cosa volete mai che sia in confronto l’interrogazione della propria maestra?

English translation: a test with your teacher will seem like a piece of cake!

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Italian term or phrase:cosa volete mai che sia in confronto l’interrogazione della propria maestra?
English translation:a test with your teacher will seem like a piece of cake!
Entered by: Lisa Jane

12:00 Sep 25, 2020
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / Music
Italian term or phrase: cosa volete mai che sia in confronto l’interrogazione della propria maestra?
Can anyone help me untangle this sentence? It's from an article about a choir director's life running treble voice choirs with children. He is talking in this section about what the children gain in terms of resilience to setbacks at school and in life in general from making music in a choir. Here is the context:

"Dopo aver cantato ad un concorso nazionale od internazionale che sia, magari come solista, dopo aver fatto numerose registrazioni per un nuovo CD con ore di take anche dello stesso brano, cosa volete mai che sia in confronto l’interrogazione della propria maestra o dei professori?"

I'm probably missing something really obvious but I would grateful for a pointer or two.

Many thanks in advance
Laura Massey
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:11
a test with your teacher will seem like a piece of cake!
Explanation:
I would turn it into an exclamation rather than a question.

It means that all the non musical skills practised in the choir (stage performances, many takes of the same piece etc.) will prepare the student for any other situations, such as oral tests/exams, that might make the student feel nervous.

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Note added at 23 mins (2020-09-25 12:24:51 GMT)
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or

an oral test in front of your teacher/professor will feel like nothing in comparison.
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Lisa Jane
Italy
Local time: 07:11
Grading comment
Thanks so much for helping me with this. Excellent suggestion!
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4 +3a test with your teacher will seem like a piece of cake!
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a test with your teacher will seem like a piece of cake!


Explanation:
I would turn it into an exclamation rather than a question.

It means that all the non musical skills practised in the choir (stage performances, many takes of the same piece etc.) will prepare the student for any other situations, such as oral tests/exams, that might make the student feel nervous.

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Note added at 23 mins (2020-09-25 12:24:51 GMT)
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or

an oral test in front of your teacher/professor will feel like nothing in comparison.

Lisa Jane
Italy
Local time: 07:11
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 496
Grading comment
Thanks so much for helping me with this. Excellent suggestion!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Isabelle Johnson: perfect
39 mins
  -> Thanks Isabelle!

agree  Josephine Cassar: Exactly, after all that you had to face, a test by a teacher is like a piece of cake
16 hrs
  -> Thanks Josephine!

agree  Kathryn Jones
19 hrs
  -> Thanks Kathryn!
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