Buondì. My roomie and I have both got horrible coughs, so I was awake more times last night than the total number of hours I was in bed. About double that number, I’d estimate. My wife had taken herself off to the spare bedroom, and so slept well, she reported. I’ve checked with a rapid […]

Buondì. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that on Saturday mornings I use my bread machine to prepare pizza dough for Sunday evening. Several people wrote to say they did the same thing, to complain that this was sacrilege, or just to ask: “Can you share your recipe for bread machine pizza dough?” Well […]

Buondì. I don’t usually email on Sundays – I’m busy in the kitchen, instead. However, between washing the dishes and making dough for tonight’s pizza, 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 […]

(I’m historically late today as I spent most of the morning sitting on the floor in a kindergarten on the other side of the city, watching chaos unfold, rather than safely in front of my computer. Anyway, here I am, finally.  N.b. The below article, or something extremely like it, was first published during a […]

Buondì. Today, just a quick reminder about the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson’ offer over at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com, which began on Monday. Just under 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 […]

Buondì. I’ve got a lot on my plate at the moment, besides teaching Italian kids and adults and, between classes, sitting grumpily at the reception desk of our Italian language school. As mentioned previously, we’ve been reorganising the various things we do so that each is snug in its own dedicated legal entity, as shown […]

Buondì. Sometimes days go by with no interesting emails. But occasionally I write something that strikes a cord, then a bunch arrive, all at once. I guess Friday’s article must have been one of those, as I spent a chunk of Sunday afternoon writing back to people. I’m making ragù this morning, so find myself […]

Buondì. A common question is “How long will it take?” As in: “How long will it take to learn Italian?” “How long will it take until I can say whatever I want to in Italian?” “How long will it take until I can understand everything I hear?” (See Wednesday’s article for more on that last […]