Archives for December 2018

Australia, population 24.6 million. Number of Italian language courses to choose from? See the newly-refurbished: Italian Course Finder: Australia The ‘United’ Kingdom – population 66 million, so rather more… Availability of Italian courses? Italy, after all, is just a couple of hours away on a 737… Italian Course Finder: United Kingdom Come on you poms! […]

Buondì. I’m back from my long weekend in Glasgow, Scotland. The West End, where I stayed, is a vibrant and attractive part of the city, with the River Kelvin running through it on its way downhill to join the much larger River Clyde. It’s home to ‘the’ university, though there are other universities in other parts […]

Buondì. I’m in Glasgow, the last day of my weekend visiting my daughter at uni, and won’t be back on regular wifi until I get back to Bologna tonight. So 1.) no Book of the Week offer today, again- perhaps I’ll dig one out on Wednesday –  and 2.) I’ll keep this short. I know, […]

Premise: we were talking in Turkish, so it’s absolutely possible I got the wrong end of the stick. But anyway, she said that when she first came to Italy and had to teach herself the language, she was thrashing around trying all sorts of things, getting confused, and not making the progress she’d hoped for. […]

Buondì. I’ve just been updating the new ‘Other Resources for Learning Italian‘ page with your suggestions. There’s loads of good stuff there, thank you all! I also added some notes, including this: CRITERIA FOR INCLUSION ON THIS PAGE: anything of potential use to club members. That is likely to exclude anything that is only a […]

Buondì. On Friday, following a suggestion from Kathy in Alaska, I invited club members to recommend ‘other’ resources for learning Italian. People posted their suggestions as comments on the article, or emailed them to me. I’ve now spent a couple of hours sorting through the suggestions and compiling them on a new page on the […]