[iambored]

When do u guys do them? what trial did u do? how was it?

[s2ophie]

speaking on monday. rest on wednesday. AAAAHHHH!!!

[iambored]

oh good luck!

[Kakie]

my speaking is wed next week...already had the rest...
how did everyone find it? and dd you lot do ILTA or someother paper??

[s2ophie]

i just had mine then.......:(

i think i did the ILTA paper and i think i went VERY badly! (note the proper use of capitals there!!)

[iambored]

Originally posted by s2ophie
i just had mine then.......:(

i think i did the ILTA paper and i think i went VERY badly! (note the proper use of capitals there!!)
well if ur coming first it'll all even out, dnt worry

[mei_ling03]

s2ophie i wouldn't worry about it too much, like iambored said, if you're coming first there's no worries! anyway those ILTA papers are pretty hard compared to the HSC...

[s2ophie]

thanks for the encouragement! fingers crossed

[mei_ling03]

you'll be fine.
actually i forgot i had an italian speaking exam today. the people organising the exam timetable put biology and italian speaking at the same time so i got pulled out of bio to do the exam! oh well i only left 15 min. early (as apposed to half the grade leaving an hour early!) so it's not so bad. hehe if my friend hadn't come in and told me i would've forgotton and missed the exam completely lol

[s2ophie]

at our school we are not allowed to leave if we finish early. Also if the timetable people have made a clash, they organise to do an exam at a different time

[mei_ling03]

yeah the person organising was crap, i know. i don't know what was up with all the others - there were only 4 that stayed to the end! (we started with 40) we're allowed to leave anytime just not in the last half hour..

[iambored]

Originally posted by mei_ling03
you'll be fine.
actually i forgot i had an italian speaking exam today. the people organising the exam timetable put biology and italian speaking at the same time so i got pulled out of bio to do the exam! oh well i only left 15 min. early (as apposed to half the grade leaving an hour early!) so it's not so bad. hehe if my friend hadn't come in and told me i would've forgotton and missed the exam completely lol
wow u had 2 leave early??
Originally posted by s2ophie
at our school we are not allowed to leave if we finish early. Also if the timetable people have made a clash, they organise to do an exam at a different time
yeah same, i think

[mei_ling03]

well the lady said i had the chance to go back to the hall and spend an extra 10 minutes or so... and now i think about it, i should have!i could've cheated so easily if i came back.. but i'm a good girl :)

[tonberry_kun]

i see failure on the horizon

[mei_ling03]

Originally posted by tonberry_kun
i see failure on the horizon

heyyy... i hope not!!

i just did my italian exam this morning...YAYYYYYYy!!!!! i'm FREEEEEEEEEE!!! well, for a day anyway - gotta go back tot school on friday :(
i did the ILTA paper too.. and the stupid stupid CD kept jumping (during the listening part). silly ILTA people had to get high tech...
'm just glad it's over..i hope all went well..
are all you guys finished????

[iambored]

yeah i'm finished
don't worry.. tonberry is a spammer, she doesnt do italian :D
aww... the cd was jumping? how annoying!!

[s2ophie]

ah, my teacher has an ipod so we don't get jumping problems and tonberry was quite annoying! Expecting to see replies by my fellow 'amiche italiane', i discvered this forum had been polluted!! Che schifo!

[mei_ling03]

hehe yeah well our technology may not be so up to date...

[iambored]

and i'm sure we had a tape....
haha yeah i wanted replies from u guys!

[Hottieflossy]

I did the ILTA paper as well and i thought the listening was way hard..i only got 17 out of 25 for it. the rest was ok and overall i got 84 out of 100 including speaking(i got full marks for that)

[Kakie]

how do you get full marks for spking??
the higjhest ive ever got is 19.5!! what gets me that .5 more?? grrr

[Hottieflossy]

wat i dont get is how my spanish teacher gave 19 out of 20 for speaking and spanish is my native tongue and then my italian teacher gives me full marks for it(im not italian and i have no italian family) and shes a really hard marker. Apparently i lack sophistication when i speak spanish.

