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Actually, I have known several people who eat multiple cloves of raw garlic each day because it is good for the human body. Unfortunately, the next day it also comes seeping out through their pores; quite stinky.
Have you ever tried chewing raw ginger? Fantastic if you have a cold or the flu. Try chewing a centimetre piece, but try not to move or use your tongue (your tastebuds will be sorry). Then just swallow the juice. Burns all the way down, but my cough disappeared magically!
I know right. the last one was he eats fried cheese...seriously...who does that?
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Lots of people, specifically Americans. Fried cheese is nothing compared to deep-fried Oreos. ;P
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In Wisconsin, they serve deep-fried butter on a stick. And deep-fried Twinkies. And deep-fried ice cream. I personally am utterly repulsed by it, but hey, that's America for you.
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Some American fairs sell fried butter. I'd rather eat fried cheese than butter..
Fried cheese is delicious! Coat it in a little egg or milk, roll it in flour (w/ or w/o bread crumbs), then fry it golden in a frying pan. Oh, sweet, crispy, melty delight! I discovered this when we lived in Colombia!
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EDIT: The webpage I had posted here no longer exists. I'll try and find something else.
It sounds to me as interchanging the g and l positions during the pronuntiation: l'algio :)
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I'm a native spanish speaker and I find this "pronunciation" very accurate and helpful.
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Wow! I forgot negligente and anglicano (anglicismo and similar).
It's a hard job remembering all exceptions about your mother tongue, you know them by heart! :) Great site, can I use your link in my FAQ, bubba1294?
It is going to be very hard to remember all those exceptions, I prescribe myself a lot of practice and patience.
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Is it called silent G? I didn't know it.
Always, with "gli"... Tovaglia, moglie, caglio, foglia, figli, giglio, abbaglio, bargiglio.
One exception... "geroglifico", "gl" it's pronounced like in English.
in English we would say 'he eats garlic' not THE garlic. In Italian do you have to use the article?
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I think in this case the article alters the meaning of the sentence. Right now I take the sentence as meaning, "he eats that particular garlic", whereas "lui mangia aglio" would mean "he eats garlic" in a general sense; that is, from time to time he may eat garlic but he is not necessarily eating at this moment. Or maybe I'm just completely wrong.
It's as bubba said. "Lui mangia aglio" = He eats garlic in general. "Lui mangia l'aglio" = He eats THE garlic, a specific garlic that depends on context. Quite simple, really.
i don't know duolingo sometimes makes us use the article but i think it would be correct if you said "lui mangia agilio" instead
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Well, when I started learning english i used to believe it would be common to use articles like all the time(that's what your doing in german)-until my teacher told me a different story in 6th class. That was a sad day, man. :'c
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I'm confused: "aglio" is MASCULINE (it says so when hovering over it) but "l'" is short for "la" which is the FEMININE article. What's happening there?
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This may help: l' is used "with masculine and feminine words beginning with a vowel:"
l'ufficio - l'acqua
www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian/tutors/grammar/language_notes/il.shtml
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l' is also short for lo masculine article so you could think of it as "lo aglio"
Haha, it's so funny how all the discussion on this question is just about eating garlic....
He could eat garlic, roast garlic is so sweet and yummy... Kinda like how onion goes nice and caramelised.
They couldn't come up with a better thing for the poor man to eat ! lol :P
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Garlic keeps your pressure down and onion cleans the blood. It's better to be eaten raw, not cooked.
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I accidentally cheated and pressed the speaker icon to repeat the phrase while the mic was on, maybe that shouldn't happen
This is supposed to a discussion page work out problems with our learning of italian. Not social page discussing recipes. Please do not digress from the discussion of the italian language. Please.
