Buondì. I’m in Glasgow, the last day of my weekend visiting my daughter at uni, and won’t be back on regular wifi until I get back to Bologna tonight. So 1.) no Book of the Week offer today, again- perhaps I’ll dig one out on Wednesday – and 2.) I’ll keep this short. I know, […]
Some good advice from my online Turkish teacher
Premise: we were talking in Turkish, so it’s absolutely possible I got the wrong end of the stick. But anyway, she said that when she first came to Italy and had to teach herself the language, she was thrashing around trying all sorts of things, getting confused, and not making the progress she’d hoped for. […]
Why didn’t you publish my suggestion/comment?
Buondì. I’ve just been updating the new ‘Other Resources for Learning Italian‘ page with your suggestions. There’s loads of good stuff there, thank you all! I also added some notes, including this: CRITERIA FOR INCLUSION ON THIS PAGE: anything of potential use to club members. That is likely to exclude anything that is only a […]
So here are the resources club members recommended…
Buondì. On Friday, following a suggestion from Kathy in Alaska, I invited club members to recommend ‘other’ resources for learning Italian. People posted their suggestions as comments on the article, or emailed them to me. I’ve now spent a couple of hours sorting through the suggestions and compiling them on a new page on the […]
An email from Juneau, Alaska. Plus, two reminders!
Buondì. One of the nice things about running the club is getting emails from people around the world. Everyone in Australia seems to be a member, which is nice. Plus, we have lots of people from other English-speaking countries: the USA, the UK, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. Chastise me if I’ve missed […]
Are you a turtle, a hare, or a cheering spectator?
Buondì. Yesterday I was chatting to a club member who’s currently studying at our Italian school in Bologna. (If you’ve been thinking of doing the same, hold back! The school’s annual Special Offer is due in a couple of weeks, meaning you’ll save 20% on courses of any length.) But anyway, this fellow I was […]
New, New, New Easy Italian Reader! (A romantic one…)
Buondì. Hope you had a pleasant weekend. And studied a lot, of course! We had an electricity blackout on Sunday morning, which was great as it meant no internet and no computer. So I got out my Swedish course book, propped myself under a window that had some daylight coming through it, and read through […]
Keep your credit cards locked safely in a drawer today
Buondì. This is going to be a record-breakingly short article, as with all the Black Friday promotions going on, I don’t expect anyone to read it. 1. Have you listened to yesterday’s FREE Easy Italian News, yet? If not, click here. And don’t forget to add your email in the box in the sidebar on […]
Here’s an easy way to find extra time for language-learning!
Well, ‘easy’ in the way that giving up smoking is easy. It’s easy when the doctor puts it as a choice between stopping now or not seeing your future grandchildren. But rather bothersome to implement. For various reasons, I’ve not had as much time lately as I would have liked, for studying, I mean. Since […]
Essential expressions for ‘taking back control’
Buondì. In the last few years ‘Take back control!’ has been an effective way for unscrupulous politicans to convince voters, sometimes in defiance of common sense, to vote against the status quo and even against their own long-term interests. ‘Throw the bums out!’ I write as a Brit, resident in Europe, married to a European, […]
