Sign up for Lingopie at this link to immerse yourself in foreign language content made comprehensible from beginners to advanced learners: learn.lingopie.com/lukepolymathy Irene and I try to stump each other with idiomatic expressions in Italian and English, game show style! Who will win?? What is the hardest idiomatic expression among these? Write below if you get 5/5! 🦂 Support my work on Patreon: www.patreon.com/LukeRanieri 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com 🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella "Vir Petasātus" learn.storylearning.com/lu-promo?affiliate_id=3932873 🦂 Sign up for my Latin Pronunciation & Conversation series on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/54058196 ☕ Support my work with PayPal: paypal.me/lukeranieri And if you like, do consider joining this channel: ua-cam.com/channels/Lbiwlm3poGNh5XSVlXBkGA.htmljoin 🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/latin-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables 🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/ancient-greek-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables 🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons: ua-cam.com/play/PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam.html 👨🏫 My Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata playlist · Free Latin Lessons: ua-cam.com/video/j7hd799IznU/v-deo.html 🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian) ua-cam.com/users/ScorpioMartianus 🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio: lukeranieri.com/audio 🌍 polýMATHY website: lukeranieri.com/polymathy/ 🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram: instagram.com/lukeranieri/ 🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast: ua-cam.com/users/LegioXIII 👕 Merch: teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus 🦂 www.ScorpioMartianus.com 🦅 www.LukeRanieri.com 📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon: amzn.to/2nVUfqd Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart 00:00 Intro 00:47 The Rules of the Game 23:15 Outtakes 2:26 Italian Expression 1 3:28 English Expression 1 3:55 Italian Expression 2 6:29 English Expression 2 7:23 Italian Expression 3 9:23 English Expression 3 10:56 Italian Expression 4 12:41 English Expression 4 14:20 Italian Expression 5 15:21 English Expression 5 18:07 OVERTIME Italian Expression 6 19:04 OVERTIME English Expression 6 20:10 OVERTIME Italian Expression 7 21:04 OVERTIME English Expression 7 23:14 Outtakes
Questo video è la dimostrazione che, anche se conosciamo bene una lingua, spesso le espressioni idiomatiche ci sfuggono. È stato divertente e un bell’esercizio! Mi sento un eager beaver per il prossimo video! 🦫😂 Non vedo l’ora di imparare di più! ❤
È vero! ❤️ Quest’esperienza mi ha rinnovato il desiderio di studiare seriamente le espressioni idiomatiche in tutte le lingue che studio, specialmente in italiano, ma anche in latino, in greco antico, anzi forse mi conviene studiare le espressioni idiomatiche nella letteratura classica inglese! Quante belle espressioni di Shakespeare, di Jane Austen mi sono sconosciute! che dovremmo usare per arricchire la lingua parlata.
Yes! A Lingopie plug is amazing, I love that service and it's absolutely worth the money. Para mejorar mi aleman y español, veo Lingopie. I'm not even studying Italian right now, I'm watching these videos for my Latin and Spanish practice.
I love this video, you're very lucky to be both extremely prepared in each others' languages, you can make the greatest italian-american couple language-themed content on UA-cam!
Cmq impressionante, non sentivo Luke parlare italiano da alcuni anni (sono una spettatrice scostante) e la sua pronuncia in italiano si è perfezionata stratosfericamente.
Figures of speech include all literary manipulation of language - hyperbole, metaphor, idioms, etc. Idioms are a subset of figures of speech that are not logically deducible from the literal meaning of the words. So they're both. Idioms are a type of figure of speech.
Very cool! I am also an American man married to an Italian woman! It is very nice. But my wife is too good at english, we speak english, but I am studying Italian, and our daughter, who we raise in Italy, speaks italian mainly, so I practice with her
Peas in a pad è 'culo e camicia'.😁 Simpaticissimo video. Il ragazzo ha acquisito anche un marcato e simpatico accento romano quando parla italiano. Complimenti a tutti e due! P.S.- Ants in the pants è troppo forte!
