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Hi guys! I know I've been a bit quiet lately, it is the dreaded exam time.

Here is the issue. On thursday I have an exam where they want us to translate quite a few scenes from various post-war Italian films. The thing is the only training any of us have had is last year we did level 1 Italian, but this only enables me to order food in a restaurant or at best give directions. So post-war existentialist soliloquies are a touch beyond me.

I've been using the internet to translate the scenes (to then memorise in English, since this seems the only way) but the problem is often they're in slightly off dialects (like Roman or Sicilian) or they're figures of speech, and the translators just do not get it at all.

Thus I was wondering if we had anyone who was any good at Italian, if I could run a few of these tricky phrases by them.

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Let me summarize your problem using an analogy: you are taught only the alphabet in class but are required to write shakespeare in the exam?

Because that's how it sounds like.


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Let me summarize your problem using an analogy: you are taught only the alphabet in class but are required to write shakespeare in the exam?

Because that's how it sounds like.


Pretty much precisely.

They also expect us to answer grammar questions on things like future tense, which we never taught either.

It's an awfully organised exam, so I'm just trying to scrape through it using strategy.
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On the bright side, you said it's "a few scenes" and from "various... film". That got me thinking how it's actually possible to just pull out scenes that only contain basic Italian. Or to make it more challenging, scenes where the lines can get a bit complicated, but one where enough simple vocabulary were used, and you have to translate the lines not literally but based on what you feel the scene is expressing, like literature.

If it's either of the two, maybe just revising on simple vocab and grammar should suffice. Why not check with your professor?


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On the bright side, you said it's "a few scenes" and from "various... film". That got me thinking how it's actually possible to just pull out scenes that only contain basic Italian. Or to make it more challenging, scenes where the lines can get a bit complicated, but one where enough simple vocabulary were used, and you have to translate the lines not literally but based on what you feel the scene is expressing, like literature.

If it's either of the two, maybe just revising on simple vocab and grammar should suffice. Why not check with your professor?


Ah no, unfortunately it's a set collection of about 25 scenes from set movies. They all vary in difficulty, but it's unknown which scenes precisely will feature and which won't. As a result it's just a case of parrot-like memorization and repetition, which I fail to see how benefits us as students in the slightest.
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