Archives for May 2014

Are you making poor decisions because of misconceptions you may hold about learning Italian? Do you risk failing to achieve your study goals? Check out this article just published on our sponsor school’s site: Is this what you really think about learning Italian? There have been a couple of interesting comments already, so if you’re […]

One thing any language teacher will tell you is how studying tenses can generate excitement. Today, a new tense! A new tense makes a novel and tangible topic for a lesson, and one which brings with it a rare sense of progress. Even if misplaced. Anyway, here’s the the fifth in our series of eight […]

Sunday, so you’ll be able to find a minute or two to keep working on your Italian listening, right? Here’s the fourth in our series of eight B1 (intermediate) Italian listening exercises, along with the usual transcript. If you’ve been following along, you should be getting pretty good at this by now! Don’t forget to […]

It’s venerdì, and time to improve your listening in Italian just a little bit more! So, here’s the third in our series of eight B1 (intermediate) level Italian listening exercises. As always, there’s a transcript to study, and as usual I’ll remind you to listen first at least once (ideally, several times) before looking at […]

Here’s the second in our series of eight B1 (intermediate) level Italian listening tracks, complete with transcripts to study. Today’s topic is ‘La cultura italiana’. Now what could that be about, I wonder… One useful listening technique is to ask yourself BEFORE you hear a text what you might expect it to contain. Teachers who […]

Eccoti, Monday morning and as promised here’s the first of our series of eight B1 (intermediate) level listening tracks, complete with transcripts to study! Find out about Mario’s dreams for the future, and improve both your Italian grammar and listening skills. For any of you who might be new on our mailing list, try to listen […]

Now we’ve completed our series of articles with the new A2 level Italian listening exercises, you might be asking yourself if there’s an easy way to find all our A2 listening tracks in one place, rather than having to search back through e-mails you’ve received over the last fortnight. There is.

Excitement is building. There’s a sense of anticipation in the air. Like before a big exam… Next week, we launch the B1 (intermediate) level material! For now, though, here’s the final A2 Italian listening, and the usual transcript to study. Today’s topic is ‘making bookings’, which means hotels, restaurants and the like. (If you’re reading […]