The video is great! I started studying Italian just a couple of months ago and with the help of Google am able to understand all that Irene is saying! The figures of speech are needed to be studied with the help of a native speaker, I agree. Watching this episode, I tried to remember Russian equivalents for the ones you mentioned, and it’s bazaar! Some idioms are more easy to guess, but some are completely impossible! For “throwing the caution to the wind” for example, Russian speakers would suddenly use old Slavic words, which are not used anyhow else, but here (“ничтоже сумняшеся”). I mean, if you know other Slavic languages, it’s probably easy, but Russian speakers need to say something like “нисколько не сомневаясь” which is not exactly close in sound, and yet we keep the old version in our every day speech! Another example of a use only for the particular idiomatic expression would be words in “точь-в-точь” which relates to the “two peas in the pod”, only the meaning even more of exact similarity. The “точь” you cannot meet anywhere else in the Russian language (there are “точно” and “точка” which are probably related, but not this one). Of course you can use the Italian “like two drops of water” - it’s quite common too. For the sure thing (like “there’s no rain there”, “clear as day”) a Russian speaker commonly says “как пить дать” (“like to give a drink (of water)”) - good luck, foreigners, to guess the meaning just out of the words in front of you! The other expression for the certainty will be something like “here you don’t need a visit to a seer” (“тут и к гадалке не ходи”)- while it’s easy to assume, it really sounds hilarious, because it’s used by people, who probably never seriously think about fortune tellers! For the “ants in your pants” in Russian they suspect “a protruding nail in one of the places”(“у тебя гвоздик в одном месте”), which prevents you from seating comfortably still. But there are a couple more of related phrases. For example “for a mad dog seven more miles is not a detour” (“для бешеной собаки семь вёрст - не крюк”) with the meaning that if your judgment is clouded (by excitement or anxiety) you tend to overdo things without noticing. And another: “do seat down, since there is no truth in standing legs” (“садись, в ногах правды нет”) - the Russian people noticed that a liar has tendency to move more than a person who tells the truth. An “eager beaver” is not exactly a common occurrence among the Russian population, I assume, or maybe it is not a problem to acknowledge. There is a quite negative expression which relates to overdoing things, while doing them wrongly and it’s not something you say to a person you love :) Something like: “you teach a fool to pray to the god, but he’ll just break his forehead” - without understanding even by doing a good thing you’ll get detrimental results, no matter how hard you try ;) Obviously, since everyone knows that phrase, just the first part of it is enough - “научи дурака богу молиться…” For the “seating on your hands” or “seating with folded hands” (the latter you can use in Russian directly translated “сидеть сложа руки”) the most common way to say it would be “not hitting a finger on finger” (“не ударить пальцем о палец”), so that’s pretty close :) For the “killing two birds with one stone” Russians would “kill two hares with one shot”, looks like the expression was borrowed in the time when everyone liked hunting in Russia. For an unlikely scenario, like “when pigs/donkeys fly” traditional saying is “when a lobster whistles on a mountain” (“когда рак на горе свистнет”). But there is another expression, which talks about false promises and it’s a rather puzzling one - “after a light rain on a Thursday” (“после дождичка в четверг”) It’s a very common phrase, probably Russian people have to deal with false promises a lot (but why Thursday! ;))) There is related phrase for an impossible thing which is needed to prompt other things into motion: “not until a fried chicken peck him in the head” (“пока жареный петух в голову не клюнет”) - and it’s just picturesque by itself ;) There seem to be no close ones to the “his name’s Pedro”, but there’s one, related to borrowing things to others, and their failure to return things on their own: “даешь руками, забираешь ногами” - “you need only your hands to give it, but you need also your legs to get it back” Tradition in Russia speaks about borrowing only in a common saying, which means “it’s all right, no worries, we will find a way to get even eventually, since we’re each others’ people” - “свои люди, сочтёмся”
Nice! I’m now embarking on learning Italian in preparation for a trip to Italy in preparation for reading Dante in Italian. Might take years. No hurry.
At home in the UK, even though the no sh*t Sherlock phrase existed, we had to say 'dont teach your grandmother to suck eggs' as the more common reference to fictional detectives would lead to the rough edge of my Mum's tongue for using bad language!
Lovely! I’m glad to hear from Brits, since there are so many wonderful variations between our dialects, and especially because Irene uses chiefly British pronunciation and idiom, so it’s all the better to add to my American notions. Thanks!
From the States and surprised to hear that expression again. But 'don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs' was one of my father's sayings to me if I tried to get too smart for my own good.
