(You’re not going crazy – the articles I’ll be sending out this week were previously published in November 2018, at the time of our last Free Trial Lesson Offer. They worked well then, so… I’ll take a break and catch up on other stuff! Things’ll be back to normal on Monday 18th Feb.) Buondì. As […]

Buondì. I’m in a terrible rush this morning as I have my first online Swedish lesson for ages (the teacher had got a job but is now back doing online lessons…) And I have so much to tell you! In no particular order: Thanks to everyone who bought ‘New cinema paradiso‘ while it was half […]

Buondì. Like a lot of people these days, I always have my smartphone with me, even in bed. It’s probably the last thing I look at before I go to sleep (other than my wife, of course), and certainly the first thing I reach for in the morning. And the first thing I look at […]

For Anne from Chicago, my favorite email correspondent, who wrote to suggest that, as my articles were sometimes so long, it would be helpful if I stated clearly at the beginning what they were about, to save her the time it took to read them. And for my mother, bless her, who couldn’t see the […]

It’s been a while since I had a good rant. Hasn’t it? So OK, just to clear up a few things: A ‘book’ is commonly held to be a collection of pages with type or pictures on them, held together in a permanent binder. The pages are made of paper, which is itself usually made […]

Buondì. Guess what I spent the morning doing? Not writing this, obviously, as it’s nearly one p.m. (Italian time) and I’m just beginning. Nor taking an online lesson, no such luck. No indeedy – in fact, I spent about three hours sending emails to many of the people who’ve bought ebooks in the last month […]

Buondì. Below is an email I had this week from Kudzai, which he (or she, not sure which – Wikipedia mentions a Zimbabwean cricketer but it’s probably not him) would like me to share with you: Ciao Daniel, I was thinking of writing this message in Italian, however I was hoping that maybe other people could […]

Buondì. Two things came out of Monday’s article ‘The Joy of Not Understanding!‘ The first was that a club member in Sweden volunteered to practice Swedish with me in exchange for Italian lessons (with a club teacher, that is, not with me  personally- I don’t teach Italian as I have an awful English accent and […]

I am by nature a contrary person, but bear with me. So I was listening to a Turkish radio channel on Saturday evening. The program was for the youth audience but, though I’m long past my teens, I stuck with it because I like Turkish music. It makes me want to dance, which is surprising […]