“Ormai” (good word that. It means “By now”) the Internet has become mundane. Booking a flight or shopping online is no longer the adventure it once was. And we rely on the web for free resources and information in a way which would once have been science-fiction, but is now unremarkable. But progress means […]

  Search for “learn Italian” in google.com today and you’ll find an advert at the top of the page, above the “real” search results, for a service promising a “Fun and Easy way to learn Italian”. Fun and easy is good, but better still the advert follows with: “Try Keewords today. It’s Free!” Click on […]

  Sometimes, whatever they tell you about guessing the meaning of words you don’t know from context, you just really, really need a good “bi-lingual” dictionary. Years ago, when my wife and I regularly did translation work, we invested a big chunk of our meagre earnings in what was surely the most comprehensive English/Italian Italian/English […]

  Studying a language can be rewarding and fun, but more often it’s hard-work, expensive, time-consuming, frustrating, de-motivating, and lots of other heavy things. But what if you knew a way to improve your Italian WITHOUT studying? Without spending money on materials or courses? Without sitting through boring lessons? Without doing any homework? And, at […]