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Wherever you are in the world: Italian conversation lessons via Skype!
You’ve tried our free Italian courses (you need to be a member and logged-in…). But did you know that we also organise online Italian conversation lessons? No matter where you are in the world? Now you can learn Italian from the Australian Outback, the American Mid-West, from Japan, or from any of the many countries [...]
Hate exams? Time to think again!
5 Reasons Why An Exam Could Help You Reach Your Goal Faster Hate exams? Many people do. Traumatic experiences at school or university can put you off doing any form of test, ever again! But for adults who choose to learn a foreign language, studying towards an exam can, in fact, be a big [...]
How to learn a foreign language (even if you’ve never done it before!)
Confessions of a Language-school Director You may be surprised to hear this, from pen of a language teacher, but by the age of 23 I had already tried, but completely failed, to learn at least four foreign languages. By 23, I had succeeded in learning… well, almost nothing at all, of how to communicate [...]
The 3 Tenses You Need To Know To Really Speak and Understand Italian
Studying a foreign language can get depressing. Especially endless new verb tenses, each with irregular forms to memorise. Not to mention the “rules” on when and why to use them. Nothing is the same as in your mother tongue, and it seems to take for ever before you can use and understand each new verb form. [...]
New exercises 4 u, + “Why is your site in English??”
OK, we’ve found the missing piece of our Free B1 (intermediate) Level Online Italian Course, the Exercises to go with Week 3 (they got lost down the back of someone’s email account, didn’t they, Lucia??). Anyway, you can get them here. Plus, “Why is your site in ENGLISH??? I want to learn ITALIAN!!!”, complained [...]
Join me for a chat at OnlineItalianClub.com!
Ciao a tutti! Practise your Italian, or just chat in English in our Forums Big news! We’ve opened up our Forums so that anyone can read browse them. There are forums in Italian “Solo in italiano” (so you can practise) and the “English language forums” for those who don’t have enough Italian yet, or who [...]
The Great Online Italian Courses Re-Organisation has begun!
Buongiorno a tutti e buona domenica! A quick post to let you know the Great Online Italian Courses Re-Organisation (which I have been promising for ages) has finally begun. All of our interactive exercises, .pdfs, progress tests, e-books and so on are being organised by level and grouped together in what will eventually be [...]
7 New Italian Exercises for you: level B1, Week 2 of our Free Italian Course!
Ciao a tutti! Just to let you know that I’ve just uploaded the exercises for Week 2 of our B1 level Free Italian Course. Just click this link to go straight there! Please bring this post/e-mail to the attention of your Italian teacher and/or anyone you know who is learning the language. We [...]
Sunday lunch, Italian style..
Good morning! It’s Sunday, so why not check out this YouTube video to see how we cook Sunday lunch here in Bologna, and meet my family too! The video is all in Italian (except the soundtrack), so it’s good listening practice, even if you’re not into cooking! It would be great to hear what [...]
Can you learn Italian without moving to Italy?
Yes, of course you can. And for free, too! Check out our Courses page (members only) to download the complete grammar and vocabulary notes for the first three levels (Beginner A1, Pre-intermediate A2, Intermediate B1) at our sponsor school. And today we’ve added the exercises for Week 1 of the Intermediate course – 7 [...]
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