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Re: Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers

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Post by izietto »

ItalianPoetry wrote: post #10
izietto wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your voice is not terrible, I enjoyed it quit a lot. By the way kudos to you, I'm Italian and that was interesting for me too! I'd love to have it in other languages too. Oh, and also I love the website vibes! The right mix between 2000 websites and contemporary elegance!

I was actually thinking of doing the same for Latin... Now the infrastructure is built, so the effort should be much smaller (but I'd need of course much more support from an expert ^^ ). Do you think it might have an audience?

I'd love to have it in languages that I don't speak with a deep poetry history, like Japanese, Indian, Persian, languages from Africa... but I guess the biggest problem there is not the infrastructure, is knowing the language.

But also Latin would be interesting, Latin has tons of great poems, even funny ones (I still remember Marziale :D )

Re: Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers

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Post by ItalianPoetry »

DreaminDani wrote: post #12

This is awesome! I love the podcast idea too. Is there a rss feed for the podcast? I'd love to subscribe on my podcast player so I can keep up as new poems are released

Sure!

https://italianpoetry.it/podcast/index.xml

It should also be available on fydd[1], Google podcast[2], Amazon[3] and Spotify.

I don't have an Apple device, and I'm having trouble activating my Apple account, but I hope to put it on iTunes soon too.

[1] https://fyyd.de/podcast/italian-poetry/0

[2] https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9pdGFsaWFucG9ldHJ...

[3] https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/0f2c452e-f4fe-4e64-bbe4-e9...

Re: Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

For some reason I’m fascinated by the opening lines of Dante’s inferno. I’m reading the Longfellow translation where there is Italian and English side on opposing pages. Unlike the English version, the Italian version actually rhymes, and sounds beautiful. “Nel mezzo del cammin…” keeps ringing in my ears. Then it occurred to be that this poem could be a gateway to learn italian by going back and forth between the two versions.

Would be great to see this poem included in your project

Re: Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers

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Post by ItalianPoetry »

d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #17

For some reason I’m fascinated by the opening lines of Dante’s inferno. I’m reading the Longfellow translation where there is Italian and English side on opposing pages. Unlike the English version, the Italian version actually rhymes, and sounds beautiful. “Nel mezzo del cammin…” keeps ringing in my ears. Then it occurred to be that this poem could be a gateway to learn italian by going back and forth between the two…

Eventually, yes, it's a must :)

The question is, which pieces. The whole thing is impossibly too long.

So far I have one request for the Paolo and Francesca episode. Feel free to suggest other parts!

Re: Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers

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Post by Aesthetikx »

This is excellent, I was just thinking this morning I would like something like this. I was using Inferno as a way to supplement my Italian learning, but found that the side by side English translations were annoyingly attempting to read like English poetry instead of a verbatim translation.

Re: Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers

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Post by ralferoo »

This is nice, although I know very little Italian so I only listened to a couple of them. The only thing I could think to improve is a way of jumping from the text to the audio at that point, as after I'd listened through I wanted to hear a couple of lines again after reading the notes and had to just guess how far along it was.
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