Hot news! The first installment of our FREE Italian course is finally available on our courses page (make sure you’re logged in, or you won’t be able to see it). If you’ve already studied Italian, it’ll be pretty easy for you, as we’re starting from the beginning: level A1, week 1. Still, a little revision […]
Archives for September 2011
Sunday lunch?
Sunday morning and my thoughts naturally turn to what I’m going to give the family for lunch. Back in England, Sunday lunch was always roast meat, roast potatoes, and boiled vegetables, plus gravy of course, but whenever I’ve presented Italian friends or family members with a traditional English Sunday lunch, there has been a […]
New Italian Exercises, plus: have your say, win some online lessons!
There are two new exercises available on the downloads page of the Online Italian Club: “Describing Appearance” “Adjective/Noun Collocations” (also related to appearance) You can download the .pdf files, which also contain the answers, from our downloads page but don’t forget to log-in first or you’ll just get the “Who the hell are you?” page […]
What can we do to help you learn Italian?
The Online Italian Club is here to help you learn Italian. But it’s new, and we are not sure HOW best to help you. What would be most useful for you? Exercises? Downloadable resources? Videos? The forums? We have some resources to invest in making this club better, but we’d like to know what […]
How to learn Italian for free
Not everyone has the money to take a language course, or the time. Arriving in Bologna in 1998 with a pregnant wife, a few thousand pounds in savings and a handful of CVs ready to distribute, signing up for a language course was far from being priority number 1. Getting a job (I’m a teacher […]
