Buondì. I’ve got a lot on today, and am starting later than usual due to traffic, roadworks, red lights, and a surplus of morons on Italian roads. So I’ll just do a couple of quick notes on ‘How to…’ do things, that is to say things that some people seem not to have figured out. […]
Getting past that nagging “I should study” feeling
Buondì. Driving back home this lovely spring morning, after dropping Bug at his petting zoo on the other side of town, I was half-listening to the news headlines in Swedish, while pondering – as you do – whether I could have made much more progress, in the five years or so I’ve been learning that […]
Why learning Italian is/isn’t like exercising
Buondì. I’m a little late starting today, as I’ve been out for a walk. Nothing exceptional, just a limp down to our local park, once around the lake, and back home again. I’ve been off exercising lately, due to pain in ‘i tendine d’Achille’ (yes, both legs, otherwise it would have been ‘il tendine’), which […]
Free audiobooks!
Buondì. I read somewhere recently that in the world of book publishing the hot category is audiobooks. Perhaps that’s because people don’t have time to read the actual books, but can listen to them while doing other things, such as commuting or doing chores. I didn’t think any more about it, though this piece of […]
Nov. 2023 FREE Trial Online Italian Lesson offer ends soon!
Buondì. I don’t usually email on Sundays – I’m busy in the kitchen. However, between washing the dishes and cooking lunch, here’s a quick reminder that the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson‘ offer ends tonight. The next chance to try a FREE one-to-one lesson with a native-speaker teacher won’t be until February 2024. Why wait? […]
November 2023 FREE Trial Online Italian Lesson Offer: last days!
(Here’s an article from our archive, which we use each time we do a Free Trial Lesson Offer. Things will be back to normal next week, when the promotion is over.) Buondì. Time’s running out to book your free online Italian lesson via Skype or Zoom! This week’s offer ends on Sunday night, so jump to […]
Nov. 2023 FREE Trial Online Italian Lesson Offer reminder!
Buondì. Today, just a quick reminder about the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson’ offer over at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com, which began on Monday. Just over forty people have already signed up, in just the first two days, mostly for Italian, but also Spanish, French and German The offer lasts until Sunday night and the plan is to […]
FREE Trial Lesson Offer / 6 Half-Price ‘Ebooks of the Week’
Buondì. As mentioned on Friday, this week we have the Free Trial Online Italian Lesson Offer! In our online shop, there are various online Italian lesson options. Choose between packages of five, ten, twenty or thirty lessons, for example, and so benefit from greater discounts. But it’s also possible to buy just the one lesson, […]
FTLO coming next week / What are your language learning tips?
Buondì. Here’s a copy/paste from an article in February: +++ Next week NativeSpeakerTeachers.com has it’s twice-yearly Free Trial Lesson Offer, a chance for anyone who hasn’t yet tried a free thirty-minute online lesson with a native speaker teacher to do so. For years, the one thing that was missing from my own language learning was […]
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Buondì. Honorary mentions today go to my dad, who’s been in hospital and is now at home recovering, and club member Harold who wrote to object to my rhetorical question: “How can someone NOT know how to download, open, and SAVE a .pdf file?” Having a relative in hospital is alarming at the best of […]