Buondì. One of the reasons I wasted several years studying history at university, instead of something useful like languages, or business, or basically anything else, was a childhood fascination with all things military: guns, of course, but also equipment, the organisation and deployment of troops, tactics and strategy, and so on. It’s a boy thing, […]
Archives for August 2020
The one with Cleopatra and Brutus
Buondì. Episode 11 (out of 30) of our free series of articles with audio ‘La storia di Roma’ is ready. Finally the part that everyone knows! The one with Caesar crossing the Rubicorn, “the dice is cast!”, becoming ‘imperator’, his holiday romance with Cleo, and gory end: “Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi!” (“Anche tu, o […]
“With regret I am thinking of cancelling my subscription to your club”
Buondì. Stupid people. One purpose of these emailed articles is to suggest HOW to learn, and to recommend including activities like reading and listening in your study program, which people tend not to, unless nagged. And that is best done in English, trust me. Yet I regularly get emails like this: With regret I am […]