A curious sort of troll

[fpb]

I just had a weird troll. Someone posted a comment in Russian. When I pointed out that it is very rude to post in a language that nobody else on the thread understands, I got more Russian. So I deleted and banned the poster as a troll. I wonder whether I ought to have answered in Italian, or, even better, in Milanese.

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Speaking of languages

[deansteinlage.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, you are a translator.
Perhaps you could recommend a program for learning Italian.
I have a travelling type job where I can spend 9 or more hours driving a day
and the best of AC/DC, Jethro Tull, Dire Straights and Mozart gets repetative.

Re: Speaking of languages

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I haven't taught Italian for a few years now, and even then my practice was to just take whatever my clients had been using. I never met any course that really made me jump up and down and say "Yes, that's it, that's how it should be taught"; besides, Italian can be taught for different purposes - modern conversational, business, literary and historical - and each has different issues. On the whole, I would always recommend anything that has a strong grammatical basis rather than insisting on pronunciation and conversation. And at some point you would have to spend some time in Italy, but that is in the future.

Re: Speaking of languages

[deansteinlage.livejournal.com]

A future I look forward to.
Thank you for the response.