Yesterday our club website got its highest ever number of page views, a fraction under ten thousand. A typical visitor looks at 5 pages, so that means that around two thousand of you came through the doors yesterday. No wonder things felt busy – we’re still clearing up the trash! The most-viewed pages were those […]

A quick reminder to book your FREE TRIAL online Italian lesson, which I explained in detail yesterday. If you’re definitively not interested, just ignore this (and the other emails I’ll be sending this week.) Next week things will be back to normal. But if you fancy giving it a go, here are the details again: […]

Buondì. As mentioned several times recently, this is the week you can book yourself an online Italian lesson, absolutely free! The usual cost of a 30-minute one-to-one via Skype with one of our kind, professional teachers is €20 (less if you order 5 or 10 lessons at once.) But for the next seven days, and […]

Often I get emails from OnlineItalianClub.com members telling me how they are going about learning Italian, or asking for suggestions or advice (feel free to write, my email is at the bottom of every page on the club website.) And, if you’ve been paying attention over the last few months, you’ll be aware that I’m […]

Buondì. I have to tell you, we’ve hit a bottleneck. My colleague Matt has apparently written lots of new comprehension tasks for the listening exercises in our index. But instead of sending them down the line in handy batches of five or six, he’s sent twenty or so to Natalia, who checks the Italian, all […]

I managed to get some studying done over the weekend, both on Saturday and on Sunday. Only short sessions, but better than nothing. I’m finishing Kapitel 5 of my Swedish book (nearly half way!) And I learnt? Gick. Sounds a bit like baby vomit, but in fact it was my first encounter with the ‘preteritum’, […]

Today I’m teaching all day, covering for a teacher who’s off. Shame, because Friday is usually my day working at home, when I get lots of things done. Hence I’m writing this yesterday, if you see what I mean. Anyway, just be aware, anyone writing to me or ordering ebooks during Friday office hours, that […]

Club members will recall that a few months ago you guys chose for me to study Swedish. This was initially supposed to be a demo of how our easy readers and parallel texts could be used to learn a foreign language, even at a beginner level. But frankly, I’d have preferred to study Spanish. Why? […]

Today I have a new ‘Book of the Week’ offer for you. But first, thanks to everyone who supported our club by buying their half-price copy of ‘Rosa la cuoca disastrosa‘. Hope you’re enjoying it… Someone was kind enough to leave a review saying “Thanks for such a good read!”, which is satisfying. So buyers, […]

Late again today, as I’ve been trailing around doctor’s offices, pharmacies and finally the CUP (an essential Italian acronym – Centro Unico Prenotazione – the place where you wait in line to book medical tests.) It’s all routine stuff, so don’t bother to write to ask if I’m dying. But it IS very time-consuming. Sorry, then, […]