Buondì. Our ten-week, thirty-episode, FREE Summer Series of articles with online audio begins today. Hurrah! The idea is to provide Italian reading/listening practice material for anyone who wishes to take advantage of it, no registration or payment required. Do spread the word, won’t you? We don’t advertise, so rely on club members to tell their […]
2023 Summer Sale: Just a few hours left to save 20%!
There are just a few hours left of the 2023 Summer Sale. Today is the final day, so your last chance to save 20% on everything at our online stores, EasyReaders.org (ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (one-to-one lessons). The coupon code you need to save 20% on online lessons and/or ebooks is: 2023-Summer-Sale-20%-Off And here are the […]
2023 Summer Sale: it’s not what you spend, it’s what you do
Buondì. Sunday July 9th is the final day of the 2023 Summer Sale at our two online stores, EasyReaders.org (for ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (for one-to-one lessons). Until then you can use the coupon code below to save 20% on the online lessons and/or ebooks you’ll need to improve your Italian during the summer months: 2023-Summer-Sale-20%-Off […]
2023 Summer Sale: the usual ‘best-sellers’ article!
Buondì. The 2023 Summer Sale ends on Sunday, so I thought you might be interested in hearing what other club members have been spending their ‘learn Italian’ budgets on. Let’s begin with our top selling product, the ten-pack of online lesson credits, which is always, always, the most popular choice. In positions two and three […]
2023 Summer Sale: Online Italian lesson dos and don’ts
Buondì. As we’re busy with the 2023 Summer Sale right now, here’s an article from our archive. I’ve been both an online teacher and a language learner, so can see things from both perspectives. Here, then, are a few tips for students who choose to include one-to-one online lessons in their language study programs. The […]
2023 Summer Sale Starts Today: 20% Off Everything!
Buondì. Today we have the start of the 2023 Summer Sale! Which means that everything at EasyReaders.org (ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (online lessons) can be had a fifth cheaper than usual. All you have to do to discount the price of anything by 20% is to copy and paste this coupon code into the box in […]
2023 Summer Sale Next Week! (It’s already started for some.)
Buondì. A quick one today, as I’ve a lot to do, with the Summer Sale and the up-coming Summer Series. Two many Ss there, I know. I’ll take it up with the marketing dept. (wait, that’s me!) As a reminder, our quarterly promotion, which we run at approximately 13-week intervals (summer, autumn/fall, New Year, spring), […]
2023 Summer Sale Next Week – Time to Unsubscribe?
Buondì. Let it be known that next week, so from July 3rd to 9th, our two online shops, EasyReaders.org (for ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (for one-to-one lessons), will be having their 2023 Summer Sale. Which means that I’ll be publicising a coupon code which, if you apply it in your shopping cart in either/both online shops, […]
Overlapping knowledges
Buondì. It’s going to be another hot one today in Bologna, where I live. The app I consult each morning on my smartphone summarises the weather with: ‘Che caldo, oggi si suda!’ (How hot, today one sweats!) But at six-thirty a.m. it was still fresh enough for me to put on jeans and boots for […]
Inflation
Buondì. For years, since the ‘seventies, inflation wasn’t really a thing. In fact, for a while, economists worried about its opposite – deflation. The economy in Japan, for instance, never seemed to grow like those in other first world economies because inflation was negative. Citizens expected prices to go down, rather than up. Sounds like […]