Archives for September 2017

It’s Staturday in Italy (probably where you are too). Not having to go to the office, many Italians will have dressed up in their finery, jumped into shiny automobiles (Audis, BMWs and Alfa Romeos are the favourites) and headed to the mall/’centro commerciale’ to shop for the latest styles and most ostentatious consumer electronics. How […]

Buondì. The clock is ticking on our Autum/Fall Sale, which ends on Sunday night. Lucia (our teaching manger) and I are standing by, today and over the weekend, to send out your ebooks and organise your online Italian lessons. So here’s a summary of the information you need to save 20% on your language-learning this […]

A ‘bundle’, in marketing parlance, is when a seller puts together various products, in this case ebooks for learning Italian, and prices them at a discount. It’s like when you go to the store and buy two tubes of toothpaste rather than the one that you had scrawled on your shopping list, so as to […]

Buondì. One of the dubious pleasures of running OnlineItalianClub.com and the company’s various other websites for language learners is that, when I wake of a morning, my first task is to deal with emails that have come in during the night. Most of these are automated spam, which can just be deleted, though it takes […]

It’s been four decades since I was last a child, but it seems like yesterday. Doesn’t life just whizz past in a way that, when you’re young, you never imagined could happen? They did warn me but, of course, I didn’t listen. Anway, one vivid memory of being a boy is of Christmas, and of […]

Buondì. As I mentioned last week, today we start our seasonal autumn/fall sale. The idea is to set you up for the next couple of months’ language learning, making sure you have everything you need to progress, and at a handsome saving, too! With the sale this week, you can save 20% on online lessons […]

Buondì. Today, some advice on how to choose the right study materials for your level in Italian. But first, a problem. ‘Level’ is a slippery concept. The idea of ‘knowing’ a language is itself problematic. Let’s imagine you walk into a university department in the capital city of your country. Walking down the corridor, there’s […]

Buondì. Over the summer I managed to read a few books, which shamefully I don’t usually find time to do. One of which was on diet (not dieting). The theme was the importance, to our intestinal microbes, of eating a range of different foods. So as to ensure a balance of nutritional elements, and therefore […]

As I mentioned in Friday’s article ‘How to end the summer language-learning hiatus‘, the trick to getting started again with self-study is to make a specific decision to study, and then to actually do so! Making the initial commitment takes just seconds, and so isn’t hard. I decided to spend an hour studying Swedish on […]

Buondì. Doesn’t September just fly? In Bologna, Italy, the kids are going back to school today (or tomorrow, as each school seems to be different). Which will make things quieter at our house. And statistics for the club website show that more and more people are coming back after the holidays, determined to get started […]