It’s Good Friday and a public holiday in the UK, where I originate from. Except in Italy, where I live now, it isn’t. Easter here is on Sunday (a big meal with relatives, of course). And Monday’s a national holiday. So, I’ve a badly-needed long weekend to look forward to. But today, unfortunately, is just […]
A nice easy tense, but not as useful as it looks…
OK, today we start the next level in our free Italian lessons series, and man, is there some heavy grammar on the horizon… I’ve therefore decided to start with something easy, partly because I’m in a holiday mood, and also so as not to put you off! Today we’ll be looking at the Italian present […]
Italian grammar lesson on ‘Si’, plus Book Of The Week offer
Ciao a tutti. It’s the first day of ‘primavera’ – finally the winter is over, and not a moment too soon! Better still, there’s a period of holiday coming, so I’ll have more time to work on free materials for learning Italian. Tomorrow, I’ll be preparing a new series of free Italian lessons at A2 […]
Did you know that Italians say ‘suicide yourself’?
A depressed Italian might threaten to ‘suicide herself’ (suicidarsi), which sounds rather absurd in English… Today’s free Italian lesson is on reflexive verbs – the ones ending in ‘si’ – which are much more commonly used in Italian than in English. The example above, with ‘suicide yourself’, is from the lesson. Click here to see the […]
Free Italian Lesson On Prepositions & Italian Reader Offer
Here I am again, this time plugging our new Italian easy reader, ‘La cicatrice‘ (The Scar). Download your free sample chapter to see what it’s about. Then, if the level’s good for you, get the full version from our online shop (at the special first-week price of just €7.50!) Visit our online shop | Browse e-books […]
Latest Italian Easy Reader, Plus A New Grammar Lesson!
Buon giorno a tutti! Today we’ve published our newest Italian easy reader, and it’s on offer this week at €7.50 instead of the regular easy-reader price of €9.99. Here’s the blurb from the shop (it would be on the back cover, but e-books don’t have one…) Pier Velotti is the technician in charge of the landing system […]
Italian Lesson On The Past, Some News, An Offer & A Reminder
Lots to tell you this morning, so I’ll use an old teachers’ trick and do it in reverse order. That way I won’t risk losing your attention right at the beginning! Lastly then, don’t forget the ‘Book of the Week’ offer on our easy-reader / e-book version of the classic Italian movie, ‘Ladri di biciclette‘. Get […]
Free Italian Lesson on Adverbs – Book Of The Week Reminder
Today I have some material on Italian adverbs for you. It’s part of our new series of online Italian lessons, which bring together previously published material in a way which will (hopefully, one day) make it easier to use. So on the new ‘adverbs lesson page‘, you’ll find an explanation, some audios and an exercise. […]
New Free Italian Lesson On Adjectives & Book Of The Week!
The topic for today’s free Italian lesson is ‘adjectives’, which is broad to say the least, but then the whole point of this new ‘Italian Lessons Series‘ is to bring together disparate materials from across the site in a way that will hopefully make them easier to use. In doing so though, gaps emerge. So […]
Another free Italian lesson, another ‘Book of the Week’ reminder!
Buongiorno a tutti! It’s Friday, so I have something light for you, or at least lighter than Wednesday’s mammoth Italian lesson on verbs. Lesson 05 in our new Italian Lessons series is on a topic that a lot of people, including me, have issues with: ‘like- piace/piacciono‘. In essence it’s fairly simple, though back-to-front compared […]