This came in overnight: I would like to sign up for the free online Italian lesson but am afraid to for a couple reasons: not sure how well I will be able to speak Italian (I get too nervous) and I don’t know how to skype. I’m assuming I have the capability to skype, I’ve […]
Archives for November 2018
Too busy this week for a Free Trial Italian Lesson? No worries!
Geoff wrote overnight to ask me to bend the rules: I’d really like to take you up on the offer of a free trial online Italian lesson with a view to doing some more afterwards if the trial lesson goes as well as I hope it will. My problem is that I have a very […]
The Free Trial Online Italian Lesson offer starts today!
Buondì. As mentioned last week, the Free Trial Online Italian Lesson offer starts today! In our online shop, we have various online Italian lesson options. You can choose between packages of five or ten lessons, for example, and so benefit from a discount. It’s also possible to buy just the one lesson, to try, or […]
Which is your community? How strong are your relationships?
Every day I see either Anna, Ewa, or Oscar. Or if not them, then one of those other guys whose names don’t spring so easily to mind. For example, the pretty one, with the funny hair and the genuine smile… Then there’s my wife, of course, and her mum. And her cousins, and her aunty. […]
This much I know
Yesterday this arrived: What does the A2 mean? Here’s the accompanying description, along with the one for the next level up, for comparison: Why am I learning Swedish, again? See this article from two years ago: https://onlineitalianclub.com/its-time-to-add-a-new-element-to-your-italian-study-plan/ Basically, I was trying to sell ebooks. The relevant part is at the end: I haven’t forgotten that, […]
“That’s the teacher’s job!”
Over the weekend, I was copied in on an email from an online student complaining to our teaching manager, Lucia, that her teacher was slow to provide homework assignments. “That’s the teacher’s job!” Well, perhaps that’s part of it. I suppose it depends… But surely, there’s more? +++ Fifty percent of any profession is going […]
Things that go bump in the night went bump in the night
Buondì. I warned on Halloween that, having moved the club website to a different server, there might be issues, spooky or otherwise. Shortly afterwards, it became clear that something really had ‘gone bump in the night‘, in the sense that while the main part of the website was fine, the .html exercise pages were (to […]
