Buondì. Angela wrote in with a tip for club members. Recently, while watching an opera sung in Italian with English subtitles, I discovered that I knew some of the Italian words intuitively. This confirmed precisely what you always recommend: listen to Italian, your mind will become accustomed to it, and you will slowly grow in […]
Comments on comments
Buondì. One of my first jobs each morning is to approve comments on our various websites. That doesn’t take long, because we get so few. What we do get, though, is a mass of automated spam comments. Automated spam comments? You probably have no idea what I’m talking about, right? The basic idea is that […]
Eat your spinach! (And make better New Year resolutions.)
Buondì. I’m terribly rushed this morning, as it’s the first ‘normal’ Friday of 2021, which means I have an hour of Turkish conversation, followed by thirty minutes of actual (online) teaching, and later in the afternoon, my weekly Spanish conversation class. Plus I have to write this, cook the lunch, hit the supermarket to stock […]
How to not find what you need
Buondì. The January Sale is O.V.E.R., the coupon code is no longer valid, and I’m back to doing something other than customer service, thank goodness. Oh the tales I could tell… One thing that came up recently, during an email exchange with a club member, was how some people, it seems, don’t look at the […]
2021 January Sale: it’s not what you spend, it’s what you do
Buondì. It’s the final day of the 2021 January Sale (details here) over at our online shop, EasyReaders.org. Use the coupon code below to save 20% on the online Italian lessons and/or ebooks you’ll need to improve your Italian in the coming year: January-Sale-2021 And here are some links to click: Catalog | Italian | […]
The usual end-of-sale ‘ebook best-sellers’ article
Buondì. The January Sale is nearly done (as always, it’s been a lot of work!) so I thought you might be interested in hearing what other club members have been spending their ‘learn Italian’ budgets on. Hence the usual, end-of-sale ‘ebook best-sellers’ article. E poi, it’s the first Monday morning in January. Who has ideas […]
Archive: The dos and don’ts of taking online Italian lessons
Buondì. From our archive, and a reminder about the 2021 January Sale, which ends on Tuesday night. The dos and don’ts of taking online Italian lessons Written from personal experience, as I use this method to learn languages (I’m also an online teacher, so see things from both perspectives…) Don’t put off starting. OK, this […]
“Quite ashamed”, “initially nervous”, “out of my comfort zone”
Buondì. Why are ecommerce sites like Amazon, but also our own online shop, constantly nagging at you to leave reviews? Well obviously, because it’s great marketing! Products with no reviews are naturally seen as risky. Perhaps they’re very new, or perhaps no one else wants them. Either way… hum… (finger pauses before hitting ‘buy now’ […]
“I remain stuck in the B1-B2 chasm”
Buondì. The article below, quite a long way below, after the +++, was published this time last year. So given that I’m busy with the January Sale (scroll down to the very end for details), I thought I’d give myself a break today – there are also dishes to do from last night and two […]
How much do you want to improve your Italian in 2021?
Buondì. (This article was first published at this time last year, during the January Sale. So if it sounds familiar, you’ll know why! I’ve added progress updates, in italics, so you can see how I got on with my own learning over the last 12 months. For your own purposes, just switch ‘2020’ for ‘2021’ […]