Last week Karolina finished her A1 (beginner) course, and has now started A2 (pre-intermediate). Her notes on Week 4 of her course are available on the courses page (don’t forget, you have to be a member, and logged in to see it). I asked her too why she hadn’t studied any grammar in week 3: […]
Week 3 of “Learn Italian with Karolina” now ready to download
Get Karolina’s notes on week 3 of the A1 (beginner) course at our sponsor school here: http://italiano.madrelinguablog.com/courses/ (Don’t forget you need to be logged-in to view the “courses” page) There seems to be lots of vocabulary this week, with translations into English and Polish – so you could learn Polish too!
New Italian language e-book out today: level B1, free download!
Ragazzi! Lucia has done it again, her third Italian e-book is finished and waiting for you on the downloads page (don’t forget you need to be logged-in to reach that page). She’s called it “Campar senza fatica e’ una voglia antica!“ which (obviously) is an Italian proverb, but what exactly does it mean? I […]
Learn Italian with Karolina, week 2 of our FREE online course!
Karolina’s been studying hard all week, and typing up her notes for you to learn from too! Check out the new words and grammar she’s studied this week on our courses page (don’t forget to log-in first – it’s “members-only” content). Hey, do you know anyone else learning Italian who could benefit from Karolina’s […]
Free CILS exercises
It’s always interesting to do a quiz or a test to better know our abilities and limits… This week, we put four new “CILS-style” exercises on the downloads page of the Online Italian Club (thanks Francesca!) at levels B1, B2, C1 and C2. You can get the .pdfs with the exercises and the answers here (sorry […]
FREE Italian course, week 1 material now online
Hot news! The first installment of our FREE Italian course is finally available on our courses page (make sure you’re logged in, or you won’t be able to see it). If you’ve already studied Italian, it’ll be pretty easy for you, as we’re starting from the beginning: level A1, week 1. Still, a little revision […]
Sunday lunch?
Sunday morning and my thoughts naturally turn to what I’m going to give the family for lunch. Back in England, Sunday lunch was always roast meat, roast potatoes, and boiled vegetables, plus gravy of course, but whenever I’ve presented Italian friends or family members with a traditional English Sunday lunch, there has been a […]
New Italian Exercises, plus: have your say, win some online lessons!
There are two new exercises available on the downloads page of the Online Italian Club: “Describing Appearance” “Adjective/Noun Collocations” (also related to appearance) You can download the .pdf files, which also contain the answers, from our downloads page but don’t forget to log-in first or you’ll just get the “Who the hell are you?” page […]
What can we do to help you learn Italian?
The Online Italian Club is here to help you learn Italian. But it’s new, and we are not sure HOW best to help you. What would be most useful for you? Exercises? Downloadable resources? Videos? The forums? We have some resources to invest in making this club better, but we’d like to know what […]
How to learn Italian for free
Not everyone has the money to take a language course, or the time. Arriving in Bologna in 1998 with a pregnant wife, a few thousand pounds in savings and a handful of CVs ready to distribute, signing up for a language course was far from being priority number 1. Getting a job (I’m a teacher […]