Archives for November 2016

Thanks to Conny, Patricia, Eva, Maureen, Greet, Jean, Steven, Angela, Elspeth, Maria, Judith, Christopher, Julie & Allison who wrote to me with an answer for Monday’s ‘Which city?’ exercise. The answer, I’m assured by almost everyone, is Padova. OK, so today, what do I have for you?? In a word… Reading. I want to get […]

So I began with a painful bit of alliteration. But hey, it’s not easy coming up with 156 article titles each year. Especially on a gloomy Monday morning, at the end of November… Many thanks to Maria, who pointed out several problems with the exercise on accented characters that I linked to on Friday. Thanks […]

Happy Thanksgiving, for those of you that celebrate it. We went out for a pizza and a beer, for which I gave thanks as my wife doesn’t normally allow junk food and alcohol on Thursdays… But today is Friday and everything is permitted! And not just any Friday… Today is the legendary ‘Black Friday’, supposedly […]

Today, more ‘tidied up’ exercises, stuff we did years ago which needed beautifying and which you, anyway, probably haven’t seen. These are ‘word order’ exercises. To make them work you need to pick out the first word or phrase and CLICK ON IT. If you are correct, the word or phrase will spring into place […]

Buondì. No new exercises this morning as I’m running terribly late and, anyway, have an ebook to sell! If you want something to study, but don’t want to spend any cash, why not do some listening? There’s masses of free material on our site, at all levels. Or, if you’re in more of a grammary […]

Many thanks to Patricia and Susan, both of whom found spelling errors in Wednesday’s exercises. Be assured, this type of input is valued. Today I have three ‘Which Word?’ dropdown menu exercises (in approximate order of difficulty). Plus one ‘Which Grammar?’ exercise, which I took a glance at, and then abbandoned. Have fun! Which Word? […]

First of all, thanks to Maria from Canada and Sieglind from Australia who reported mistakes in the final exercise I linked to on Monday. I’ve now fixed them, but I’d mention that, as I publish on this site three times a week (which is time-consuming), help of this type is invaluable. I simply don’t have […]

Buondì. It’s cold and rainy here in Bologna today. Hope it’s nicer where you are! Anyway, we have various items of business, today. First an update on last week’s free online Italian lesson offer, which has now ended. Over ninety people signed up. Some of you have already done your online lesson. Others have been […]

Things are busy here at OnlineItalianClub.com. We’ve had 59 people book a free online Italian lesson this week. Lucia, our teaching manager, tells me that she’s written to most of you, and that 12 lessons have already taken place. Hope they went well! For anyone interested, we’re keeping this offer open, as promised, until Sunday […]

Buondì. This morning I have some more vocabulary exercises from the ‘tidy up’ pile. There are various topics and formats, but they all loosely come under the theme of ‘Geography’. We have words for the city, for the countryside, and for life in the mountains. There’s also an exercise on definite articles, which is always […]