Buondì. As is, ormai, traditional on the Friday of sale week, today I present the EasyReaders.Org Bestsellers List, the idea being that you will be able to identify AT A GLANCE, which particular products or services are hot, and therefore procure some to facilitate your own language-learning, if you so choose. Ready then? Autumn Sale […]
2020 Autumn Sale: Why I Take Three Online Lessons each Week
Buondì. Occasionally people write to me to plead that my regular articles are TOO LONG, and why on earth can’t I write LESS? Others tell me that they enjoy the articles and insist that I keep them coming, just as they are! Beh, I guess that shows that you can’t please all of the people […]
2020 Autumn Sale: Save 20% on Italian Lessons and Ebooks!
Buondì. The Autumn Sale starts today, which means you can save a fifth on online Italian lessons and ebooks for learning Italian (assuming you remember to use coupon code: Autumn-Sale-2020 ). The next sale won’t be until the end of December, which is approximately thirteen weeks away. So if you’re one of our regular online […]
So many different ways to mess up!
Buondì. I’ve spent several months trying to understand what the problem is with the Paypal payment option in our online shop. For most people, it works just fine, as it always has. But then, usually in the night when I am abed, there are a cluster of failed orders, and in the morning a bunch of […]
Do you ever wonder what it’s all for?
Buondì. Do you ever wonder what it’s all for? Not life, obviously that’s far above my pay grade. But the club isn’t. You might, for instance, be new around here and perhaps asking yourself – why am I getting these strange, strange emails from some guy I don’t know? Why indeed? That’s my point. The world […]
Much too fast!!
Buondì. Next week we have our Autumn Sale, but this week there’s a half-price Ebook of the Week offer. So I’ve been setting that up this morning, and while doing so I noticed that back in 2016 Joan reviewed the ebook thus: Really enjoyed reading the book. The reading is much too fast. One would […]
Doesn’t translate
Buondì. A while back, over at EasyItalianNews.com, we had a couple of people moaning about our writers’ use of the term ‘ragazzo nero’ (literally ‘black boy’ but better translated as ‘black guy’) to describe the unfortunate recipient of a rather generous number of police bullets. The commentors separately made the point that the use of […]
“several glugs of overpriced beer cheaper than usual”
Buondì. This came in overnight, by email: Do you offer any coupons or a loyalty program discount? I would like to buy these books but would appreciate getting 25% off my purchase. Beh, it never hurts to ask, does it? And in fact, when people do ask, I’m always happy to help if I can. […]
The thrill of revolution!
Buondì. I was a revolting teenager, or a revolutionary one, depending on who you ask. But those were the Thatcher years: mass unemployment, the miners’ strike, and so on. Some of my peers dreamed of being accountants, but my career goals involved facilitating the collapse of capitalism and helping with the construction of whatever, fairer […]
My goodness, haven’t we come a long way since 753 BCE?
Buondì. And here we are, at the END of our thirty-part series of free articles with audio, ‘La storia di Roma‘. As mentioned earlier this week, the Eastern Roman Empire, with its capital Constantinople, lasted nearly a thousand years longer than the Western Roman Empire, which officially ended in 473 CE when its leader chose […]