Buondì. The Summer Sale starts today, which means you can save a fifth on online Italian lessons and ebooks for learning Italian (assuming you remember to use coupon code: 2020-Summer-Sale-20%-Off ). The next sale won’t be until the end of September, which is approximately thirteen weeks away. So if you’re one of our regular online […]

Buondì. There’s a lot of self-serving nonsense in marketing, I’m sure you’ll agree. Personally, I live by ‘caveat emptor’, so ‘let the buyer beware’, and I do. But when you’re actually selling products, or a service, ripping off your customers is seldom either satisfying or sustainable. Better to find a way to do things ethically. […]

Buondì. July 1st! Never a bad moment to review your study habits, assuming you have any. If not, read on. Here in Bologna it’s extremely hot, which means my daily routine has been upended. The cardiologist-imposed minimum thirty-minute walk which I typically did mid-afternoon when I got bored sitting at the computer, now has to […]

Buondì. Italian literature fans will be pleased to hear that this week we publish the fifth and final (for now) ‘easy Italian reader’ ebook in our series of simplified versions of classic Italian literature. Said to be the most famous and widely-read Italian novel, Alessandro Manzoni’s romantic blockbuster, ‘I promessi sposi‘, first published in 1827, […]

Buondì. Here’s a quick explanation, in advance of the Summer Sale, which starts on July 6th, of why our online lesson prices are going up. In a word, taxes. In an acronym, VAT, which would be IVA in Italian (l’imposta sul valore aggiunto, so Value-Added Tax.) British companies, amongst which we are pleased and proud […]

Buondì. This is a recurrent theme, I know, but it drives my absolutely nuts when people tell me that they really HAD to look up every word they didn’t know in order to ‘understand’ a text. I froth at the mouth when students who refuse to practice listening at all, because they prioritise studying obscure […]

Buondì. From March 10th until June 8th I, like many people around the world, worked at home. Some aspects of that were nice – spending more time wearing shorts and sandals, reading classics of Italian literature for our Book Clubs while sitting in the spring sunshine, and not having to crowd onto an urban bus, […]

Buondì. Two things today (it’ll be another short one, as I’m back to teaching in the evenings, so more pressed for time.) On Friday last week I wrote an article entitled ‘Ever thought of writing your autobiography?‘, the idea being to promote this week’s new ebook easy reader, La coscienza di Zeno, which is number […]

Buondì. As advertised on Friday, today we have another new, B1 (intermediate) -level ‘easy Italian reader’ ebook. La coscienza di Zeno is the fourth in our series of simplified versions of classic Italian literature. Italo Svevo’s self-published 1923 novel takes the form of memoirs written by his protagonist, Zeno, a sick young man who is […]