Tuesdaay Talk

Italian Phrase of the Day: La mia nonna mi ha lavorato a maglia una nuova sciapia. My grandmother knit me a new scarf.

My comment on this: No, non è la mia nonna. Faccio a maglia una nuova scapia con  un po’  fatto a mano filato compravo da Cinderella a Open Diary. No, it is not my grandmother. I am knitting a new scarf with some hand-made yarn I bought from Cinderella from Open Diary.

More snow here today but it does not seem to be coming down with the same enthusiasm it had yesterday. I saw our landlord out clearing the snow off his car this morning and all he had to do was to sweep it off. He didn’t have to scrape ice. I think I will go out later and take pictures of all this snow…

One week from today, I start back to Italian II. I am quite excited about this. I have been reviewing what we learned and also working some of the exercises in the new grammar book. I seem to have two big problems. First, I don’t have a big vocabulary and have to look up a lot of words and secondly, I MUST learn the verbs. It is not so much that I don’t know which verb to use {although that too} but that when I find the verb in the dictionary, I then have to laboriously work out in my mind what the subject of this verb is {I? you? they? we?} because there is a different ending for each pronoun….  And then, of course, there are the irregular verbs. Someday {uno di questi giorni}, with lots of practice, these things will come easily to me…

QUOTATION FOR THIS MONTH: If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. — Marcus Aurelius

Until later….