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Archives for May 2018

Online lesson questionnaire and new, free conversation prompts

May 30, 2018 by Daniel

Buondì. First today, I have a favour to ask of anyone doing online Italian lessons, either with the club or with a competitor. Actually, it’s Martina who’s asking the favour. I just agreed to pass it on to you. This is what she wrote: Mi chiamo Martina Burlando e sono una studentessa universitaria di lingue […]

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Expressions with ‘la porta’

May 28, 2018 by Daniel

Buondì. When is a ‘porta’ a door, and when is it a gate? (And does it matter?) Bologna, where I live, used to be surrounded by a defensive wall, much of which has now been demolished. In olden times you’d only have been able to enter the city through one of the many fortified ‘gates’ […]

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Season’s Greetings!

May 25, 2018 by Daniel

No, that’s not a mistake. I’m aware it’s the end of May, not December. But I’ve just published another free Italian ‘conversation lesson’, and hey, why NOT talk about Natale e Capodanno in the summer?? After all, conversation practice is conversation practice, right? And if you want to speak better, chuck that grammar book in […]

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What are you good at? Or ‘in’?

May 23, 2018 by Daniel

Today’s new, free material for students of Italian is yet another set of conversation prompts. The theme is ‘Sei bravo a… ?‘ (‘Are you good at…?’) Be aware that, at least for school subjects, Italians use the preposition ‘in’ not ‘at’. So: “Sono bravo in matematica!” (I’m good at maths = I’m good IN the […]

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A new, free Italian conversation lesson for you…

May 21, 2018 by Daniel

Buondì. Today I have a new, free Italian conversation lesson for you. The topic is Viaggiare (Travel) and as usual you’ll find conversation prompts at elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. The idea is that the prompts form the basis for conversation practice, perhaps in a group with friends from your Italian class, or one-to-one with […]

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La bocca non è stracca se non sa di vacca

May 18, 2018 by Daniel

The first time I visited Italy with my Italian girlfriend (now long-suffering wife), we had Christmas lunch with her extended family. The group of strangers around the table included her grandmother, who sadly died not that long after, before I’d had much chance to learn Italian and so get to know her better. What I […]

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The last in our ‘verbs’ series of free Italian lessons

May 16, 2018 by Daniel

Buondì. A short article today as, while I have loads of things I could write about, time is pressing. Hence, here’s the last in our ‘verbs’ series of free Italian lessons with audio: Vedere There are some good expressions in this one, though for some reason Marika hasn’t included one of the most obvious ones, […]

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I turn off the subtitles. Something surprising happens!

May 14, 2018 by Daniel

Buondì. Friday’s article had a video in it (a song that Anne sent in). But if you read it in an email, it’s likely the video had been ‘disappeared’ by your email provider. You may not even have noticed, but Anne was disappointed so I said I’d mention it today. Here are some options: View […]

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Varie ed eventuali

May 11, 2018 by Daniel

The phrase in the title, ‘varie ed eventuali’, can usually be found at the end of an agenda for a meeting. The English equivalent would be ‘any other business’, or perhaps ‘miscellaneous’. ‘Agenda’, by the way, would be ‘ordine del giorno’ in Italian, that is to say the document containing details of the day/time of […]

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Good habits = good results. Ma è come parlare al muro!

May 9, 2018 by Daniel

Buondì. E’ come parlare al muro! It’s like talking to a brick wall! Yesterday I was doing one-to-one English lessons with some key staff at a local company. I’ve been going there each Tuesday for over two years and some of the students I work with have done forty or fifty lessons with me. One […]

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