I’ve been publishing articles at OnlineItalianClub.com every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for a number of years now. That’s approximately a hundred and fifty articles a year.
Most of them are of the ‘here’s a link to today’s new exercise’ type. Instantly forgettable. But there are a few that might be worth another look…
Often I was trying to sell something so the articles contain links that will be long dead, to special offers lost in the mists of time. Nevertheless, I hope you’ll find something to interest you.
(2021)
- Why you should apply ‘system thinking’ to language learning (2021, December)
- Impress friends and family with Italian festive greetings! (2021, December)
- No one’s going to do it for you (2021, December)
- Why speaking Italian is easier than fixing a motorbike (2021, December)
- ‘Didn’t understand everything’ (2021, December)
- Unwritten rules (2021, November)
- Boosted! (2021, November)
- More typical errors from Francesca, our ebook writer (and teacher) (2021, November)
- Contempt (2021, November)
- Prepositions lesson (& reminder about our new ‘easy reader’) (2021, November)
- 5 Common Mistakes to Avoid / 1 New Easy Reader Ebook (2021, October)
- Do one small thing (2021, October)
- ‘Why do you discourage reading aloud?’ (2021, October)
- Lifetime risk of stroke? One in six! (2021, September)
- Time to restate what I’m about (2021, September)
- The two best places to learn Italian for free (& new ebook!) (2021, September)
- That ‘back to school’ feeling! (2021, September)
- Irritatingly inexact (2021, August)
- Have it your own way (2021, July)
- Inertia (2021, June)
- Choose your communities carefully (2021, June)
- Scored 100% on the test? (2021, June)
- One thing that would almost certainly help you a lot… (2021, June)
- Who makes the decisions about how you learn Italian? (2021, June)
- ‘How to practice talking and writing?’ (2021, June)
- Fundamental misunderstandings (2021, June)
- This is how human brains learn foreign languages (2021, June)
- Understanding and Translating (2021, June)
- Banal tips on language-learning (2021, May)
- Short cut? Or long way around? (2021, May)
- Attitude adjustment needed? (2021, May)
- The ‘read aloud/translate aloud’ method? (2021, May)
- Stop trying to understand (2021, May)
- Obvious (once you’ve figured it out…) (2021, May)
- What’s your iceberg made of? (2021, May)
- ‘Can I make notes when doing listening exercises and exams?’ (2021, May)
- Building your listening skills (2021, May)
- How to learn new words (and how not to) (2021, May)
- Sorry, I’m all out of miracles (2021, April)
- Language-Learning Tip #02 How to define your learning goals (2021, April)
- Who’s the world’s best foreign language-learner? (Not you) (2021, April)
- Apply a little common sense, maybe? (2021, April)
- Where did you begin? How far have you got? What’s next? (2021, April)
- Why you should always check the expiry dates
(2021, April) - Back to language-learning! (2021, March)
- Spring Sale Starts Soon! And how to keep languages from ‘leaking’. (2021, March)
- What’s ‘conversation’? (2021, March)
- Back in Italy (2021, March)
- Day Three of the Reading Challenge! (2021, March)
- Instructions for language-learning (and for life) – short version (2021, March)
- ‘Don’t have time’ (2021, March)
- Good choices (2021, February)
- The tide’s in (2021, February)
- Losing streak (2021, February)
- What to do when you’re feeling too lazy to learn Italian (2021, February)
- Forget the results, focus on the process! (2021, February)
- Beer and pizza lessons (2021, February)
- One step forward, two steps back (2021, February)
- How to get better (2021, February)
- Want to learn Italian ‘faster’? So FOCUS. (2021, January)
- About learning (2021, January)
- A good day: I lost all seven games of chess (2021, January)
- Change (Makes You Want to Hustle) (2021, January)
- Two options (2021, January)
- Comments on comments (2021, January)
- Eat your spinach! (And make better New Year resolutions.) (2021, January)
- ‘I remain stuck in the B1-B2 chasm’ (2021, January)
(2020)
- What a mess! (2020, December)
- Pronunciation tips for English speakers from an Italian teacher (2020, December)
- How to improve your Italian accent, Part 2 (where to begin?) (2020, December)
- How to improve your Italian accent, Part 1 (why bother?) (2020, December)
