Archives for March 2014

Another Monday morning (afternoon in Australia..) and another Italian listening exercise to practice with. This is number 5 out of 8 in our A1-elementary series. Watch out for the more difficult A2, B1, etc. to come! As usual, make sure you listen to the track at least once before scrolling down to view the transcript […]

Here’s number 4 in our series of 8 new A1 Italian listening exercises (we’re getting the A2 and B1 levels recorded at the moment and they’ll be available soon…) Click ‘play’ to practice your Italian listening (if you’re reading this in an e-mail, you’ll need to click here to visit the website). As usual, you’ll […]

Here’s the third of our new A1 (elementary) level Italian listening tracks. There are five more ‘easy’ ones to come, then A2, B1 and so on! If you’re reading this in an e-mail, click here to visit the site and do the listening practice. Listening Tips Obviously, don’t immediately head for the transcript (it’s at […]

Here’s the second of our new A1 Italian listening practice articles. While the level, and the grammar (today it’s ‘Mi piace / Non mi piace”), is technically A1, it’s useful practice for students at any level. To get more out of this free material, follow the ‘Listening Tips’ below: Listening tips: Listen first without the […]

Just a quick article to present the first of our new series of Italian listening tracks. This comes out of some articles I did in January this year about improving your listening. Plenty of people told me at the time that there isn’t much decent Italian listening material available out there on the Internet, which […]

Several people have written to me because they are a little worried about their ability to hold their own in our new online Italian conversation classes, which start next week. Some are concerned because they’ve never done anything similar before: speaking a foreign language, with strangers, over the Internet! Others admit to having a good […]

It’s nine in the evening in Italy… Dinner’s been cleared away and there’s an hour or two to while away before bed. Vegetating in front of the TV is always an easy choice. For the unambitious. Learning Italian is a better one. But opening a grammar book at that time of night takes real force […]