I returned from California last night! I was incredibly busy, I only had time to go through one of my Pimsleur lessons. On the plus side I listened to it while walking along the beach at Crissy Field. This was another one about having things, counting and money. The instructor explained that in Italian, you use the pronouns for "some" or "any" more than you do in English. When you actually use it to modify nouns, you use delle or dei. In this lesson they introduced the standalone form, ne. As in Non ne ho. "I don't have any."
Today I have lots of things to set up and arrange for later this week and next week. Including a meeting with the head of the exchange program with Polimi at MIT. Hopefully I can nail some of the details of visa stuff and travel down. I am also supposed to be having a conference call with Marcello and his boss/mentor Professor Tolio. The dates we are considering for me heading out are coming up soon! Hopefully I will be able to squeeze in some Rosetta Stone today, too.
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