It’s Sunday, so hopefully, you have nothing better to do than eat and then get on over to our shop to book your no-risk online Italian lesson, before the offer finishes tonight. Why “no risk”? Because if you don’t like it, you get a refund. You just need to ask, and it will be done. But wait… […]
Why online Italian lessons could be your best option
Why do people choose to take Italian lessons online, rather than going to a language school? Meet Ruth, a librarian, who lives in Australia. She began studying Italian as a hobby about 8 years ago and has continued on and off since then. She chose online Italian lessons to improve her Italian because she realized she didn’t […]
Why are your Skype Italian lessons just 30 minutes long?
Good question. An online Italian lesson could be any length, of course, and there’s nothing to stop you, say, buying 10 x 30 minute lessons, then choosing to take 5 x 60 minute classes instead. Or even two x 150 minute classes, if you insist. The customer is always right round here. It would certainly […]
Try before you buy?
I like going to the supermarket here in Italy. There are often things to try: parmesan cheese, salami, porchetta, yogurt, sometimes they even give away cups of freshly-made coffee or little plastic beakers of wine. It brightens up the chore of shopping for a growing family. The yougurt sample girls tend to be young and […]
Here’s the deal on online Italian lessons
Studying on your own can work great for some people. Personally, I prefer it. I’m pretty self-motivated most of the time, and I like finding out how to do things for myself. But I’m not everyone. Taking a course in a real language school, or in some other way having regular contact with a teacher, […]
The two reasons why you may never learn to speak or understand Italian
There are two reasons why most people fail to learn the foreign language that they dream of speaking, in this case Italian. I’m telling you this because a.) I have, in my life, failed utterly to learn many foreign languages (Japanese, Polish, French, Russian…) b.) But, amazingly, succeeded in learning two other foreign languages (Turkish, […]
Think Italian, Like an Italian – 5
On Sunday evening I was making fornarina for my family, and for some friends, who always happen to come by on Sundays when the oven’s on and the wine bottle is open. Since you ask, fornarina is a sort of pizza, but without the usual toppings. I didn’t have high hopes. While I’ve been making pizza […]
Think Italian, Like an Italian – 4
Today his ot, so hi ham appy. Hit’s great to ave ha few more days hof ot weather before the hautumn harrives, hisn’t hit? /h/ his ha voiceless fricative. Hi hadmit to being vague habout what precisely that means heven hafter 20 years has ha language teacher, so hi don’t expect you to know. Owever, […]
Think Italian, Like an Italian – 3
Italian verbs. People do seem to have trouble getting their heads around them. Part of the problem is the tense system, of course (of which more another day). But there’s a much bigger problem, especially for beginners. English speakers quite reasonably expect the “who is doing it” part to go right at the front of […]
Think Italian, Like an Italian – 2
Mr Monday, Mrs breakfast, Mr son, MRS school, Mrs rain, Mrs clouds, Mrs week but Mr weekend, is that right? See? I’m still doing it. Trying to think like an Italian. Last time I decided to work on gender. You can read how here. Today being Mr Monday, I’m pressed for time, so I think I’ll […]