- Made your holiday language-learning plans, yet? (2020, December)
- Are Italians degenerate by nature? (2020, December)
- Seeing the wood for the trees (2020, December)
- My Italian teacher said… (the usual unquestioned nonsense) (2020, November)
- Don’t like reading? Read this, at least. (2020, November)
- The unfamiliar? (Becomes familiar.) (2020, November)
- Late for the future (2020, November)
- Totally messed that up! (2020, November)
- Making hard learning choices: the good news! (2020, November)
- The complexities of life will defeat you, if you let them (2020, October)
- Ebook Basics (and a new half-price ‘eBook of the Week’) (2020, October)
- ‘I know you’ll have an opinion about flashcards’ (2020, October)
- So much nonsense written about language-learning (2020, October)
- Setting goals that AREN’T about studying Italian grammar… (2020, October)
- Different expectations when ‘coding’ and ‘decoding’ Italian (2020, October)
- How do children learn a (foreign) language? (2020, October)
- Doesn’t translate (2020, September)
- Intelligent questions to ask a polyglot when you meet one (2020, September)
- No time for pontificating today (2020, August)
- Why learning grammar ‘rules’ is a waste of time (2020, August)
- Let’s do business! (2020, August)
- L’imperatore Augusto 27 a.C.- 14 d.C. (and how to start speaking) (2020, August)
- The one with Cleopatra and Brutus (2020, August)
- iPhone user? Please try again (2020, July)
- Il sincretismo? (2020, July)
- What happens next? (2020, July)
- This summer? Exploit the power of achievable, daily targets! (2020, July)
- What you don’t understand about not understanding (2020, June)
- Bluetooth headphones on, it’s back to normal life! (2020, June)
- I expect you knew that. It seems everyone did except me (2020, June)
- I dreamt of students ‘learning’ new words (2020, June)
- What makes a text ‘easy’ or ‘hard’? (2020, May)
- And yet… (2020, May)
- About self-teaching (2020, May)
- How to achieve something BIG! (2020, May)
- How to ‘know’ what new words ‘mean’ WITHOUT using a dictionary (2020, May)
- Studying or learning? (2020, May)
- To translate or not to translate, that is the question (2020, May)
- Useful things you could do today (and the rest of the week!) (2020, May)
- About ‘speaking’ better in Italian (or any language) (2020, May)
- Oggi prendo due piccioni con una fava! (2020, May)
- The Great Escape! (2020, May)
- What I say to myself when I feel guilty about not studying (2020, May)
- Before, during, or after? (2020, April)
- Reading, when done well, should be like surfing (not digging) (2020, April)
- Bottom-up or top-down? (2020, April)
- ‘I would appreciate your advice’ (2020, April)
- The dog must be alive (2020, March)
- The perpetual weekend (2020, March)
- Why you should trash your rules (2020, March)
- A crafty marketing ploy (2020, February)
- Combination therapy (2020, February)
- Going to Spain, gotta learn some Spanish! (2020, February)
- Ricetta originale dell’impasto per la vera pizza Napoletana! (2020, January)
- It all depends on WHY you’re listening (2020, January)
- ‘Please reassure me!’ (2020, January)
- What to do if something’s not working as it should (2020, January)
- Riding a fast motorbike slowly (2020, January)
- The dos and don’ts of taking Skype Italian lessons (2019, February)
- ‘despite my initial reservations’ (2020, January)
(2019)
- How to get to where you can actually have a conversation in Italian (2019, December)
- How much do you want to improve your Italian in 2020? (2019, December)
- Drive-by questions (2019, December)
- “the information on the net was not well-explained.” (2019, December)
- Un tris di zuppe toscane (2019, December)
- I should go to jail, apparently (2019, December)
- Why you should quit studying (2019, December)
- Terra incognita (2019, November
- Ever felt you couldn’t be bothered? (2019, November
- Start doing these today and see the results in a year’s time (2019, November
- Stuff that’s useful to know BESIDES Italian grammar (2019, November
- Reading is passé, it seems (2019, November
- “How long will it take until I can understand everything I hear?” (2019, November
- What for? (2019, November
- Online lesson tips for students (and teachers!) (2019, November
- ‘How Not to Be a Nerd’ (2019, October)
- Janet’s question (2019, October)
- “How do I learn Italian using your site?” (2019, October)
