“You made your bed. Now lie in it.” What an unsympathetic, but useful, expression! The Italian equivalent is: “Hai voluto la bicicletta? Adesso pedala!” (You wanted the bike? Now pedal!) OnlineItalianClub.com was a casual idea that popped into my head one day in 2012. Since then it has grown rapidly, into a monster which now […]
More Italian vocabulary to learn: What do you look like?
Buondì. Today some more Italian vocabulary for you to learn (or revise). The two pages I’ve re-written this morning, and link to below, cover words for describing appearance. For example, I’ve got thinning brown hair, plenty of grey stubble, and a puffy look that suggests I have a cold and didn’t sleep well as a […]
Animal lover? More Italian words for ‘animali’!
Buondì. If you’re an animal lover, you’ll likely have clicked the link for Animals – 1 that I sent out on Wednesday. In which case, you might now want to take a look at Animals – 2, which I’ve just finished tidying up. This one has additional animal words, some related vocabulary (paws and so […]
A low-tech way to boost your Italian vocabulary
Buondì. Mercoledì, and the quest to improve the vocabulary section of the club house continues! Hundreds of people from around the world looked at Monday’s ‘L’ambiente e il riciclaggio‘, which is great! So today, we’re up to line four, ‘Animali 1‘, surely a staple of every low level language course! This one doesn’t, yet, have […]
A vocabulary exercise for you to try. And a metaphor!
Buondì. This morning I’m continuing my recent effort to ‘tidy up’ the clubhouse by ‘recycling’ some ‘waste’ pages in our vocabulary section. And yes, you guessed – today’s topic is ‘L’ambiente e il riciclaggio‘. What you get is a list of words and approximate English translations. So far, so banal. But what you DO with […]
Dove cacchio è la carta igenica??
As promised on Wednesday, I’ve been working on the next boring list of words in the club’s ‘vocabulary section‘. I’m going through the alphabet from ‘A’. This morning I got to line two (trumpets sound), Alberghi / Hotels. Surprisingly, I’m enjoying the process more than I thought I would. Today’s rewrite, ‘Italian Vocabulary – Hotels‘, […]
I’ve been putting this off for ages!!
Today is Bologna’s ‘patrono’. I guess that would mean ‘patron saint’s day’. October 4th is San Petronio (his cathedral is right opposite our Italian school, by the way.) Which means I get to sleep in. But then, when I finally get up, I feel guilty about the late start… And so am motivated to begin […]
“Congratulations. You are 43% fluent”
In spare moments over the last week or two I’ve been working my way through Duolingo‘s Swedish course. For anyone new around here, the reason I’m studying Swedish (yes, I know – it’s the online ITALIAN club…) is because I already know Italian fairly well but I thought I should be practising what I preach […]
Last Chance to Save 20% on Online Lessons and Ebooks!
Excuse me for disturbing you yet again, and on a Sunday, too! But today’s the last day of our Autumn/Fall Sale. Lucia and I wanted to be sure that no one misses out. In previous years there’s always been someone that emailed on Monday to ask if they were too late to get the discount… […]
Last day of the Autumn/Fall Sale! What have you been buying?
Today’s the final day of our Autumn/Fall sale. So you might be curious to know what other students of Italian from around the globe have been spending their allowances on… Top of the list is our excellent value pack of online Italian lesson credits. Ten thirty-minute one-to-one Italian lessons with a native speaker teacher would […]