"To make a mountain out of a molehill" è verosimilmente il prequel di "la montagna partorì un topolino". Entrambe le espressioni hanno a che fare con l'aver ingigantito un problema ma mentre il significato della prima è intuitivo, quello della seconda no. Le montagne infatti non partoriscono e pertanto non si capisce perché mai dovrebbero partorire topi, sia pure in un'espressione figurata. Il significato diventa chiaro si considera il modo di dire italiano una continuazione della storia raccontata nel modo di dire inglese. Ed infatti se uno scambia lo scavo di una talpa per una montagna, allora da quella montagna può benissimo saltare fuori una talpa (o un topolino).
I love Italian. I learned it at school (many years ago) but then I specialised heavily in German at university (including a year in Germany as an exchange student) so my Italian went rusty - purtroppo!
This was great, definitely do more. Only thing I’d dispute is that, in England at least, to ‘have ants in your pants’ would typically be used if someone is fidgeting while they are sitting down , rather than being in a hurry.
I think that if you are planning to do another one of this, you should translate the Italian expression for the people who are not currently learning Italian. Edit: I mean to literally translate the words.
funny, that one "si chiama pietro" has very similar czech version "jmenuje se navrátil" (it is name is navrátil). navrátil is a very common surname and is derived from the verb "navrátit" "give/get back".
Bel video! E voi insieme siete davvero forti! 👍🏼😎 A small clarification: the correct translation of "to have ants in your pants" is "non vedere l'ora di..." or "non stare più nella pelle". "Avere l'argento vivo addosso " instead means "being very lively".
Si chiama pietro! XD La dicevamo sempre da bambini quando prestavamo le matite! Also, I didn't expect to see Mike Stoklasa's picture in a polymathy video.
fatto 7/7 italiano e 6/7 in inglese e ne sono MOLTO fiero!!! irene ti stava a distrugge luke poi però il comeback finale... fifty fifty imo❤ spero ne facciate un'altro!
Nah mate, not even Musk have a comfortable life. Life's a constant struggle through and through. Those who fight is rewarded, those who are pampered are punished by Nature herself. Nature's cruelly indifferent to everyone and everything.
@@polyMATHY_Luke luke don't touch me star trek pls ' cose ti metto seduto in una fiat 500 dietro con due elefanti ( into two elephant) e due elephant davanti beleave me
In Lombardia si usa parecchio. C'è anche la versione con doppio nome: si chiama Pietro Giovanni... Pietro torna indietro, Giovanni senza danni. Don't forget to give it back, possibly in good health.😆 Ciao.
To reinvent the wheel non è la stessa cosa per niente, anche se è un errore comune pensare che sia la stessa cosa. E' usato in un modo del tutto diverso e non ha un equivalente in italiano. Fidati nessuno dice mai "you reinvented the wheel" nel modo in cui noi diciamo "hai scoperto l'acqua calda". Se tu dicessi "you reinvented the wheel" nello stesso modo la gente non capirebbe che cosa vuoi dire.
Luke, congrats on your engagement, your finance is charming. It would be helpful if you put up the literal meaning of the Italian expressions, so those who do not speak Italian can guess at the idiomatic meaning. Irene won!
"Hai scoperto l'America!" might be also (ironically) "hai scoperto l'acqua calda!" (= "Oh, did you discover warm water?") or "La scoperta dell'acqua calda!" (= "The discovering of warm water")...
I think Italians have a great ability to understand some idioms they do not know, perhaps it is their heritage from Latin where they were used often or because Italians themselves had to improve this skill to understand so many dialects up and down of itayl. I also find this ability in Poly who was very good at understanding the unintelligible.
This is quite helpful for a non-native speaker of either language. The fun thing: There are some expressions in German that are similar to the English ones.
You lend something to someone, something that has some value "Si chiama Pietro, fa il servizio e torna indietro" I will invent something that rhymes in english "His name is Jack, he does the job and comes back"
@polyMATHY_Luke I'm sure you'll love to know that a very common italian idiomatic expression for "when pigs fly" is (or was, up until the turn of the century) "alle calende greche". That comes directly from the latin expression "ad Kalendas Graecas soluturos" that, according to Suetonius, emperor Augustus used to say to joke about debtors that he knew from the start would be insolvent.
