(Italiano) numero

0 - zero

1 - uno

2 - due

3 - tre

4 - quattro

5 - cinque

6 - sei

7 - sette

8 - otto

9 - nove

10 - dieci

11 - undici

12 - dodici

13 - tredici

14 - quattordici

15 - quindici

16 - sedici

17 - diciassette

18 - diciotto

19 - diciannove

20 - venti

30 - trenta

40 - quaranta

50 - cinquanta

60 - sessanta

70 - settanta

80 - ottanta

90 - novanta

100 - cento

1000 - mille

(Italiano) Past Participles (avere, essere)

Stato, andato and tornato are all past participles of the verbs essere, andare and tornare.

The past participle is generally made by swapping the -are -ere -ire ending of the verb with -ato, -uto and -ito:
andare - andATO
partire - partITO.
perdere- perdUTO.

Many common verbs have past participles that don't follow this pattern:
essere - stato
stare - stato
fare - fatto
prendere - preso
vedere - visto

The majority of verbs in the past use avere, including the verb avere itself. The past participle endings stay the same:

Ho visitato la chiesa
I visited the church

Abbiamo visitato il museo
We visited the museum

Ho avuto un incidente
I had an accident

Essere is used with stare, 'to stay' or 'to be', and with the verb essere itself:

Sono stato felice di vederti
I was happy to see you

Sono stato a Roma per due giorni
I stayed in Rome for two days

Essere is often used with verbs that describe movement, like andare, 'to go', arrivare, 'to arrive', partire, 'to leave'.

Sono andato a Bassano la settimana scorsa
I went to Bassano last week

Sono partito alle due
I left at two

When a verb is used with essere the past participle endings change to agree with the person or thing doing the action:

I ragazzi sono partiti alle sette
The boys left at seven

Le ragazze sono partite alle nove.
The girls left at nine

This form of the past tense has three English equivalents. The way it is translated depends on the context:

Ho viaggiato
I've travelled / I travelled
Hai viaggiato?
Did you travel? / Have you travelled?
Sono andato
I've been / I went
Sei andato?
Did you go? / Have you gone?

(ITALIAN)

All in good time - a tiempo debito
Da - desde
Vive qui da una settimana
ratty - irascibile

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tobacco(tabacco), zigzags(le rizla) and filters(filtri) - how to roll a cigarette

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/890030/how_to_roll_a_cigarette/


A chi è rivolto

antigone

lasciato - leave
Puoi richiamarmi più tardi?
Cartine(Rizla), filtri e tabacco.

HEARTH - FIREPLACE; THE ROMANTIC ROOM ALSO FEATURES AN ANCIENT HEARTH BROUGHT FROM FRANCE

ec·to·pi·a
play_w2("E0034100")
(k-tp-)
n.
An abnormal location or position of an organ or a body part, occurring congenitally or as the result of injury.

(MUNDO) ALBANIA

- Declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912
- Was conquered by Italy in 1939
- Communist partisans took over the county 1944
- Allied itself first with the USSAR
- Allied itself with China
- Ended Communist rule and established a multiparty democracy
- high unemployment, widespread corruption, a dilapidated physical infrastructure
powerful organized crime networksm, combative political opponents
- First multiparty elections in 1991

Natural resources - petroleum, natural gas, coal, bauxite, chromite, copper, iron ore, nickel, salt, timber, hydropower

Ethnic groups - Albanian 95% Greek 3%
Religions - Muslim 70%, Albanian Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10%
Languages - Albanian (official - derived from Tosk dialect)
Legal system - has a civil law system; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

Economy - lagging behind its Balkan neighbors, Albania is making the difficult transition to a more modern open-market economy

(GRE)

SNIPE - HUNT OR SHOOT/AIM AND SHOOT WITH PRECISION - AS THEY BICKER AND SNIPE

MEWL - CRY WEAKLY OR SOFTLY - THE CHARACTERS MEWL ABOUT THE SHALLOWNESS OF PEOPLE

KNEAD - MANUALLY MANIPULATE, USUALLY FOR MEDICINAL OR RELAXATION PURPOSES - KNEAD AND SHAPE THE DOUGH

DAUB - PLASTER , GENEROUS DAUB OF LIP GLOSS, DAUB THE ROOM WITH COLOR LIKE BEACONS, DAUB THE GREYNESS WITH THE REYS

THWART - PARLIAMENT QUICKLY SOUGHT TO THWART THE POSSIBILITY BY BANNING THE MEMBERS FROM TRAVELLING ABROAD. I'M GOING TO THWART AN ATTEMPT BY YOU TO ESTABLISH THE CONTROL OVER THE BREAKWAY REGION

