{"id":3268,"date":"2022-08-17T00:37:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T04:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2022-08-17T00:37:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T04:37:04","slug":"learning-the-spoken-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/2022\/08\/17\/learning-the-spoken-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning the Spoken word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I first arrived, I realized that the difference between vocabulary used in class and what is used on a day-to-day basis in real conversation don\u2019t perfectly overlap. Needing to find the word for different cooking utensils, directions, etc. were vocabulary we covered but not practiced repeatedly was a struggle. Additionally, the imperative tense is used very infrequently in an academic setting but in daily conversations it is used every other sentence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, I had never realized that the phrases used by my professors weren\u2019t just indirect translations, instead, they were active parts of native speaker\u2019s day-to-day. For instance, \u201cDimmi!\u201d, meaning \u201ctell me,\u201d is a staple of an Italian conversation. While the direct translation continues to sound demanding and rude to my ears, Italians use it in the same way as \u201cyeah what\u2019s up?\u201d when someone addresses you by name. Every person I have met uses dimmi, and while I will need to intentionally think to use it, I will be trying to integrate this more and more into my Italian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, people use the word \u201cVabb\u00e9\u201d constantly. Meaning something close to \u201coh well,\u201d it is a slang from the phrase \u201cVa bene\u201d and has now turned into an active part of their vocabulary. This is something I have begun to say, even muttering to myself when alone. Knowing how the word was created makes me appreciate it, and using this and other small phrases repeatedly throughout the day helps keep me into an Italian mindset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I first arrived, I realized that the difference between vocabulary used in class and what is used on a day-to-day basis in real conversation don\u2019t perfectly overlap. Needing to find the word for different cooking utensils, directions, etc. were vocabulary we covered but not practiced repeatedly was a struggle. Additionally, the imperative tense is … Continue reading Learning the Spoken word<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4276,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}