Italiano (Italian)

[DAVIDE]

is not hard at all. unfortunately italian is only spoken in italy, part of slovenia and croatia, part of switzerland etc...

if u go to Toronto Ontario.. the half inhabitants are italians or italians of second/third generation.. In Buenos Aires the same thing.. Unfortunately for us, our language is less useful of english itself or spanish

[sud commander]

Nice, thanks davide.cool! Now here I go:

van nisterooy, tu puzzi, tu checca coglione, hai l'uccello piccolo, quindi leccami il culo e vai all'inferno!

You are the best! +rep!

[sud commander]

il ragazzo sta crescendo bene e imparando la vera essenza della lingua italiana! se si mette pure a parlare il calabrese chiedo la cittadinanza onoraria per lui!

[Aldgarkalaughskel]

You are the best! +rep!

Thanks. Although I did nothing but glued together what I learned from you and davide.cool...

[sud commander]

is not important, important is the message

[Armatus]

Some questions for you sud commander

Italian to my small knowledge seems to have more words that end in 'I' than with Calabrese or with what I know of Calabrese.

Ok I will write some of the words I can think of at the moment. Some of the words my family says are probably not true Calabrese, because they are English words that sound Italian or Calabrese. I don't know which ones, but I guess there are more than a few. Anyway I will just put the ones I think are closest to the real words. So Please Excuse the very VERY POOR SPELLING Americano

Ok so I warned ya here goes nothing!

chicaeda = girl
chicaedu = guy
manga = eat
zucca = sauce
forno = oven
porcheda = female pig
porchedu = male pig
casaloda = cooking pot or kettle
canalettas = eaves droppings or gutters
capadostu = hardhead
mortamazzazza = to kill dead
mazzamushca = what we called the fly swatter
musha = slow
cula musha = slow ass
ascpeta = wait
mada mada = look... look... or look at you!
bonyadole = clothes shoot? or laundry basket?
bonne zuc = sauce with bread
rashola = steak roll
dove = where
gittianu (or like jit-tee-ahn) = running around or screwing off
fasha or fashan = like flatter
stunatha (like stew-not-tha) = in a daze or stupid
qui cauada = how hot?
La straga = witch
cano = dog
chicallas = cicadas or locusts
cattiola = hoopty (old junky car)
chicanadas = chickens or people to keep the chickens
cunidas (like coo-need-yas) = rabits
cicadeanga (like chick-adee-yahn-ga (like to make chicken breast)
il gatto = the cat
tripivets = your gut or belly
shacalatuc (like shock-alla-took) wash the lettuce
allahinda = elephant (or if you don't want to call someone a fatty )
Oh and a funny one:
pasta patat = past & potatos
past pasida = (like paseeda) pasta and peas

La machine = We call that to people who stuff their faces with food

Ok I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch and I also could add some crude words, but david did a pretty good enough job with those although here's a couple of things you say when you're pissed off or telling someone to piss off I just don't know what parts of these words mean what

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Fazzicazzathu (like fahts-zee-cahts-a-thu) mind you're own ____ business!

Cazzikitthovreak (like Caht-zee-kit-tho-vreak) or you can say (Cazzi-kit-tho-vuk) basically piss of I think.

[sud commander]

Calabrese is more difficult to hear and to lear because some words be derived from greek, muslim and normans. I Calabria we have different dialect for different part og the region. We have "Riggitano" (reggio calabria), "Catanzarisi" (catanzaro), "Crotonisi" (crotone), "Cosentino" (cosenza). and after we have different dialect form ever country. I speak "Riggitano" your family speak crotonisi and is difficult for me undestand some words.

