(This article, or something extremely like it, was first published during our ‘FREE Trial Online Italian Lesson’ offer back in February 2020. But what I wrote then is still true now, so here it is once more! Things will be back to normal next week.) Buondì. Time’s running out to book your free online Italian […]
Listen very carefully. I shall say this only once!
Buondì. (N.b. this rant is not directed at anyone in particular, and certainly not at any of the 128 people who wrote to me yesterday with their ebook issues.) British club members will likely remember the sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo!, which ran for nine series from 1982 to 1992. For the rest of you, this was […]
This week: FREE Trial Online Italian Lesson Offer!
(The articles I’ll be publishing this week are similar to those published in November 2020, at the time of our previous Free Trial Lesson Offer. They worked well then, so I’ll be taking a break and catching up on other work. Things’ll be back to normal on Monday 15th February.) Buondì. As mentioned on Friday, […]
Beer and pizza lessons
Buondì. My Italian brother-in-law runs a pizzeria, and two other successful restaurants, in the seaside town of Rimini (the Romans called it Ariminum.) Which is to be found on Italy’s Adriatic coast, about two thirds of the way up the Italian ‘leg’, just about where the curve starts around towards the east, next stop Venice, […]
One step forward, two steps back
Buondì. One step forward, two steps back. Ever get that feeling? I bet you do! It was also the title of a book by Lenin, apparently. Though he was writing about vexing divisions in the Communist party, thirteen or fourteen years before the 1917-18 revolution. That’s by the by, of course. The more I know […]
How to get better
Buondì. It’s been a week or two since I updated you about my progress improving my chess game. The lessons available for paid users of the Chess.com app are excellent. Sadly, with the free version you can only do one a week, but because I shelled out for a year’s subscription, I’m able to do […]
Want to learn Italian ‘faster’? So FOCUS.
Buondì. Someone wrote to me overnight to compliment me on my podcast about learning Italian ‘fast’, which was clearly an error as I don’t do podcasts, and besides, apart from the word ‘easy’, which we use to describe material which has been intentionally created for learners (‘easy readers’, ‘easy Italian news’), I prefer to avoid […]
Trumpistas and Trolls
Buondì. I’m assuming you’ll be aware that the company that publishes OnlineItalianClub.com (so what you’re reading now) is also the company behind EasyItalianNews.com. I mention it in almost every article. There’s also the obvious connection that both websites are for people learning Italian. We have an online shop, too, mostly full of ebooks for people, […]
New Italian ‘easy reader’ ebook: Decameron (B1/2)
Buondì. Today we publish a new ‘easy Italian reader’ ebook, part of our growing Literature Series, which you may remember us launching last spring, often together with a ‘book club’. This time it’s Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron‘, the level is intermediate/upper-intermediate, and for the first seven days our simplified, shortened ‘easy reader’ version will set you back […]
About learning
Buondì. Over dinner yesterday evening, my son (you know, the one who reads the EasyItalianNews.com broadcasts) was telling us that today he has a test at school, but expects to do badly. It’s some sort of online multiple-choice test, apparently, at which you only get a few seconds to answer each question, and (this part […]