Today, two more listening comprehension tasks, as reworked by my colleague Matt, who’s busy adding questions to our stock of free Italian listening exercises. The topic is ‘the past’. There’s one audio focusing on regular verbs, and one on irregular verbs. I don’t think I need add more. Go listen: Italian Regular Past Tense Listening […]
Comparatives listenings & a new ‘Book of the Week’ offer!
Many thanks to those of you who bought last week’s new Italian easy reader Colombo e il mare Oceano. The offer has now ended, though if you’ve a yen to discover whether Colombo (the explorer, not the ‘seventies detective) did actually reach the new world, click here. Anyway, today I have two more ‘old’ listenings […]
Whatever happened to the ‘Learn Italian’ checklist??
Buondì. I’m later today, as I spent a couple of hours working on the ‘Learn Italian’ checklist, which we talked about a month or so ago. I HAVE been making progress with it, but it has had to take its place after teaching and other committments. But anyway, this morning after answering your emails and […]
Two More Free Italian Listenings, and a Reminder!
Buondì. It’s mercoledì so here’s some more free material for learning Italian! Below you’ll find links to two more of our ‘old’ listening exercises, now with ‘new’ tasks. There’s an easier one (A1) and a much, much harder one (C2). The first has a grammar focus, the second is ‘just’ listening practice. (For more like […]
Two Listenings on Adverbs & our New Italian Easy Reader!
Buondì. Today, two more ‘old’ listenings to which we’ve added ‘new’ tasks. And the launch of our new Italian easy reader, which is about Christopher Columbus. First the free listenings. They have a grammar focus, adverbs. The first text was written to highlight adverbs with the regular suffix ‘-mente’ (I always find those easy!) And […]
How’s your Italian listening comprehension going?
Buondì. Sorry I’m ‘in ritardo’ today. Lot’s of stuff piled up during the trip to Milan and the ‘rientro’ this week. (Useful word, that. Look it up!) Anyway, I wanted to ask how your listening comprehension work was going. If you want to increase how much you understand, you need to practice, right? So today […]
Beginner or Advanced Learner? Two Free Italian Listenings
Benvenuto febbraio, a gloomy month and one which offers little to look forward to for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. On the plus side, knowing it’s not welcome, at least febbraio doesn’t hang around for long! At which point we’ll be on to marzo (hurrah!) and the first day of spring. And then, […]
Club Members’ Learning Tips & 2 New Listenings To Try
Buondì. I’ll be brief this morning, as the trip to Milan left me with a mountain of jobs to get through. But speaking of Milan, before we press on, did you know that the city had canals? I certainly didn’t! There are some nice pictures in Google. Search for “milan navigli district” and choose the […]
Greetings from Milan & two new Italian listening exercises!
Buondì. This morning I’m posting from Milan, where Stefi and I are spending a couple of days at the annual meeting of ASILS, the Association of Schools of Italian as a Second Language. It’s a chance to get together with other language school owners from around Italy to talk about common issues, and eat a […]
What to do if your listening comprehension “never improves”
Here’s another of those articles inspired by a conversation I had with a student. A different one this time, but the problem is still listening. The student’s an Italian manager, one of the top guys in his company. He’s learning English because he needs it for negotiations with international partners. He’s unusual in that he […]