Archives for March 2025

Buona domenica a tutti. Wednesday’s article, Language-learning habits checklist provoked an emailed question from Jonathan, mentioning that he found listening to Italian “mentally exhausting” and asking for “tips about dealing with the frustration of not understanding anything at first”. I enjoy responding to learners’ questions (I was a language teacher for three decades, so just […]

Apologies for bothering you on a Friday, but we have bills to pay… Buon fine settimana! (Copied/pasted from our ebooks store website) There are just a few days remaining of the 2025 Spring Sale promotion, which ends on Sunday March 30th 2025 (see the P.S below for details). So still time to use coupon code […]

Buondì. Like a lot of ‘big things’ in life – building a career say, or sustaining a happy and committed realationship with a signifcant other – learning a foreign language involves paying attention over a period that may last for many years, even multiple decades. It’s a reasonable assumption that most adults will have had […]

Buondì. The P.S. to last week’s article mentioned that the Spring Sale at our ebooks store was coming up, on March 25th… Well, I don’t know what was happening with my head that day, but I’d somehow managed to lose a week of my life – the Spring Sale at our ebooks store was actually […]

Buondì. A quick message for Patricia, who left a comment on the website, politely wondering why she hadn’t heard from me about her prize for entering the translation competition a couple of weeks back. This is what I wrote about that in last week’s article: “But everyone who entered deserves a prize… If they email […]