Buondì. I was pondering the question of when I would ‘finish’ learning Swedish in the car this morning, as I listened to the news headlines. There was an interview with a former minister, I think it was, about how Turkey is continuing to block Sweden’s application to join Nato. That’s a topic that interests me, […]

Buondì. Anita emailed with a question: “With two grandkids in the language-learning, language-exploding stage, I’m puzzled by one thing. They pick out nouns and then verbs from the babble of language around them. But when I listen to Italian, what I hear are the conjunctions, prepositions & other connectives (the quindis, perós, perchés, & the […]

Buondì. Our Autumn/Fall Sale promotion is over, thank goodness. So once I’ve cleared the considerable backlog of work that’s piled up while I’ve been busy doing ‘commercial’ mailings, I’ll be back to writing the usual things about how I learn foreign languages (and how you probably should, too.) In case you’re new around here, that […]

There are just a few hours left of the Autumn/Fall Sale. Today is the final day, so the last chance to save 20% on everything at our (now two!) online stores, EasyReaders.org (for ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (for one-to-one lessons). The coupon code you need to save 20% on the online lessons and/or ebooks is: 2022-Autumn-Sale-20%-Off And […]

Buondì. Tomorrow is the final day of the 2022 Autumn/Fall Sale (details here) at our online stores, EasyReaders.org (for ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (for one-to-one lessons). Use the coupon code below to save 20% on the online lessons and/or ebooks you’ll need to improve your Italian: 2022-Autumn-Sale-20%-Off And here are the store links: one-to-one lessons | […]

Buondì. The Autumn/Fall Sale is nearly done (as always, it’s been a lot of work) so I thought you might be interested in hearing what other club members have been spending their ‘learn Italian’ budgets on. Hence the usual, end-of-sale ‘ebook best-sellers’ article. N.b. If you’re interested in any of the products below, don’t forget […]

Buondì. Here’s an article from our archive, and a reminder about the 2022 Autumn/Fall Sale, which ends on Sunday night! The dos and don’ts of taking online Italian lessons Written from personal experience, as I use this method to learn languages (I’m also an online teacher, so see things from both perspectives…) Don’t put off […]

Buondì. Today we have the start of the 2022 Autumn/Fall 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 […]

Buondì. Earlier in the week, Monday I think it was, I promised to send you something that wasn’t just an advert. So here it is, an article by Francesca Colombo, an online Italian teacher at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com and talented writer of many of the ‘easy readers’ at EasyReaders.org. Well, that was sort of an advert, but […]

Buondì. Let it be known that next week, so from Monday 26th September to Sunday 2nd October, our two online shops, EasyReaders.org (for ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (for one-to-one lessons), will be having their Autumn/Fall Sale. Which means that I’ll be publicising a coupon code which, if you apply it in your shopping cart in either/both […]