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Lost and in need of directions? Have directions but don't know what they mean? Check out today's dialog for some help getting where you want to go, in Italian!
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balfour says
September 7, 2009
Buongiorno!
I have seen the phrase Dove e la stazione written as Dov'e(accent) la stazione. When does one use mi dispiace instead of mi scusi when apologizing? Great lesson.
Ciao
annaa says
September 7, 2009
Buongiorno Balfour, thanks for your comment!
Yes you are right, it can be written both Dove è la stazione or Dov'è la stazione.
As regards mi scusi and mi dispiace, we use both these expression for aplologizing, but mi scusi is in the Lei form (Lei mi scusi), where Lei is the courtesy form that we use to speak formally. So you can use mi scusi with strangers or in a formal context, but you can use mi dispiace with anybody, with strangers but even with children, close friends or relatives.
tjgolubi says
September 8, 2009
LOL. Marco said he's also a jelly donut.
Ha detto, "Ich bin auch ein Berliner, Catherine."
President Kennedy famously made the same mistake during a speech in Germany.
How come there isn't a GermanPod?
azzurro0083 says
September 9, 2009
lo straniero sempre cieco - ha bisogna di aiuto
un proverbio egiziano
tjgolubi says
September 9, 2009
Oops! Questo dice che "Ich bin ein Berliner" sia corretto. Mi dispiace, Marco.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner
annaa says
September 9, 2009
@azzurro0083, è un bel proverbio :-) Ci sono due piccoli errori, questa è la frase corretta:
Lo straniero è sempre cieco - ha bisogno di aiuto.
@tjgolubi, I didn't know about the quotation from President Kennedy, very interesting and funny :-D
giadazhou says
February 1, 2010
Very helpful！ grazie mille !
i really like your voices !