Geoff wrote overnight to ask me to bend the rules: I’d really like to take you up on the offer of a free trial online Italian lesson with a view to doing some more afterwards if the trial lesson goes as well as I hope it will. My problem is that I have a very […]
The Free Trial Online Italian Lesson offer starts today!
Buondì. As mentioned last week, the Free Trial Online Italian Lesson offer starts today! In our online shop, we have various online Italian lesson options. You can choose between packages of five or ten lessons, for example, and so benefit from a discount. It’s also possible to buy just the one lesson, to try, or […]
Which is your community? How strong are your relationships?
Every day I see either Anna, Ewa, or Oscar. Or if not them, then one of those other guys whose names don’t spring so easily to mind. For example, the pretty one, with the funny hair and the genuine smile… Then there’s my wife, of course, and her mum. And her cousins, and her aunty. […]
This much I know
Yesterday this arrived: What does the A2 mean? Here’s the accompanying description, along with the one for the next level up, for comparison: Why am I learning Swedish, again? See this article from two years ago: https://onlineitalianclub.com/its-time-to-add-a-new-element-to-your-italian-study-plan/ Basically, I was trying to sell ebooks. The relevant part is at the end: I haven’t forgotten that, […]
“That’s the teacher’s job!”
Over the weekend, I was copied in on an email from an online student complaining to our teaching manager, Lucia, that her teacher was slow to provide homework assignments. “That’s the teacher’s job!” Well, perhaps that’s part of it. I suppose it depends… But surely, there’s more? +++ Fifty percent of any profession is going […]
Things that go bump in the night went bump in the night
Buondì. I warned on Halloween that, having moved the club website to a different server, there might be issues, spooky or otherwise. Shortly afterwards, it became clear that something really had ‘gone bump in the night‘, in the sense that while the main part of the website was fine, the .html exercise pages were (to […]
Did you hear that? It sounded like footsteps…
Buondì. It’s Halloween! “Anche in Italia la festa di Halloween ha ormai preso piede. L’origine è la festa celtica Samhain, che in antico irlandese significa “fine dell’estate” ed era l’occasione per ringraziare gli spiriti dei morti del raccolto estivo.” That’s from yesterday’s EasyItalianNews.com bulletin. Ten minutes of audio and text specifically designed for learners like […]
Moving house & new Book of the Week offer
Buondì. Had a good weekend? I was moving house, which apparently is up there with life’s most stressful events, such as getting divorced, having a baby, or a death in the family. To be more precise, I was the remover rather than the removed. Though it was still a worry – what if I smashed […]
Do you need a slap?
Buondì. It might be time to give myself a slap. Open-handed, right in the face (though careful of the teeth – dentists are expensive in Italy.) Because yesterday, I didn’t study. At all! Zilch, nada, ingenting, hiçbir şey, neanche un cavalo! Che figura! Che vergogna… I didn’t tune in to SVT’s easy Swedish news broadcast […]
Help! Artificial ‘intelligence’ ate my email!
Buondì. More on the saga of signing up to receive free easy Italian news bulletins three times a week (which you can do by filling in the form in the sidebar of the website, where it says NEVER MISS ‘EASY ITALIAN NEWS’!) I first mentioned that a very small minority of people were having issues […]