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. […]
Archives for November 2018
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 […]