Buying a house abroad?

[Griffith4ever]

craigthecoupe said:

Is Rosetta stone an app then? i use duolingo but intermittently. As much as i want to smash the language. theres only so many hours in a day, and in a new place your learning all the time (new work, different culture, different rules, managing the little one, it all adds up). Also, round these parts it's not really Italian,
I'm much better listening to a slower news reader or similar than our neighbours. fortunately, i'm ok with body language and sound effects . I also find i'm taught to ask for a menu, of say how many cousins i have, i've yet to find a course to teach "Do you think four tonnes or rough crushed stone will provide a suitable base for 2x 5,000 litre water holding tanks"

Yeah - it's a PC app - very easy to "download". You plug in a headset and then repeat stuff, and slowly anser stuff. Its very clever in as much as they slip in verb conjugations gently without you even noticing you are being taught grammar and verb tables. i.e. you may well start by saying "the boy is under a plane", then eventually, "the boy is on a plane". Now you've learnt about under and over/on top, but then the repeats will start to vary like "We are on a plane", or, "They are under a plane" - how you are starting to learn We/they/them/he/she/ etc etc. without actually sitting and learning the verb table "to be" (essere).

Io sono I am
Tu sei You are
Lui / Lei è He / She is
Noi siamo We are
Voi siete You are
Essi sono They are

When you go to a real language class, they drill those verb tables into you, but Rosetta slips them in subtly. It's still vital to eventually learn them, but a lot of them will become second nature through Rosetta use. Its the same way children learn to speak.

Learning to swear is the cornerstone of speaking Italian :-)

"Do you think four tonnes or rough crushed stone will provide a suitable base for 2x 5,000 litre water holding tanks" - I can do that, badly, but stubple with "stone" as can't remember/don't know that word, and I'vd very much improvise with "holding tanks". :-)

[raceboy]

dingg said:

you can't show them a lump sum then spend the lot on coke and hookers or fast sports cars, then rely on the state...

Bugger.
I could always try asylum

[craigthecoupe]

Griffith4ever said:

Yeah - it's a PC app - very easy to "download". You plug in a headset and then repeat stuff, and slowly anser stuff. Its very clever in as much as they slip in verb conjugations gently without you even noticing you are being taught grammar and verb tables. i.e. you may well start by saying "the boy is under a plane", then eventually, "the boy is on a plane". Now you've learnt about under and over/on top, but then the repeats will start to vary like "We are on a plane", or, "They are under a plane" - how you are starting to learn We/they/them/he/she/ etc etc. without actually sitting and learning the verb table "to be" (essere).

Io sono I am
Tu sei You are
Lui / Lei è He / She is
Noi siamo We are
Voi siete You are
Essi sono They are

When you go to a real language class, they drill those verb tables into you, but Rosetta slips them in subtly. It's still vital to eventually learn them, but a lot of them will become second nature through Rosetta use. Its the same way children learn to speak.

Learning to swear is the cornerstone of speaking Italian :-)

"Do you think four tonnes or rough crushed stone will provide a suitable base for 2x 5,000 litre water holding tanks" - I can do that, badly, but stubple with "stone" as can't remember/don't know that word, and I'vd very much improvise with "holding tanks". :-)

Ghiaia for stone, and vasca, cisterna,or many other options can be used for the tanks.
Thanks for that, ill be sure to look it up.
and just to add my bias

Edited by craigthecoupe on Tuesday 21st March 18:25