ROOM for ITALIAN
Southampton Italian Language Cafè
Southampton Italian Language Cafè
Room for Food Delecatessen and Café
81 Bedford Place, Southampton. SO15 2DF
Fridays 10:30 to 11:30 am
81 Bedford Place, Southampton. SO15 2DF
Fridays 10:30 to 11:30 am
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Un caffè per chiacchierare, discutere, incontrarsi, capire..
Last updated
26 April 2010
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Join us. Every Friday.
10:30-11:30am
81 Bedford Place, Southampton
Learning Italian?
And you live in the Southampton area. Then this is the place to come. We meet and we chat in Italian, as best we can, all over a coffee and perhaps a cornetto. We are all learners, all at different stages of ability and we help and encourage one-another. We all share the belief that participating in Italian conversation is the best way to learn and improve our language skills.
About us
This is the website for the Southampton Italian Language Cafè Group who meet every Friday in the 'Room for Food' cafè
Whilst the group was initiated by Southampton University, the group is now autonomous and this website is independantly run by and for the 'Room for Italian' group - as we have now named ourselves
For further information on Language Cafès visit the
Language Cafe Website
WANTED !
Ideas, articles, bits and pieces for this web page.
To keep changing this webpage every month I will (desperately) need some help. Please do pass on ideas to me either through the forum or at the café.
I could go on and on experimenting with different layouts as well. Again, do give me suggestions for any improvements.
Also as I am not so well practiced in my Italian do inform me of any corrections.
David.
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LATEST ITALIAN NEWS
A train derailed
A plastic gondola
A new road sign
When did you last look at the news pages?
You'll be surprised what you can understand.
Click on ' Notizie ' above
and you can browse the Italian newspaper
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
or you can read the latest Italian news items,
in English, in >
THE TELEGRAPH - ITALIAN NEWS
A train derailed
A plastic gondola
A new road sign
When did you last look at the news pages?
You'll be surprised what you can understand.
Click on ' Notizie ' above
and you can browse the Italian newspaper
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
or you can read the latest Italian news items,
in English, in >
THE TELEGRAPH - ITALIAN NEWS
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Almeno il caffè è buono.
Il nostro italiano potrebbe essere miligore!
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Il nostro italiano potrebbe essere miligore!
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New cafe photos - thanks Edyth - Click here.
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Mmm! OK. Think you know your your verbs? Then take a test! ONLINE PRACTICE - TAKE A TEST - IN GRAMMATICA |
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We now have a few practice tests that you can work through. Go through them again and again as practice. Do them over again until you can get a perfect score. Don't expect them all to be easy though - these are meant to test you. |
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Come on and practice that Italian! Blog it! The most practical advice all my language tutors tried to give me was to try and write a little Italian every day. Not being a diary type person I find this very hard. But this is what our blog is for - a little invaluable occassional practice. Come on, come on, come on. The more you practice the more others will be encouraged to do so. In our blog you can just write a few lines on anything. eg. I have had a bad hair day - well as a man who is folically challeged I won't be writing that! Anyway, it can be more chatty, diary like, anything, just for the practice. |
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I CAME ACROSS a very interesting Italian blog page last month. It's called
The Smiling Eggplant- no I don't know why - but the owner gave me permission to share some of her items with you. So here below I share her info on a word that I have often wondered about. So who will be the first to use it in conversation?
Meanwhile, those useful phrases that we had on this page for the last month or so - did you learn them? Well you can find them now in the Grammatica section, in the new test yourself page. Check out what you can remember.
Meanwhile, those useful phrases that we had on this page for the last month or so - did you learn them? Well you can find them now in the Grammatica section, in the new test yourself page. Check out what you can remember.
That funny word - Boh!
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This little word is a very informal exclamation to express your ignorance of the question put to you. It has no equivalent word in English because English-speaking people know everything, thus eliminating the need for such an expression. Some examples:
Quanto fanno due piu' due?
Boh!
How much is two plus two?
Dunno.
Qual e' il significato della vita?
Boh!
What is the meaning of life?
Beats me.
Perche' la gallina ha attraversato la strada?
Boh!
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Search me.
Toc toc.
Chi c'e'?
Boh!
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Have no idea.
Essere o non essere?
Boh!
To be or not to be?
Hell if I know.
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NOTE: For those of us who have been studying 'Io non ho paura'... The full
English version
, "I Am Not Scared", is available from Amazon for 1p. Yes, for one penny! Plus £2.75 postage though. That is still pretty good value for a brand new book delivered to your door.
Amazons own price is £4.48, but look at the other suppliers to find the 1p copy.
Amazons own price is £4.48, but look at the other suppliers to find the 1p copy.