Hi there!

Anyone interested in a tandem? I speak Italian with foreigners all the time. My job as an Italian teacher does not allow me to speak English. I love happy hours, restaurants, hiking, going to the sea...whatever If you are interested email me at teachingitalian@yahoo.com
Raffaella

Ciao Rafaella,
Not sure what you mean by 'A Tandem'.
Back home in Australia, I had a small group of friends, Italians and Aussies who used to meet regularly (about weekly) for an exchange...nothing formal, just a catchup over a bicchierino, sometimes at someone's house, otherwise at a bar, where we would all speak and correct eachothers English or Italian for a couple of hours.

I was hoping to find/create something similar here in Rome, but no luck.

If you or anyone else is interested, well, you know what to do.
Baci
-Adrian

Ciao Raffaella,Adrian.

I'd be well up for an exchange. I'm in Italy 1.5 years, and still I'm lazy about learning - I need to practice.

I've seen ads on wantedinrome from Italians wanting to meet native English speakers for conversations in English, but never the opposite.

If you're in Rome, I'd love to hang out, maybe have a few pints in my favourite Irish pub!

Tsk-tsk-tsk combinaguai....
You wrote you have difficulties in meeting "natives" and you are so lazy as not to learn Italian properly and your watering hole is an Irish pub?
Tsk-tsk-tsk....

In Rome, do as the Romans do. Blend in. Go to a local bar, do something Italian.
Or have you got Irish saudade?

Sorry you'll have to tell me what saudade is?

saudade |souˈdädə|
noun
a feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia that is supposedly characteristic of the Portuguese or Brazilian temperament.

It's a Portuguese word.
It's that untranslatable feeling Brazilians seem to have when they move to colder climates, a sense of longing for their lost sunny and samba-ing country.
When some Brazilian player doesn't play well in some European side, commentators always put it down to saudade.

Hi Raffa in Italy,
Do you ever come out to the Castelli Romani for hiking? I am in Lariano.
Ciao,
Bryan

Hi, Does anyone know of a language exchange group in or near Brescia? A prior student of mine is interested in practicing her conversational English...

Natalee

quote:

Originally posted by JAPrufrock:
It's a Portuguese word.
It's that untranslatable feeling Brazilians seem to have when they move to colder climates, a sense of longing for their lost sunny and samba-ing country.
When some Brazilian player doesn't play well in some European side, commentators always put it down to saudade.

Hi

I'm Portuguese and the word saudade it's something like the feeling you have when missing someone. "I miss you" or "Tenho saudades tuas".
It is indeed linked to nostalgia and the most known portuguese type of music, Fado is a good symbol of this nostalgia. The songs are quite sad, most of them at least.

I never heard of this as a brazilian feeling. I don't know where you read the information but it doesn't seem quite right to me since in my country "saudade" e Fado are always together.

Hope I enlightened you with my knowledge

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