There are just a few hours left of the 2021 Summer sale. In July, August and September there will be precisely zero chances to save 20% on the full range of ebooks and online lessons in the club’s online shop. Though we will have some new ebooks to look forward to, which are discounted at […]

Here’s a quick ‘aperitivo time’ heads up! There are just 24 hours left for you to save 20% on ebooks and online lessons in the EasyReaders.Org 2021 Summer Sale. Coupon code 2021-Summer-Sale-20%-Off will reduce the price of everything by 20% Payment options include Stripe/credit card, Amazon, Paypal, and bank transfer The next such promotion won’t […]

Buondì. As is by now traditional on the Friday of sale week, today I present the EasyReaders.Org 2021 Summer Sale Bestseller List, the idea being that you will be able to identify AT A GLANCE which particular products or services are hot, and therefore get some to speed up your own language-learning. EasyReaders.Org 2021 Summer […]

Buondì. I often get emails from club members, and try to respond to all of them. And sometimes I’ll take advantage of the fact that I’ve already typed out advice that I think would be of general benefit, or my correspondent has, to lighten my morning workload a little by quoting from our email exchanges. […]

Buondì. The Summer Sale starts today, which means you can save a fifth on online Italian lessons and ebooks for learning Italian, always assuming you remember to use coupon code, 2021-Summer-Sale-20%-Off (copy and paste it carefully!) The next sale won’t be until the end of September, which is approximately thirteen weeks away. So if you’re […]

This article was first published on the Friday before our 2020 Summer Sale. It’s still relevant, so I’m publishing it again, with a few minor changes to dates and so on. Buondì. There’s a lot of self-serving nonsense in marketing, I’m sure you’ll agree. Personally, I live by ‘caveat emptor’, so ‘let the buyer beware’, […]

Buondì. It can be frustrating reading about how people use the free Italian materials we produce in the most PERVERSE ways. Not sexually, or at least, not that I’m aware of, but in terms of employing our learning tools in a completely different way from how we intend them to be used. For instance EasyItalianNews.com, […]

Buondì. More definitions from Google, courtesy of Oxford Languages: noun: inertia 1. a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged. “the bureaucratic inertia of the various tiers of government” 2. PHYSICS a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that […]

Buondì. A few words about your community, or communities actually, as these days we all participate in different ones, of different types. And often through different mediums, for example the Internet. Google quotes two definitions of ‘community’ from Oxford Languages: 1. a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic […]

Buondì. We have around two hundred and fifty active students taking one-to-one online ‘lessons’ with club teachers, amongst whom I number myself. I try to do thirty minutes each of Swedish, French, Turkish and Spanish conversation each week. I rarely, if ever, cancel my regular practice sessions, though I have forgotten a few recently, due […]