I have a few suggestions for round two. I’m not sure how common they are anymore: thick as thieves. Ball’s in your court. The lights are on, but no one’s home. Brown trousers moment / code brown/ brown alert To have Roman (roaming) eyes. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Bought it, hook, line, and sinker.
The Italian one is supposed to be: "Here it is, but it's called Pietro" Ecco tieni, ma si chiama Pietro "Ehm, ok why?" 🤌 perché? "Because it comes back" perché torna indietro
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Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart
00:00 Intro
00:47 The Rules of the Game
23:15 Outtakes
2:26 Italian Expression 1
3:28 English Expression 1
3:55 Italian Expression 2
6:29 English Expression 2
7:23 Italian Expression 3
9:23 English Expression 3
10:56 Italian Expression 4
12:41 English Expression 4
14:20 Italian Expression 5
15:21 English Expression 5
18:07 OVERTIME Italian Expression 6
19:04 OVERTIME English Expression 6
20:10 OVERTIME Italian Expression 7
21:04 OVERTIME English Expression 7
23:14 Outtakes
I want to sell you one of my properties, 9 kms away from Ancient Olympia. Only to you.
The Chemistry is impeccable, and no finer language than Italian for love.
no finer language for love than italian? you are 100% stereotype😄
@@maximmin9088well, that’s their opinion, stereotypes form for a reason
@@Nehauon . In fact, for everything there is always some reason behind it.
@@maximmin9088 let me guess you're french
@@pippobaudo9925 How do you know?😄
Luke: "hi, I'm Luke and this is Polymathy"
Irene: *AO*
Mums the word for acqua in bocca. Don’t spill the beans . Non spiegare niente. Non divulgere Che e una festa domani
A d o r o ❤
ahjahahahahahhahahahah
This was a lot of fun, great format too.
Thanks, Jackson!
"Si chiama Pietro"
Difficulty at 300% capacity
Its name is Jack, it has to come back
@@Janos86 nice shot man!
@@Janos86 "His name is Jack, and will come back" (I was told once...)
I live in Italy. I have never heard that before.
@@pjetri24 I was told it by a Briton, of course....
As an Italian, I'm so impressed with Luke's italian, especially his accent 💯
Molto gentile! Ho ancora tanto lavoro da fare.
Secondo me il latino ha giovato moltissimo alla sua pronuncia
He seems to be a genius for languages!!
Che bel video, ragazzi!
Grazieeeesp! ❤
Grazie, Davide!
Maybe I need to shave my head and learn Latin 😂 Love the video mate.
You'd be a Latin Lex Luthor. 😉
I'm halfway there 😂
Questo video è la dimostrazione che, anche se conosciamo bene una lingua, spesso le espressioni idiomatiche ci sfuggono. È stato divertente e un bell’esercizio! Mi sento un eager beaver per il prossimo video! 🦫😂 Non vedo l’ora di imparare di più! ❤
È vero! ❤️ Quest’esperienza mi ha rinnovato il desiderio di studiare seriamente le espressioni idiomatiche in tutte le lingue che studio, specialmente in italiano, ma anche in latino, in greco antico, anzi forse mi conviene studiare le espressioni idiomatiche nella letteratura classica inglese! Quante belle espressioni di Shakespeare, di Jane Austen mi sono sconosciute! che dovremmo usare per arricchire la lingua parlata.
I'd say Luke won, because he is engaged to Irene.
Giusto😀
He is probably the Jhonny Sins of linguists
@@raulcosta69ahahah
Molto bravi e divertenti! Questo misto di romano-english é vincente!
wow, I understand her perfectly with my ok Spanish and some months of a couple of Duolingo lessons a day
Yes! A Lingopie plug is amazing, I love that service and it's absolutely worth the money. Para mejorar mi aleman y español, veo Lingopie. I'm not even studying Italian right now, I'm watching these videos for my Latin and Spanish practice.
Meraviglioso - grazie mille per la lezione sopra tutte queste espressioni italiane!
I love this video, you're very lucky to be both extremely prepared in each others' languages, you can make the greatest italian-american couple language-themed content on UA-cam!
Cmq impressionante, non sentivo Luke parlare italiano da alcuni anni (sono una spettatrice scostante) e la sua pronuncia in italiano si è perfezionata stratosfericamente.
