Buondì. Let it be known that next week, so from April 4th to April 10th 2022, our two online shops, EasyReaders.org (for ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (for one-to-one lessons), will be having their Spring Sale. Hurrah! That means that I’ll be publicising a coupon code which, if you apply it in your shopping cart in either/both […]
Archives for March 2022
25% Off New Ebook Easy Reader – Colpa della terra, Libro 2
Buondì. Following on from last week’s publication of the first in a five-part series about an Italian family that migrates to the USA, here I am, as promised with the second ebook: Colpa della terra, Libro 2, La traversata (also B2). The title of this one, ‘La traversata’, means ‘The Crossing’, as you might have […]
Errata-corrige
Buondì. Many thanks to Tim, who wrote this week to point out a problem with our newest, ‘easy reader’ ebook, Colpa della terra, Libro 1, Colpa della terra. Anyone who’s already bought it will want to know this, and maybe others too, as it concerns the dreaded ‘pronomi’! Tim wrote (in italiano, bravo Tim!): C’è […]
D.I.Y.
Buondì. Last week, I think it was, I was asking my class of Italian adults learning English what they thought the most popular free time activities were in Britain, where I come from. Their guesses included going to the cinema and the theatre, along with exhibitions, and reading of course – that is to say […]
25% Off New Ebook Easy Reader – Colpa della terra, Libro 1
Buondì. If you’re learning Italian, like reading, and can manage texts at intermediate + level, then you might enjoy our new five-part series of ‘easy reader’ ebooks. ‘Colpa della terra’ is the name of the series, and of the first book in it. ‘Blame it on the land’ might be one translation, the idea being […]
Tòt reasons why you should never clean your home
Buondì. We have guests coming, so I’ve been cleaning out the fireplace in our living room, something I remember watching my gran doing each morning when I was a small child (she used to wrap the ashes in the previous day’s Daily Mirror), but that I haven’t done myself for…. maybe five years? We don’t […]
‘Listening’ or ‘Listening Practice’? (Do at least one.)
Buondì. Kathryn emailed to ask about the difference betweeen ‘listening’ and ‘listening practice’. Is there one? If so, what? ‘Listening practice’ has a goal or goals which are differerent to those associated with listening that isn’t ‘practice’. If your goal is to improve your listening skills, then you’re practising listening, though you may at the […]
Donkey shot!
Buondì. When you learn, and use, a foreign language, there are always things that will floor you. Sometimes it’s the same thing, again and again! For example, when I have heard, over the decades, my Italian wife talking about Donkey shot. First I thought she was going crazy, or that I’d misheard. What did donkeys […]
About understanding, tra virgolette
Buondì. Driving our small guest to her kindergarten on the other side of our city each weekday morning is an opportunity to listen to the radio, a station that combines monologues on political themes with ‘rock’, so the Rolling Stones, Bruce, and plenty of newer stuff that I’m not familiar with, but enjoy anyway. Music […]
“Ho già dato!”
Buondì. Someone wrote to me this week asking if I had plans to offer EasyItalianNews.com also for other languages – he provided a list of those he’s learning. It would be great if we could do the same thing, that is to say, produce 150-odd FREE bulletins each and every year, for this language, and […]
