Want to learn Italian? Most people take the traditional route and sign up for an Italian course and/or buy a grammar book and a dictionary. But it’s a mistake to neglect the many excellent resources on the Internet… For example our OnlineItalianClub.com, where we publish three new Italian exercises a week, fifty-two weeks a year! […]
Archives for June 2015
Did video kill the radio star?
Remember ‘Video Killed The Radio Star‘ from far away 1979? These days it seems that video content is ubiquitous. I seldom bother to put on a CD any more, though my house is full of them. Still less frequently will I dust off an LP and frighten the cat with a blast from the stereo […]
Learn Italian? Drip, drip, drip.
Did you know that around a thousand people a day learn Italian with OnlineItalianClub.com? A typical student stays on our site for around five minutes and views about four pages. I like to think that means they get an email like this one, click through to the new exercise and give it a try. Each […]
New C2 Italian listening comprehension, and what’s coming
I’ll be brief, at least today, as I have a busy morning ahead of me. First of all, here’s today’s free Italian listening comprehension. The level is C2 (proficiency), but there’s a transcript, so it’s basically useful for anyone with the patience to give it a try. Click here. As always I’ll include a link […]
Hunting + last 48 hours on easy Italian reader launch offer
When I first came to Italy, about twenty years ago, I remember my (British) father joking with my (Italian) wife about how Italians would shoot any sort of bird, no matter how small, rare or inedible. He’d say that each Autumn/Fall, bird-watchers all over Europe would watch sadly as migrating species headed off to Africa […]
The view from the top of the mountain
Imagine climbing a really high, really difficult mountain. Finally you get to the top. How do you feel? Tired probably, but not too tired to look around for a few minutes, enjoy the view, maybe take a photo or two. If you been with us since the start of OnlineItalianClub.com (back in 2013) you ought […]
New Italian easy reader + the first Italian woman in space
Our last easy Italian reader, Ladi di biciclette, was a great success. Maybe it was because it tells the story of a famous film, or perhaps just because it’s an engaging story about a man fighting the odds to do the best for his family. Whatever the reason, we sold enough copies in the launch […]
Apologies, new advanced listening, and what’s coming
Let’s start with today’s free listening comprehension exercise, which is about ‘Italians abroad’. A lot of OnlineItalianClub.com members probably fall into the category of sons/daughters or descendants of Italian emmigrants, but there are also lots of modern-day Italians leaving the ‘bel paese’ to seek their fortune elsewhere. Listen now to today’s advanced listening comprehension exercise. If […]
Via al dibattito! 6th advanced Italian listening
A traditional white wedding? Or better to live together first? Via al dibattito! Click here for the 6th in our series of advanced listening practice exercises. Or discover free exercises for learning Italian at all levels, here. P.S. Our next Italian easy reader should be published next week… If you’ve visited our online shop, you’ll […]
Another advanced Italian listening exercise to sweat over
We do like to keep you at it, here at OnlineItalianClub.com. ‘Busy students are happy students’ is what I always say. So here’s the fifth in our series of advanced Italian listening comprehension exercises. It’s about the earthquake in L’Aquila a few years ago. Interesting stuff, so do take a look, even if your level […]