[Kakie]

haha oops
voglio imparare lo spagnolo! e di avere la capacita` di parlarlo correntemente sarebbe un sogno,
mentre parlo di sogni, ieri sera ho sognato che ero in italia di nuovo!! ma ho sognato in italiano era meravigliosa!!
e anke, s2ophie credo che eri tu: la madre di alessio e` morta 3 giorni fa!!
se sapete cosa direi ad alessio, dimmi le cose xke nn so cosa dirlo!
notte

[s2ophie]

Originally posted by Kakie
haha oops
voglio imparare lo spagnolo! e di avere la capacita` di parlarlo correntemente sarebbe un sogno,
mentre parlo di sogni, ieri sera ho sognato che ero in italia di nuovo!! ma ho sognato in italiano era meravigliosa!!
e anke, s2ophie credo che eri tu: la madre di alessio e` morta 3 giorni fa!!
se sapete cosa direi ad alessio, dimmi le cose xke nn so cosa dirlo!
notte

Quando avro' perfezionata la mia conoscenza della lingua italiana, mi piacerebbe studiare lo spagnolo e poi il francese.

I don't know what you should say to alessio! Its almost impossible to know what to say so say whatever feels right.

[Hottieflossy]

lo spagnolo sarebbe facile per gente che parla italiano...le due lingue non sono molte diverse. anche io voglio apprendere il francese. ma la prima cosa che voglio fare é andare in italia per un anno perche é un fatto che una lingua si apprende con ottimali risultati nel paese di origine.

[iambored]

Originally posted by Hottieflossy
lo spagnolo sarebbe facile per gente che parla italiano...le due lingue non sono molte diverse. anche io voglio apprendere il francese. ma la prima cosa che voglio fare é andare in italia per un anno perche é un fatto che una lingua si apprende con ottimali risultati nel paese di origine.
si', sarebbe eccellente!

[s2ophie]

Originally posted by Hottieflossy
I did the ILTA paper as well and i thought the listening was way hard..i only got 17 out of 25 for it. the rest was ok and overall i got 84 out of 100 including speaking(i got full marks for that)

haha i got 84 out of 100 too! we just got it back.

[s2ophie]

listening was definately my worst but i came second in my class for that part so it didn't really matter.

i did better in the writing than i thought i would and i only lost 2 marks for the reading passages.

Did your teachers have anything to say about the reading and responding question - the email between elio and stefania? My teacher could understand the confusion we had because it was dfiicult to work out who was from where. I think we decided Elio was in Australia and Stefania was in Italy but it was confusing because Elio is an italian name and because she said she would be under amountain of books in march. Ah well

I'm stoked because i am still 1st in my class even though i came 2nd in that exam. yay!

[iambored]

good job!

yeah i couldn't figure that out either. i think i figured they were bith aussies, and just wrote like that.. quite a bit confusing

[Kakie]

you kno wwhat i told alessio, i think, i said i want you to know that im there for u and if you ever need to talk call me and if you ever need me to hug you, hug yourself and pretend its me, f**k knows if that s what it translated to when i told him but NEWAI!!

have you guys read some of the reading responding papers from last year (theyr on the cd!) umm one person wrote in spanish we had so much fun translating from spanish to itlaian becos we have no idea what the spanish stuff meant, it was so amusing!!

[iambored]

Originally posted by Kakie
you kno wwhat i told alessio, i think, i said i want you to know that im there for u and if you ever need to talk call me and if you ever need me to hug you, hug yourself and pretend its me, f**k knows if that s what it translated to when i told him but NEWAI!!

have you guys read some of the reading responding papers from last year (theyr on the cd!) umm one person wrote in spanish we had so much fun translating from spanish to itlaian becos we have no idea what the spanish stuff meant, it was so amusing!!
oh thats sweet
well no we haven't seen them yet but we will at some time, spanish in italian?? must've got mixed up!

