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 February. Why wait? November’s […]
Nov. 2022 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 […]
Nov. 2022 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. Over sixty people have already signed up, in just the first two days, mostly for Italian, but also Spanish, French and German The offer lasts until Sunday night and the plan is to give […]
Nov. 2022 FREE Trial Lesson Offer / La Bohème easy reader
Buondì. As mentioned on Friday, this week we have the Free Trial Online Italian Lesson Offer! In our online shop, there are various online Italian lesson options. Choose between packages of five, ten, twenty or thirty lessons, for example, and so benefit from greater discounts. But it’s also possible to buy just the one lesson, […]
Opera snobs
Buondì. As mentioned on Wednesday, next week I’ll be publishing, and promoting, our ‘easy reader ebook’-version of Puccini’s La Bohème. So, as I did with Nabucco and Turandot, I fired up Youtube and searched for a version of the opera which was a.) free to watch, and b.) had the Italian text on the screen, […]
Reading too much trouble?
Buondì. I’ve got to that age when I start to wonder what the world is coming to. Yes, I know it’s a cliche, but I can’t help myself. I’m fifty-five, so now counting down the years and months to the big Six-Oh and official decrepitude, though the retirement age here in Italy isn’t until sixty-seven. […]
Una domenica in giro con Roomie
Buondì. It’s Monday, thank goodness, so peace is temporarily restored a casa nostra, Roomie having been safely delivered to her petting zoo, there to be cared for by energetic professionals until 4 p.m. Normal schools are all closed today, so we feel fortunate indeed. This because it’s a ‘ponte’ in Italy, the word literally meaning […]
It’s not FOR that
Buondì. I’m pretty sure I’ve written this article before. And I’m 100% sure I’ve written something very like it, many, many, many times in reply to polite comments left by EasyItalianNews.com readers. But as we marketing wizards know, you have to keep repeating the message if you want to get it acrosss. So here it […]
Listening to the adults talking
Buondì. Like many energetic small animals, Roomie doesn’t like being in the car. Yesterday morning we let her take a plastic guitar with her. She was engaged, plucking at its steel strings, for at least ten minutes of the twenty-minute trip, then kept herself occupied banging it on the passenger seat in front of her […]
Would you risk your head for a beautiful Chinese princess?
Buondì. Would you risk your life to win the hand of a beautiful Chinese princess? I guess as a headstrong younger man I might have done. I certainly did plenty of other reckless things, such as giving up a safe government job to travel the world, then eventually settling in Italy, for which I’m still […]