Archive for December, 2013
Present or Future? Posted by Geoff on Dec 6, 2013
“Va bene, adesso prendo un caffè poi me ne vado a casa così finisco di scrivere il blog”. A literal translation of this simple sentence into English highlights a confusing aspect of the use of the present tense in Italian: ‘Okay, now I have a coffee, then I go home so that I finish writing…
A Flat Tyre Posted by Serena on Dec 3, 2013
Yesterday morning we were going to buy some milk from the supermarket, and as Geoff was parking the car next to the curb, he touched it with the edge of the tyre. We heard a scraping noise and then the car started going down on one side. “****!!!” said Geoff angrily. So he parked the…