Italian study group

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Spoonary
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Re: Italian study group

Postby Spoonary » Tue Jul 11, 2017 10:24 pm

sgiandubh wrote:I was inspired by your post and have a copy en route even as I type. Since I am not of the actively commenting sort, I anticipate reading along in my own silence -- but will enjoy it ;-)
thanks for the inspiration.

I'm really glad to hear that, Eva! Although you don't want to discuss the book while you read, I would love to hear your thoughts when you finish it. :P
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Re: Italian study group

Postby Nathan_Canada » Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:49 pm

Maybe a bit late but I'll try to join in as well, although I'd need to find a copy of the book first.
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Re: Italian study group

Postby BalancingAct » Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:12 am

I have a simplified version of the book (classed as B1). Thanks to this thread, I dug it out and have just read the first 15 pages in one go (not counting 2 pages of illustration). I'll try to finish it next week.
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Re: Italian study group

Postby Spoonary » Sun Jul 16, 2017 10:11 am

Oh it's never too late to join us, so don't worry about that. It's great to have some more interest actually. :) I'm still on page 30, with a plan to read quite a bit today.

Nathan, do you have an ebook reader? Perhaps that would be the easiest way for you to get the book?
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Re: Italian study group

Postby Nathan_Canada » Mon Jul 17, 2017 4:10 am

Thanks for your reply, I don't have an e-reader, but I looked up 'Io Non Ho Paura pdf' and the entire book (I think) came up; 211 pages, so if this is a legal copy and the entire book I will just read this. If not I can buy it on iBooks and read it on my mac. Either way I don't think I could get it onto Lingq which would be ideal for me, because I still need to look up a fair number of words. Nevertheless I don't think the book is too challenging for me and will give it a go, although I will probably be a bit behind you guys as I'm a slow reader and also in the middle of another book now.

If you were to start a thread I would be happy to join in, I think it would boost all of our motivation as well to actually complete the book. I know sometimes I find it hard to stay on track. :roll:
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Re: Italian study group

Postby bpasseri » Mon Jul 17, 2017 4:21 am

Nathan_Canada wrote:Thanks for your reply, I don't have an e-reader, but I looked up 'Io Non Ho Paura pdf' and the entire book (I think) came up; 211 pages, so if this is a legal copy and the entire book I will just read this. If not I can buy it on iBooks and read it on my mac. Either way I don't think I could get it onto Lingq which would be ideal for me, because I still need to look up a fair number of words. Nevertheless I don't think the book is too challenging for me and will give it a go, although I will probably be a bit behind you guys as I'm a slow reader and also in the middle of another book now.

If you were to start a thread I would be happy to join in, I think it would boost all of our motivation as well to actually complete the book. I know sometimes I find it hard to stay on track. :roll:


Thank you for mentioning the PDF version! I'm also going to try to work my way through it :D
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Re: Italian study group

Postby sgiandubh » Mon Jul 17, 2017 5:21 am

I'll just add a couple of comments: First, thanks for mentioning the pdf- i hadn't bothered to look -
likely its not a legal copy, I don't think that this work is in the public domain - however authors don't get paid on resale of used books either so....
But this is very fortunate since I still wait for my purchased copy to arrive ;-)

While i dont know how to get it into linq -- it IS easy to get into readlang if you'd like -- Calibre (which is freely available) can convert the pdf to epub which can then be used in readlang.
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Re: Italian study group

Postby Spoonary » Mon Jul 17, 2017 8:26 pm

Nathan_Canada wrote:If you were to start a thread I would be happy to join in, I think it would boost all of our motivation as well to actually complete the book. I know sometimes I find it hard to stay on track. :roll:

Good idea! As there are now a few of us reading the book, I have created a thread where we can discuss it. See you all there! :mrgreen:
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Re: Italian study group

Postby reineke » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:43 am

This is so much better than the TAC, guys!
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Re: Italian study group

Postby Cavesa » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:24 am

Interested in Italian music? Here is an awesome (legally free) streaming site with everything from the years 1900-2000
http://www.canzoneitaliana.it/
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