(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 […]
‘FREE Trial Online Italian Lesson’ Offer: reminder!
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… […]
‘FREE Trial Online Italian’ Lesson Offer this week!
(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, […]
FREE Trial Italian lesson! (Australians might not get one)
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 […]
The complexities of life will defeat you, if you let them
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. […]
Ebook Basics (and a new half-price ‘eBook of the Week’)
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 […]
“I know you’ll have an opinion about flashcards”
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; […]
So much nonsense written about language-learning
Buondì. Thanks to club-member Zsuzsanna, who sent me a link to this reasonably interesting article about language-learning. The article is a comment piece about a ‘scientific’ paper, published in the journal ‘Cognition’, the abstract for which you can find here. I haven’t read the full journal article, because to do so would require payment and […]
Was this ‘the most ‘beautiful’ film ever shown at a festival’?
Buondì. Thanks to club member Paul, who sent a link to an online Italian film festival beginning later this week. It’s free, apparently. You can find details of their program here, and full details of how to participate on their homepage, the gist of it being that they’ll post access details for each film (Italian […]
Setting goals that AREN’T about studying Italian grammar…
Buondì. Thanks to the various club members who emailed me with their reactions to Wednesday’s article Different expectations when ‘coding’ and ‘decoding’ Italian, and in particular to Andrew who left a ‘comment’ (meaning that other people can read his ideas/questions). I’ll reproduce a section of what Andrew wrote here, for those of you who get […]