are any languages that you speak are your native tongue ?
Did u post this as in for kids or as in not for kids cuz you bleeped out the 1st word
i don't like using super harsh words on my channel but i go back and forth tbh
Italians are good people, but Spanish is most common
succede, a volte l'italiano fà venire la febbre hahahaha..che segno zodiacale sei?
it happens sometimes,study italian makes you fever (i'm joke)..what is your zodiac sign?
Ciao...amore mio 😊
*side-eyes my shelf full of not-used notebook. slowly hide it*
I don't know what you are talking about
*language practice books fall off shelves.*
No idea.
Your Italian accent sounds a bit Spanish. 😍
Who put subtitles for this video? It's "B...Baciare" not "B...Biacchere" ahahah that's not even a word!
:)
Credo che sei stata un po confusa con l'avere e il essere perché si ripetono per il passato prossimo. È un po strano che non ti hai fatto racconta perché la grammatica è la stessa con il francese. A proposito, abbiamo lo stesso accento 🤣 saluti da Argentina (si, ho guardato questo video un po tarde, e che? 🤨)
Bruh
Equalize your audio, and pass a filter on low frequencies, is really hard to understand you speaking