Buondì. On Wednesday, I posted Chapter One of this week’s new ‘easy reader’ ebook, which is A2/B1 (pre-intermediate/intermediate) level but, in my opinion, is accessible for anyone with reasonable reading skills. By which I mean not obsessing over every word or sentence you don’t immediately understand, but instead trying to follow the story. That article, if […]
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Move your eyes along the first line, from left to right
Buondì. If you read Wednesday’s article How to read in Italian (and why you really should!), you may – or may not – be wondering if I’ll publish Chapter 2 of next Monday’s new ebook ‘easy reader’, ‘Quando suonano alla porta‘ by Roberto Gamberini. It’s Friday, the sun’s shining, and the temperature in Bologna is […]
How to read in Italian (and why you really should!)
Buondì. People have lots of daft ideas about language learning, what they should and shouldn’t do, why that will or won’t help, and so on. Two of the most misunderstood areas are reading and listening in/to your foreign language. The other is pronunciation. I could list the the daft ideas people have about reading here […]
Most people are kind and competent (within limits…)
Buondì. I’m back, though a shadow of my former self, hobbling through the house, fearful lest an uncontrolled movement or unexpected cough set off agonies in my groin. This not helped by the fact that, having been sent home from hospital, the day after my operation, with six sachets of a potent non-opiod pain-killer (to […]