- Understanding is not the point (2019, September)
- How machines learn (and how you can, too!) (2019, September)
- You don’t HAVE TO read this article if you’re TOO BUSY! (2019, September)
- OnlineItalianClub (not OnlineItalianApp!) (2019, August)
- Now here’s a winning language-learning strategy! (2019, August)
- The Perfect App for Learning Italian (2019, July)
- Training your listeners (2019, July)
- Serendipity and language-learning (2019, July)
- Learning, Learning Effectively, Teaching, Teaching Effectively (2019, July)
- 90% (2019, June)
(İstanbul trip- start at the top and work down)
- Buondì from İstanbul (no Wikipedia links this time)
- Two sides of Istanbul
- You can’t write that, says my wife
(End of İstanbul trip)
- Obvious (& less obvious ways) to practice Italian on holiday (2019, June)
- Want more? Different? Better? Here’s how to get it. (2019, June)
- Is your glass half-full or half-empty? (2019, June)
- Re-prioritizing (2019, June)
- The magic ingredient (2019, June)
- Switching channels (2019, May)
- The time is money, money is time conundrum (2019, May)
- Not so frequent, but still sweet (2019, May)
- Customer Disservice (2019, May)
- How to keep learning even when you’ve stopped studying (2019, April)
- Teaching and learning (2019, March)
- Choices (2019, March)
- Make a new plan, Stan (2019, March)
- Flat battery? Or chain reaction? (2019, March)
- Ever dreamt of building yourself a second home? (2019, February)
- When is an unemployed Italian NOT an unemployed Italian? (2019, February)
- It’s frightening how stupid people can be (whoops, what did I say?) (2019, February)
- How to make your own Italian exercises (2019, February)
- The Joy of Not Understanding! (2019, January)
- Stupid, and not so stupid, questions (2019, January)
- Why you should be READING in Italian (2019, January)
- A peep in the postbag (2019, January)
- Listening Comprehension, Lesson #1, Manage Your Expectations (2019, January)
- What to study? (2019, January)
- How to measure your language-learning progress in 2019? (2019, January)
- App attack! (And a January Sale reminder…) (2019, January)
(2018)
- Worried about Italian tenses? (2018, December)
- Some good advice from my online Turkish teacher (2018, December)
- Are you a turtle, a hare, or a cheering spectator? (2018, November)
- Here’s an easy way to find extra time for language-learning! (2018, November)
- Essential expressions for ‘taking back control’ (2018, November)
- Which is your community? How strong are your relationships? (2018, November)
- This much I know (2018, November)
- “That’s the teacher’s job!” (2018, November)
- Do you need a slap? (2018, October)
- Help! Artificial ‘intelligence’ ate my email! (2018, October)
- How to use the ‘dead time’ in your day to boost your Italian (2018, October)
- Does the teacher know best? How to make your OWN study plan (2018, October)
- “How much have you got in your savings account?” (2018, October)
- Know How, Start, Keep Going (2018, October)
- What you’re learning when you’re NOT looking up new words (2018, September)
- Three things (2018, September)
- The most useful expression I ever learned (2018, September)
- Deadlines / Keyboard Maps / Easy Italian News / BotW! (2018, September)
- Reflections on reading and listening. And a new ebook offer! (2018, September)
- “There are so many words I don’t know.” (2018, September)
- Time to ‘benchmark’ my language-learning efforts! (2018, August)
- Three exercises a week – is that IT? (2018, August)
- About motivation. And a new ‘Book of the Week’ (2018, August)
- Excuse me, but how exactly should I learn Italian? (2018, July)
- Have you ever read a newspaper or novel in Italian? (2018, July)
- Stuff you do every day vs. stuff you’d do if you only had time (2018, July)
- What’s your ‘learning Italian problem? (2018, July)
- New conversation prompts / ‘Summer Sale’ next week (Why use ‘Buondì’? 2018, June)
- Learning a language – but what to do next? (2018, June)
(2018 Sweden Road Trip – start at the top and work down)
- Tu e la tecnologia / Greetings from Malmö (2018, June)
- ‘Cibi e bevande’ audio / The Swedish road trip begins! (2018, June)
- ‘Emozioni’ listening & transcript / Nörrkoping (2018, June)
- ‘Sei bravo a…?’ / Stockholm (2018, June)
- ‘Amici e famiglia’ / Örebro and Göteborg (Gothenburg)
(2018, June) - Superstizioni e credenze / Copenhagen and home!
