As promised on Wednesday, I’ve been working on the next boring list of words in the club’s ‘vocabulary section‘. I’m going through the alphabet from ‘A’. This morning I got to line two (trumpets sound), Alberghi / Hotels. Surprisingly, I’m enjoying the process more than I thought I would. Today’s rewrite, ‘Italian Vocabulary – Hotels‘, […]
Archives for October 2017
I’ve been putting this off for ages!!
Today is Bologna’s ‘patrono’. I guess that would mean ‘patron saint’s day’. October 4th is San Petronio (his cathedral is right opposite our Italian school, by the way.) Which means I get to sleep in. But then, when I finally get up, I feel guilty about the late start… And so am motivated to begin […]
“Congratulations. You are 43% fluent”
In spare moments over the last week or two I’ve been working my way through Duolingo‘s Swedish course. For anyone new around here, the reason I’m studying Swedish (yes, I know – it’s the online ITALIAN club…) is because I already know Italian fairly well but I thought I should be practising what I preach […]
Last Chance to Save 20% on Online Lessons and Ebooks!
Excuse me for disturbing you yet again, and on a Sunday, too! But today’s the last day of our Autumn/Fall Sale. Lucia and I wanted to be sure that no one misses out. In previous years there’s always been someone that emailed on Monday to ask if they were too late to get the discount… […]
Last day of the Autumn/Fall Sale! What have you been buying?
Today’s the final day of our Autumn/Fall sale. So you might be curious to know what other students of Italian from around the globe have been spending their allowances on… Top of the list is our excellent value pack of online Italian lesson credits. Ten thirty-minute one-to-one Italian lessons with a native speaker teacher would […]