STOKE - STIR UP, TEND - A MOVE THAT WILL CERTAINLY STOKE TENSIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES. THESE FACTORS HAVE COMBINED TO STOKE THE FIRES OF LOCAL POLITICAL PARTISANSHIP

NEIGH - I HEARD THE HORSE NEIGH, MOO AND NEIGH

GINGERLY - CAUTIOUSLY, CAREFULLY, THERE WAS A SUGGESTION MADE GINGERLY AND REVERENTLY

PATHOLOGICAL - PATHOLOGICAL OBSESSION, PATHOLOGICAL NARCISSISM

(Español) Vocabularios

1. Remezo'n - shake, shake up, earth quake
- El remozon' fue perceptible en San Salvador
2. Prospero - prosperous
3. Enraizar - take root
4. Brotar - sprout
5. Cabe'cares/bribris - indigenous people

pesci - fish

Chi dorme non piglia pesci.
Literal translation: "Who sleeps doesn't catch fishes"
Idiomatic translation: "The early bird catches the worm."

Dormire

io dormo
tu dormi
lui, lei, egli dorme
noi dormiamo
voi dormite
loro essi dormono

(MUNDO) LIBYA

Location: between Egypt and Tunisia
Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, gypsum
Median age: 23.5 years
Ethnic groups: Berber and Arab 97%
Religions: Sunni Muslim 97%
Languages: Arabic, Italian, English
Population: 6 milliones
Libyan economy depends primarily upon revenues from the oil sector, which contribute about 95% of export earnings.

Substantial revenues from the energy sector coupled with a small population give Libya one of the highest per capita GDPs in Africa.

in December 2003, it announced that it would abandon programs to build weapons of mass destruction.

Almost all USA unilateral sanctions against Libya were removed in April 2004

(GRE) Sentence completion 3

1. Despite the increased attention ________ juvenile delinquency, a ________ in crimes committed by juveniles has been seen.

allotted to...dip
offered to...proliferation
given to...rise
spent on...decrease
withdrawn from...growth

2. Much of the Beatles' music, as evidenced by "all you need is love," was characterized by a superficial _____ subtly contradicted by an inherent, deeper cynicism.

competence
world-weariness
liveliness
naivete
gloss

3. During their famous clash, Jung regarded Freud ambivalently, attacking the father of modern psychoanalysis even as he ______ him.

enlightened
chastened
revered
despised
preferred

*chastened - escarmentado

4. Hers was not a quick but a thorough intelligence; however_______, she came to _____ all things touching her life.

unmindfully...embrace
desperately...appreciate
slowly...jettison
methodically...discern
ploddingly...understand

*Jettison ->Echar por la borda/dispose

5. Considering the _____ era in which the novel was written, its tone and theme are remarkably _____.

Enlightened...disenchanted
scholarly...undramatic
superstitious...medieval
permissive...puritanical
undistinguished...commonplace

*puritanical - morally rigorous and strict

6. The Colonel believed that even a minor ________ the rules could not go _____ if he were to maintain discipline.

disrespect for...unfelt
infraction of...unpunished
alteration of...unrewarded
deviation from...unappreciated
adherence to...unobserved

7. Feuds tend to arise in societies that _____ centralized government; when public justice is difficult to enforce, private recourse is more ______.

espouse...acceptable
affirm...objectionable
dislike...satisfying
rejet...brutal
lack...effective

8. He must always be the center of attention; he would rather be criticized than ______.

ignored
selfish
remembered
praised
different

9. Part of a person's immediate response to pain is determined not only by his _____ emotional state but also by his ______ previous painful experiences.

frightened...fears from
permanent...scars from
particular...lack of
current...memories of
recent...denial of

10. Greek philosophers tried to _____ contemporary notions of change and stability by postulating the existence of the atom, ______ particle from which all varieties of matter are formed.

personify...a mutating
reconcile...an indivisible
simplify...a specific
eliminate...an infinitesimal
confirm...an interesting


* postulate - (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning

(Español) PANAMA

1. QUE XOPA
2. VERGUERO - LIO
ESTAS METIDO EN UN VERGUERO
3. VERGAZO - TROMPON, PUNIETE (GOLPE)
4. TONGO - POLICIA
HUYE QUE VIENEN LOS TONGOS
5. EMETERIO QUEMA A CLOTILDE CADA VEZ QUE SE VA DE VIAJE
PONERSE LOS CACHOS, PONERSE LOS CUERNOS, QUEMAR
6. BIRREAR - JUGAR
BIRREAR FUTBOL


YOUR VOICE IS SO HOT, I WANT TO FUCK YOUR VOICE

United States Constitution

The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States.

