Buondì. I’m writing this yesterday, so to speak, as this morning I have business in town, after which we’re off to the coast for a weekend of sun, sea, and hopefully relaxation! August is pretty dead in Italy, the only dependable thing being the bumper-to-bumper traffic on the ‘autostrade’ (= ‘car roads’, so ‘interstates’ for […]
Archives for August 2021
Irritatingly inexact
Buondì. It’s a common assumption amongst inexperienced language learners that a word that exists in their native tongue will have an equivalent in the language they are learning, so facilitating direct translation from one to another. Alas, that’s not always so. For instance, in today’s new episode of our FREE 30-part series on the Middle […]
Ever fancied being pope?
Buondì. The tenth episode in our free Summer Series (of thirty in total) is now ready for you to read and listen to. And if you’ve ever fancied being pope (‘papa’ in Italian), you should definitely take a look before emailing off your application form – today’s episode touches on some of the challenges of […]