Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 16:32:11 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Marco Molteni <molter@sofia.csl.sri.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000407163211.00872d00@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20000407135340.B9405@sofia.csl.sri.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20000407145548.008cf100@mail85.pair.com> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <v04220805b511f7c7e2a6@[195.238.1.121]> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <v04220806b5137b59347a@[195.238.1.121]> <xzpn1n5q1ny.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com> <3.0.6.32.20000407134348.0086f100@mail85.pair.com> <20000407120154.A9276@sofia.csl.sri.com> <3.0.6.32.20000407145548.008cf100@mail85.pair.com>
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At 13:53 07-04-2000 -0700, Marco Molteni wrote:
>Are you the one who studied at the Vatican? (I mean I remember someone
>on -chat saying that he studied there)
I studied at the Gregorian University, which, while located in downtown
Rome, is legally part of the Vatican State.
>> Italian is amazingly easy to learn when you're there (as someone
>> pointed out),
>
>mhh, if your mother tongue belongs to the latin base, yes ;-)
Well, mine doesn't (I'm Slovak), but Italian was the easiest language I
ever learned. I lived in an international house with people from all over
the world, and the general consensus was that Italian was easy to learn.
I think part of the easiness is in enunciation. There is never a confusion
between an a, an e, an i, an o, a u. While this is also true of Slovak,
Italian grammar is fairly simple, though not as simple as English (whose
grammar is virtually non-existent), it is certainly simpler than Slovak
grammar which is as complex as that of Sanskrit. I imagine Slovak must be
very difficult for a non-Slav to learn. But it makes it easy for us to
learn other languages, and I sure like that advantage. :)
Cheers,
Adam
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