It provides the framework for the organization of the United States Government. The document defines the three main branches of the government:

The legislative branch with a bicameral Congress,

an executive branch led by the President,

a judicial branch headed by the Supreme Court.

Besides providing for the organization of these branches, the Constitution carefully outlines which powers each branch may exercise. It also reserves numerous rights for the individual states, thereby establishing the United States' federal system of government. It is the shortest and oldest written constitution of any major sovereign state.
The United States Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and later ratified by conventions in each U.S. state in the name of "The People"; it has since been amended twenty-seven times, the first ten amendments being known as the Bill of Rights. The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was actually the first constitution of the United States of America. The U.S. Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation as the governing document for the United States, and transformed the constitutional basis of government from confederation to federation, also making it the world's oldest federal constitution. The Constitution has a central place in United States law and political culture. The handwritten, or "engrossed", original document is on display at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C.

If thats the case we should get rid of constitution

(MUNDO) TUNISIA حرية، نظام، عدالة (LIBERTY, ORDER, JUSTICE)

- French invasion in 1881/protectorate
- Habib Bourguiba
a) the country's first president
b) a strict one-party state
c) dominated the country for 31 years
d) repressed Islamic fundamentalism and established rights for women

1987 Bourguiba was removed from office and replaced by Zine el Abidine Ben ali in a coup.

Tunisia - a moderate, non-aligned stance in its foreign relations.

Location: Between Alegria and Libya
Population: 10 million
Median age: 28.8 years
Sex ratio: more male than female
Ethnic groups: Arab 98 %
Religion: Muslim 98%
Languages: Arabic, French
Government type: Republic
Legal system: based on French civil law system and Islamic law
Natural resources: petroleum, phosphrates, iron ore, lead, zinc, salt
Climate: temperate in north/desert in south, mild, rainy winters, hot, dry summers

"Tunisia is a republic presidential system characterized by bicameral parliamentary system, including the Chamber of Representatives and the Chamber of Advisors . President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has been in office since 1987, the year he acceded to the executive office Habib Bourguiba after a team of medical experts judged Bourguiba unfit to exercise the functions of the office. At the time, Tunisia was on the verge of upheaval as Ennahdha's (banned Islamic party) supporters were attempting to seize power. Since his accession to power, also known as the Change, president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali launched a series of reform meant to introduce political pluralism and boost the economy.


accede - yield to another's wish or opinion, take office

* Youtube/Dailymotion are banned in Tunisia

(GRE) Sentence Completion 2

1. The composition of that painting is so _______ and direct that the casual observer might think that it did not require much ______.

regimented...talent
complex...skill
beautiful...feeling
simple...thought
emotional...consideration

2. Filmed on a ludicrously _____ budget and edited at breakneck speed, Melotti's documentary nontheless ______ the Cannes critics with its trenchancy and verve.

low...disappointed
inflated...distracted
uneven...amused
disproportionate...appalled
inadequate...surprised

*trenchancy - keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect

3. The _____ of the desert explains why so many Egyptian mummies are still intact, whereas humidity of the tombs in tropical rain forests supports the agents of decay so that few Aztec mummies have ______.

heat...survived
aridity...endured
anhydration...decayed
barrennes...proliferated
seclusion...surfaced

4. They ______ until there was no recourse but to _______ a desperate, last-minute solution to the problem.

betrayed...try
delayed...envision
procrastinated...implement
debated...maintain
filibustered...reject

*envision - predict, foresee
*filibuster - obstruct deliberately by delaying
*recourse - assistance/refuge

5. The Wankel Rotary Engine was an engineering marvel that substantially reduced automobile exhaust emotions, but because it was less fue-efficient than the standard piston-cylinder engine, it was ______ in the early 1970s when _____ pollution gave way to panic over fuel shortages.

needed...disillusionment with
conceived...attention on
modified...opinion on
abandoned...preoccupation with
discarded...interest in

6. Friendship, no matter how ______, has its boundaries; ______ advice, when thrust insistently upon one, is rarely an act of friendship, regardless of the adviser's intent.

cool...contradictory
enjoyable...obverse
intimate...unsolicited
distant...marital
special...desired

Obverse - the more conspicuous(obvious) of two alternatives or cases or sides

7. Anarchists contend that government is by definition the repression of natural human desire, and their _______ rivals concur; it is over the ______ of this definition that the two groups battle.

sympathetic...phraseology
perennial...semantics
ideological...implications
fascistic...expression
fiercest...etiology

