Buondì. Recently I asked for suggestions for our planned ‘How to’ series of brief articles, and one of the topics that many people mentioned they’d like help with was how to improve your accent when speaking Italian. Now I’ll confess, right out of the box, that I’ve been told many times over the years that […]
Made your holiday language-learning plans, yet?
Buondì. It must have been about this time four years ago when I decided that, as I hadn’t done any significant language-learning for more than a decade, I would have a go at teaching myself Swedish over the Christmas holidays! Digging back through our archive of articles like this one, I found ‘How I started […]
Half-price seasonal ‘eBook of the Week’: Natale a sorpresa
Buondì. Today we have a new, and very Christmassy, half-price ‘eBook of the Week’. It’s called Natale a sorpresa, the level is B2 (upper-intermediate) and this week it costs just £3.99, instead of the usual £7.99. Be aware that we published this one around this time last year. Usually our ‘eBook of the Week’ offers […]
Are Italians degenerate by nature?
Buondì. Since our language school was compelled to move to 100% online teaching by local anti-Covid restrictions, my wife has, amongst many other duties reliably and efficiently carried out, been setting up and monitoring the English conversation lessons we organise for the locals. Wow, she commented over dinner the other evening, after having listened to […]
Seeing the wood for the trees
Buondì. Many years ago, when I could barely speak Italian at all, I signed up for a part-time MBA course (taught in Italian – I was the only foreign student) at our local business school. The first module in the two-year course was on ‘la strategia’ (n.b. ‘abstract’ nouns in Italian have a ‘the’, unlike […]
New “How to” series: your suggestions, please!
Buondì. I’ve nothing to sell you this week. Deliberately as there’s far too much teaching and other stuff going on. Besides my ninety-nine million online classes, it’s also the end of the month, which comes around all too regularly! Anyone who runs or has run a small business will know that the end of the […]
My Italian teacher said… (the usual unquestioned nonsense)
Buondì. I feel a rant coming on, though it’ll have to be a brief one as I have a conversation lesson starting shortly (Friday mornings is Turkish!) Yesterday’s first (now online) English lesson was a fantastically-fun group of three teenage girls, by which I mean that they are stimulating to interact with and, with a […]
Don’t like reading? Read this, at least.
Buondì. I’m not feeling well today. Also, it’s rather cold in my house. And I have to plan and teach two online lessons later. So I’m going to cheat! David left a comment on the club website to the effect that: “This would have to be one of the most helpful, comprehensive and sensible pieces […]
“Leave it in the back porch” & Half-price Ebook of the Week
Buondì. This week we’re not publishing anything new, but have a half-price ‘Ebook of the Week’ for you. What this means is that, for a week only, we reprice one of our older ebooks, so something that you may not have seen, at £3.99 instead of the usual ‘easy reader’ price of £7.99. The idea […]
The unfamiliar? (Becomes familiar.)
Buondì. First week of online teaching of groups (which I would otherwise have met face-to-face, in an actual classroom): completed! Monday was terrifying, and intensive, Tuesday better, Wednesday hard work. Thursday was tiring, but ultimately satisfactory. The final class of the week was what used to be my only class – until my erstwhile colleague […]