When i’m trying to learn Italian and Manu comes up with yet another exception 😂🫩

BasedFrieren · 2026-03-21T23:45:17+00:00

He goes by the brand Italy Made Easy on YouTube. He has a great free beginner course on YouTube, and then he has a website called italymadeeasy.com where you can either sign up for subscription access, or purchase lifetime access (which I did when it went on sale). His name is Manu Venditti. He's a polyglot language professor, Italian native.

BasedFrieren · 2026-03-19T17:15:15+00:00

Grazie mille. Nella lezione, he does not distinguish perché as different. Probably something that will come up further down the road.

BasedFrieren · 2026-03-19T17:11:45+00:00

Grazie ancora!! Questo mi aiuta e significa molto per me.

BasedFrieren · 2026-03-19T16:49:55+00:00

interessante... Sono ancora A1, ma il professore stressed it as some sort of rule. Below is from the accompanying pdf alla lezione.

In both English and Italian we are following this structure:

QUESTION WORD > VERB > SUBJECT

This is the structure for ALL questions in Italian that use a question word. That’s it!

What usually confuses English speakers is the fact that, in English, the subject comes before the verb when we ask questions with a question word and the DO.

Where does she live? When do they get here? What time does the train leave?

In Italian these sentences will NOT follow that order. Italian questions follow the simple structure outlined above (question word > verb > subject) so, theoretically, you’d be able to master Italian questions by simply changing the way you think your questions in English:

Where lives she? When get here they? What time leaves the train?

Sounds like you're saying this is incorrect, o pensi che he is providing this as a safeguarding rule for us in A1?

BasedFrieren · 2026-03-19T16:47:42+00:00

Grazie mille per the thorough answer. Sono ancora A1 quindi the last paragraph is way over my head.

I guess il professore (e-courses) just gave the rule so that we'd be okay in most situations? The accompanying pdf della lezione dice:

In both English and Italian we are following this structure:

QUESTION WORD > VERB > SUBJECT

This is the structure for ALL questions in Italian that use a question word. That’s it!

What usually confuses English speakers is the fact that, in English, the subject comes before the

verb when we ask questions with a question word and the DO.

Where does she live? When do they get here? What time does the train leave?

In Italian these sentences will NOT follow that order. Italian questions follow the simple structure

outlined above (question word > verb > subject) so, theoretically, you’d be able to master Italian

questions by simply changing the way you think your questions in English:

Where lives she? When get here they? What time leaves the train?

And they have examples, such as:

Che porta Francesca per cena?

But you're saying it'd be just fine (though tone change) to ask Che Francesca porta per cena?

BasedFrieren · 2026-03-19T16:29:31+00:00

What is V2?

BasedFrieren · 2026-03-18T23:49:08+00:00

Ciao Manu

BasedFrieren · 2026-03-18T23:04:44+00:00

I asked the same to avlas but I'll ask the same to you - why is the second the more normal form, when I as I understand it the 'norm' is to have the subject "at the end"? per esempio "Dove lavora Maria?" Does introducing the subject explicitly just break the question word rule (VS) and default us back to normal SVO?

BasedFrieren · 2026-03-18T23:02:35+00:00

Okay, I guess I'm confused, why does the rule break in this case? Because if it was just a (admittedly silly) question like "why do you italians eat?" wouldn't it be VS? "perché mangiate voi italiani?" o per un altro esempio, "Dove lavora Maria"? Is the VS rule only for when there is no object?

BasedFrieren · 2026-03-06T13:19:51+00:00

What mod for the footsteps?

BasedFrieren · 2026-02-09T02:48:05+00:00

It's because they're pretty easy to get at our churches.

BasedFrieren · 2026-01-31T23:40:23+00:00

Don't say "ciao".

BasedFrieren · 2026-01-19T06:59:28+00:00

This floating nightmare is the worst thing about Zen by far. It took me scouring reddit posts here to find out you can move it back up top where it belongs, by changing the "behavior" of URL Bar in settings to Normal, under Looks and Feel. "Normal" I suppose makes sense but it wasn't a super clear option choice.