*perennial - lasting an indefinitely long time
*etiology - the cause of a disease

8. Despite generous helpings of _____ from a group of _____ critics, this iconoclastic poet's three volumes hae sold steadily.

zeal...hidebound
mockery...obscure
tedium...respected
abuse...ineffectual
vitriol...influential

*hidebound - stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded
*vitriol - bitterness
*iconoclastic - unorthodox

9. Because the different components of the film industry were "vertically" oriented - arranged so that all ____, from production to projection were held by one company. It was _____ the monopolistic practices would arise.

opportunities for control...inevitable
burdens of business...understandable
exercises of power...appropriate
means of solicitation...predictable
perquisites of commerce...unsavory

10. From the _____ that the peasants tried to conceal as they knelt before the body of the dictator's son, I concluded that, far from affection, it was _____ that had brought them to the wake.

hatred...sarcasm
reticence...violence
diligence...adulation
trepidation...fear
sorrow...patriotism

*peasant - a person of a low social class
*wake - a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial

(Italiano) Vocabolario

Spessore - thickness
Nessuno - ninguno
Non ho nessun problema (I don't have any problem)
Non ha nessun valore (it has no value)
al (A + il) - to the
Rimanere - continue (feminine singular past participle of the verb)
La folla - crowd
Doganale - customs
Chiedersi - ask for/EXPECT/NEED
Spacarre - split
Canotta - vest top

NASCERE RIMANERE CHIEDERE

nasco RIMANO (X) -> RIMANGO MI CHIEDO
nasci RIMANI TI CHIEDI
nasce RIMANE SI CHIEDE
nasciamo RIMANIAMO CI CHIEDIAMO nascete RIMANETE VI CHIEDETE
nascono RIMANONO(X) -> RIMANGONO SI CHIEDENO


CI - US, OURSELVES, EACH OTHER, ABOUT IT

NON CI DISTURBARE - DON'T DISTURB US (NON DISTURBARE -> IDIOM - DON'T DISTURB)

(MUNDO) ALGERIA

Motto

: بالشعب وللشعب - By the people and for the people

Location : Between Morocco and Tunisia

Climate : Arid to semiarid, wet winters, hot, dry summers along coast.

Sirocco is a hot, dust-laden wind especially common in summer.

Natural resources : Petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, phosphates, uranium, lead, zinc

Median age : 26 years

Population: 34 million

Ethinic groups: Arab- Berber 99%

Religions: Sunni Muslim (State religion) 99%

Languages: Arabic, French, Berber dialects

Literacy: 69.9%

Government type: Republic

Legal System: Socialist

Socialist Law

- partial or total expulsion of the former ruling classes from the public life at early stages of existence of each socialist state; however, in all socialist states this policy gradually changed into the policy of "one socialist nation without classes"
- diversity of political views directly banned or condemned by legislation
- the ruling Communist party was considered above the law system; in many cases party functionaries were not subject to criminal prosecution but rather to disciplinary measures taken by party committees;
- private property was considered as remnant of the bourgeois society and, as such, harmful; this resulted in high degree of collectivization and nationalization of property;
- low respect for privacy, extensive control of the party over private life;
- low respect for intellectual property, unless state-owned (which directly resulted from the above two principles);
- extensive social warrants of the state (the rights to a job, free education, etc.) in return for a high degree of social mobilization and a low degree of human rights;
- the judicial process lacks adversary character; public prosecution is considered as "provider of justice."

(GRE)

*Impeccable - not capable of sin
*Mortician - one whose business is the management of funerals
*Dichotomy - being twofold
*Adactylia - congenital absence of fingers and toes
*Amyotonia - lack of normal muscular tension

(Español)

Estornudar - Sneeze
Chicho'n - Swelling, Bump on the head
Moreto'n - Se refiere a las marcas moradas.
Capullo - bud, silly bugger
Algarete - Todo a lo loco
Bugarron - Un hombre que aparenta ser homosexual pero tiene inclinaciones homosexuales
Cacorro/chapero
Corbejo/Cochofle - Lili es una corbejo/colleja, se acuesta con Pedro el viernes y con Raul el domingo
Pato de hule
Balsa -raft
Apalear - to beat, thrash
Catedra - chair
Carros que no sirven A los 36 meses de usarlos.
Chata - snub
Sollozo - cocksucker
Retorno - return
Regateo - bargaining
Rebosante - overflowing
Estaba rebosante de alegria
Cagalitrosa - esa vieja cagalitrosa
Escudo - shield
Arrasar - demolish
Aspereza - roughness

