If you want to, or have to, learn Italian, and so are evaluating Italian language schools in Italy, you’ll soon realise that there are many, many schools out there. And once you’ve looked at a few websites, they all begin to look identical. So how can you choose between the numerous Italian language schools […]
More Free Italian Listening Comprehension Exercises
Ciao! We’ve only been producing free Italian listening comprehension exercises for a month or so, but already that page has become one of the most popular on the site, with over a thousand views in the last thirty days (that’s NOT including the exercises themselves!) You may have already taken a look but new […]
How To Avoid A Study-Abroad Disaster
You’re reading this because you’re interested in learning to speak Italian. And everyone knows that the easiest way to learn a foreign language is to go to the country where it is spoken, and study there, right? Wrong. What may at first be seen as a fantastic opportunity, a holiday of a lifetime, does […]
How to improve your Italian listening comprehension, for free!
Studying Italian grammar and vocabulary is one thing, but actually understanding what Italians say when they speak to you is quite another! But how to improve your listening comprehension in Italian? Well, practice certainly helps, and if you can’t live in Italy or speak the language regularly, doing lots of Italian listening comprehension exercises is a […]
Online Italian Lesson 50% OFF for one week ONLY!
Ciao and buona domenica to you! I’ll keep this short. For just ONE WEEK you can try an online Italian lesson via Skype video conferencing for HALF THE USUAL PRICE. Just €10, for a 30-minute one-to-one lesson, wherever you are in the world. The usual price is €20. The only way to get this special price […]
Cast a Spell on your Italian!
It’ll soon be Halloween in Italy, too. The local kids’ll be dressing up as witches and wizards, making even more noise than usual, and stuffing themselves with candy. And marketing departments will be bombarding us with pumpkin-branded seasonal offers (see below). But witches and wizards are a once-a-year event no longer. Harry Potter mania […]
Where are all the good sites to learn Italian free?
This post was going to be a review of the best sites on the Internet where you can learn Italian free. My young colleague made me a nice list of the most visible “learn Italian free” sites in Google, and I sat down this afternoon to write a review of each one. Except that […]
20 Win Free Skype Italian Lesson!
Announcing the 20 lucky winners of a free online Italian lesson via Skype which you will have received an e-mail about a few days ago: 1. Dana-Similia Cristea – Romania 2. Irina ? – Ukraine 3. Iris Franke – Germany 4. Maia Ramishvili – Georgia 5. Stuart ? – USA 6. Jorma Virtamo – Finland […]
Download Week 4 of the C1 (Advanced) Italian course
Just a quick post to announce the publication of Week 4 of our C1 (Advanced) level free Italian course. There’s grammar and new vocabulary enough even for the keenest student of Italian, plus exercises and solutions to help you consolidate what you study. And all completely free. Topics include: Locuzioni avverbiali Pronomi indefiniti e […]
Italian Government Abandons Bedford
For anyone interested in Italy or living abroad, check out this fascinating article and short film about the Italian community in Bedford, England, who are losing their consulate after more than 50 years. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/aug/31/bedford-italian-community-consular-services As well as the film and the article, the comments section is also worth a look (scroll down to the bottom […]