Buondì. I’m in a hurry today as I’ve promised to drop the kids off in St. Ives. We’d stop there ourselves for the day, but I’m told parking’s a nightmare, so we’ve decided to leave the teenagers to their own devices and head for Penzance, over on the other coast. I read somewhere that Penzance […]
Archives for August 2018
Free audio+transcript, and the ‘Book of the Week’ is back!
Buondì. Today’s free material for learning Italian is yet another native speaker conversation (with transcript), this time the topic being: ‘Passato e futuro’ Previous audio recordings in this series are linked to from our ‘New’ page, so if you need listening practice, go binge! Or, if this current material is too hard for you, check […]
Would you do it all again?
Buondì. Here’s a line from the transcript for today’s new audio of Italian native speakers answering questions from our free conversation prompts: Se potessi rinascere dopo essere morto, rivivresti tutto da capo? C’è qualcosa che vorresti cambiare? That is to say “If you could be reborn after death, would you live everything again from the […]
Hopefully, I’m having a lie in this morning!
Buondì. I’m writing this yesterday. It should get published automatically as, hopefully, this morning I’ll be having a lie in. Yesterday (Tuesday) evening we rented a car and drove through the night from London Heathrow to the beautiful, but distant, part of Britain where my parents live. My goodness, if I had driven that far […]
