Buondì. LAST Friday was my wife’s birthday and we organised a surprise party. My part in the enterprise was to make pizzas, amongst other things. I figured, given that it was a party and we were expecting plenty of guests, I’d do both the version in the metal trays, the type you slice into rectangular […]
Archives for January 2020
More emails from club members, and two reminders
Buondì. There were lots of emails about one of last week’s articles about learning languages, and I’ve already shared some of them with you previously. But there were a few others that are definitely worth a read, so it seemed a shame to waste them… Liz/Lisa, for instance wrote this, under the subject line “Why […]
New Book of the Week! L’amore ai tempi del supermercato (A2)
Buondì. A quick one today as, after an exhausting weekend, I’m lacking both energy and time! Thanks to everyone who bought a copy of last week’s newly-published and super-hard ‘easy’ Italian reader, La carriera – dietro le quinte del Palio di Siena (C2). If you missed it, it’s still there in our online shop, just […]
It all depends on WHY you’re listening…
Buondì. There was lots of feedback on Wednesday’s article about listening, “Please reassure me!”. What an interesting range of suggestions you came up with! I’ll copy and paste them here below, after the plus signs (+++). If you have time, do read though what people wrote to me and commented on the club website. But […]
“Please reassure me!”
An email from a club member last week ended with a request: “Please reassure me!” Well, I’ll try. But first, a quick reminder about this week’s super-advanced (C2-level) ‘easy Italian reader’ ebook. Bcause, as always, the club has bills to pay. La carriera – dietro le quinte del Palio di Siena is a fictional account […]
New ebook: La carriera – dietro le quinte del Palio di Siena
Buondì. Before I start trying to sell you something, many thanks to the club members who wrote in about the invasion of the black blobs, which has now been successfully repelled. A particularly honorable mention goes to Andy, who shared his thoughts on what may have been causing the problem over the course of several […]
Invasion of the black blobs!
Buondì. Many thanks to John, who ruined my Thursday by writing: I’m enjoying your site. I find the exercises very helpful. However I’m experiencing a problem with accents. They all appear like this: � This renders the exercises useless. Can you please help me with this? Thank you. I told him that the problem was […]
What to do if something’s not working as it should
Buondì. I assume you use one of our websites: OnlineItalianClub.com (the club website – free materials for learning Italian) EasyItalianNews.com (simplified bulletins of ‘easy’ Italian news to read and listen to) EasyReaders.org (our online shop, where we sell ebooks and one-to-one lessons to pay the bills for the other sites) This brief article is about […]
2020’s first half-price ebook ‘Book of the Week’ offer!
Buondì. A new year, and there’s a decidedly ‘back to normal’ feel here at the clubhouse, with the excitement of the holidays, and then the January Sale, but a memory… So what better to get us back into the old routine than one of our periodic half-price ‘Book of the Week’ offers? This week I’ve […]
The two Eyes
Buondì. Here at the OnlineItalianClub.com clubhouse, we’ve had a stressful week due to the unfortunate similarity in spelling between two middle-eastern countries, Iraq and Iran. One is an Arabic-speaking state, currently hosting elements from the armed forces of the USA, the UK and, amongst other countries, Italy and Sweden (supposedly to prevent the resurgence of […]
