"La scimmia legge un libro."
Translation:The monkey reads a book.
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I agree with you. Funny sentences make us remember the words and phrases!
So, i'll tell you how i study English (I'm not a native speaker):
it is said that if you give a monkey a typewriter and enough paper, it will produce one of shakespears books. I wonder if this monkey is doing the proof reading!
LE SINGE EST SUR LA BRANCHE ET IL LIT UN JOURNAL.
I hope someone else heard echoes of Mr. Izzard here as well.
Is it correct to write "la scimia" (femenine) and "il scimio" (masculine)? Or is there no differentiation in Italian?
"la scimia" (like "la tigre") is one of those exceptions where the entire species is grammatically feminine, regardless of the sex of the actual animal in question.
Thank you! I was about to ask the same thing but (ctrl + f) led me to your comment.
Is there anybody helps me with the pronuciation of "scimmia"? thank you!
It doesn't work that way. Grammatical gender is 99.9% arbitrary and mostly has nothing to do with biological sex. It's just a category label. Only humans, common pets, and common farm animals have masculine and feminine forms. All other animals have one grammatical gender for the whole species.
Sometimes the sentence come in illogical means!! La scimmia legge un libro!!
Reminds me of: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708699/quotes#qt0403691
Q: Oh, very clever, Worf. Eat any good books lately?
Grammatical gender has almost nothing to do with biological sex. "Masculine" and "feminine" are just category labels.
Some animals (mostly the familiar ones we keep as pets or find useful on a farm) can be masculine or feminine according to their actual biological sex. But most animals are just grammatically one gender, regardless of their biological sex.
Yes! Just like in Portuguese, but some of this grammatical genders are switched from masculine to feminine and vice versa between those languages. This is confusing sometimes.
I can understand how it can be a little confusing when something doesn't go quite the way you expect it. There really isn't much for it except rote memorization, maybe memory aides if you can find any.
Rae.F: If you want to get away from rote memorization, try Pimsleur to help develop listening comprehension and oral skills. It won't help with fill in the blank or multiple choice tests, but it'll help develop a definite facility with the language. Rae: Used versions cheap available on ebay: CD, mp3, even i-tunes. One of the best programs out there.
I've heard good things about Pimsleur, but I don't have the money to spend on things like that.
Sometimes the sentence come in illogical means!! La scimmia legge un libro!!
