4030 an italian forum in italy

[LEFT]actually not a fan of the RAI ... its mainly condescending... very sexist ...totaly biased towards the left.... and in general is about ...almost the worst TV i have ever had the displeasure to occaisionally get into... apart from Porta Porta...excellent... although after writing that i do remember sort of TV trials of mothers accused of killing children and some smart arse criminal phsycolgist during the trial coming on and saying the woman must be guilty...look at the eyes ...or she wasnt upset enough... recently a child was kidnapped and killed in the north and he declared the husband guilty of the crime...in collusion with the mother... it wasnt true by the way... it matters little .... but thtas how the RAI works here ... apart from that what makes e laugh about the place more than anything... is if you watch any daytime TV on there check out the audience... its the same everyday... not just daytime all there shows... they are payed actors.... the thing is they seem to stick them in the same place for each show.....

anyway to the point... im a member on their forum... you have to be to view the messages i think ... anyway i am a member and one day i might give them a hard time... but meanwhile i will post the link [URL="http://www.community.rai.it/categories.php"]http://www.community.rai.it/categories.php[/URL]

so those of you out there that keep worrying about things italian or want to practice a word or two... or even those completely fluent and would like a real italian experience why not join in... am sure they are friendly and maybe some of them will like to read what this forum thinks about italy...life here or whatever... far better me thinks this than just another english based forum to argue or become some virtual community talking about italy ... so maybe a bit of integration in prepartion for the big day when you have to live here for real.... or should that be choose to live here for real

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General chat about Italy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 06/25/2006 - 02:14

Here's another Italian forum where you get news about Italy and where you can practise some Italian: [url]www.vacanzelinguistiche.com/Forum[/url]
Greetings,
Carl

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 06/25/2006 - 03:50

[LEFT]carl... your forum looks pretty good too....

but i think the point of the one i mention is that it is there to join in an almost totally italian community... yours is good for help with the language but this forum has several thousands of members... gets hundreds of posts a day , and has sort of different things on to the normal foreign aimed italian sites...

for instance i know one member here is interested in the RAI 3 soap from naples...there a whole section just dedicated to that which is most probably larger than this whole forum.....

its very current on what italians think and do... and i think gives a pretty good insight to what they argue about..and how...

to me if you have the confidence to be able to participate in a forum such as this one it will be of excellent value in dipping your foot into italian life with italians.... to me a very good basic start for those planning to come and live here and want to get up to speed not only with the language but the thinking

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 06/25/2006 - 10:16

It takes a brave man to admit to watching daytime TV, John!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 06/26/2006 - 04:56

[LEFT]marc... i guess you got me on that... my only excuse is the act that i usually make the lunch at home... end up putting the tv on to watch the 12.30 news om channel 6 and skip around if it isnt quite ready...what caught my eye was someone sitting behind a presenter one day on i think rai due... a sort of fascinating grin on her face and eyes straight at the camera... i thought nothing of it...next day was skipping through channels again... and i saw the same stupid grin with the ame face attached... my first theory was that they has a filmed audience and they ran the same background film...

not to be put off from my investigations the next day i have to confees i turned on early and lo and behold after five minutes there she was again... different top ...so they either had several different background films or they gave season tickets to the audience....

things get in your head ... i triied another couple of different programs and even clicked on the forum program on channel four(mediaset) and lo and behold the same people kept turning up... they even speak...but mainly they assume this sort of stupid grin type posture and clap a lot....

so i had established that italian live audiences were live... but how cold they always be the same... my wife solved it in one quick sentence...they are paid for actors.... so there you go...

for a while daytime TV was fascinating for me... but now the mystery has gone i am just left to cooking...and leaving the channel 6 mediaset adverts t run their course before the news...

totally disillusioned [/LEFT]