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- "Scrivo dalla Spagna."
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Good Grief! Marked wrong because I spelt Spain as 'Spania' instead of 'Spagna'! Could have given me a typo warning - all the rest of the sentence was correct and how am I to tell from her speech that it has a g in it? Grrr.
Tell me about it! Trouble is DL has no common sense. I have also experienced the opposite: one letter wrong is marked correct although it's a crucial letter which makes a big difference to the meaning.
Yes, that happened a lot in Clitics! I had to stop the lesson and go back to the beginning several times so I actually learnt (well, more or less) the right 2-letter word to use.
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From Word Reference: alfalfa /ælˈfælfə/ n
<pre>a leguminous plant, Medicago sativa, of Europe and Asia, having compound leaves with three leaflets and clusters of small purplish flowers. It is widely cultivated for forage and as a nitrogen fixer and used as a commercial source of chlorophyll
Also called: lucerne
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Etymology: 19th Century: from Spanish, from Arabic al-fasfasah, from al the + fasfasah the best sort of fodder
della is "of the" and can be "from the" dalla is "from the" and can be "by the" http://italian.about.com/library/fare/blfare153a.htm http://italian.about.com/library/fare/blfare125a.htm http://italian.about.com/library/fare/blfare114a.htm http://italian.about.com/od/grammar/a/italian-preposition-da.htm http://italian.about.com/od/grammar/a/italian-prepositions.htm
calle is a narrow street in Venice. callo is a callus or corn. cala is bay or (naut.) hold. cala! Come off it!. http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/italian-english/calare? calla is entrance. http://italian.about.com/library/anthology/dante/blpurgatorio009.htm
In English calla is a kind of lily.
