"Lei legge un giornale."

Translation: She reads a newspaper.

[noelledford]

How I remember lei is she is that there are necklaces that GIRLS like to wear called leis so I think 'She!' I remember boy because lui is pronounced Louie, which is a BOY'S name. Hope I helped!!!

[votears]

lei makes me think of the word lesbian....Look,I am just trying to help here too.Hopefully no offense is being sensed.

[Dreamer71]

personally, I think of Princess Leia.
I use your same trick for boys, though.

[noelledford]

That's a creative way to do it!

[huntsteven]

Leia and Luigi

[WannaBeMedic]

Thanks! That is the best onem

[PhillipStanley]

Thank you, that is helpful.

[TomRossP]

I like your thinking! That could help me out

[sophieminter]

Wow thats good! i just remember the "e" means the subject is a girl

[aman_is_blessed]

'Giornale' sounds like 'journal-e'
So it make it easy to remember that it is for 'newspaper'

[MayAstrid]

I now understand why they say lei is also for the formal you. Sometimes on the market, I can hear "What does she wants, the lady?" that sellers use to be formal! Formal is like talking to people as if the weren't there.

[jasonmflynn]

How does one know when 'lei' means 'she' and when it means 'you (formal)'? Aren't the conjugations the same?

[mukkapazza]

They are. On Duolingo, feel free to use the formal you when you see it capitalized (Lei, Suo...)

It is possible to see it both ways elsewhere but here we'd like to make things as clear as possible...especially for new students who don't know about the formal you yet!

[coletta761365]

I look at the rest of the sentence and put it into context.

[Claire991909]

You can cheat by clicking on the words. Not that you should cheat but, it works. ^_^

[Claire991909]

This trick works!

[Sharkadark]

I'm confused about legge and leggiamo, because when you look under the conjugations, it shows that legge is for tu, or you. help?

[IdothisforErica]

Io leggO, Tu leggI, Lui/Lei/Esso leggE
Noi leggIAMO, Voi leggETE, Loro leggONO

[TheTheorist]

Legge, I imagine my legs doing the reading.

[rylanPRO]

I kept making "un" the instead of a

[Rose420045]

This sentence is very long and too hard to read...

[jadkw]

She reads a newspaper.

[Zapdos_807]

I can't say the words correctly. Like, I know the words but I can't pronounce them right. :(

[Leylivennehar]

Ĺ

[STUDENTCar795669]

i said it but i wasnt "loud enough"

[DongukKim8]

Vielen dank für "Tip"

[Tom718042]

Reads??..is read a newspaper

[anneelizabethy]

it said i got it wrong even though i said the same thing!

[Layla_the_Wailer]

I said "journal" rather than "newspaper"... But is that not the same thing? If it isn't then how do you say "journal"?

[Amelie678375]

I thought giornale was a journal but I was wrong. Does anybody have any sights to help with confusion of Italian words?Thanks

[TeaWithFuture]

Why can't it be "she reads a magazine"?

[coletta761365]

buongiorno!! This sentence has me speaking into my computer for feed back. I used to like this feature, but when I click where it says"click" it turns my answer red as if I answered wrong. Is anyone else having this issue?