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- Creatore Discussione LucaXY
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belvedere
Giardinauta Senior
phrasal verbs??? what are they?? do you want to make me have any nightmares?
i had to read something in internet....
look this link: http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/phrasal-verbs-list.htm
it's too much difficult for me! it would be better to remember some (some particulary easy and more intuitive) rather all them!k07:
i had to read something in internet....
look this link: http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/phrasal-verbs-list.htm
it's too much difficult for me! it would be better to remember some (some particulary easy and more intuitive) rather all them!
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Harma
Maestro Giardinauta
:fischio::fischio::fischio:
phrasal verbs??? what are they?? do you want to make me have any nightmares?
i had to read something in internet....
look this link: http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/phrasal-verbs-list.htm
it's too much difficult for me! it would be better to remember some (some particulary easy and more intuitive) rather all them!
elena_11293
Master Florello
A lot!!
Have a nice day, Luca!
Have a nice day, Luca!
Harma
Maestro Giardinauta
Very nice Luca!!!Here the really sun is shining and it makes me happy....Have a nice day!!
Do you like this funny sun?
I'm wondering if you folks who are participating in this conversation in English might be interested in a "goal-based" conversation? I was thinking of descriptions of your gardens/balconies/pots on windowsills, that is, whatever and wherever you're growing plants. I'm a native English speaker (U.S.), by the way.
Well, my garden. My husband and I live in the hills in the province of Piacenza, on what used to be a farm. We've been working on the garden for about ten years. The garden is large, young, and has a great many old roses, also shrubs, aromatic plants like lavender and rosemary, a few trees, and some herbaceous perennials and bulbs. Our property is on a south-facing slope and the area where the garden is located is steep; we have problems with slides ("frane") in very wet years and problems with heat and drought when it's dry.
I'm trying to create a garden that is moderate in its use of resources and that is good for the environment. I look for plants that are adapted to our growing conditions, and that are thrifty, not needing a lot of water or fertilizer. Usually we don't water plants after the first year. I welcome native plants in the garden. I grow different plants mixed together to limit damage from insects and disease. We don't spray or do any disease prevention. We mulch with old hay, though I'm trying to use less mulch and grow more ground-cover plants, including annual grasses, as I think they're better for the soil.
My garden motto is 'Sempre in salita!', because that's what gardening in these conditions feels like; still, I have fun and the garden is--very slowly--coming along.
I hope to hear about your gardening as well. If you have questions, feel free to ask them.
Melissa
Well, my garden. My husband and I live in the hills in the province of Piacenza, on what used to be a farm. We've been working on the garden for about ten years. The garden is large, young, and has a great many old roses, also shrubs, aromatic plants like lavender and rosemary, a few trees, and some herbaceous perennials and bulbs. Our property is on a south-facing slope and the area where the garden is located is steep; we have problems with slides ("frane") in very wet years and problems with heat and drought when it's dry.
I'm trying to create a garden that is moderate in its use of resources and that is good for the environment. I look for plants that are adapted to our growing conditions, and that are thrifty, not needing a lot of water or fertilizer. Usually we don't water plants after the first year. I welcome native plants in the garden. I grow different plants mixed together to limit damage from insects and disease. We don't spray or do any disease prevention. We mulch with old hay, though I'm trying to use less mulch and grow more ground-cover plants, including annual grasses, as I think they're better for the soil.
My garden motto is 'Sempre in salita!', because that's what gardening in these conditions feels like; still, I have fun and the garden is--very slowly--coming along.
I hope to hear about your gardening as well. If you have questions, feel free to ask them.
Melissa
belvedere
Giardinauta Senior
thanks for the sun, Luca!
luckly here it's a sunny day, with a high wind....
well MelissaP: another new friend!
about my gardening:
- i live in the centre of Genoa, on the seventh floor with a big roof garden. here plants are all in pots. i have succulents, herbs, perennials etc and honeysuckle, jasmine, photinia
- i've a little cottage (that i visit in holydays) it's into a wood in the inlands parts of Liguria. All around and into my property there are chestnuts, oaks, hazel trees, cherry trees, lavenders, herbs etc.
mainly i have "acidofile" plants (excuse me but on the dictionary i don't find the english word to say it) as camelias, rhododendrons, azaleas etc.
