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 The January Sale is O.V.E.R., the coupon code is no longer valid, and I’m back to doing something other than customer service, thank goodness.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 […]

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 | […]

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 […]

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 […]

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’ […]

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 […]

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’ […]

Buondì. And how nice that it’s a normal Monday, albeit an ‘orange’ one here in Italy. The shops are open, the sun might be shining later, the kids are slumped in front of the TV in their pyjamas – everything is well with the world. Except, it’s NOT a normal Monday… Because today we have […]

Buondì. I’m going to take a break from writing today and instead prepare the Christmas lunch – that’ll be tortellini in brodo followed by lenticchie and cotechino, then a dessert with mascarpone (desserts are my wife’s department). None of that’s suitable for vegans, by the way, but sadly our vegan is stuck in the UK […]

Buondì. Two brief ‘annunci’ today. First out, I had a polite email from Giovanni, one of our online teachers and author of our ‘Book of the Classic Italian Movie‘ series of ‘easy reader’ ebooks, gently reminding me that if I was going to promote Youtube videos for random strangers (Monday’s article) I might consider directing […]