Buondì. Yesterday (Tuesday) we published the first ‘proper’ version of ‘Easy Italian News’. Not just text and audio. Now there are colours! And pictures! You can read and listen to it here: https://easyitaliannews.com/easyitaliannews-com-18-settembre-2018/ I won’t tell you it’s ‘good value’. I’m not going to promise you it’s ‘cheap as chips’. It’s free. So take a […]

Did you know (you probably didn’t) that only about 25-30% of people who have chosen to receive articles like this via email, each Monday, Wednesday and Friday, actually seem to open them? I guess people are busy. And that, of those who open the articles (this is the bit that has me scratching my head…), […]

Buondì. After a week of hard work, the first ‘test edition’ is ready for you to try on our ‘easy Italian news’ site. Many thanks to everyone who helped produce it, and to all those who left encouraging, supportive comments! There’ll be another ‘test edition’ on Monday, mostly old news, but still great listening practice, […]

Buondì. I’ve spent around £600 this week on writers and a new website. Say the equivalent of about a hundred and fifty £3.99 ebooks. That’s more or less the revenues from the last couple of ‘Book of the Week’ offers. I’ve always said I reinvest the proceeds of ebook sales, though it’s not as easy […]

Newspaper articles in a foreign language are HARD. You probably know that. But the adverts are easier. They’re designed by professionals to effectively communicate a particular message. The copywriters don’t care if your reading skills are iffy. They just want you to buy their client’s stuff. I probably mentioned, I have a three-month free subscription […]

“When the wife’s away, the mice will play”, or something like that. And she is indeed away, accompanying our daughter and a mountain of baggage to her first term at university abroad. A very exciting moment, the start of a new era in which I will have just the two stroppy teenagers at home rather […]

Buondì. My, it’s been such a busy week, I’ve barely had time to squeeze in my own language studies! Which is a problem, as I’ve signed up for the A2 Swedish exam in Milan on Sat. 15th and so REALLY need to sort out my grammar. I’m probably beyond hope, though. While I’ve been studying […]

I had a dreadful night last night. Pain in my ‘lower torso’ lead to a recurring dream in which I was searching for a toilet in my daughter’s new university but was unable to find one. Or if I could, it was in use, or it was wet and dirty, or there was no paper. […]

Buondì. I’m in the mood for succinct today, so here goes. Here’s a new Italian word-order exercise on “Imparare una lingua straniera”. Other recent material is on our ‘New’ page. And this is your final reminder about the ‘BotW’ (Book of the Week) offer, Cielo libero, which is now half-price at just £3.99, rather than […]

Yesterday afternoon was hot here in Bologna, and I’d had a busy morning, what with one thing and another. So I decided to take an hour or two off ‘work’ and have a go at a set of sample papers for an international Swedish exam (though I admit that might sound rather like ‘work’, too!) […]