Many of us would love to speak and understand Italian better, but may never manage it. Studying is difficult, not being able to express ourselves is frustrating. As we understand the size of the task, our motivation flags. Life’s other priorities undermine us. The Zen of Learning Italian
Please share these great free resources for learning Italian!
I’m assuming you already know that OnlineItalianClub.com offers masses of free resources for learning Italian. But maybe your friends haven’t come across our site yet… So why not do everyone a favor, and forward this article to anyone you know who might be interested? Or better still, share it on Facebook, or your favorite social […]
Learn Italian while you cook….
Just a quickie today. I’ve been busy writing a post for our Italian school about a classic Bolognese dish (check out the article here). While doing the research, I came across a profusion of cooking websites which all seem to feature “how to” videos, along with the recipes (and lots and lots of adverts…) But […]
Live in Modena (this article has homework!)
Saturday evening, and what else to do but finish the bottle of vino novello 2013 delle Venezie and listen to a little mellow music? Remembering Zucchero from a week or two back, I thought I’d check out some of his other songs, and found “Hey Man” (live in Modena), which is near here. Italian popular […]
Here’s a great idea for improving your Italian!
A lot of people have mentioned parallel texts for learning Italian. Personally, I’ve never been a big fan, but that said, I’ve not really made much use of them, so what do I know? Anyway, I was thinking, let’s take an Italian classic and do a bit of group translation on it, a sort of […]
Help me out, here
Ragazzi! There’s a project I’ve had in my head for ages now. I even hired someone to take it forward, but sadly, she quit. So, now it’s just us. Anyway, I’ve been working on this a bit in my free time of late and I’ve made enough progress to know that this is not going […]
What the cabbage?
Sorry, mixing up my languages there. What I meant was “Che cavolo?” or maybe “What the f**k?” Today’s Italian pop song is Dune Mosse by Zucchero (want sugar with that?) With the late, great Miles Davis playing along. That swings it for me. Italian pop, take it or leave it, but Miles, well, you don’t […]
Sally is a woman who no longer has the will to fight
Or something like that, which is my translation of: Sally è una donna che non ha più voglia ….di fare la guerra I know the feeling. The text is an extract from the first verse of Vasco Rossi’s ‘Sally’, a song chosen by Panorama magazine as one of the top 10 best Italian songs ever. […]
Ciao from an airport hotel
It’s grey and windy outside my airport hotel window, which incidentally overlooks a carpark and is alongside a motorway (freeway, interstate?) My flight’s not until tomorrow morning, and the restaurant doesn’t open for another hour. So time for a quick post on how to learn Italian with music! If you don’t listen to Italian pop […]
Why do people put things off until it’s too late?
Why do people put things off until it’s too late? Me, for example. I’ve been planning to go on a sailing holiday. I work so hard I need a break. And I get these e-mail offers from various sailing clubs, which I always open and read. Most times I “star” the e-mail, or mark them “unread”, […]