A classic false friend for Italians learning English (and vice versa) is ‘indicazioni’, which means ‘directions’ in Italian, but is often translated badly: Excuse me. Could you give me indications for the railroad station, please? If you got lost in Italy these days, you’d probably just pull out your smartphone and fire up Google Maps. […]
A riff on the value of memorizing vocabulary…
Buondì. Today’s tidied-up page from the vocabulary section of the club website is ‘Giorni / Days‘, a classic beginner topic! If you actually ARE a beginner, take this as your cue to learn these seven words. The hardest part about memorizing a set of vocabulary such as days, months, numbers, or anything that will inevitably […]
Giochiamo a carte?
Buondì. Fancy a game of chess? No? Allora, giochiamo a carte! Dai!* Still no? You’re busy with the PlayStation® 4? Oh well, that’s modern parenting. I’ll just go back to studying languages. Talking of which, today’s free material for learning Italian is the latest of my rewrites of the tatty and error-filled pages in the […]
Women don’t know anything about politics
Buondì. I’m late again today, sorry! It’s because I spent part of the morning listening to the news and weather forecast in Swedish (someone got shot, it’s snowing). And the other part reading and listening to our newest Italian easy reader. And then publishing it, over at our new shop. This one is rather good, […]
‘G’ for Geography, and progress closing down the ‘old shop’
Buondì. Gotta keep this short, as I have an online Swedish lesson in less than an hour and I HAVEN’T DONE MY HOMEWORK. Che vergogna! So, today’s ‘tidied up’ page from the vocabulary section of the club website has words for describing Italy’s geography, plus an exercise, which I haven’t tried myself but which looks […]
Love reading? Italian words for books and literary genres
Buondì. This morning I’ve been continuing to tidy up the Vocabulary section of the club website. Today I’m up to ‘G’ for ‘Generi letterari‘ and I also skipped ahead a bit to ‘L’ for ‘Libri‘, as they were obviously connected The two pages just have lists of words, with translations. There’s nothing sophisticated. But if […]
What to do when you’re not in the mood to study
It’s only the second Monday in January but already my determination to make progress with my language-learning in 2018 is wavering… This morning I had an online lesson scheduled, but I hadn’t slept well and wasn’t really in the mood. Also I’d had a busy weekend with the January Sale. Still, a commitment is a […]
Lavoro e studio, Free Sample Chapters & Jan Sale Final Days!
Buondì. I’m in a rush today as we had the internet technician in (problems with the line…) so I was offline for an hour or so and reduced to cleaning the kitchen, rather than writing. Very briefly then, there’s a new page of conversation prompts up on the club site. The topic is ‘Lavoro e […]
New Italian Conversation Prompts! + Jan. Sale: What’s hot??
Buondì. For those of you here to enjoy our thousands of pages of free materials, with no intention of buying anything (prego!), I’ll start with a link to something new. You’ll recall that the club has a new section, labelled ‘Conversation‘ in the menu at the top of the site? These are prompts for conversation […]
Re: How to find reading materials for your level in Italian
from: Sherry to: Daniel date: Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 8:33 PM subject: Re: How to find reading materials for your level in Italian Wow! I’m seriously impressed! I know you just started Swedish recently and you’ve apparently been working really, really hard. Could you do a post of what your study routine is? Is […]