Buondì. Back in the first lockdown – it would have been March, or maybe April – my hitherto rather sedentary wife chose to leave her couch and Netflix subscription in order to participate in an (outdoor, distanced) exercise class, run by one of our neighbours, a newly-unemployed gym instructor. There was some fuss about what […]

Buondì. I hate translating, in particular because it reminds me of my younger days when I would take on any job that paid, teach anyone that wanted teaching, translate anything that needed translating, no matter how pointless or badly written. However, and as I used to tell my kids when they were small, sometimes you […]

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 […]

(This article, or something extremely like it, was first published during our previous ‘FREE Trial Online Italian Lesson’ offer back in February 2020. But what I wrote then is still true now, so here it is once more! Things will be back to normal next week.) Buondì. Time’s running out to book your free online […]

Buondì. Today, just a quick reminder about the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson’ offer, which began on Monday. Full details are here. More than eighty people have already signed up, in just the first two days! The offer lasts until Sunday night and the plan is to give away a hundred and fifty free lessons… […]

(The articles I’ll be publishing this week are similar to those published in February 2020, at the time of our previous Free Trial Lesson Offer. They worked well then, so I’ll be taking a break and catching up on other work. Things’ll be back to normal on Monday 9th November.) Buondì. As mentioned on Friday, […]

Buondì. Every February and November we run a ‘FREE Trial Italian lesson’ offer, which means giving away an online lesson with one of our experienced Italian native-speaker teachers, normal price £20, to up to a hundred and fifty lucky people around the world, no strings attached. Many of our several hundred regular online students started […]

Buondì. My aged Italian in-laws recently changed their laptop computer. My wonderful father-in-law likes to have new stuff – smartphones, wide-screen TVs, and so on – and conserves a part of his pension each month so as to be able to afford the occasional larger purchase. The old computer was looking rather battered, I admit. […]

Buondì. Quite a few club members buy our ebooks, though they’re probably only a small fraction of all club members, surely less than five percent of the total (I’m just guessing.) I wonder why? After all, we have a range of over a hundred ebook titles, at all the different levels, structured in ways that […]

Buondì. Club-member Andrew emailed this: One other language learning tool which I’m kind of undecided on is flash cards. I’ve not seen you mention them on your site, but I know you’ll have an opinion. Maybe a topic for a future newsletter?  My thoughts are: Helps get over a hump when you struggle with similar looking words; […]