Page 1 of 2

New member from Italy

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:29 am
by Benquick
Hello,
I write from Italy. Be indulgent towards my English, because I rarely speak or write in English and I’m supposed to practice a bit.
I stumbled upon this forum and think it is fantastic. I've always used cars with manual transmission, but I've never been fully satisfied with my precision and smoothness. I've always used gasoline cars, but for a couple of years I’ve been using a small diesel car and the situation has worsened.
My grandfather taught me how to drive when I was a child (I was driving his cars and agricultural vehicles): he was very good, very smooth and precise in the use of the gearbox, but I have never been as good. Then I fell in love with motorcycles and I have a little neglected the use of the automobile and automotive skills (though I realize that motorcycles and cars, in this respect, they have many aspects in common, and a few flaws I have with cars I've even with motorcycles, of course), but now I want to recover and improve. Precision and smoothness are my goals.
I also realized that many things that I took for granted, in the use of the gearbox and more generally in roadcraft, they were not at all, and that I still have much to learn.
When I found this forum, I realized I was in the right place, and many of your posts are of great quality. Thanks

Benquick

Re: New member from Italy

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:01 am
by ClutchDisc
Welcome!! :mrgreen:

Re: New member from Italy

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:06 am
by potownrob
Benvenuto al SS!! Have patience and you will get smoother in time.

Re: New member from Italy

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:07 am
by theholycow
Image

Re: New member from Italy

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:08 am
by Squint
Bienvenue! (I've got some French, no Italian) What is your small diesel car that you are driving?

Re: New member from Italy

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:45 am
by Benquick
Thanks for your welcome.

I'm driving a Fiesta 1.4 TDCI (year 2007). I'm getting better using it, but I've never loved it a lot. Poor performance, notchy gearbox and some rev-hang, all features that make driving less enjoyable.

I've found that I can improve my smoothness focusing on the "neutral load" of the driveline and on overlapping a bit of clutch on the gas pedal

Re: New member from Italy

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 11:09 am
by AHTOXA
OP, your English is better than vast majority of posts you see on most other forums made by native English speakers. Can't even read that shit half the time without getting a headache.

Welcome to the boards!

Re: New member from Italy

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:33 pm
by zenfiz6
Indeed, Welcome!

And for the small amount of time I spent in Trieste.... you are brave, indeed, to drive on those roads. I saw no Ferraris, but I saw a lot of Ferrari driving. :lol:

Re: New member from Italy

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:07 pm
by Benquick
@athoxa - maybe because I like people who speak and write correctly and with a bit of elegance in Italian, I try to do the same when I write in English. Thanks

@zenzif6 - my surname is really Ferrari :-)

Re: New member from Italy

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:02 pm
by tankinbeans
Willkommen Sie bei Standardshift. Ihre Englisch ist ganz perfekt.

Re: New member from Italy

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:08 pm
by tankinbeans
Squint wrote:Bienvenue! (I've got some French, no Italian) What is your small diesel car that you are driving?
I think welcome, in Italian, is bienvenido.

Re: New member from Italy

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:39 pm
by potownrob
tankinbeans wrote:
Squint wrote:Bienvenue! (I've got some French, no Italian) What is your small diesel car that you are driving?
I think welcome, in Italian, is bienvenido.
Image
i already said it in my post man :? :?:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/benvenuto

Re: New member from Italy

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:26 pm
by tankinbeans
Phone sucks. Didn't catch it. My mistake.

Re: New member from Italy

Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:10 pm
by Rope-Pusher
Pastrami fettuccine cacciatore linguine. Stromboli mostacciolli benzine. Lambrusco prosciutto scallopini chianti antipasto parmesan. Lasagne zucchini grappa ziti.

Come si può vedere, molti su questo forum parlano la lingua di consumo. Felice di averti unirsi a noi!

Re: New member from Italy

Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:21 pm
by tankinbeans
Lots of pasta with gasoline. Sounds...tasty.