Over the weekend I was studying Swedish. In particular I was doing the listening exercises, which my Swedish mother-in-law kindly located on a recent visit to Stockholm. For me, the listening comprehension exercises are the best bit! The grammar, I can take or leave. I’m lazy about learning vocabulary. And my pronunciation is zero. But […]

Buondì. Today we have a new ‘Book of the Classic Italian Movie’ out. Honestly, I’d never heard of ‘Accattone‘, but I HAD heard of Pier Paolo Pasolini, a left-wing writer, poet and director who was famously murdered. It was the ‘seventies, a period of violent turmoil in Italy, and Pasolini met his gruesome end at […]

If you haven’t booked your free trial online Italian lesson yet, consider this your final reminder! About 65 people book have already booked a lesson. Lucia, our teaching manager, tells me that she’s written to most of you, and some lessons have already taken place. Hope they went well! For anyone else interested, we’re keeping […]

Yesterday our club website got its highest ever number of page views, a fraction under ten thousand. A typical visitor looks at 5 pages, so that means that around two thousand of you came through the doors yesterday. No wonder things felt busy – we’re still clearing up the trash! The most-viewed pages were those […]

A quick reminder to book your FREE TRIAL online Italian lesson, which I explained in detail yesterday. If you’re definitively not interested, just ignore this (and the other emails I’ll be sending this week.) Next week things will be back to normal. But if you fancy giving it a go, here are the details again: […]

Buondì. As mentioned several times recently, this is the week you can book yourself an online Italian lesson, absolutely free! The usual cost of a 30-minute one-to-one via Skype with one of our kind, professional teachers is €20 (less if you order 5 or 10 lessons at once.) But for the next seven days, and […]

Often I get emails from OnlineItalianClub.com members telling me how they are going about learning Italian, or asking for suggestions or advice (feel free to write, my email is at the bottom of every page on the club website.) And, if you’ve been paying attention over the last few months, you’ll be aware that I’m […]

Buondì. I have to tell you, we’ve hit a bottleneck. My colleague Matt has apparently written lots of new comprehension tasks for the listening exercises in our index. But instead of sending them down the line in handy batches of five or six, he’s sent twenty or so to Natalia, who checks the Italian, all […]

I managed to get some studying done over the weekend, both on Saturday and on Sunday. Only short sessions, but better than nothing. I’m finishing Kapitel 5 of my Swedish book (nearly half way!) And I learnt? Gick. Sounds a bit like baby vomit, but in fact it was my first encounter with the ‘preteritum’, […]

Today I’m teaching all day, covering for a teacher who’s off. Shame, because Friday is usually my day working at home, when I get lots of things done. Hence I’m writing this yesterday, if you see what I mean. Anyway, just be aware, anyone writing to me or ordering ebooks during Friday office hours, that […]