HI Neighbour !!!
About riesci the verb is riuscire it means ..succed in or get through , be able...
and bout the Adriatico, it much better on your side The italian side is not that nice !! anyway I have the luckyness of living on the Tirrenian sea, I live 50 km south from Rome. You know Latina ? (san Felice Circeo, Sabaudia, Ponza.....) and about the Italian group you mentioned, I love them all Battisti over all i think he was a big in the world music.

>>Dragan, Sei sicuro di non aver mai studiato l'Italiano ?
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>I wouldn't call that "studying", not even "learning". Just catching bits here and there.
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>>Che io sappia non è una lingua così facile e...
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>It's one of languages that are easy to speak badly, and take a long time to learn to speak properly, IMO. And, BTW, what Latin I had in gimnasia helps, once one gets the way they are transformed in Italian (cf Alexius - Alessio, doctor - dottore etc).
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>> ora capisco perchè riesci a risolvere problemi che a me fanno uscire di testa :-)
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>What's "riesci"?
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>>Non sapevo che San Remo fosse ascoltato negli States
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>Io sono un Iugoslavo. You can call me "neigbor" :).
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>> e la cosa mi fa piacere da una parte ma dall'altra mi imbarazza un po'. Spesso mi sono vergognato non poco del livello qualitativo delle canzoni.
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>Didn't like them much then, but the words stuck. And well, nowadays, I'm actually picking a few oldies which survived. Gigliola Cinquetti had a few, assorted few from Celentano, and then the legendary rockers of the sixties - seventies: Formula Tre, Lucio Battisti, Premiata Forneria Marconi, even I Pooh...
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>>Ma sai da noi si dice che l'erba del vicino è sempre più verde... Forse ho disprezzato un po' troppo l'erba Italiana !!!
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>While I did appreciate Yu-rock before coming here, now I appreciate it even more :). Probably the grass at home is also greener when you're abroad.
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>>Appena risolto i miei problemi trigonometrici ti invio qualche foto delle nostre spiagge. Io adoro l'oceano (mai visto però) ma ti assicuro che qui il mare non niente male. :-)
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>I'd pick il mare Adriatico over the Atlantic anytime. The worst thing with the Atlantic, as seen from here, is that it's on the wrong side. I somehow got the "the coast is to the west" notion hardwired into my brain, and actually took a few wrong turns here, specially when driving south. Not only am I having to rotate the map I remembered in my brain for a full pi(), but then the sea is on the wrong side... and I'd take a turn east instead of west :).