Buondì. I don’t normally dream about teaching. Perhaps it’s knowing that I’ll have some courses starting soon and so will be back in the saddle. Or maybe it’s witnessing my daughter’s misery as she spends the entire week waiting for an oral exam at university (online, of course.) The poor girl is number fifty-seven on […]
Archives for June 2020
Back to work after a public holiday (and a 3 month lockdown)
Buondì. Gotta be quick today (no, really!) as it’s back to work for the first time since March ninth! Which means the familiar, but actually now quite unfamiliar, routine of packing my office bag with laptop, cable and lunch, doing the dishes from the evening before, leaving lunch instructions for the kids, choosing something to […]
New Easy Reader / Mini-Book Club: I Malavoglia
Buondì. As mentioned on Friday, today we have a new, B1 (intermediate) -level ‘easy Italian reader’ ebook, the third in our series of simplified versions of classic Italian literature. Once more we find ourselves back in the nineteenth-century, this time in a Sicilian fishing village… ‘I Malavoglia’, literally ‘the Unwillings’ (an ironic nickname coined, in […]
