Buondì. I’m back in Italy. Actually, I never left. Due to the virus, it’s been more than eighteen months since my last trip. But, despite writing these articles about learning Italian (and stuff), I mostly live in a more multi-national, multi-lingual space. I listen to the news highlights each day on Radio Sverige, for example, […]

Buondì. Progress with this week’s Reading Challenge? For me, that was to read a chapter a day of both the French and Spanish versions of our eBook of the Week (see the P.S. below for details.) Well… I ‘crashed and burned’, as they say in the classic fighter-pilot-training-school movie, ‘Top Gun’, to describe a humiliating […]

Buondì. As I mentioned on Monday, we have a half-price ‘eBook of the Week’ offer going on, and this time it’s the same story, originally written in Italian, then localised into three other languages. And my Reading Challenge (which I invited anyone interested to join me in) was to read a chapter a day, for […]

Buondì. ‘Self-serving’ was the term that came to mind while I was pondering doing this. Or ‘totally self-serving’, though I dismissed that one. It’s not. So anyway, today we have one of our occasional ‘half-price ebook of the week’ offers. This in part because I have a new marketing assistant, whose task it is to […]

Buondì. Some instructions for language-learning (and for life). This is the short version, as I’m pushed for time. In no particular order: if you don’t start, you won’t progress it takes a long time to learn a language, and for perhaps a quarter of it, you won’t be able to express yourself, or understand what […]

Buondì. Since Monday, we’ve been busy promoting our FREE beginner-level ebooks, for learners of Italian, French, Spanish and German. In around 48 hours, we’ve had 633 downloads, mostly for Italian (we have a much bigger mailing list for Italian) but with reasonable interest in the other languages, too. Below are the titles, which are also […]

Buondì. My standard ‘father-response’ to the oft-heard complaint from children/teenagers that they just “don’t have time” to do whatever is expected of them – homework, clean their rooms, participate in some fun, family event – was the rather unsympathetic instruction to: “FIND TIME!” This being based on the understanding that “don’t have time” doesn’t actually […]

Buondì. Before beginning this article, I replied to an email from a former student of mine from ten or more years ago – an Italian girl, who needed to pass an exam so she could study at an American college. She’s no longer a girl, has been back in Italy for years, and is now […]

Buondì. The company that is bulk-emailing you this article, runs the website, commissions and sells the many ebooks for learning Italian, and organises one-to-one online lessons for a lot of you, too, has its registered office in a small British seaside town. Not its HQ, though. There isn’t one. Like a lot of companies these […]