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10 ITALIAN TRANSLATION MISTAKES – are you making these mistakes?

03/11/2021

Overview

Here are 10 common Italian translation mistakes. Can you identify and correct the following errors (there may be more than one in each sentence)?

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  1. Please say me how works this machine.
  1. I try to don’t make noise when my colleague speak on the phone.
  1. I know is a problem, but what you want that I do?
  1. They are good friends of me. We stay all the time together at the weekend.
  1. I think to go to Greece for my vacation this year.
  1. When you listen my history you will laugh!
  1. If I would speak very well English, I would search a job in London.
  1. I don’t understand nothing when you speak very quickly.
  1. You must stop to work now, it’s seven and half.

You can email your answers to sonya@class-e.co.uk or check the next post for answers and some grammar information!

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