Buondì. It’s cold and rainy here in Bologna today. Hope it’s nicer where you are! Anyway, we have various items of business, today. First an update on last week’s free online Italian lesson offer, which has now ended. Over ninety people signed up. Some of you have already done your online lesson. Others have been […]
Last chance at the free online lesson (+ NEW free ebooks!)
Things are busy here at OnlineItalianClub.com. We’ve had 59 people book a free online Italian lesson this week. Lucia, our teaching manager, tells me that she’s written to most of you, and that 12 lessons have already taken place. Hope they went well! For anyone interested, we’re keeping this offer open, as promised, until Sunday […]
Seven Free Italian Exercises On ‘Geography’ Words
Buondì. This morning I have some more vocabulary exercises from the ‘tidy up’ pile. There are various topics and formats, but they all loosely come under the theme of ‘Geography’. We have words for the city, for the countryside, and for life in the mountains. There’s also an exercise on definite articles, which is always […]
Book your FREE one-to-one online Italian lesson worth €20!
Last week we had so much fun giving away over 600 copies of one of our new Italian/English parallel texts that we decided to do something similar this week too! You’ll be aware that one of the things that onlineitalianclub.com does is organise live online Italian lessons via Skype. We have a team of teachers, who […]
We’ve given away 502 ebooks this week! Did you get yours?
We’ve given away 502 ebooks this week! Did you get yours? If not, there are full instructions in Monday’s article. The ‘Free Italian/English Parallel Text’ offer ends on Sunday! +++ If you’ve already read the ‘Colpo di forbici‘ Italian-English parallel text, I have a favor to ask. We need feedback – to see how we’re […]
Did you get your free gift (worth £7.99)? It’s not too late.
As I mentioned on Monday, this week we have a free gift, worth £7.99. It’s a parallel text ebook – that is to say, an original story in Italian with an accompanying translation in English. Normal price £7.99, this week just £0.00. The idea is to promote our new line of parallel texts (we have […]
Italian/English Parallel Texts and a FREE GIFT!
Today we are publishing our first nine Italian/English parallel texts. See them here. To celebrate, I’m giving one away COMPLETEY FREE! Read on to find out how to get your parallel text, normal price £7.99, gratis! But first, what exactly is a parallel text? The first picture shows the cover of our free gift. And […]
Your Friday Italian Fix (& last chance at Galileo -25%)
Make time over the weekend to look at these five ‘refurbished’ Italian vocabulary exercises. They cover various levels and topics. So just dip in and see what you get! Verbs & Nouns – Matching Exercise Cultural Knowledge – True/False Exercise Weather Words – Dropdown Menu Exercise Similar Words – Gapfill Exericse Word Families – Dropdown […]
Three quick Italian exercises on opposites
Today, more from the ‘tidy it up and publicise it’ pile of Italian vocabulary exercises. Below are links to three quick exercises on opposites. Many of the words should be familiar to English-speakers. So this is the sort of material you’ll be able to get through quickly, irrespective of your current level in Italian. Opposites […]
Pizza or Pisa?
After all these years in Italy, I still occasionally mix up the food (pizza) and the city (Pisa). As you surely know, the first is pronounced with a /ts/ sound. While the second, confusingly, is said with a /z/ rather than the ‘s’ it’s written with. Perhaps it’s that spelling/pronunciation difference that sometimes sends my brain […]

