I thought I'd try a game to help learning Italian.
1 Translate some Italian song and opera names
2 Find some place names
3 Translate some family names
Songs and Operas
Operas
1 Opera
La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco The Sleeping Beauty In The Woods.
Il Medico E La Morte - The Doctor And Death (actually a jolly fantasy about a cobbler and a fairy)
La fiamma - the flame
A basso porto - at the lower harbour
2 Place Names
Ponte vecchio in Florence means old bridge. The adjective comes second in Italian after the noun.
3 Family Names
Giuseppe Verdi Verdi is green.
Italian - English
a - at
bella - beauty
bosco - woods
dormente - sleeping
e - and
fiamma - flame
il - the (masculine)
la - the (feminine)
medico - doctor
morte - death
nel - in the
ponte - bridge
porto - port/harbour
vecchio - old
verdi - green
English - Italian
a - a
and - e
beauty - bella
bridge - ponte
death - morte
doctor - medico
fame - fiamma
green - verdi
in the - nel
old - vecchio
port - porto
sleeping - dormente
the - la (feminine) il (masculine)
woods - bosco
You can visit the house where Verdi lived.
Useful Websites
duolingo.com
wiki operas
Verdi museum
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