So Andy and I are learning Italian together in preparation for a future trip to Italy when he turns 50, so today he sent me the following for Italian practice:
"Pinguini mangiato le mie mutande"
which (we think) means "Penguins ate my underwear."
So you can see we're learning the most useful phrases first.....
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Something you'll need in Italy:
Va via! Non mi toccare!
(Go away! Don't touch me!)
I can get more hostile than that if you need me to. :)
I get my cousin ready for a trip to central America I taught him 2 very useful phrases in Spanish -
"All my Grandparents are dead"
"Where is the nudist beach"
He knows me well enough that he didn't try to use either phrase.
Bella Italia! Before I went to Rome I bought the book Italy for Dummies, which the Italians thought was hilarious! - they also pronounced it Italy for Doomies, which cracked me up! :-) As long as we kept to the restaurants suggested in the book the food was fabulous!!!! If we didn’t, it was ok, but not grand.
If you are going to St Peter’s Basilica, The Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, go early, and go to the Museum & Chapel first. If I remember correctly they close the admissions booth like at 2 pm, so that people have time to get through the museum and spend time in the Chapel. We went to the Basilica first, and got there just before the closed & had to basically run through the museum in order to see something and spend time in the Chapel, which was fantastic.
The first night we went to dinner at 8 pm. Dinners take a couple of hours, and busses pretty much stop running at 10, which left us standing on a street corner in the cold for quite a while. :- )
Please don’t forget Florence & Michelangelo’s David. Stunning, incredible, amazing, awesome.
Two very important tourist phrases:
Quanto costo? – How much does it cost?
Dove il bagno? – Where’s the bathroom?
I still have the Dummies book, an Italian phrasebook, and Learning Italian in Your Car series if you want to borrow anything.
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