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- "Io mangio il cioccolato."
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If you report the issues with poor quality audio, or other things that need correcting you might get some changes made. Referring to it here may relieve some frustration but does nothing to rectify the problem. As for the incorrect spelling being accepted I don't agree. What's the worse that can happen--you lose a heart --sometimes you have o repeat the unit. Repetition is the key to learning.
I think the pronunciation is flawless, they do speak like real italians does - at least as far as my knowledge stretch.
For me, it's a matter of wanting a way to slow down the pronunciation so I can verbally follow along and get those words pronounced correctly.
They really need to get a better pronunciation converter (or better yet, just record a real human voice). I've gotten almost every sentence wrong because e's sound like a's, a's sound like e's, o's sound like a's, etc., etc.
I completely agree, i think the computer voice is garbage! I use google translate to learn the pronunciation, it is much better! But the reason why letter sound different is because they are pronounced differently, this video helped me! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrIIwfUS9X4 (not advertising) i also bought this book for six bucks, it is out of date but helps! It covers all forms of pronunciation in the introduction http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0838451756/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8=used
I think the misspellings that are minor should still be given a correct grade. is cioccolato vs ciocolatto.
If it were the english language and you spell it choccolate instead of chocolate, your teacher would mark it as incorrect as well. Spelling is as basic as grammar. IMHO
I agree. While they should be correct, perhaps the error message could be revised for minor ones like missing a double consonant.
Bound to speak and instead I got an error message saying the microphone was turned off for an hour what's up with that
Would 'I eat chocolate' be correct here?
(Following from one of the previous lessons where apparently apparently 'la donna mangia lo zucchero' was the (most) correct translation for 'the woman eats sugar'... ?)
Not really. I eat chocolate is a generic statement that you eat it. I eat the chocolate refers to a specific instance of chocolate.
I have trouble sometimes with the oral repetition. I repeat a sentence perfectly well, yet I get a "do not understand response." If I repeat each word very slowly, sometimes I will get a check, sometimes not. The confounding thing is that sometimes I'm stumbling all over the pronunciation, in some cases not even finishing the sentence and I will get a check! What is up with that? I'm working on a laptop, not a phone.
You know, the "the" word is different for every word. How can I understand which "the" I will use for a word? Do I have to memorize it or is there a way?
İtalyanca'da her kelimenin "the" sı farklı oluyor. Hangi kelimeye hangi "the" nın geleceğini nerede anlayacağım? Bunu ezberlemem mi gerekiyor yoksa bir mantığa dayalı mı?
Hi Sara, hopefully you already learnt this by now but if not then here goes.
For Masculine nouns, there are three forms of 'the' that can be used i.e "il, l' and lo"
il - used for singular masculine nouns that start with a consonant. (Plural, uses 'i') e.g il biscotto - i biscotti
l' - used for masculine singular nouns starting with a vowel. (Plural, gli) e.g l'ombrello - gli ombrelli
lo - used for exceptional masculine singular nouns i.e nouns starting with s+ a consonant, ps, pn, z, x, y, gn. (Plural, gli) e.g lo zaino - gli zaini
For feminine nouns, there's la and l'
la - used for singular feminine nouns starting with a consonant. (Plural, le) e.g la ragazza - le ragazze
l' - used for singular feminine nouns starting with a vowel. (Plural, le) e.g l'amica - le amiche
can this be translated as I eat the chocolate and I eat chocolate? I gives a different sense in the meaning.
Not really. I eat chocolate is a generic statement that you eat it. I eat the chocolate refers to a specific instance of chocolate.
il - is used for singular masculine nouns that start with a consonant. (Plural, uses 'i') e.g il ragazzo - i ragazzi
And, lo - is used for exceptional masculine singular nouns i.e nouns starting with s+ a consonant, ps, pn, z, x, y, gn. (Plural, gli) e.g lo zio - gli zii
