Buondì. Monday I invited people to unsubscribe if they didn’t want to receive articles like this one, or to just stop reading until the January Sales are over, so as to avoid me trying to sell them stuff. Plenty of people did, the system tells me, over four hundred of them, and their data has […]
2023 January Sale Next Week – Time to Unsubscribe?
Buondì. Let it be known that next week and the week after, so from Wednesday 28th December 2022 to Friday 6th January 2023, our two online shops, EasyReaders.org (for ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (for one-to-one lessons), will be having their January Sale. Which means that I’ll be publicising a coupon code which, if you apply it […]
Which of these four types of listening do you do regularly?
Buondì. Still busy, now also late, because first I had to take Roomie to the petting zoo, then go to the bank to get new plastic cards (after having been robbed on the bus several weeks back), then finally do a mailing for our Italian school’s annual promotion. You’ll find it here, if you’re interested: […]
Why learn Italian?
Buondì. I’m super-busy today, what with our Italian school‘s annual promotion having started, and preparations for the January Sale at our two online businesses, EasyReaders.org (ebooks for learners) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (online lessons with native speaker tutors). N.b. confusion is understandable, but the Italian school is an Italian business, operating from a historic building (with frescoed […]
2023 Italian Courses in Italy -20% (& two half price ebooks)
Buondì. I’m late today as I’ve been busy with my other hat on, marketing our Italian school. Each year in December it runs a ‘Save 20%’ offer, the basic idea being to encourage students who studied during the current year to come back again, as well as to attract potential new students with a juicy […]
Where have all the angels gone?
Buondì. At around the end of June, something weird happened over at EasyReaders.org, our ebook shop. Bear in mind that Easy Readers LLP, the legal entity behind EasyReaders.org, is a mini-mini, micro, barely-visible-at-all operation, the most minuscule of tiny, small businesses. Granted, it takes up a lot of my time, and I have some fun […]
Don’t know how, and can’t be bothered to figure it out?
Buondì. I’m not a patient man in general, unless I’m teaching, or sometimes with children and small animals. Roomie and I spent nearly an hour ‘making bread’ yesterday evening, that’s to say I made bread while she plastered herself, and the surrounding area, with flour and sticky lumps of dough. That took some patience. But […]
New easy reader opera ebook, La traviata, £5.99 this week
Buondì. Hope you had a nice weekend! Friday evening Stefi and I watched a Swedish movie together on Neflix, in Swedish of course, with Swedish subitles, which were more of a distraction than anything else, but she always likes to have them, even with the endless English-language TV series she consumes. The film was called […]
Cops
Buondì. I had lots of emails this week, plenty of sympathy for getting robbed on the bus, lots of stories from people to whom similar things have happened, and this from Gerry: I was most interested to learn the word anagrafe which I did not know but I was also surprised that you went to […]
I learn that I’ve become an easy target
Buondì. I would hate to put anyone off coming to Italy, even at this time of the year, when it’s cold and grey. The shops are pretty, too, so Roomie and I paused on the way back from her daycare to look in the windows in Bologna’s Via Farini. One shop had a huge, blue […]