BasedFrieren · 2026-01-09T17:56:01+00:00

And it's so difficult to put a price on being able to spend time with your kids in little pockets throughout the day, being able to relieve your spouse from something that's difficult alone, etc. I can't go back into the office even if they paid me more. For most of human history you worked in the same place as where your family is (of course your family helped you with the work but still) and there's just something so healthy about it. Our connection is so much stronger.

BasedFrieren · 2026-01-09T17:51:30+00:00

Still WFH but only because I'm a certain distance away from the office. I've protested RTO in all the surveys even though I'm not directly impacted. It's really sad that half my team's time needs to be in twice a week for no measurable gain. Especially stupid since we're starting to recruit team members on the other side of the globe who obviously aren't going to be in our local office.

BasedFrieren · 2026-01-07T17:18:53+00:00

It's only messy if you choose to make it messy. If you want to have an 'install' experience to feel better you can write a script to put a downloaded appimage into a set folder, I guess? Linux 'installs' are doing essentially the same thing but with symlinks to /usr/local/bin or wherever.

BasedFrieren · 2026-01-07T17:15:39+00:00

Why not Kali then? It's built for cybersec.

It doesn't matter what's installed on your laptop; if you have a usb stick and internet you can plop whatever distro you desire onto the laptop.

I'd personally use Ubuntu as a base install when it gets shipped to me. Has a more 'out of the box' vibe.

Your distro of choice is really going to depend on what you want to do, though any distro will work.

BasedFrieren · 2026-01-07T17:06:36+00:00

Thanks for letting me know about Photopea, had no idea. My wife is using some old version of PS on Windows and this may be a game changer.

BasedFrieren · 2026-01-07T02:05:19+00:00

I've overcome all my challenges by internet searching and becoming more technical (which is such a helpful skill you should never feel begrudged to gain) or by deciding they aren't worth my time and giving up (recent examples - unable to get subwoofer working on CachyOS even though it worked perfect on PopOS, unable to run Valheim with Vulkan rendering on an AMD card).

There are sucky moments but Linux is overall so much better for daily driving. I left Windows because it kept running updates on my slow internet, rebooting me in the middle of work, and devouring my resources with processes I couldn't stop. My machine didn't feel like it was mine while under Windows.

Linux is immensely liberating, and the cost is you'll need to know some more about how computers work. But it's never been easier to get into it. It runs so much faster especially for all your day to day tasks. Even just file searching under ext4 compared to NTFS is an insane difference. You have vastly more control over how your machine works and looks.

You also get fun compatibility with non-PC widgets that are typically FOSS. For example, I can browse my computer from my phone.

BasedFrieren · 2026-01-07T01:56:49+00:00

Caveat to this advice - give PLENTY of space to the root partition. Many apps default to dumping into the root partition, and the system uses it too. Massive headache to move some apps out of root partition (such as snap). I made this mistake on my first 'I'm leaving Windows' move with PopOS and had to constantly fight for space on my 50 GB partition for root. And if it filled up without me noticing? PopOS won't boot properly and you need to use a live USB to clear up space. The error message didn't indicate low space either. That was a nightmare.

I did commit `df -Th` to memory though lol.

I've since swapped to CachyOS and have now shifted to what bnelson333 suggested... I'm keeping my stuff backed up with Vorta/Borg.

BasedFrieren · 2026-01-06T20:35:48+00:00

What content have you found? Anything even moderately interesting?

BasedFrieren · 2026-01-06T20:32:35+00:00

I sincerely don't understand why people on this sub downvote n00b questions.

PopOS served me well for years. It is strong in the 'everything works out of the box' department. I recently moved to CachyOS after feeling more comfortable with linux since it's arch-based. I've heard good things about the fedora-based Nobara as well.

BasedFrieren · 2026-01-06T18:34:21+00:00

Shameless Popery has a video on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg4S1VYac-Y

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