Hai ragione! 😍 Mi manca tanto il suo accento americano però! Era così …fascinosetto! 😢
Luke ha un accetto italiano quasi perfetto, davvero bravo
Magari! Grazie lo stesso.
Another way to say "hai scoperto l'America", is "hai scoperto l'acqua calda" (you discovered hot water)
Interessante come invece “hai/ha trovato l’America” ha un significato totalmente diverso nel senso di “hai/ha avuto l’occasione della tua/sua vita”
Figures of speech include all literary manipulation of language - hyperbole, metaphor, idioms, etc. Idioms are a subset of figures of speech that are not logically deducible from the literal meaning of the words.
So they're both. Idioms are a type of figure of speech.
Thank you for explaining that! It’s crystal clear now! 😊
"without using the bonus!" she's a sore winner.
I’d love to see more like this. Understanding idioms is one of the more difficult challenges of reading Italian for me
I think we all won.
siete così carini che ho visto il video con un sorriso scemo sulla faccia tutto il tempo
I ❤ how you guys interact with each other , you really do belong together. Great video!
Very cool! I am also an American man married to an Italian woman! It is very nice. But my wife is too good at english, we speak english, but I am studying Italian, and our daughter, who we raise in Italy, speaks italian mainly, so I practice with her
Peas in a pad è 'culo e camicia'.😁 Simpaticissimo video. Il ragazzo ha acquisito anche un marcato e simpatico accento romano quando parla italiano. Complimenti a tutti e due!
P.S.- Ants in the pants è troppo forte!
That was fun to watch, especially as I speak both languages fluently. Nice to meet Irene, obviously Romana.
Daje Carlo! Nice to meet you too! 😊
@@irenelapreziosa Un gran piacere di conoscerti😁
Fantastico! Qui la simpatia esplode dal video, bellissimo.
The video is great! I started studying Italian just a couple of months ago and with the help of Google am able to understand all that Irene is saying! The figures of speech are needed to be studied with the help of a native speaker, I agree.
Watching this episode, I tried to remember Russian equivalents for the ones you mentioned, and it’s bazaar! Some idioms are more easy to guess, but some are completely impossible!
For “throwing the caution to the wind” for example, Russian speakers would suddenly use old Slavic words, which are not used anyhow else, but here (“ничтоже сумняшеся”). I mean, if you know other Slavic languages, it’s probably easy, but Russian speakers need to say something like “нисколько не сомневаясь” which is not exactly close in sound, and yet we keep the old version in our every day speech!
Another example of a use only for the particular idiomatic expression would be words in “точь-в-точь” which relates to the “two peas in the pod”, only the meaning even more of exact similarity. The “точь” you cannot meet anywhere else in the Russian language (there are “точно” and “точка” which are probably related, but not this one). Of course you can use the Italian “like two drops of water” - it’s quite common too.
For the sure thing (like “there’s no rain there”, “clear as day”) a Russian speaker commonly says “как пить дать” (“like to give a drink (of water)”) - good luck, foreigners, to guess the meaning just out of the words in front of you! The other expression for the certainty will be something like “here you don’t need a visit to a seer” (“тут и к гадалке не ходи”)- while it’s easy to assume, it really sounds hilarious, because it’s used by people, who probably never seriously think about fortune tellers!
For the “ants in your pants” in Russian they suspect “a protruding nail in one of the places”(“у тебя гвоздик в одном месте”), which prevents you from seating comfortably still. But there are a couple more of related phrases. For example “for a mad dog seven more miles is not a detour” (“для бешеной собаки семь вёрст - не крюк”) with the meaning that if your judgment is clouded (by excitement or anxiety) you tend to overdo things without noticing. And another: “do seat down, since there is no truth in standing legs” (“садись, в ногах правды нет”) - the Russian people noticed that a liar has tendency to move more than a person who tells the truth.
