Buondì. Just a quickie today, to introduce installment seven of our thirty-part Summer Series of FREE articles (with online audio): Episodio 7. La triste impresa coloniale italiana: lo scatolone di sabbia (1911-1912) It’s a short one, perhaps because it deals with just a single year from the twentieth century. Not much can happen in a […]
Tailoring a suit for a hunchback
Buondì. If you’ve been keeping pace with our FREE Summer Series of Italian articles with online audio, then you’ll recall that we left off, on Wednesday, at the point at which Italy’s crafty king had seized Rome from the Pope and made it the country’s capital. So far, so good! I was eager to find […]
How God lost his capital to horny King Vittorio Emanuele
Buondì. Italian history is replete with emperors, kings, princes, and various grades of aristocrat – dukes, counts, and the like. But let’s not be forgetting the popes! Wikipedia has a list of all two hundred and sixty-six of them. They weren’t all ‘Italian’ of course (neither were all the emperors and kings), and they weren’t […]
Tax the poor, then go to war
Buondì. I got told off for the subject line of Friday’s emailed article, which was “Le donne a Parigi non portano le mutande!” (“Women in Paris don’t wear panties!”) It was sexist, apparently, and reflected poorly, both on me personally, and on the club. The article in question was promoting the newly-published Episodio 3 of […]
“Le donne a Parigi non portano le mutande!”
Buondì. Yes, well – I’m off to the coast for the weekend, and leaving shortly, so needed to get your attention. King Vittorio Emanuele II di Savoia – future ruler of the whole of Italy, lucky man – was nicknamed “il re galantuomo” (the gentleman king), though privately was considered by his peers to be […]
There are two problems with history…
Buondì. If you read Monday’s article, you’ll know the club’s Summer Series (30 FREE articles with online audio) has begun. The series is titled ‘Dal Risorgimento alla Seconda Guerra Mondiale’ and is the fourth out of five. We began three years back with the mystical origins of Rome, then skimmed the Medieval period, touched on […]
FREE Summer Series from today: what it is and how to use it
Buondì. Our ten-week, thirty-episode, FREE Summer Series of articles with online audio begins today. Hurrah! The idea is to provide Italian reading/listening practice material for anyone who wishes to take advantage of it, no registration or payment required. Do spread the word, won’t you? We don’t advertise, so rely on club members to tell their […]
2023 Summer Sale: Just a few hours left to save 20%!
There are just a few hours left of the 2023 Summer Sale. Today is the final day, so your last chance to save 20% on everything at our online stores, EasyReaders.org (ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (one-to-one lessons). The coupon code you need to save 20% on online lessons and/or ebooks is: 2023-Summer-Sale-20%-Off And here are the […]
2023 Summer Sale: it’s not what you spend, it’s what you do
Buondì. Sunday July 9th is the final day of the 2023 Summer Sale at our two online stores, EasyReaders.org (for ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (for one-to-one lessons). Until then you can use the coupon code below to save 20% on the online lessons and/or ebooks you’ll need to improve your Italian during the summer months: 2023-Summer-Sale-20%-Off […]
2023 Summer Sale: the usual ‘best-sellers’ article!
Buondì. The 2023 Summer Sale ends on Sunday, so I thought you might be interested in hearing what other club members have been spending their ‘learn Italian’ budgets on. Let’s begin with our top selling product, the ten-pack of online lesson credits, which is always, always, the most popular choice. In positions two and three […]