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Simply Venice..learning Italian....

10/3/2020

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Two posts today!

Heather is learning Italian properly (she is already fluent in French) but I am learning just to get by - to be polite eg Posso fare una foto? to ask for what I want and pay for it, decipher labels and sell-by dates and figure out which milk is which, and generally find my way around.  So I photograph street signs to help me remember my way home...

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I love this name! Piazza of the Madonna of the Vegetable Garden.

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For noting places I will want to go back to...

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And just to know what's going on. The Tiepolo in the Church of Santa Maria di Nazareth will have to wait.

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I try to translate the newspaper headlines..

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Anti-virus panini anyone?

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Sometimes I am just curious and photograph a sign to translate later. I don't expect this vocabulary to be especially useful to me, but I really wanted to know what it said! (Construction company boat. Mooring banned.)


Now of course there are all the coronavirus notices to translate too!  Erla  Zwingle in her blog I Am Not Making This Up has helped us out here with a detailed post on the current situation.


Please note -
we can go out
people can go to work
people can walk their dogs
we can go shopping
we can go to the cafe (until 6pm)
we can go to the restaurants (until 6pm)


 Today's 2nd post is sure to make you giggle!

Be well.
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Mary
10/3/2020 04:57:52 am

Like the idea of you capturing photographic "breadcrumbs" to get back home. :)

Made me laugh as I remember spending a fair amount of time trying to learn some French (and refresh some very old lessons in German) before I headed to Europe last fall. Only to listen to announcements in the airport (so fast!) and realize I was in over my head. However, I did manage to learn enough to be able to find my way around, engage in greetings and transactions. Deciphering the written word was a tad better. A language diletante!

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Freda
10/3/2020 09:46:31 am

I’m not very good at languages but it is usually appreciated if you make the effort isn’t it. Heather doesn’t let me away with just leaving it all to her!

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Lotta
10/3/2020 10:32:47 am

Loving the Madonna of the vegetable garden. Something to aspire to! That’s a brilliant idea to photograph street signs to find your way home... (as long as the sort order on your phone is the right way round!). I’m curious to know what was in the antivirus panini?

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Freda
10/3/2020 11:22:00 am

Well Asiago is a kind of cheese they are claiming has health giving properties we think ....

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julia
10/3/2020 04:50:44 pm

By sheer chance we have a fridge full of asiago! How fortunate..:-)
Freda..you are the master of making lemonade out of a truckload of lemons! Gorgeous photos, and yes, if you have to be quarantined, does it get any better than venice?
I love the madonna of the veggie garden too!

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Freda
11/3/2020 01:55:30 am

Well, the lemons here are the best!

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