Buondì. Time’s running out to book your free online Italian lesson via Skype! The offer ends on Sunday night, so jump to it! 90 people have already signed up for a free lesson, though if past performance is a guide, not all of them will get around to actually doing it. We usually calculate that […]

Buondì. Today, jus a quick reminder about the ‘Free Online Italian Lesson via Skype’ offer, which began on Monday. Full details are here. 40 people already signed up in just the first two days. The offer lasts until Sunday night and the plan is to give away a hundred free lessons… So if you’re interested, […]

(The articles I’ll be publishing this week are similar to those published in November 2019, at the time of our previous Free Trial Lesson Offer. They worked well then, so I’ll be taking a break and catching up on other work. Things’ll be back to normal on Monday 24th February.) Buondì. As mentioned on Friday, […]

Buondì. Renee emailed about last Friday’s rant: The problem you had with Gail – whether it’s a real one or perhaps a marketing ploy / strategy, I don’t care – can be solved by letting readers create their own exercises. There is an interesting website – not for free but affordable – where you can […]

Buondì. Here’s an expat reminiscence for you (I’ve been living in Italy for over twenty years.) Since my early days ‘abroad’, I was an avid reader of The Economist, a British weekly magazine which is packed with interesting articles, not just about politics/economics/business but also on cultural and scientific themes. Back in the day, I […]

Buondì. Thanks to everyone who bought a copy of last week’s newly-published easy Italian reader ebook, Zio Ciro e la pizza (B1). If you’ve read/are reading it, don’t forget to leave a review, will you? There’s a page in the shop which shows you exactly how to do that. Step-by-step instructions, with pictures! Many thanks […]

Buondì. First of all, apologies to Gail, whose comment on a recent post I acidentally deleted, along with about a hundred pieces of spam. We get so few genuine comments, sometimes they get lost in the tidal wave of porn links. However, I realised my error and found that by hitting the back button on […]

Buondì. I’ll be quick today, as I just spent ages paying our online teachers and material writers. There are quite a few of them these days, so the ‘back office’ stuff can be time-consuming (and a drag…) Anyway, several people have written recently to say they like hearing about what I’m doing with my own […]

Buondì. LAST Friday was my wife’s birthday and we organised a surprise party. My part in the enterprise was to make pizzas, amongst other things. I figured, given that it was a party and we were expecting plenty of guests, I’d do both the version in the metal trays, the type you slice into rectangular […]