O sea comprate un bosque, y pierdete
O sea me tapo un ojo me tapo el otro y nada que ver
O sea comprate un cochinito y ahorrate tus comentarios
O sea vas despues de la W, porque eres un X('ekis)
O sea, has click y minimizate
O sea, consiguete un mapa y ubicate pues
O sea, subete a un arbol, hazte un capullo y madura pues

(Italiano) Use of Indefinite Articles

Uno -

a) s+ another consonant:
Example: uno squalo(a shark)
b) x, y or z:
Example: uno xilofono, a xylophone; uno yogurt, a yoghurt; uno zio, an uncle;
c) gn, ps, pn
Example: uno psicologo, a psychologist; uno pneumatico, a tyre; uno gnu, a gnu;
d) i+another vowel.
Example: uno iettatore, a jinx;

Un -

a) a vowel
Example: un italiano, an italian man;

b) all the singular nouns beginning with a consonant,
except for the cases in which you'll use "uno"


Una(un')

Use "una" with all the feminine nouns. If the noun begins with a vowel, the form "un' " is used"
Una tempesta - a storm
Un'arancia - an orange
Una finestra - a window

A chi dai il dito si prende anche il braccio
A chi - to whom
dai - dare ( 2nd person singular present indicative/imperative! )
dito - dedo
prende - seize - prendere (3rd person singular present indicative)
anche - as well
braccio - arm

To whom, you give a finger if seizes as well the arm
A quien das el dedo si te agarra por el brazo


Amicu ca non ti duna, parendi ca non ti mpresta, fuili comu la pesta
Amicu - amigo
ca - che
Amico che non ti dona(donare),
parendi (relatives?) ca(che) non ti impresta
fuili comu la pesta

(GRE) Sentence completion 1

1. Male sperm whales are normally ____ creatures; however, when they are jealously guarding their territory, they have been known to ____ ships.

docile...attack
aggressive...strike
large...assault
peaceful...ignore
powerful...assail

2. The ___ genius of the late Glenn Gould is apparent in this imaginative ____ for piano of Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll," which the composer originally scored for full orchestra and presented to his wife Cosima on her birthday.

ineluctable...diminution
exceptional...music
incommensurate...homage
unmistakable...adaptation
brilliant...celebration

*ineluctable - necesario, obligatorio, inevitable, implacable
- inevitabile

3. Opponents of affirmative action by quota, the practice of hiring on the basis of race or sex as well as _____, maintain that both the hired and the rejected suffer _____ when not judged on their abilities alone.

loyalty...prejudice
status...nepotism
competence...injustice
creed...indignity
dexterity...degradation

*Competence - Competenza - aptitud

4. An ancient and mythopoeic neurological disorder, epilepsy is _____ in part by the sensation of intense and altered consciousness doctors call an "aura," which _____ the epileptic seconds before his seizure.

neurtralized...overcomes
characterized...grips
obviated...afflicts
enhanced...debilitates
diagnosed...proselytizes

*mythopoeic - Of or relating to the making of myths
*proselytize - convert to another faith or religion

5. Although the European Economic Community was established to ______ the economic growth of all its member nations equally, some express ______ at what they claim is their unfair burden in maintaining the organization.

regulate...favoritism
retard...vehemence
promote...resentment
measure...irritation
aid...wrongfulness

6. Those who make up their minds that life should be a succession of triumphs are soon enlightened by ____ reality; even money can ____ the truth only briefly.

stark...defuse
bland...quench
dread...encourage
limpid...hold back
harsh...stave off

* stark: harsh, unpleasant

7. In 1921, Antioch College adopted a policy requiring students to _____ beyond their stacks of books and contribute their talents to the working world in order to earn their bachelor's degrees.

rise
venture
probe
excel
strut

*not rise beyond, rise above

8. The candidate announced, to the _____ of her devoted campaigners, that unless her performance in the polls improved she would _____ the race

consternation...withdraw from
bewilderment...abstain from
mortification...continue
delight...step out of
awe...renounce

surprised
back off from

9. The _____ private contributions for disease research creates _____; the money goes for research into the best-publicized disease, which is not always the most serious or widespread one.

lack of...a reallocation
need for...a nuisance
infirmity in...a debt
colloquialism of...a paradox
indispensability of...a disparity


paradox


*plaintive - expressing sorrow
*bamboozle - hookdwink; lead by the nose
*homespun - handwoven
*waggish - dirty; stained
*rakish - marked by a carefree unconventionality or
disreputableness
*taut - subjected to great tension
*contentious -involving or likely to cause controversy
*impeccable - invulnerable to fear