Buondì. Our latest ‘historical’ easy reader ebook is about Joe Petrosino. Joe who? He’s a really famous Italian-American, apparently, or was. Did you see the film ‘The Untouchables’, ‘Gli intoccabili’ in Italian, starring Sean Connery and Kevin Costner? Well it’s that sort of thing, but set several decades earlier, at the end of the nineteenth […]
Look back, not forward, to judge the progress you’ve made
Buondì. When I was an English teacher, struggling to unteach Italian adults all the nonsense they’d memorised in their school days about their foreign language, and how to learn it, one thing I used to hear a lot from advanced students (there weren’t that many) was that their objective now that they were adults was […]
One simple way to improve your listening comprehension
Buondì. As regular readers will know, each weekday morning I drive Roomie across town and hand her over to professional wranglers for the day, then drive back home alone, listening to the news highlights in Swedish as I go. Why am I learning Swedish? Years back I suggested to club members in an article like […]
Mondays suck / 4 Half-Price eBook Easy Readers from 2020
Buondì. A super-short one this morning, as I took Roomie to her zoo by bus, then walking, which used up time. After that I was busy closing down last week’s ebook offer, and setting up this week’s (details below). It’s already ten-thirty! And it’s the end of the month, which means paying the rent and […]
Thank you for your comment!
Buondì. A couple of club members ‘commented’ on Wednesday’s article ‘Bologna thru rose-tinted spectacles (and how it really is)‘. Several other people emailed me directly. The feedback was positive, which is nice. People liked the videos, understood more of the super-fast one than they expected to, had fond memories of visiting Bologna , and made […]
Bologna thru rose-tinted spectacles (and how it really is)
Buondì. Wednesday last week I was doing Swedish conversation with a native speaker, who’s also a club member, and the topic of Bologna came up. That’s where we have our Italian school, where I’ve lived for the last quarter of a century, and where my three, now-adult, children were born – in the Policlinico di […]
Born between 1925 and 1945? This could have been you!
Buondì. Before today’s topic, a message for people who took up the offer – at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com – of a free trial lesson (the promotion ended last night), and think that I’m the person to bug when they have issues. Orders are dealt with promptly by the teaching admin team, which means that they write to […]
February 2023 FREE Trial Online Italian Lesson offer ends soon!
Buondì. I don’t usually email on Sundays – I’m busy in the kitchen. However, between washing the dishes and cooking lunch, here’s a quick reminder that the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson‘ offer ends tonight. The next chance to try a FREE one-to-one lesson with a native-speaker teacher won’t be until November 2023. Why wait? […]
February 2023 FREE Trial Online Italian Lesson Offer: last days!
(Here’s an article from our archive, which we use each time we do a Free Trial Lesson Offer. Things will be back to normal next week, when the promotion is over.) Buondì. Time’s running out to book your free online Italian lesson via Skype or Zoom! This week’s offer ends on Sunday night, so jump to […]
February 2023 FREE Trial Online Italian Lesson Offer reminder!
Buondì. Today, just a quick reminder about the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson’ offer over at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com, which began on Monday. Thirty people have already signed up, in just the first two days, mostly for Italian, but also Spanish and French The offer lasts until Sunday night and the plan is to give away a […]