luckly here it's a sunny day, with a high wind....
well MelissaP: another new friend!
about my gardening:
- i live in the centre of Genoa, on the seventh floor with a big roof garden. here plants are all in pots. i have succulents, herbs, perennials etc and honeysuckle, jasmine, photinia
- i've a little cottage (that i visit in holydays) it's into a wood in the inlands parts of Liguria. All around and into my property there are chestnuts, oaks, hazel trees, cherry trees, lavenders, herbs etc.
mainly i have "acidofile" plants (excuse me but on the dictionary i don't find the english word to say it) as camelias, rhododendrons, azaleas etc.
Hello Melissa, nice to 'meet' you and to hear the story of your garden. I grow a lot of plants I shouldn't! I love exotic plants, moisture lovers and tender plants! I overcome the difficulties by using big pots and moving plants into the garage over winter. I have clay soil so it's like a rock in the summer and very sticky in the winter.
Luca, you are right! Phrasal verbs are very difficult. As the site you linked to explains, they are verbs followed by an adverb or preposition which changes the original meaning of the verb. You will slowly learn them through repeatedly seeing them. If you find a verb you know, but you can't understand the meaning then you have probably found a p.verb and the best thing to do is check in a dictionary. In good dictionaries you will find phrv next to phrasal verbs.
Present continuous is used for a continual action that is happening around the time you are speaking and present simple is used for facts, for things that are done regularly (a very basic explanation!).
Luca, you are right! Phrasal verbs are very difficult. As the site you linked to explains, they are verbs followed by an adverb or preposition which changes the original meaning of the verb. You will slowly learn them through repeatedly seeing them. If you find a verb you know, but you can't understand the meaning then you have probably found a p.verb and the best thing to do is check in a dictionary. In good dictionaries you will find phrv next to phrasal verbs.
Present continuous is used for a continual action that is happening around the time you are speaking and present simple is used for facts, for things that are done regularly (a very basic explanation!).
LucaXY
Master Florello
Oh, now we have a native speaker! I'm very happy! :hands13:
So you live in Piacenza. I often go there to see the matches of rugby. The climate is very mild and it's due to the presence of the Po river (it's really beautiful especially at night).
Nice to meet you, I'm Luca and I'm practicing a challenging English course with native speakers studying not only the language itself but also its potential in other school subjects such as history, religion, science, art, geography ...
Do you know well also the Italian? I always ask myself if a native speaker who knows the Italian well thinks in English or Italian...
I do not really understand your proposal. Do you mean to open an other thread on gardening subjects?
I think it's fine to talk about that here; you can say whatever you want (a kind of "free conversation") because actually people who know well the language are here, I think that Elena would tell you lots of advice.
So far we have focused more on talking about ourselves and our thoughts, reasonings
.If others agree, we can also talk about something more serious (I agree :ros
Exactly. Our professor has refused to let us learn them because he believes it's a waste of time; you learn them speaking and communicating.
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Harma
Maestro Giardinauta
Hello Melissa,welcome to this thread....I am Dutch and my English is not so good,so please correct me....
My garden is steep and young too!!Fortunately just the last part ...There are some fruit-trees and plants which don't need much attention...It will be easier to say which plants I don't like,and even now I don't know what to say...I don't go crazy for roses(for the moment)Anyhow I thought to open a tread to show during the spring and summer my garden,step by step....from which part of America are you??? My sister lives in Philadelphia and I was there sometimes...
My garden is steep and young too!!Fortunately just the last part ...There are some fruit-trees and plants which don't need much attention...It will be easier to say which plants I don't like,and even now I don't know what to say...I don't go crazy for roses(for the moment)Anyhow I thought to open a tread to show during the spring and summer my garden,step by step....from which part of America are you??? My sister lives in Philadelphia and I was there sometimes...
Harma
Maestro Giardinauta
Hi Luca....I understand that you like to talk about something more serious....Maybe you can start another thread with those who want it,and we can continue here in a simple way.I understand that it is more interesting for you to communicate with people who speak English in a perfect way....Anyway I hope we continue here....
