Just a quickie to remind you that our sponsor school’s Winter Offer on 2014 Italian courses ends at midnight tonight. It’s your last day to take advantage of this. You’ll find their “Don’t forget, it’s the last day” post here. Too busy? Not to worry. There’s no need for you to decide WHEN exactly in […]
Do you have the right strategies to learn Italian?
There’s a lot of rubbish on the Internet about how to learn Italian, or any foreign language. I certainly don’t want to add more. But there’s also plenty of good advice, if you know where to look. Most of the best originates from serious, credible sources, such as university departments. For instance, while researching this […]
Why Italy is more like America than Britain
In Italy and America people live in apartments. The apartments are organized in condominiums. If you’re British you probably won’t know what they are, but in Italy, there’s a whole area of law just for resolving condominium problems. American political parties hold primaries. The Italian PD (Partito Democratico) chooses it’s leader the same way. Italians […]
Article about whether learning Italian is hard
If you’re not on the mailing list over at our sponsor school, you won’t have seen today’s article: Is Italian a hard language to learn? Take a look, and then leave a comment with YOUR opinion. It’ll be interesting to see what the majority of OnlineItalianClub.com users think “in merito”.
How to feel less nervous when speaking Italian
Saying your first few words in a foreign language can be terrifying. The fear of making mistakes, of not understanding, of embarrassment, may be truly paralysing. No one wants to look an idiot, especially in front of strangers. So, how to feel less nervous about speaking Italian?
Here’s an article about learning Italian that might interest you
Just a quickie today. I’ve published an article this morning on our sponsor school’s website that I thought might interest you. It’s about the psychological challenges of taking language classes taught only in that language. And about quality of teaching, or lack of it. Italian lessons IN Italian? How does that work then? If you’ve […]
Why Google won’t show your ideal Italian language school
Looking for a really good Italian language school? The one that’s perfect for what you want? These days, the first thing that any of us does when searching for information is to type what we’re after into Google. There ARE other search engines (bing.com, duckduckgo.com, yahoo.com), but the vast majority of people use Google. However, […]
How to learn Italian without boring yourself to death
In a word, variety. Any one thing, done repeatedly for long enough, is likely to get tedious. And if you’re not interested any more, or not as interested as you were, your motivation will start to flag. What’s more, if you’re going to learn Italian to a good level, you’ll need to think medium-long term. […]
Great-grandma’s piadina receipe (and Italian listening practice!)
When I see my Romagnoli in-laws they’ll often proudly present me with plastic bag of frozen piadine and crescioni, a traditional local food made for them by the widow who lives downstairs. Don’t know what my father-in-law does for her, but she’s certainly very grateful. As am I. Piadine and Crescioni are not the sort […]
Three for the price of two
No, I’m not talking about the -30% offer on e-books in our shop (not this time, at least.) But about this useful exercise on compound words in Italian. ‘asciugare’ (to dry) + ‘mano’ (hand) = l’asciugamano (towel) See? Three words for the price of two!