An “eager beaver” is not exactly a common occurrence among the Russian population, I assume, or maybe it is not a problem to acknowledge. There is a quite negative expression which relates to overdoing things, while doing them wrongly and it’s not something you say to a person you love :) Something like: “you teach a fool to pray to the god, but he’ll just break his forehead” - without understanding even by doing a good thing you’ll get detrimental results, no matter how hard you try ;) Obviously, since everyone knows that phrase, just the first part of it is enough - “научи дурака богу молиться…”
For the “seating on your hands” or “seating with folded hands” (the latter you can use in Russian directly translated “сидеть сложа руки”) the most common way to say it would be “not hitting a finger on finger” (“не ударить пальцем о палец”), so that’s pretty close :)
For the “killing two birds with one stone” Russians would “kill two hares with one shot”, looks like the expression was borrowed in the time when everyone liked hunting in Russia.
For an unlikely scenario, like “when pigs/donkeys fly” traditional saying is “when a lobster whistles on a mountain” (“когда рак на горе свистнет”). But there is another expression, which talks about false promises and it’s a rather puzzling one - “after a light rain on a Thursday” (“после дождичка в четверг”) It’s a very common phrase, probably Russian people have to deal with false promises a lot (but why Thursday! ;))) There is related phrase for an impossible thing which is needed to prompt other things into motion: “not until a fried chicken peck him in the head” (“пока жареный петух в голову не клюнет”) - and it’s just picturesque by itself ;)
There seem to be no close ones to the “his name’s Pedro”, but there’s one, related to borrowing things to others, and their failure to return things on their own: “даешь руками, забираешь ногами” - “you need only your hands to give it, but you need also your legs to get it back” Tradition in Russia speaks about borrowing only in a common saying, which means “it’s all right, no worries, we will find a way to get even eventually, since we’re each others’ people” - “свои люди, сочтёмся”
'To make a mountain out of a molehill'. In Brasil we have an quivalent 'to make a storm in a glass of water', 'fazer tempestade num copo d'água'
In italiano è "una tempesta in un bicchiere d'acqua"
In spanish the meaning it’s a little bit different, but we say “ahogarse en un vaso de agua” (to drown in a water glass)
In English we say a storm in a teacup 😊
In German we turn a mosquito into an elephant. 'Aus einer Mücke einen Elefanten machen'
@@equolizerin Italy too: fare di una mosca (Fliege) un elefante.
This was fun!
I can see his motivation for languages now
Very fun episode!
Nice! I’m now embarking on learning Italian in preparation for a trip to Italy in preparation for reading Dante in Italian. Might take years. No hurry.
Yayyyy! In bocca al lupo! 😍
@@irenelapreziosa Grazie Mille!
At home in the UK, even though the no sh*t Sherlock phrase existed, we had to say 'dont teach your grandmother to suck eggs' as the more common reference to fictional detectives would lead to the rough edge of my Mum's tongue for using bad language!
Lovely! I’m glad to hear from Brits, since there are so many wonderful variations between our dialects, and especially because Irene uses chiefly British pronunciation and idiom, so it’s all the better to add to my American notions. Thanks!
From the States and surprised to hear that expression again. But 'don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs' was one of my father's sayings to me if I tried to get too smart for my own good.
"insegnare ai gatti ad arrampicare"
Great video! Trying to learn Italian and these expressions helped.
"To make a mountain out of a molehill" è verosimilmente il prequel di "la montagna partorì un topolino".
Entrambe le espressioni hanno a che fare con l'aver ingigantito un problema ma mentre il significato della prima è intuitivo, quello della seconda no. Le montagne infatti non partoriscono e pertanto non si capisce perché mai dovrebbero partorire topi, sia pure in un'espressione figurata. Il significato diventa chiaro si considera il modo di dire italiano una continuazione della storia raccontata nel modo di dire inglese. Ed infatti se uno scambia lo scavo di una talpa per una montagna, allora da quella montagna può benissimo saltare fuori una talpa (o un topolino).
I love Italian. I learned it at school (many years ago) but then I specialised heavily in German at university (including a year in Germany as an exchange student) so my Italian went rusty - purtroppo!
like my english i try to improve it with you tube and houres of listening
For me, things like background music make it more challenging when I am listening in a language which is not my first language.
very much so. it adds a considerable amount of cognitive load.
This is the kind of relationship that I pray God will bless me with, May God bless your union and future ✝️
Who won? You're a loving couple wanted each other to win. I think you both won.
For "two peas in a pod" we in Rome (as Irene, I guess) use "paro paro" more often than "due gocce d'acqua"
Loved this!
