Today’s free Italian Conversation (audio + conversation) covers ‘asking for help in Italian’. Plus, there’s a reminder about our easy-reader ‘Book of the Week’ offer! 20th Italian Conversation! I’ve just added no. 20 in our ‘Italian Conversations‘ series of audio recordings with transcripts. View all of them on the Italian Conversations homepage. Or follow this […]
Today, two different sorts of crime
First of all, news of another of our occasional ‘Book of the Week’ promotions. These are intended to showcase e-books/easy readers that we published a while ago and which you may not therefore have seen. So today, a chance to get one of our excellent Italian easy reader e-books (.pdf file + audio online) at […]
The one time you needn’t worry about your spoken Italian
Thanks to everyone who bought our latest easy Italian reader, ‘Aria di festa‘ during the promotion last week. Your support is much appreciated, but more importantly enables us to continue making OnlineItalianClub.com an excellent resource for students of Italian around the world! If all goes well, we’re hoping to publish another easy reader next week, […]
“Non mi sento bene” – latest Italian Conversation!
Careful with reflexive verbs in Italian, as they’re used a little more extensively than in English. For example, when you go to the doctor’s you say: “Non mi sento bene” with the reflexive pronoun ‘mi’ rather than without as in English: “I don’t feel well” As I often remark to my students (Italians learning English, […]
Italian Conversations: ‘Ufficio postale’ (& easy reader offer)
I detest going to the post office in Italy. Absolutely hate it. Loathe it. So I was tempted to give today’s Italian Conversation a really snide title. But I managed to resist. Actually, I’m still struggling with the urge to be sarcastic. But maybe you really LIKE going to the post office? In which case, […]
New Italian Easy Reader / Another Italian Conversation
Today we publish our 25th Italian easy reader ‘Aria di Festa‘. Plus, there’s the latest in our popular ‘Italian Conversations’ series of listening materials. But first things first. Gianni is a gourmet journalist who is increasingly cynical about the popular ‘Slow Food’ movement. He persuades his editor to let him spend the summer searching out […]
Latest ‘Italian Conversation’: asking for help!
Today’s Italian conversation Scuola d’italiano: chiedere aiuto is a fairly typical interaction at a language school, as anyone who works in one can tell you. Mostly, it’s a pleasant job interacting with foreigners who want to learn your language because of their love of your country’s food, history, ‘dolce vita’ or whatever. But customer service for online […]
Italian Conversation: First Day Of School!
Remember your first day of school? I have to confess that I don’t, or at least only vaguely. But I vividly remember taking my kids for THEIR first day at (Italian) elementary school. The anxious parents all crowded into the classroom, the kids with their heavy new school bags rushing to get a seat near […]
Latest Italian Conversation – audio plus transcript
Today’s free Italian exercise is another in our Italian Conversations series. You get to listen to the dialogue, then read the transcript. Simple, but hopefully useful. Before you click away, just a note about the audio quality – we’ve finally understood what has been causing the problem (upgrading our computer to Windows 10), but haven’t yet […]
New series of Italian conversations, much like the old series!
On Wednesday I posted the final recording and transcript from the first batch of our Italian Conversations series. I’d been hoping that the next ten conversations would have been ready by now, but we’ve been having Windows 10 issues – our best computer won’t do even the simplest of tasks without a struggle – and […]