Today we are publishing our first nine Italian/English parallel texts. See them here. To celebrate, I’m giving one away COMPLETEY FREE! Read on to find out how to get your parallel text, normal price £7.99, gratis! But first, what exactly is a parallel text? The first picture shows the cover of our free gift. And […]
Archives for October 2016
Your Friday Italian Fix (& last chance at Galileo -25%)
Make time over the weekend to look at these five ‘refurbished’ Italian vocabulary exercises. They cover various levels and topics. So just dip in and see what you get! Verbs & Nouns – Matching Exercise Cultural Knowledge – True/False Exercise Weather Words – Dropdown Menu Exercise Similar Words – Gapfill Exericse Word Families – Dropdown […]
Three quick Italian exercises on opposites
Today, more from the ‘tidy it up and publicise it’ pile of Italian vocabulary exercises. Below are links to three quick exercises on opposites. Many of the words should be familiar to English-speakers. So this is the sort of material you’ll be able to get through quickly, irrespective of your current level in Italian. Opposites […]
Pizza or Pisa?
After all these years in Italy, I still occasionally mix up the food (pizza) and the city (Pisa). As you surely know, the first is pronounced with a /ts/ sound. While the second, confusingly, is said with a /z/ rather than the ‘s’ it’s written with. Perhaps it’s that spelling/pronunciation difference that sometimes sends my brain […]
As we say in Italian…
It’s been a grey, wet Autumn week here in Bologna. But today is lovely, with blue skies and bright sunshine. I should have known when I saw yesterday’s sunset. “Rosso di sera….buon tempo si spera” as they say in Italian! And not coincidentally, today I have four exercises on Italian sayings for you. They’re quite […]
Italian For Art, Politics And Literature
Today we have five exercises covering a miscellany of Italian vocabulary used in literature, art and politics. So pick what interests you and start learning! Judicial Terms – Matching Exercise Art Terms – Gapfill Exercise Literary Genres – Matching Exercise ‘Gialli’ – Italian Detective Fiction – True or False? Political Terms – Dropdown Exercise Or, […]
Italian vocabulary exercises on body, health and appearance
Buondì. Here are four free Italian exercises from the ‘tidy up and republish’ pile. The theme is body-health-appearance. They’re suitable for revision but also for those of you who may be learning these words for the first time. Body Vocabulary – Picture Matching Body Vocabulary – Gapfill Doctor’s Surgery – Reading True/False Physical Appearance – […]
Buongiorno little schoolgirl, how are you today?
Today’s Italian exercises cover basic ‘school’ vocabulary: eraser, pencil, whiteboard and so on. Mostly it won’t have changed since you were a pupil, which might have been many decades ago. Except maybe that whiteboards were black, back then… But this type of basic vocabulary is always useful – especially if you plan on attend an Italian school at […]
Answers from Monday and new free Italian exercises!
As promised on Monday, first we have the answers to the comprehension questions from the free sample chapter of ‘Ieri, oggi, domani‘. (If you missed Monday’s free sample chapter but would like to follow along with this next bit, click here to read/listen first.) The ‘Vero o falso?’ questions were: 1. Carmine ha pagato la […]
A new easy reader from our ‘Classic Italian Movies’ series!
Buondì. No vocabulary exercises today. Instead I’m going to post the sample chapter for our new easy reader. A blatently commercial move, but bear with me. You get the text for the first chapter, a glossary of difficult words, and comprehension questions. Free. I suggest you read the story while listening to the audio. (N.B. […]