[Kakie]

it was a classic!!
es buono!! lol
anyway ho bevuto tanti caffe` e ho mangiato troppo cioccolato, sono alta(high!!)!
allora, ciao ciao

[iambored]

mmmm cioccolato e caffe... y r all the things which taste good bad for u??

[Kakie]

because the world is against us
siamo contro il mondo (i know its backwards, THATS HOW ITS SPOSED TO BE!!!)

[iambored]

is it really? we are against the world, is the same as the world is against us? i spose it means the same thing, hey

[s2ophie]

Originally posted by Kakie
because the world is against us
siamo contro il mondo (i know its backwards, THATS HOW ITS SPOSED TO BE!!!)

I KNOW ITS HOW IT SPOSED TO BE! (sorry just wanted to get in on the yelling action. if it was the other way it would be a split infinitive!

[iambored]

*hides in the corner*

[Kakie]

what i meant in a sublte way is that we have to stand together against the world and all the crap it throws at us...cioe siamo contro il mondo

[iambored]

*comes our from hiding* yeah, i get it. i was hiding at that split infinitive thats i've never heard of!

[Kakie]

haha lol
this is confusing me!!
iambored can i go into your corner???

[Kakie]

what is this split infinitive of which you speak??

[mei_ling03]

ciaoo rieccomi qui...!! l'internet non ha funzionato a scuola per tanto tempo :( hmm i'm really lost in the conversation..
ahh ho ricevuto 92% per l'italiano yay.. (ma di nuovo 76% per listening lol)

[iambored]

Originally posted by s2ophie
I KNOW ITS HOW IT SPOSED TO BE! (sorry just wanted to get in on the yelling action. if it was the other way it would be a split infinitive!

that's the split infinitive quote. i don't know what one is.

[Kakie]

that was really helpful GRAZIE mille!!
now hers something else i dont understand, we got a lecture the other day from our teacher about the word qualche, and how even tho it means some it muts be followed by the singular form ie qualcheVOLTA capite? but with grazie which means thankS why does it have to be followed by the plural and then why do you say grazie MILLE which is obviously the singular???!!! kate is very very confundulated

[iambored]

confundulated.. i like it!

um, i don't know! just weird things about languages!

[s2ophie]

I don't know if i'm exactly right about the split infinitive but i know it exists in english. In the siamo contro il mondo example, if you put a word in between the siamo and contro you split the infinitive (I'm guessing the infnitive in contrare) Don't worry i'm probably making things up.

i'm not really sure witht the grazie thing but grazie doen't mean thanks, it mean thankyou. Thanks is more slang and it makes you think its plural when its probably singular

[Kakie]

ooh pieces of my puzzle are making sense, il canguro voglia uscire!

[iambored]

oh ok thanks, i think i get it

[Kakie]

thanks for everyones help!!

[Soma]

Originally posted by Kakie
that was really helpful GRAZIE mille!!
now hers something else i dont understand, we got a lecture the other day from our teacher about the word qualche, and how even tho it means some it muts be followed by the singular form ie qualcheVOLTA capite? but with grazie which means thankS why does it have to be followed by the plural and then why do you say grazie MILLE which is obviously the singular???!!! kate is very very confundulated

mille is just a number

[Kakie]

yeh and it basically means thanx a million but i dont get why they dont say oh i dont know...

[s2ophie]

when we went we said grazie molto and then our teacher told us to say grazie mille because we sounded like yobbo's!

It was so cute though cos the otherteacher who went with us who spoke no italian (she had to ask us what 'no' in Italian was) was trying to get her suitcasea cross the bridge near the train station in Venice and this guy helped her across and she had no idea what he said to her but she just said ''grasie mille' and she was so proud to of remembered it!