Buondì. (Tuesday’s Easy Italian News is live since this morning. Have you read/listened to it, yet? Click here!) July/luglio seems a long way back now, doesn’t it? On the 3rd of that month, basically a whole season ago, I was wearing shorts, sandals and shades. The club was running its ‘Summer Sale’ and I wrote an article […]

Buondì. (Before I tell you about the 2018 Autumn Sale, here’s something you can do absolutely free – Saturday’s Easy Italian News. Click here to read/listen to it. And if you like it, be sure to fill in the little form in the sidebar of the news website, where it says “NEVER MISS ‘EASY ITALIAN […]

Before I begin, have you listened to Thursday’s Easy Italian News, yet? If not, listen to it today because there’ll be another one out tomorrow (Saturday) morning. No pressure or anything… The feedback we’ve been getting on the new website has been nearly 100% positive, which is great. And there’s been much MORE of it […]

Buondì. This morning I have three things to tell you. I’ll try to deal with them as rapidly as I can because I have a Swedish lesson in an hour and I haven’t, yet, done my homework, washed the dishes or prepared the kids’ lunch. 1. The Wednesday rant There’s a new edition of ‘Easy […]

People often write to me that they “don’t know enough words” to express themselves in Italian. And that they therefore feel reluctant to speak. A complaint which seems a little back to front to me. Well OF COURSE you’re not going to be able to communicate in your second language as well as you do […]

When I was a schoolboy, and then later a university student, I would treat a deadline (say for a homework or essay assignment) as advance warning of some sort of impending disaster. I’d get ready days, even weeks, beforehand. My essay would be completed and ready to hand in before most of my peers had […]

An extremely rare, and very brief, THURSDAY post from OnlineItalianClub.com. Why? Because this morning I published the Thursday edition of ‘easy Italian news’ at our new site EasyItalianNews.com. Then a couple of hours later, I looked at the stats. 203 people have read/listened to the Tuesday edition so far today. About two thousand people saw […]

Buondì. Yesterday (Tuesday) we published the first ‘proper’ version of ‘Easy Italian News’. Not just text and audio. Now there are colours! And pictures! You can read and listen to it here: https://easyitaliannews.com/easyitaliannews-com-18-settembre-2018/ I won’t tell you it’s ‘good value’. I’m not going to promise you it’s ‘cheap as chips’. It’s free. So take a […]

Did you know (you probably didn’t) that only about 25-30% of people who have chosen to receive articles like this via email, each Monday, Wednesday and Friday, actually seem to open them? I guess people are busy. And that, of those who open the articles (this is the bit that has me scratching my head…), […]

Buondì. After a week of hard work, the first ‘test edition’ is ready for you to try on our ‘easy Italian news’ site. Many thanks to everyone who helped produce it, and to all those who left encouraging, supportive comments! There’ll be another ‘test edition’ on Monday, mostly old news, but still great listening practice, […]