(The articles I’ll be publishing this week are similar to those published in November 2019, 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 24th February.) Buondì. As mentioned on Friday, […]
A crafty marketing ploy
Buondì. Renee emailed about last Friday’s rant: The problem you had with Gail – whether it’s a real one or perhaps a marketing ploy / strategy, I don’t care – can be solved by letting readers create their own exercises. There is an interesting website – not for free but affordable – where you can […]
Combination therapy
Buondì. Here’s an expat reminiscence for you (I’ve been living in Italy for over twenty years.) Since my early days ‘abroad’, I was an avid reader of The Economist, a British weekly magazine which is packed with interesting articles, not just about politics/economics/business but also on cultural and scientific themes. Back in the day, I […]
New eBook of the Week: Yue a Bologna (A1 – Elementary)
Buondì. Thanks to everyone who bought a copy of last week’s newly-published easy Italian reader ebook, Zio Ciro e la pizza (B1). If you’ve read/are reading it, don’t forget to leave a review, will you? There’s a page in the shop which shows you exactly how to do that. Step-by-step instructions, with pictures! Many thanks […]
“So far, no free exercises have been sent!”
Buondì. First of all, apologies to Gail, whose comment on a recent post I acidentally deleted, along with about a hundred pieces of spam. We get so few genuine comments, sometimes they get lost in the tidal wave of porn links. However, I realised my error and found that by hitting the back button on […]
Going to Spain, gotta learn some Spanish!
Buondì. I’ll be quick today, as I just spent ages paying our online teachers and material writers. There are quite a few of them these days, so the ‘back office’ stuff can be time-consuming (and a drag…) Anyway, several people have written recently to say they like hearing about what I’m doing with my own […]
New ebook: Zio Ciro e la pizza
Buondì. As mentioned last week, today we have a new, intermediate-level (B1) ‘easy Italian reader’ ebook. It’s called Zio Ciro e la pizza and is about, well, uncle Ciro, and pizza. Against her conservative father’s wishes, a nineteen-year-old Italian-American, buys a plane ticket to Napoli, in Italy. The plan is to discover the city her […]
Ricetta originale dell’impasto per la vera pizza Napoletana!
Buondì. LAST Friday was my wife’s birthday and we organised a surprise party. My part in the enterprise was to make pizzas, amongst other things. I figured, given that it was a party and we were expecting plenty of guests, I’d do both the version in the metal trays, the type you slice into rectangular […]
More emails from club members, and two reminders
Buondì. There were lots of emails about one of last week’s articles about learning languages, and I’ve already shared some of them with you previously. But there were a few others that are definitely worth a read, so it seemed a shame to waste them… Liz/Lisa, for instance wrote this, under the subject line “Why […]
New Book of the Week! L’amore ai tempi del supermercato (A2)
Buondì. A quick one today as, after an exhausting weekend, I’m lacking both energy and time! Thanks to everyone who bought a copy of last week’s newly-published and super-hard ‘easy’ Italian reader, La carriera – dietro le quinte del Palio di Siena (C2). If you missed it, it’s still there in our online shop, just […]