Archives for May 2014

Just a quickie today as it’s a bank holiday weekend in Italy (2nd June = Festa della Repubblica). Before you get down to today’s Italian listening, check out this article. I think you’ll find it interesting! What’s stopping you from learning to speak & understand Italian? Done that? So, on with improving your Italian listening! […]

Sorry it’s been a few days since I posted the last in our B2 Italian listenings series. Here’s number 4 (of 8). Hope you’re making good progress with them! Here at OnlineItalianClub H.Q. we’ve been busy figuring out what to to next after the listenings. While we still have another four B2s to go, plus […]

Here we are with more new material to improve your Italian listening skills! Plenty of grammar today, but don’t let that freak you out. Listen all the way through without looking at the transcript. Try and get the gist, or even just a sense of what the text is about. Listen as many times as […]

There’s no doubt that today’s Italian listening practice exercise would have been better suited for a reading lesson. Don’t know what Martina was thinking of… That said, she had to come up with eight ideas per level, for six different levels, which can’t have been easy! Today’s exercise is an example of a formal letter […]

I hate being late. Missing deadlines is not me at all. But it’s been that sort of week. Chiedo scusa. Anyway, here it is! The first in our series of eight B2 level Italian listening tracks, complete with the usual transcript to study. If you find this too hard, there are 8 similar exercises each […]

Sorry, been too busy (teaching) to publish the B2 Italian listening series as promised. Domani! But I have got round to collecting the 8 texts from the B1 series and putting them on the B1 page, where they’ll be easy to find. So, while you’re waiting for the B2 listenings (hopefully tomorrow), try this: – […]

As promised, here’s the last in our series of eight B1 (intermediate) level Italian listening tracks, plus the usual transcript to pore over once you’ve listened… I’m off sailing, so won’t be able to respond to any comments today (but feel free to leave them anyway!) (If you’re reading this in an e-mail, you’ll need […]

Another day, another listening in our series of eight B1 (intermediate) level Italian listening tracks, complete with a transcript for you to study. This is number 7, the last one at this level will be on Sunday, and next week you can look forward to the B2 material! But for now, time to consolidate the […]

I’m a big, big fan of self-study. You probably worked that out, already. I taught myself to play the trumpet, and to speak Italian, and Turkish. But I’m also a professional language teacher. I work in a school which does just one thing. We help people of all ages and nationalities learn foreign languages. So […]

Here’s number six in our series of eight B1 (intermediate) level Italian listening tracks, plus a transcript for you to study. Admittedly, an informal letter is a bit of an odd subject for listening practice… But then, an informal letter or e-mail style is usually rather conversational in tone. So you could think of it […]