Felice Anno Nuovo ..from all the team at OnlineItalianClub.com. 2012 has been a great year for us, and we have big plans to help you learn Italian in 2013. Another year over… Thanks to the hiring of our first paid staff member, and to a team of enthusiastic undergraduates doing work experience placements, 2012 saw […]
Italian Vocabulary Exercises for Christmas (& new listenings!)
Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo from OnlineItalianClub.com! Today’s La Vigilia di Natale (Christmas Eve in English) so, of course, we have some”Christmas-themed” free Italian exercises for you to do! There’s a reading comprehension, two Christmas Italian vocabulary exercises, and a crossword (see link at end of this post). Which reminds me, my (Italian) wife is […]
Does Spending More Mean Getting More?
OK, so say you decide that self-study has its limitations and you begin to evaluate Italian courses in Italy. Should you go for a group course, or shell out more for individual lessons personalised according to your needs? In this post, we’ll give you the pros and cons of each! When to choose a group course […]
Choosing Italian Language Schools in Italy: Free Checklist!
If you want to, or have to, learn Italian, and so are evaluating Italian language schools in Italy, you’ll soon realise that there are many, many schools out there. And once you’ve looked at a few websites, they all begin to look identical. So how can you choose between the numerous Italian language schools […]
More Free Italian Listening Comprehension Exercises
Ciao! We’ve only been producing free Italian listening comprehension exercises for a month or so, but already that page has become one of the most popular on the site, with over a thousand views in the last thirty days (that’s NOT including the exercises themselves!) You may have already taken a look but new […]
How To Avoid A Study-Abroad Disaster
You’re reading this because you’re interested in learning to speak Italian. And everyone knows that the easiest way to learn a foreign language is to go to the country where it is spoken, and study there, right? Wrong. What may at first be seen as a fantastic opportunity, a holiday of a lifetime, does […]
How to improve your Italian listening comprehension, for free!
Studying Italian grammar and vocabulary is one thing, but actually understanding what Italians say when they speak to you is quite another! But how to improve your listening comprehension in Italian? Well, practice certainly helps, and if you can’t live in Italy or speak the language regularly, doing lots of Italian listening comprehension exercises is a […]
Online Italian Lesson 50% OFF for one week ONLY!
Ciao and buona domenica to you! I’ll keep this short. For just ONE WEEK you can try an online Italian lesson via Skype video conferencing for HALF THE USUAL PRICE. Just €10, for a 30-minute one-to-one lesson, wherever you are in the world. The usual price is €20. The only way to get this special price […]
Cast a Spell on your Italian!
It’ll soon be Halloween in Italy, too. The local kids’ll be dressing up as witches and wizards, making even more noise than usual, and stuffing themselves with candy. And marketing departments will be bombarding us with pumpkin-branded seasonal offers (see below). But witches and wizards are a once-a-year event no longer. Harry Potter mania […]
Where are all the good sites to learn Italian free?
This post was going to be a review of the best sites on the Internet where you can learn Italian free. My young colleague made me a nice list of the most visible “learn Italian free” sites in Google, and I sat down this afternoon to write a review of each one. Except that […]