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 […]
The problem with language classes (and ‘easy reader’ ebooks)
Buondì. Sorry I’m late today. I was delayed, trying to choose an ‘ebook of the week’ to discount by 50%, so I could then publicise it here. I’m sort-of between systems, so things are a bit of a mess, and therefore take longer than usual. And because of Roomie occupying big chunks of what would otherwise […]
“Your articles are too long”
Buondì. The wife’s back from hospital, thanks to everyone who asked. But it’s been a heavy week, so I’ll keep this short, then maybe go wash, or shave, or do some of the things that piled up while I was managing Roomie and the adult kids single-handed. Which reminds me, Wednesday I wrote that I […]
Hai dormito bene?
Buondì. Hai dormito bene? Io no. My wife had to go in for a minor operation at some absurd hour this morning (don’t surgeons sleep?) So Roomie and I kept each other company for what felt like the longest night of my life. I swear I was awake at every number of the clock from […]