Buondì. A club member wrote to me this week about his plan to spend a month in a small Italian town to improve his Italian – by chatting to waiting staff, and so on. He was worried that they might insist on speaking English to him, which is likely any place ‘touristic’. Or just not […]
Archives for March 2023
New ‘easy reader’ ebook (Joe who?) and 4 half-price offers!
Buondì. Our latest ‘historical’ easy reader ebook is about Joe Petrosino. Joe who? He’s a really famous Italian-American, apparently, or was. Did you see the film ‘The Untouchables’, ‘Gli intoccabili’ in Italian, starring Sean Connery and Kevin Costner? Well it’s that sort of thing, but set several decades earlier, at the end of the nineteenth […]
Look back, not forward, to judge the progress you’ve made
Buondì. When I was an English teacher, struggling to unteach Italian adults all the nonsense they’d memorised in their school days about their foreign language, and how to learn it, one thing I used to hear a lot from advanced students (there weren’t that many) was that their objective now that they were adults was […]
One simple way to improve your listening comprehension
Buondì. As regular readers will know, each weekday morning I drive Roomie across town and hand her over to professional wranglers for the day, then drive back home alone, listening to the news highlights in Swedish as I go. Why am I learning Swedish? Years back I suggested to club members in an article like […]