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Home, m'he oblidat una mica, de no practicar-ho. No hi masses oportunitats de fer-ho aquí, al Sud de California, però si que ho entenc, i m'agrada. (Si hem de parlar amb el Pau Gassol, ell ho fa molt be en anglés i castellá també...)
(Em sembla que es diu "quina caixa de sorpresas", però no puc posar la ma al foc... A veure si l'Irmamar ens dona una ma...) ![]()
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Catalán translates to Castillian fairly easily to me (much easier than Portuguese or Italian). I imagine that xano relates to the word sano.
I'm sorry you don't have the opportunity to use Catalan in California.
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chano chano Lentamente, paso a paso. ![]() ![]() (And well, I see now I have an opportunity to practice it, even in this place of planet Earth! ![]() Quote:
L'etimologia és molt curiosa: [s. XX; de l'it. dial. ciano-ciano, variant genovesa de piano-piano 'pla; calmós', reduplicat] ![]()
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Well, I think you are right... "Piano, piano, si va lontano"... was the motto of the Italian Marco Polo, he went to China, he got the spaghetti, and came back xino, xano...
![]() ![]() ![]() But it is similar or at least related to the French saying, "petit à petit, l'oiseaux fait son nid" (or the Spanish "poco a poco hila la vieja el copo") Or even the verses by A. Machado, "despacito y buena letra, el hacer las cosas bien importa más que el hacerlas", or the old saw, "vísteme despacio, que tengo prisa". ![]() Bé, a veure si em recordo de més coses en catalá i em poso a practicar-ho amb una miqueta d'intensitat... ![]()
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