Italian Lessons

The above will take 9 months, thanx Giovanni

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

Dummie number 3 right here !!

good idea for a thread by the way, will make understand Italian football radio easier to follow

Ok a few football vocabulary

difensore= defender
centrocampista=midfielder
attaccante= striker
seconda punta= second striker
capocannoniere=top scorer
pallonetto=lob
traversone=cross
calcio d'angolo= corner
fallo laterale= throw in
tiro=shoot
passaggio= pass
rigore= penlty
maglietta = jersey
panchina=bench
terzino destro=right back
terzino sinistro=left back
marcatore centrale= central defender
libero= Baresi
Mediano= central Mid
regista= playmaker
fantasista/trequartista=attacking midfielder
centravanti=first striker
colpo di tacco= back heel
rovesciata=bycicle kick

Originally Posted by rezag

The above will take 9 months, thanx Giovanni

if you cwon't translate within 15 hours the ban will hammer you

ala destra=right winger
ala sinistra=left winger
fascia= wing
capitano=captain
fascia di capitano=captain's belt
punizione or calcio di punizione=free kick
tiro a girare=curving shoot
finta= feint
velocità=speed
passo=pace
potenza=power
precisione=accuracy
precisione del tiro=shoot accuracy
scivolata=sliding tackle
contrasto=tackle
salvataggio=anybody's save
parata=keeper's save
colpo di testa=header
deviazione=deflection

No sleep for the next 15 hours I may finish a few

Originally Posted by rezag

No sleep for the next 15 hours I may finish a few

you have two choices

1) you finish
2)you

btw guys when you have finished we'll pass directly to dialects such as sicilian and napoletano or calabrese

1) you love cats
3) sing the song of san siro
4) good night miss, what do you wish?
5) congratulations for the bachelor
6) hate the Dopentus
8) Marija is serbian
9) Milan Mania is full of tifosi
10)Jankulovski will come to Milan




ok maybe i cheated here and there, and mixed up some words...blah blah blah...but at least i tried!

ok dummy number 4 here~

btw y is striker = attaccante and second striker = seconda punta? shouldnt it be seconda attaccante?? and central defender shouldnt it be difensore centrale instead of marcatore centrale?? or am i grammatically wrong?

aww i've started a dummie club great going.

Originally Posted by Giovanni

btw guys when you have finished we'll pass directly to dialects such as sicilian and napoletano or calabrese

Any native Sicilian here who can teach those Sicilian swear words?

KAKA' is sicilian..he's from Agrigento

I know them, but i'm more oriented on napoletano

btw there's no huge difference between them, i can easily understand the Godfather's dialogues in sicilian even though i basically know more of napoletano

SALUTAMM' (Don Fanucci)
U' CAPISC, U CAPISC' (De Niro) etc.

for ex. Don Fanucci speaks in napoletano, Don Corleone instead in sicilian

Dummie nr. 5!!!!!

Gio this is very hard, because I only know to say 2 or 3 words on Italian...
Can you write some easy phrases like :
My name is....
I'm ... years old.
I'm from....
Or something like that.
PLEASE!!!!!!

Since I'm more gentile I will do it for you.

Mio nome e' Franco.
Ho ventidue anni. (22)
Io vivo a Malta, un isola nel merditerraneo.

Hope this is ok.

Originally Posted by Franco6

merditerraneo

meRditerraneo?
you live there, i live in Mediterraneo