The Internet is a wonderful thing for language learners… if you know how to exploit it. Here’s an idea for advanced level students which, in a few weeks, will help you: improve your grammar expand your Italian vocabulary understand spoken Italian better read Italian with more confidence speak with more natural pronunication completely free […]
Advanced Italian course (C1) – Week one is live!
For advanced learners of Italian, Week 1 of our C1 level course is now live for you to download and print (if you choose). If, like me, you’re not sure what “verbi pronominali” are, or have an urge to find out more about gerunds, the infinitve, and various participle forms, this is your lucky […]
Free upper-intermediate (B2) Italian course finally available!
Download your free B2 (upper-intermediate) Italian Course After delays caused not by earthquakes but by over-work, the FREE four-week B2 (upper-intermediate) Italian course is finally available on the OnlineItalianClub.com website! You have to be a member and logged-in, but downloading the notes to an 80-hour Italian course (which would cost around 700 euros if […]
Wherever you are in the world: Italian conversation lessons via Skype!
You’ve tried our free Italian courses (you need to be a member and logged-in…). But did you know that we also organise online Italian conversation lessons? No matter where you are in the world? Now you can learn Italian from the Australian Outback, the American Mid-West, from Japan, or from any of the many countries […]
Hate exams? Time to think again!
5 Reasons Why An Exam Could Help You Reach Your Goal Faster Hate exams? Many people do. Traumatic experiences at school or university can put you off doing any form of test, ever again! But for adults who choose to learn a foreign language, studying towards an exam can, in fact, be a big […]
How to learn a foreign language (even if you’ve never done it before!)
Confessions of a Language-school Director You may be surprised to hear this, from pen of a language teacher, but by the age of 23 I had already tried, but completely failed, to learn at least four foreign languages. By 23, I had succeeded in learning… well, almost nothing at all, of how to communicate […]
The 3 Tenses You Need To Know To Really Speak and Understand Italian
Studying a foreign language can get depressing. Especially endless new verb tenses, each with irregular forms to memorise. Not to mention the “rules” on when and why to use them. Nothing is the same as in your mother tongue, and it seems to take for ever before you can use and understand each new verb form. […]
New exercises 4 u, + “Why is your site in English??”
OK, we’ve found the missing piece of our Free B1 (intermediate) Level Online Italian Course, the Exercises to go with Week 3 (they got lost down the back of someone’s email account, didn’t they, Lucia??). Anyway, you can get them here. Plus, “Why is your site in ENGLISH??? I want to learn ITALIAN!!!”, complained […]
Join me for a chat at OnlineItalianClub.com!
Ciao a tutti! Practise your Italian, or just chat in English in our Forums Big news! We’ve opened up our Forums so that anyone can read browse them. There are forums in Italian “Solo in italiano” (so you can practise) and the “English language forums” for those who don’t have enough Italian yet, or who […]
The Great Online Italian Courses Re-Organisation has begun!
Buongiorno a tutti e buona domenica! A quick post to let you know the Great Online Italian Courses Re-Organisation (which I have been promising for ages) has finally begun. All of our interactive exercises, .pdfs, progress tests, e-books and so on are being organised by level and grouped together in what will eventually be […]