LucaXY
Master Florello
Belvedere, sounds like you have a lot of gardening room on your balcony! I have a pot garden too, mostly succulents and a few tender plants, and three small camelias. Your weekend place sounds beautiful. I can't grow acidophile (English uses the same word, with a slightly different spelling) plants in the ground at all. I long for deciduous magnolias, and after them miss camelias, blueberries, and deciduous fragrant azaleas the most. But then I can grow old roses, lilacs, and peonies, so am fortunate in my conditions.
jp60, your soil sounds just like my soil! glue in the winter, concrete in the summer. I add a lot of organic amendment, which helps. We have different approaches to gardening, I can see: you battle heroically against your garden conditions, while I adapt to mine. Gardens are a reflection of the gardeners who create them, I think.
Luca, I like Piacenza city too, but live up in the hills, where it's milder than down in the plain. Here it's warmer and sunnier in the winter and drier and fresher in the summer. I freeze when I go to the plain in wintertime.
I know Italian pretty well, as I like learning languages and have lived in Italy since 2000. I'm not sure what language I think in, but I believe English when I'm speaking English and Italian when I'm speaking Italian.
I had two thoughts in my head when I proposed talking about our gardens. People learn a language by using it, and I've observed that people will exert themselve mightily to talk about something they love. They worry less about rules and focus on communicating. And everyone here cares about plants and gardening. But this is just one option for the English learners on this thread, open to those who are interested.
Hello, Harma! I think your thread about your garden would be much appreciated, and hope you'll post it. Actually, lists of the plants we grow, plants we love, and plants we hate--and why--would be interesting. Plant names can be difficult in a foreign language. It was when I came to Italy that I began seriously to learn the botanical names of plants: I didn't know the Italian names, but the Latin names are universal and allowed me to talk with nursery staff.
I'm a native of Florida (north Florida) and also lived for a decade in western Washington state. As I recall Philadelphia has a stupendous art museum, but that's not likely to impress a European. And of course it was the capital during our Revolutionary War.
It's sunny today here too, and the weather is forecast to get warm...too warm...I want spring to hold off for a few weeks still.
Thanks to everyone for writing: you're brave! Happy gardening, all!
Melissa
jp60, your soil sounds just like my soil! glue in the winter, concrete in the summer. I add a lot of organic amendment, which helps. We have different approaches to gardening, I can see: you battle heroically against your garden conditions, while I adapt to mine. Gardens are a reflection of the gardeners who create them, I think.
Luca, I like Piacenza city too, but live up in the hills, where it's milder than down in the plain. Here it's warmer and sunnier in the winter and drier and fresher in the summer. I freeze when I go to the plain in wintertime.
I know Italian pretty well, as I like learning languages and have lived in Italy since 2000. I'm not sure what language I think in, but I believe English when I'm speaking English and Italian when I'm speaking Italian.
I had two thoughts in my head when I proposed talking about our gardens. People learn a language by using it, and I've observed that people will exert themselve mightily to talk about something they love. They worry less about rules and focus on communicating. And everyone here cares about plants and gardening. But this is just one option for the English learners on this thread, open to those who are interested.
Hello, Harma! I think your thread about your garden would be much appreciated, and hope you'll post it. Actually, lists of the plants we grow, plants we love, and plants we hate--and why--would be interesting. Plant names can be difficult in a foreign language. It was when I came to Italy that I began seriously to learn the botanical names of plants: I didn't know the Italian names, but the Latin names are universal and allowed me to talk with nursery staff.
I'm a native of Florida (north Florida) and also lived for a decade in western Washington state. As I recall Philadelphia has a stupendous art museum, but that's not likely to impress a European. And of course it was the capital during our Revolutionary War.
It's sunny today here too, and the weather is forecast to get warm...too warm...I want spring to hold off for a few weeks still.
Thanks to everyone for writing: you're brave! Happy gardening, all!
Melissa
Luca the important thing is to know phrasal verbs exist! Otherwise you will find yourself wondering why verbs you know don't make sense in the sentence. I usually think in Italain, but when I'm angry I think in English!
Melissa it is, of course, much better to garden with your conditions and not against them, but it's impossible to resist some plants!
Melissa it is, of course, much better to garden with your conditions and not against them, but it's impossible to resist some plants!
