Saturday, January 28, 2012

Ciao Italia! English to italian?

Hello friends from italy....can you please translate this text in simple english to italian for me...(please translate it in your own italian words)
Thanks in advance
Here it is:

"one of the main reasons why i loved this city so much is because it was sparsely populated back in the late 80s.
The city was at the beginning of its economic success at that time and there were many immigrants coming to settle in from other cities. At that time i lived in my father's house and our quarters was overlaid with beautiful gardens and fruit trees. There was a lot of wildlife with rare
animals and sometimes even dangerous ones. But all the same it was really beautiful and quiet. The air was always fresh and clean.
We also had neighbours where we lived. Our neighbours house was owned by a very fat man who worked in an oil compnay just like my father. He was a good friend of my father and never seem to notice
the affairs of his children at all. He had three daughters and i fancied his second daughter the most, because she was very pretty.
I remember when we first moved there i was very young (about 9 or 10 years old) and when i first saw the girls they would invite me
to go and play a game with them but i was often too shy. They also had a very ferocious dog that always attacked anyone who went close to their house so that also kept me away from them for a while,
but later i felt more courageous and developed a close friendship with the second daughter whom i fancied. she was interested in me just like i was in her. And most of the time her other two sisters were away so i could feel free.
Sometimes we will go out to the town center where there was a fair with our bikes. We will buy some icecream and get on the rollercoasters at the fair in the city center and then when we are tired we will come back home.
At home we will play in the gardens and with animals around our house. We would climb they fruit tress and eat the fruits from them.
We will sometimes try to do some drawings because we both fancied art and we were both artists.
Unfortunately a time came when my father had to move to another city for Job reasons. And i had to leave with my family
and since then i have always wanted to return there....
Concluding i will like to say that apart from the wildlife and green that this city posessed, It was sparsely populated at that time and i loved it for that.
Recently as i have heard, a lot of immigrants have moved to this city and i haven't returend there for the past 15 years and wonder if it is still the same.
Finally this city gives me a really romantic impression about it from my youth experiences."

Answer on Ciao Italia! English to italian?

I enjoy translating. What I find funny is that you are using the verbs in a funny way. Is English your first language?

"Una delle ragioni principali per cui io ho amato cosi tanto questa citta e perche negli anni 80 non aveva molti abitanti.
La citta era all'inizio del suo successo economico e molti immigrati arrivavano da altre citta.
A quel tempo vivevo in casa di mio padre e il nostro quartiere aveva molti bei giardini ed alberi da frutta.
C'erano molti animali selvatici che vivevano in liberta, alcuni anche pericolosi. Era comunque molto bello e tranquillo. L'aria era sempre fresca e limpida.
Avevamo anche dei vicini di casa. La casa vicina alla nostra apparteneva ad un uomo molto grasso che lavorava nell'industria del petrolio come mio padre. Egli era un buon amico di mio padre e sembrava disinteressarsi dei suoi figli. Egli aveva tre figlie e a me piaceva di piu la secondogenita perche era molto carina.
Ricordo che quando traslocammo io ero molto giovane (9 o 10anni circa) e quando vidi le ragazze per la prima volta esse mi invitarono a giocare con loro, ma ero troppo timido. Esse avevano anche un cane piuttosto feroce che attaccava chiunque si avvicinasse alla loro casa. Di conseguenza anche questo fatto contribui a tenermi lontano da loro per un certo periodo. Col tempo pero divenni piu coraggioso e diventai veramente amico con la secondogenita che mi piaceva. Lei dimostrava lo stesso interesse nei miei confronti. inoltre il piu delle volte le sue altre due sorelle non erano presenti quindi mi sentivo piu libero.
Alcune volte andavamo in citta con la bicicletta in occasione di qualche fiera. Compravamo il gelato e andavamo sul rollercoaster quindi quando eravamo stanchi tornavamo a casa. A casa giocavamo nel giardino con gli animali che c'erano intorno alla casa. Salivamo sugli alberi e ne mangiavamo i frutti. A volte provavamo a disegnare in quanto ci piaceva e ci sentivamo entrambi artisti.
Purtroppo arrivo il tempo in cui mio padre fu trasferito per lavoro in un'altra citta, quindi partii con la mia famiglia. Pero da allora ho sempre avuto il desiderio di ritornare.
Concludendo vorrei dire che a parte gli animali selvatici e il verde che c'era in questa citta, il fatto che fosse poco abitata mi piaceva maggiormante.
Recentemente ho saputo che la citta e abitata da molti emigrati e siccome io non ci sono piu ritornato da 15 anni, mi chiedo quanto e cambiata. Nella mia mente conservo un ricordo romantico delle mie esperienze giovanili."

In my opinion the writer should not go back so to keep a wonderful memory.