Buondì. I’m back in Bologna, after my overnight stay in Torino on Thursday. A lot of the weekend was spent minding Roomie, or washing dishes, meaning that work has really piled up. So I’ll keep this short. No, really! This morning we published a new ‘easy reader’ ebook, part of the ‘A day in the […]
Archives for February 2023
Torino, a lucky/unlucky city with an interesting history
Buondì. I’m writing the first part of this (yesterday) on a high-speed train (Roomie and I agree that the black and red ones are very pretty) on the way to Torino, which is Turin in English and, according to Wikipedia, in the Piedmontese dialect. It’s been years since I’ve been anywhere new, mostly because of […]
How to waste your time ‘learning’ new vocabulary
Buondì. More from my muse, club-member Suzanne, who often emails interesting questions. Here’s her comment on my approach to learning vocablary, which I’ve paraphrased selectively: ‘I use EasyItalianNews.com and short stories in Italian to improve my vocabulary. It’s common pedagogy to use texts to learn at least 50% of the words used in them. Yes, […]