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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.
Let me know if it doesn't work!
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.
It should already be implemented: middle button click. Let me know if it doesn't work!
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It should already be implemented: middle button click. Let me know if it doesn't work!
Doesn't work for me (in Chrome for Windows) as middle mouse toggles mouse scroll mode. Although to be fair, even if it did work, I'd never have thought to try middle mouse! If you added a button at the start of each line / paragraph, it'd be obvious the functionality exists as well as not relying on extra mouse buttons.
Your idea is worth considering, but since it's at a lower granularity, I'll try and see if I there's a better way to trigger the word-level feature.
Very cool project. Any specific reason for the choice of poems?
Thanks! I'd say a mix of 1. What I like, 2. Lesser-known stuff, not just the usual classics 3. A wider range of topics besides the usual love stuff, including the occasional obscenities 4. Sampling across the centuries 5. Try to showcase female authors, which you rarely study at school, but I was happy to find there's plenty of to choose from, and not only in modern times I plan to add one per week, and requests are…
I'd really love to see a couple poems from the notoriously hard to translate Giacomo Leopardi - they are quite beautiful, and hearing them in Italian is a treat!
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!
A few years ago, I met a Greek woman, whose name was Marina. I told her—-you know that your name is in one of the most famous passages of Dante's Inferno:
"Siede la terra dove nata fui // su la marina dove 'l Po discende // per aver pace co' seguaci sui" (I wrote it from memory and then checked, the only mistake was "trovare" instead of "avere"). Dante refers to Ravenna, where Francesca da Rimini, of Paolo e Francesca, was born.
Was she impressed? I don't know, I never heard from her again.
I love the design of the site and it's really a dream for reading translated poetry! I enjoy reading a handful of Italian poets (and translated poetry in general), and a website like this for German, Polish, etc poetry would be lovely. Would you ever think of open sourcing this for others to attempt this for their own languages? I'd really love to see a couple poems from the notoriously hard to translate Giacomo Leop…
Yes, I was thinking of cleaning up the repo and make it public in a while, though honestly it's not too pretty ^^
And yes, Leopardi is coming: I have Il Sabato del villaggio almost ready to go :)
vezzeggiativo - probably worth translating to English, at least once.
per avventura - still around in English but archaic https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peradventure
Lovely. Couple of random unimportant things on the sidenotes of the Boccaccio one. vezzeggiativo - probably worth translating to English, at least once. per avventura - still around in English but archaic https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peradventure
Lovely. Couple of random unimportant things on the sidenotes of the Boccaccio one. vezzeggiativo - probably worth translating to English, at least once. per avventura - still around in English but archaic https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peradventure
Wow I didn't know that. Totally worth an update :)