Buondì. A super-quick and very commercial article today – sorry about that, but we have people to keep in their jobs, and it hasn’t been an easy period… Next Monday, so Dec. 27th 2021, our January Sale begins. For the week between Christmas and New Year, and the week after that, you’ll be able to […]

Buondì. The last year and three-quarters hasn’t been ‘normal’ at all, I think you’d agree. Which makes it particularly difficult to work out what’s going on with the club website, and with the other websites we run. During the lockdowns, we had some of our best ever numbers, and lots of participation (for example, in […]

Buondì. OK, a quick announcement regarding the club’s online shop, which has now become ‘shops’. EasyReaders.org, which until yesterday sold both ebooks and online lessons, will in future concentrate ONLY on ebooks. Whereas the online lessons (Italian mostly, but also Spanish, French and German) are now being offered through a new website, the aptly-named, NativeSpeakerTeachers.com. […]

Buondì. Ever thought of doing an Italian course in Italy? I mention it because the reason I’m late this morning, and the explanation for this article being more or less the shortest I’ve EVER written, is that I’ve been busy launching our Italian school’s seasonal promotion. Anyone booking a group Italian course (so not individual […]

Buondì. I’m doing lots of new stuff at the moment, trying to reorganise my businesses so that, should I fall paralysed to the floor, as happened in September, my wife and kids won’t have to. Half of yesterday was spent trying to transfer ‘products’ and ‘comments’ from one website to another. I spent hours on […]

On Monday, my normally very reliable, elderly German motorbike refused to start. Probably the cold had got to the battery, I thought, while rushing to catch a passing bus – mask and Green Pass both now obligatory. I got to my hospital appointment on time, but the bus had been heated and I was overdressed […]

Buondì. I write a hundred and fifty-six articles for OnlineItalianClub.com each year, and apart from the quarterly sales and the ‘free trial lesson offers in November and February, when I resuse copy to save time, they’re almost all original – at least a hundred articles a year, anyway. Obviously, there’s repetition – approaches to language […]

Buondì. I don’t know about you, but I’ve realised that I don’t handle stress at all well (I’m having problems with banks…) I wake up at four a.m. worrying, then can’t get to sleep again. During the day, I get physical symptoms – tingling, trembling, ‘fight or flight’ responses, that sort of thing. It’s not […]

Buondì. I’m desperately busy today, as it’s the first of the month (which is always heavy), as well as being an important day in a big reorganisation project (the various things that we do are moving to their own legal entities from today, rather than being all together in one company). Plus I have to […]