I am always trying to improve my Italian language skills, every day week year I manage to add a couple of new words to my vocabulary. This summer we are going to spend a couple of months in Sicily with “The Family” this is the highlight of my year. Glorious sun, sea and two months of living in a house where the language effortlessly swaps between Italian and Sicilian dialect.
I can normally manage to impress my in-laws with my grasp of the Italian language by smiling at the correct moment and tutting when everybody else tuts. I have also found, that a lot of questions can be answered by shrugging my shoulders and saying cosi cosi (so so).
Because my language skills are so bad, I can empathise with anybody who is trying to learn or use a foreign language. So please excuse me for posting the following picture that I spotted in the local shop. The young woman was looking for work and tried to add a bit of English to her advert.
Young woman with references searches for work as Help in the house, Looking after old people or as a baby sister
I suggested to Mrs Sensible that we should help this young women as I really could do with a young and beautiful niece baby sister. The look I got told me that Mrs S didn’t think her references were good enough.
Englishman in Italy 
Nice try to get a baby sister 😀
I try to learn Spanish but find it very difficult, even I do grab more than few words a year 🙂
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It was worth the try 😉
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😉
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that is too funny. but I guess not for the woman looking for work as a baby sitter!!
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I deserve a pat on the back for managing to translate it. 😉
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Heehee, excellent although I cringe at the mistakes I make in Italian!!
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All the millions of mistakes I make in Italian., or even on my blog
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yikes! i guess it’s good to just good to ask for what you want directly!
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I had to share the advert with my friends. 😉
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Too funny, again. Are you putting all of these posts into a book? It would sell very well, I think, even without the help of a “baby sister.”
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Tempting very tempting, I have a book that is ready to be published but I have been busy and keep putting it off. maybe this summer I will get it organised.
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Excellent. I will be one that will buy your book. 🙂
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I will e mail you as soon as it is off the press.
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Great.
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Why do you need a baby sister? After all you had two “work aways” last summer. I just think you are being greedy. I think Mrs. S thinks so too.
Watch out for that wooden spoon.
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Everyone needs a baby sister, someone who will make cups of tea, clean the kitchen etc. 😉 The workaways are always good fun, last year we invited 6 people. Including two males!!!! Shock Horror
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I have a baby sister and she doesn’t do any of that….in fact she can be quite surly. She is about six inches taller than me (and I’m not a short woman) so I don’t mess with her.
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I am tempted to reply to the advert and ask her to be my baby sister, if only my Italian was good enough,,,, and that Mrs S wasn’t so deadly with her wet wooden spoon.
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If I were interested in working (I love my retirement) I’d be applying for that one with the “randy bonus scheme!”.
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Ha ha, I can just imagine Mrs Sensible’s face! I saw a job ad today that offered ‘randy bonus schemes’ 🙂
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Well, that says something about the prospective employer!
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That’s what I thought – I applied immediately 😉
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Bad girl 😉
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Always 🙂
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Hmm randy bonus schemes, I wonder how I translate that into Italian 😉
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PN—you always bring a smile to my face—and with the way my life is going these days–a smile is greatly appreciated—-mille grazie
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HI Julie, I am happy I made you smile. Life is not always easy is it. 😦
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I had to read this announcement twice! On second read, I said out loud, “Ohhhh I see! ” lol! Train passengers next to me remained curious !
Buona giornata!
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I had to read it quite a few times as well, it was only as I started laughing that Mrs S came over to see what I had found.
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I see we both had the same reaction!
I hope in the end, the girl found a job!
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It is very difficult here, there are lots of young and old people looking for work. We also have a lot of old people so many she found work looking after somebodies nonna.
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Oh I do hope she did…
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