一个意大利作者 但丁也许是最极好(? Famous)的意大利作者。他在佛罗伦萨出生了。那个的时间在佛罗伦萨有两个政党: 边一个支持皇帝，边一个支持教皇。战争快开始了。敌人战胜的时候，但丁已经写完了一些著作。最远的著作非常好，因而他已经是过很极好。然而敌人决定放逐他。他从小时间开始了他的最好的著作：神曲。 但丁在放逐写了大部的他的著作。他仍旧今天是最好的意大利作者，并且神曲是最好的著作。

primero texto Olá, me chamo Gino e este é o meu primero texto em português no italki. Não tinha collocado o português entre os idiomas que estava estudando porque até hoje estou morando no Brasil, em Fortaleza. Porém daqui a dois meses eu deixarei o Brasil pra voltar na Europa e, não querendo esquecer quanto tinha aprendido e também não querendo parar de melhorar a minha competência deste idioma, de vez em quando vou postar alguns textos, esperando umas correções.

你注意到没有 Which is the meaning of that construction? I know that it might be difficult out of context...

back to europe After more than a year spent in Brazil teaching italian languange, in February I'll be back in Europe. I say Europe because, even though I'm italian, I would like to move in a foreign country. Actually some months ago I started studying Chinese, but with my really basic competence I still cannot think to try to get a job in China. Of course I hope that in the future I would be able to spend a part of my life there, but now it is impossible. To be honest, the decision of returning to Europe is risky, for I have not a clear idea of what I would do there. The truth is that finding a job from the other part of the world is really difficult, and so i'm quite nervous about what will happen. I'm also a little sad of leaving Brazil and probably I will suffer a little of saudade :) But I am perceiving that i'm getting stuffed here: my position wouldn't progress in a significant way and I feel a continuous eagerness of knowing other parts of the world with their cultures. I don't know if this is a good idea, but i'll take the risk.

昨天的宴会 昨天在意大利语学校有一个宴会为年的结束。我们每年做一个宴会，但是今年的一个成得不好啊！ 老师每天起草一些介绍还是一些表演跟学生。今年新校长决定自己做全部的事情。它是一个灾难！太无聊的宴会了! 某个不能工作得一起！我成了真对不起的我们的学生。 因为我会离开巴西，所以这个是我的最后的年在这个学校。我想过希望那个宴会成较好的。(I would have liked that that feast would be better!)

"是个了不起的"? I was reading a tale for children, when I bumped in this sentence: "小雨点是个了不起的画家". I have no idea of what that means. :)

our progresses Usually we have the idea that our societies, in a certain way, are better then the past. Of course there are a lot of reasons that allow us to think this way: mainly when we consider the progresses in medicine and in scientific knowledge. We surely know more about the world that surrounds us (even though surely Sophocles and Aeschylus had a wider and deeper understanding of human psyche). But still there is something which escapes from this view. Some months ago I was reading an auto-biography of Stefan Zwaig and, among the wonderful pages of his book, a detail strikes me. Before WWI a man could travel among countries and continents without visas, passports, even without documents. He told that the first time he went to Us, he had no document at all! I think that this tells us a lot about how strongly the issues of security and controll have changed, and how now we consider normal something that more then a century ago would have been considered an unbearable offence to human freedom and personal dignity.

完 and 了: how and when to use? So I know this: 了 indicates that an action changes. So: 现在很冷了 means that now it is cold but before it wasn't? But can this change be the ending of an action? 我读了那本书 I (earlier) read that book (but now i'm not). Now, 完 also indicates a conclusion of an action, doesn't it? Can I say 我读完那本书? And if the answer is yes, which is the difference?

新年，新生活 新年几乎到了，且我决定就离开巴西。我回去欧洲。我觉得巴西还好，但是我要改变国家和城市(but I want to change country and city)。我正觉得就不发展自己。我的工作不错，但是那个不够 (but it's not enough)。其实我不知道会做什么。我的主意很险。我很开心，也担心。意大利语有一个成语: "新年，新生活“ (new year, new life)。我不知道这个新生活是一个什么样。。。我会说你 (i'll tell you).