venire a conoscenza

[ilaria_1979]

Hi all! This is my first thread!

I need your help to translate this sentence "Come è venuto a conoscenza del convegno?".

How (where?) have you been aware of the conference?

(it's a question in a survey form).

Thanks a lot!
ilaria

 

[mattiegn]

Hey,

Some possible suggestions could be:
How did you come to know about the conference?
Where did you hear about the conference from?

Hope that helps!

 

[raisetheflavour]

How did you know about the meeting/conference/congress?

 

[Murphy]

Hi Ilaria and welcome to WRF,

I think you need to use the simple past tense for this question as it refers to the act of becoming aware of the conference, which is a past, finished action, despite the fact that there is a present result (he/she is now aware...).

A fairly standard format for this type question would be:
"How did you hear/find out about.....(the conference)?"

 

[mattiegn]

Murphy is right, it rings better but there is probably some grammatical explanation too.

 

[Murphy]

Murphy is right, it rings better but there is probably some grammatical explanation too.

I thought I'd given a grammatical explanation Didn't it make sense??

 

[ilaria_1979]

Thank you all! It's clear to me!