Let’s get our priorities straight today. First some free Italian exercises for you to try. Then, news of my attempt to learn some Swedish using only easy readers and parallel texts. So, here you go, three ‘refurbished’ exercises to try. Enjoy: Which Word? – Dropdown Menu Exercise Which Word? – Sentences Gapfill Which Word? – […]
How I started learning a language using only an easy reader
Friday’s post ‘It’s time to add a new element to your Italian study plan‘ was really long. This one will be shorter, promise! One reason is that I’m rather behind with my usual tasks, after having spent most of Sunday afternoon having a go at SWEDISH. The idea was to show that it’s possible to […]
It’s time to add a new element to your Italian study plan
No exercises today, just the hard sell! What I’ll be ‘selling’ is an effective, fun study plan for learning Italian. And then I’m actually going to try it myself, and report back regularly on my progress. But, first things first. This article is a follow up to Wednesday’s post ‘Why I want to get you […]
Why I want to get you reading in Italian
Thanks to Conny, Patricia, Eva, Maureen, Greet, Jean, Steven, Angela, Elspeth, Maria, Judith, Christopher, Julie & Allison who wrote to me with an answer for Monday’s ‘Which city?’ exercise. The answer, I’m assured by almost everyone, is Padova. OK, so today, what do I have for you?? In a word… Reading. I want to get […]
Today Try These Three Free Italian Exercises
So I began with a painful bit of alliteration. But hey, it’s not easy coming up with 156 article titles each year. Especially on a gloomy Monday morning, at the end of November… Many thanks to Maria, who pointed out several problems with the exercise on accented characters that I linked to on Friday. Thanks […]
Black Friday? 4 FREE Italian exercises to try!
Happy Thanksgiving, for those of you that celebrate it. We went out for a pizza and a beer, for which I gave thanks as my wife doesn’t normally allow junk food and alcohol on Thursdays… But today is Friday and everything is permitted! And not just any Friday… Today is the legendary ‘Black Friday’, supposedly […]
Today, 4 Free Italian Word Order Exercises To Try
Today, more ‘tidied up’ exercises, stuff we did years ago which needed beautifying and which you, anyway, probably haven’t seen. These are ‘word order’ exercises. To make them work you need to pick out the first word or phrase and CLICK ON IT. If you are correct, the word or phrase will spring into place […]
Stuck in the elevator? New Easy Reader ‘L’ascensore’!
Buondì. No new exercises this morning as I’m running terribly late and, anyway, have an ebook to sell! If you want something to study, but don’t want to spend any cash, why not do some listening? There’s masses of free material on our site, at all levels. Or, if you’re in more of a grammary […]
Which Word? Which Grammar? Four new Italian Exercises To Try
Many thanks to Patricia and Susan, both of whom found spelling errors in Wednesday’s exercises. Be assured, this type of input is valued. Today I have three ‘Which Word?’ dropdown menu exercises (in approximate order of difficulty). Plus one ‘Which Grammar?’ exercise, which I took a glance at, and then abbandoned. Have fun! Which Word? […]
Error from Monday, more exercises, parallel text reminder!
First of all, thanks to Maria from Canada and Sieglind from Australia who reported mistakes in the final exercise I linked to on Monday. I’ve now fixed them, but I’d mention that, as I publish on this site three times a week (which is time-consuming), help of this type is invaluable. I simply don’t have […]