Mamma mia, Irene ci è andata giù pesante, con "si chiama Pietro" l'ha asfaltato
Forse ho esagerato!
Hi there! Another wonderful video! Thank You Guys!
Thank you for watching!!! 😍
“Prendere due piccioni con una fava” 🥰
“Hit two birds with one stone” 💀
Luke is moving up in the world. Good job!
This was great, definitely do more. Only thing I’d dispute is that, in England at least, to ‘have ants in your pants’ would typically be used if someone is fidgeting while they are sitting down , rather than being in a hurry.
True!
I think that if you are planning to do another one of this, you should translate the Italian expression for the people who are not currently learning Italian.
Edit: I mean to literally translate the words.
Ah that’s fair, I didn’t think about that. Good suggestion
@@polyMATHY_Luke I am glad I could help.
funny, that one "si chiama pietro" has very similar czech version "jmenuje se navrátil" (it is name is navrátil). navrátil is a very common surname and is derived from the verb "navrátit" "give/get back".
That’s so cool!!! Thank you for sharing!
Bel video! E voi insieme siete davvero forti! 👍🏼😎
A small clarification: the correct translation of "to have ants in your pants" is "non vedere l'ora di..." or "non stare più nella pelle".
"Avere l'argento vivo addosso " instead means "being very lively".
That video made me smile 🙂
I cackled trying to imitate them initiating the sound of water drops! 😂
Si chiama pietro! XD La dicevamo sempre da bambini quando prestavamo le matite! Also, I didn't expect to see Mike Stoklasa's picture in a polymathy video.
Haha I am a big fan of RLM.
fatto 7/7 italiano e 6/7 in inglese e ne sono MOLTO fiero!!! irene ti stava a distrugge luke poi però il comeback finale... fifty fifty imo❤ spero ne facciate un'altro!
Ahaha grazie, per me vince sempre Irene ❤️
Bravissimo!! ❤👏
@@polyMATHY_Lukebabby❤
Sei del Lazio Sud?@@irenelapreziosa
Too cute! She won though lol
spill the beans in Italian is "sputa il rospo"
'Sono sbonusato' is fantastic
These two look so cute together.
There are people out there really just living a good life
I ask me everyday what’s the secret
Nah mate, not even Musk have a comfortable life. Life's a constant struggle through and through. Those who fight is rewarded, those who are pampered are punished by Nature herself. Nature's cruelly indifferent to everyone and everything.
Short Circuit. What a strange and hyperspecific movie reference 😂
Hahahaha. That’s how my brain works. Star Trek, Short Circuit, birds.
@@polyMATHY_Luke luke don't touch me star trek pls ' cose ti metto seduto in una fiat 500 dietro con due elefanti ( into two elephant) e due elephant davanti beleave me
Johnny 5 IS ALIIIIIIVE
Luke is punching above his weight class there
I don't mean to rain on your parade but you shouldn't be throwing rocks in a glass house.
It's almost as if she loves him, oh wait she does. Come on man
@@williamwallace4080 Flew right over your head :D
keep mirin'
Don't underestimate the power of culture and knowledge. Luke speaks Latin as if he were born 2000 years ago 🗿🗣🔥🔥🔥
piove sul bagnato: "when it rains, it pours". Ah ok l'avete trovato! :)
comunque anche being a honeybadger è assurda in inglese! adoro gli idiomi :P
Instead of making a mountain out of a molehill, several languages make an elephant out of a fly.
In Polish you make a pitchfork out of a needle
Делать из мухи слона! It's the first idiom I learned in Russian back when I started!
In Romanian, we make a steed out of a mosquito.
Lucus has become a real Roman, even marrying an Italian haha
Siete meravigliosi.
More please
Happy for you guys
In Lombardia si usa parecchio. C'è anche la versione con doppio nome: si chiama Pietro Giovanni... Pietro torna indietro, Giovanni senza danni. Don't forget to give it back, possibly in good health.😆 Ciao.
