Tom Kunich wrote:
> "Bret Wade" <
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>>I'm taking an italian class and listening to Pimsleur tapes on the
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> way
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>>to work. I'm trying to read La Gazzetta Dello Sport with the help of Bable Fish. Any other ideas
>>for Italian Language web sites where I
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> can
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>>combine my interest in cycling with the language study? Anyone know
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> of
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>>any good italian language sites specializing in racing history?
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> DON'T USE BABELFISH. In the first place it gets everything completely screwed up. In the second,
> how are you going to learn anything unless you take the Italian/English dictionary for a workout?
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> And usually you can find someone in any medium sized city that will give private Italian lessons
> for $20/lesson or less. Using some of the high school texts will allow you to get a working
> knowledge of Italian fast enough to be able to read Sport in pretty short order. You generally
> only need a repetoir of about 2,000 words to read newspapers.
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Tom,
As I said, I'm taking a class. I have a text book. I have the Pimsleur tapes. I also have a
dictionary and a verb conjugator on my PDA. I'm just using the Bable Fish for rough translations and
I find it useful for that. What I was actually looking for are recommendations for cycling oriented
italian web sites that would be interesting to translate.
Bret