Just a quickie today. Here’s the link to the 4th in our series of new Italian listening comprehension exercises: Listen now! You can see the previous exercises in the series here. Or find exercises at other (harder, easier) levels here. That’s it. Buonagiornata! P.S. Except, of course, that’s not it. There’s always a P.S. Usually trying […]
Archives for April 2015
Why grammar and vocabulary are not enough to speak Italian
Many people believe that if you study enough Italian grammar, learn enough Italian words, you’ll be able to speak Italian. Guess that’s because of the way languages used to be taught in schools, with little focus on communicative skills like listening and speaking. This conviction tends not to persist long though, especially once you start an Italian course or self-study program. […]
2nd B1 Italian listening exercise (& easy reader offer!)
Buongiorno a tutti! Here’s the 2nd Italian listening exercise in our new series of exercises at B1 (intermediate) level. Click here to give it a try. Or see the series (the last exercise, this one, and what’s coming) on our Intermediate Italian Exercises page. But what if B1 is too difficult? Nessun problema! We have […]
New Italian B1 (intermediate) listening comprehension exercise
Cavolo! I am SO late today! Australians will be going to bed already, while Brits will be sipping their milky mid-morning coffee concoction and wondering what has happened to the regular email from OnlineItalianClub.com… At least I’m in time for breakfast on the east coast of the USA, though. Buona colazione to you guys! So, […]
10 Italian dialogues (& new easy reader sample chapter!)
Two things for you today, which together amount to one hell of a lot of great stuff to help you with your Italian! On Wednesday we’ll have some new exercises or listenings for you – the level will be B1 – intermediate. But for now, a final plug for our new project, the beginners’ Italian […]
Class, today we’ll revise Italian adjectives!
It’s long been clear to me that Italian adjectives need to agree with the gender of their subject: una ragazza bella un ragazzo bello But beauty is not everything in a relationship. There’s also the issue of desire. Ideally ‘una ragazza bella’ would also be una ragazza attraente or better still una ragazza sexy! That […]
More beginner’s Italian material to work on!
Following on from Monday’s shameless plugging of our new project, DontSpeakItalian.com, today we have links to another beginner’s grammar area. This material is perfect for beginners but also for anyone, like me, who’s been studying Italian for years but still isn’t totally sure of the basics… OK, Monday we took a look at the cursed […]
Free Beginner’s Italian Course (good for non-beginners too!)
For the next week or two, there’ll be NO new materials at OnlineItalianClub.com. Instead, though, I’ll be introducing another project of ours. We’ve been working on a series of beginner’s courses in different languages, and over Easter we published the first three: German, Spanish, and of course, Italian! There are approximately 50 pages of material […]
Let’s all go to Rome! (Final A2 Italian listening exercise)
Spring in Italy is ‘gita’ time, as anyone with teenage children knows. My eldest daughter is off to Tuscany with the school – they’ll stay in a hotel, walk in the countryside and see the sites. But ‘gite’ are not just for the young, as today’s free Italian listening comprehension exercise will make clear. Listen […]
Penultimate exercise in our A2 Italian listening series
That’s Pasqua done with, then. The next long weekend is the 25th April, which celebrates the liberation of Italy at the end of the Second World War in 1945. Click this link to find out more (Wikipedia article in Italian – go on, it’ll do you good!) Today though, it’s just another day, so here’s […]
