Buondì. I’ll keep this super quick because this morning I have to finish watching/listening to the opera Rigoletto on Youtube (I’m at minute 36 out of two hours and eight minutes, so a way to go yet)! After that I need to prepare the shop product for Monday’s new easy reader, by no coincidence, also […]

Buondì. Autumn/fall has finally arrived in Bologna, where I live. The other day it rained, weeks later than it normally does. Roomie was delighted to be able to use her little umbrella. It’s grey, though. The sun has packed its bags and gone to Australia. Ciao to everyone who wrote to me from Melbourne, by […]

Buondì. I’m not selling anything today, just having a moan about a former client of our Italian language school, whose name and identifying details I will not, naturally, be mentioning, even though he has clearly bad-mouthed me all over his part of Australia. Neither will I go into the details of his particular gripe, but […]

Buondì. I don’t usually email on Sundays – I’m busy in the kitchen. However, between washing the dishes and cooking lunch, here’s a quick reminder that the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson‘ offer ends tonight. The next chance to try a FREE one-to-one lesson with a native-speaker teacher won’t be until February. Why wait? November’s […]

(Here’s an article from our archive, which we use each time we do a Free Trial Lesson Offer. Things will be back to normal next week, when the promotion is over.) Buondì. Time’s running out to book your free online Italian lesson via Skype or Zoom! This week’s offer ends on Sunday night, so jump to […]

Buondì. Today, just a quick reminder about the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson’ offer over at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com, which began on Monday. Over sixty people have already signed up, in just the first two days, mostly for Italian, but also Spanish, French and German The offer lasts until Sunday night and the plan is to give […]

Buondì. As mentioned on Wednesday, next week I’ll be publishing, and promoting, our ‘easy reader ebook’-version of Puccini’s La Bohème. So, as I did with Nabucco and Turandot, I fired up Youtube and searched for a version of the opera which was a.) free to watch, and b.) had the Italian text on the screen, […]

Buondì. I’ve got to that age when I start to wonder what the world is coming to. Yes, I know it’s a cliche, but I can’t help myself. I’m fifty-five, so now counting down the years and months to the big Six-Oh and official decrepitude, though the retirement age here in Italy isn’t until sixty-seven. […]