most part of this words are wrong, other I never hear it but not all are in Calabrese. i try to correct some words. the words with "C" are i calabrese, the words with "I" are in italian

crociara = girl C
crociaru = guy C
manga = eat C
salsa = sauce I
fornu = oven C
porcu = female pig C
porcu = male pig C
cassarola = cooking pot or kettle C
grondaia = eaves droppings or gutters I
capatosta = hardhead C
? = to kill dead
? = what we called the fly swatter :laughter:
chiano = slow C
? = slow ass
ascpetta = wait C
? = look... look... or look at you!
^ = clothes shoot? or laundry basket?
salsa cu pane = sauce with bread C
? = steak roll
dove = where I
? = running around or screwing off
? = like flatter
? = in a daze or stupid :laughter:
faci caddu = how hot? C
strega = witch I
cane = dog I
cicale = cicadas or locusts I
carriola = hoopty I
contadino = chickens or people to keep the chickens I
cuniddio = rabits C
? like to make chicken breast
il gatto = the cat I
? = your gut or belly
sciacqua la lattuga = wash the lettuce I

elefante = elephant (or if you don't want to call someone a fatty :laughter:) I
Oh and a funny one:
pasta e patate = past & potatos I
past e piseddi = (like paseeda) pasta and peas C

ingordo = We call that to people who stuff their faces with food :laughter: G

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Fatti i cazzi toi! = mind you're own ____ business! C

U cazzu ca ti frica = or you can say basically piss of I think. C

[Armatus]

grazie

Seems there's a lot of differences between what I have heard and what you wrote!

Oh and what does it mean to say ungazz (un-gahts) and brush the bottom of your chin with the back of your hand out to someone else? I think it means 'tis off' or 'don't bother!' I'm I close? hehe

[sud commander]

is used for prove to be wrong an assertion

[leif_erikson]

if u go to Toronto Ontario.. the half inhabitants are italians or italians of second/third generation..

Are you serious or are you joking? I can tell you that you are very wrong my friend, there are a lot of Italians here but no way in those numbers you are implying.

Cheers

[DAVIDE]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Canadians

[Armatus]

is used for prove to be wrong an assertion

we actually say

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u cazz

anyway close enough

So Do you know the proverbs?

How would you say 'Strike While the Iron is Hot' ? en Calabrese.

Thanks

- Arma

[DAVIDE]

How would you say 'Strike While the Iron is Hot' ? en Calabrese.

Thanks

- Arma

Batti lu fierru finché è cautu (calabrese dialect)
Batti il ferro finchè è caldo (italian)

[Armatus]

Batti lu fierru finché è cautu (calabrese dialect)
Batti il ferro finchè è caldo (italian)

Cool thank you!

[sud commander]

correct is

"Batti i fierru finchè è cauro"

This is calabrese!

Davide che tenta di parlare con un dialetto del sud e che per poco non ci riesce è uno scoop!

[Armatus]

Davide che tenta di parlare con un dialetto del sud e che per poco non ci riesce è uno scoop!

Ok I'll translate!

"David what is speak my dialect of sud with what small one scoop!"

[DAVIDE]

hey! i got relatives in calabria damn u guys!

[Nero2000]

Ciou!
I have just began learning Italiano but you guys are confusing me your saying that theres a small part of southern Italy that speaks another type of Italian?Like how the spanish in mexico speak different from the spanish in spain?(Scusi per mio parole in inglese.)

[Scorch]

Ciou!
I have just began learning Italiano but you guys are confusing me your saying that theres a small part of southern Italy that speaks another type of Italian?Like how the spanish in mexico speak different from the spanish in spain?(Scusi per mio parole in inglese.)

As I understand it, most people know both one dialect and standard Italian. Italian is the 'standardised' language, but it was actually randomly chosen as the official language of literature and scholarship sometime in the middle ages by writers such as Dante. It spread quickly with the economic growth of Italy, but many retain their dialects.

In l'altro notizie ...



Ciao a tutti! Sto provando vedere se posso miglioro il mio Italiano, e stavo sperando che qualcuno forse può parla a mi in Italiano su MSN, se lo hai. Il mio e-mail è darkrainofterror@hotmail.com.

It would help if you could speak English ... and if the Italian that I just posted was incorrect, please correct it.

[DAVIDE]

i made it the request on msn