Irene: “Non ci piove”
Roofer: “I know this one”
i can see his love for italian language
Ed io aggiungerei…. non solo per la lingua italiana ! ;)
Hai scoperto l'America
Hai scoperto l'acqua calda
Hai scoperto l'ombrello
You reinvented the wheel
To reinvent the wheel non è la stessa cosa per niente, anche se è un errore comune pensare che sia la stessa cosa. E' usato in un modo del tutto diverso e non ha un equivalente in italiano. Fidati nessuno dice mai "you reinvented the wheel" nel modo in cui noi diciamo "hai scoperto l'acqua calda". Se tu dicessi "you reinvented the wheel" nello stesso modo la gente non capirebbe che cosa vuoi dire.
Feels like 'si chiama Pietro e torna indietro' could only work with the precise gesturing and cadence of an Italian
it's a joke with rhyme of world Pietro (Peter) indietro (backwards) in italian sound is more similar
Stupendi 🥰
Lovely location!
Luke, congrats on your engagement, your finance is charming. It would be helpful if you put up the literal meaning of the Italian expressions, so those who do not speak Italian can guess at the idiomatic meaning. Irene won!
2:10, those eyes of yours were looking with love. It's so cute. ❤
This was good fun! 😀
Bravi e simpatici! Well done!
Two peas in a pod normally refers to two things that are very similar (usually that look similar).
"Dio li fa e poi li accoppia", altra espressione, siete voi, bravi, belli e simpatici! ❤
Bravissima!!! ❤
"Hai scoperto l'America!" might be also (ironically) "hai scoperto l'acqua calda!" (= "Oh, did you discover warm water?") or "La scoperta dell'acqua calda!" (= "The discovering of warm water")...
Bellissima, intelligente, simpatica e innamorata. Hai vinto al SuperEnalotto!
Grazie ❤️🥹🙏🏻
I think Italians have a great ability to understand some idioms they do not know, perhaps it is their heritage from Latin where they were used often or because Italians themselves had to improve this skill to understand so many dialects up and down of itayl. I also find this ability in Poly who was very good at understanding the unintelligible.
I thing most of the ones Luke chose where more or less descriptive without context. "Kick the bucket" or "Break a leg" would've been harder to guess.
This is quite helpful for a non-native speaker of either language.
The fun thing: There are some expressions in German that are similar to the English ones.
La roba del coniglio mi ha spaccato
You lend something to someone, something that has some value
"Si chiama Pietro, fa il servizio e torna indietro"
I will invent something that rhymes in english
"His name is Jack, he does the job and comes back"
She's gorgeous, congratulations 😆👏
Thank you 🥹🙏🏻
It's funny that her username, if you read it as Spanish, means "Irene the gorgeous".
Bel video ma anche divertente! La ciliegina sulla torta è il "mortacci sua, aoh!" alla fine 😂😂😂 Detto come va detto, cioè alla romana! 😂👍
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OMG you two are adorable 😊
an even more common italian expression than 'hai scoperto l'America' that we use is 'hai scoperto l'acqua calda'
Bellissimo 😅
Who won? I won! Such a good video!
Awesome! Increible!
Bravi bel video, e poi finalmente abbiamo sentito Luke parlare italiano e non latino :D
3:42 the sadness when you realise you can't do that with your hair... Bellissima selezione di modi di dire italiani. Irene troppo simpatica!
"do you have ants in your pants?" in Italian could be "devi andare in bagno?"
@polyMATHY_Luke I'm sure you'll love to know that a very common italian idiomatic expression for "when pigs fly" is (or was, up until the turn of the century) "alle calende greche".
That comes directly from the latin expression "ad Kalendas Graecas soluturos" that, according to Suetonius, emperor Augustus used to say to joke about debtors that he knew from the start would be insolvent.
I have a few suggestions for round two. I’m not sure how common they are anymore:
thick as thieves.
Ball’s in your court.
The lights are on, but no one’s home.
Brown trousers moment / code brown/ brown alert
To have Roman (roaming) eyes.
Rome wasn’t built in a day.
Bought it, hook, line, and sinker.
Never heard having roman eyes!
Rome wasn't build in a day we do have
Let me put one for you:
Tutte le strade portano a Roma
All roads lead to Rome
Che Bella coppia! I wonder what region of Italy she is from
We would say "it's name is Come Back" when lending something out
The Italian one is supposed to be:
"Here it is, but it's called Pietro" Ecco tieni, ma si chiama Pietro
"Ehm, ok why?" 🤌 perché?
"Because it comes back" perché torna indietro