(2018, June)
(END of Sweden Road Trip)
- OnlineItalianClub.com – Instructions For Use (2018, June)
- I turn off the subtitles. Something surprising happens! (2018, May)
- Good habits = good results. Ma è come parlare al muro! (2018, May)
- Time for a change of plan (2018, April)
- Why the audio quality and speed doesn’t, or shouldn’t, matter (2018, March)
- Daniel joins the twenty-first century (2018, March)
- About ‘Customer Service’ (2018, February)
- To subtitle or not to subtitle, that is the question (2018, February)
- A follow-up to the recent post on learning by watching TV (2018, February)
- How fast do fingernails grow? Faster than you think. (2018, February)
- “How you are managing to improve your vocabulary?” (2018, January)
- Studying Italian? What’s important, and what’s less so (2018, January)
- A riff on the value of memorizing vocabulary (2018, January)
(2017)
- “Congratulations. You are 43% fluent” (2017, October)
- How to choose study materials for your level in Italian (2017, September)
- Is your Italian getting a balanced diet? (2017, September)
- So, did you study Italian this weekend??? (2017, September)
- Learning Italian? Here are some ideas about what to do next (2017, September)
(2017 Texas Road Trip – start at the top and work down)
- ‘Dirglielo’, ‘spiegarglielo’ ‘dicendogliene’? Combined pronouns, innit. (2017, June)
- Describing where places are in Italian. And squirrels! (2017, June)
- Free Italian Listening & Italian conversation in Austin TX (2017, June)
- Dreams, and an amazing coincidence! (2017, June)
- What to do if an armadillo digs up your yard (2017, June)
- Free advanced Italian listening and road trip update (2017, July)
- I pronomi dimostrativi, po’ boys & alligators (2017, July)
(END of Texas Road Trip)
- Italian exams, and why I no longer recommend CILS (2017, April)
- Tenses in Italian and English (also Buona Pasqua!) (2017, April)
- How do YOU listen? (2017, March)
- Watch out for those language-learning ‘ups’ and ‘downs’! (2017, March)
- Learning new Italian vocabulary – two extremes! (2017, March)
- What’s your language-learning ‘strategy’? (2017, March)
- If I were learning Italian, what would I study today? (2017, March)
- What to do when your Italian study program hits the rocks (2017, February)
- What to do if your listening comprehension “never improves” (2017, January)
- Want to Learn Italian? Make Sure You Set Realistic Targets! (2017, January)
- Want to understand spoken Italian better? Here’s how (2017, January)
(2016)
- How I started learning a language using only an easy reader (2016, December)
- Why I want to get you reading in Italian (2016, November)
- When to learn Italian for free. And when to pay (2016, January)
- How to improve your Italian? Do this one easy thing today! (2016, January)
(2015)
- The view from the top of the mountain (2015, June)
(2014)
- Can I learn Italian for free? (2014, September)
- Just what IS an e-book, anyway? (2014, August)
- Why studying grammar and vocabulary is a waste of time (2014, July)
- Three neglected secrets of writing well in Italian (2014, June)
- Here’s how to feel more confident speaking Italian (2014, March)
- Terrified of speaking Italian? Just what exactly are you afraid of? (2014, February)
- Are you a different person when you speak Italian? (2014, February)
- Why you should just ignore Italian words you don’t understand (2014, January)
- What to do if Italians ‘speak too quickly’ (2014, January)
(2013)
- How to not learn Italian (really, don’t do these things!) (2013, December)
- How to feel less nervous when speaking Italian (2013, December)
- Insidious cultural differences that can trip you up (2013, November)
- The Zen of learning Italian (2013, November)
- The two reasons why you may never learn to speak or understand Italian (2013, October)
- Would you pay €3200 to speak really good Italian? (2013, August)
- The fastest way to learn Italian? (2013, July)
- Why it’s OK to be scared and make mistakes (2013, July)
- How to live the perfect life? (2013, July)
- How to become bilingual in Italian (2013, June)
- 7 smart ways to find accented Italian characters on your keyboard (2013, June)
- Don’t have time to learn Italian? Here’s how to find some! (2013, May)
- Reasons for NOT studying Italian? (2013, April)
- Discover the secrets that will help you REALLY learn Italian (2013, April)
- Hundreds Of Italian Verbs To Learn, And One Great Way To Remember Them (2013, March)
(2012)
- Does Spending More Mean Getting More? (2012, December)
- Where are all the good sites to learn Italian free? (2012, September)
- Best Online English-Italian Dictionary? (2012, July)
- Where to get more audio-books, free! (2012, June)
- The 3 Tenses You Need To Know To Really Speak and Understand Italian (2012, April)
