Buondì. I’m in Copenhagen this morning, yesterday I was in Malmo, and the day before in Gothenburg. It’s all a bit of a whirl, I admit, and hard to find the time to write much. I still haven’t had a chance to reply to all the kind club members who have emailed suggestions and feedback […]

Buondi. Today I have another recording of Italian native-speakers asking and answering questions from our series of free Italian conversation lessons. If you haven’t tried them with friends from your Italian class, you should! To get better at speaking, you need to speak. Over the last five or six months, I’ve been using this approach […]

Buondì. Lunedì again, though it doesn’t feel like it when you’re on holiday. Today is our final day in Stockholm, Sweden, but more about the road trip later. First though, here’s another of those conversations between Italian native-speakers, accompanied by a transcript so you can figure out what they’re saying. Today’s topic is ‘Emozioni‘. Click […]

Buondì. Over 500 people have already listened to Wednesday’s new audio. Well done to you guys! But the other nine-thousand five-hundred of you? Avanti, ragazzi! Don’t fall behind. The more listening you do, the better. Time and effort are required to develop the neural networks needed for processing speech. It’s not just some magic process […]

Buondì. First things first. Here’s the second in our new series of ‘Native-speaker conversations with transcripts’ for you. This one was recorded by my giggly daughter and her extremely-polite boyfriend (he called me ‘Sir’ at first…) Tu e la tecnologia It’s about, well, ‘You and technology’. Have a listen, it’s free, so what’s to lose? The […]

Buondì. Tomorrow we leave for Sweden. So today I’ve lots to do, packing and so on, and leaving the house in order so that the kids can trash it while we’re away. I’ll be brief then. Below is a new audio recording and a transcript. You’ll also find some guidance regarding how I think you […]

Buondi. Today I have the last from our ‘expressions with’ series (next week we’ll start something different…) And this time it’s Expressions with ‘casa’. For example ‘una casa chiusa’. Now what could that be? Some sort of youth institution, a sort of juvenile prison? Oh, I know! If you’ve been to Italy and looked at […]

Buondì. I get lots of emails from OnlineItalianClub.com members, much of it complimentary: “Great site!”, “Thanks so much for your wonderful emails”, and so on. One rather rude lady this week told me to please shut up about learning Swedish as no one was interested. An hour later, someone from Sweden wrote to wish me […]

It’s the last week of school, in more ways than one! Two of my three kids finish on Thursday and will no doubt spend the next three and a half months slumped in front of Netflix, if not otherwise engaged perfecting their Playstation skills (him) or varnishing their nails (her, or if they get really […]

Buondì. I’m writing this yesterday, if you see what I mean, as this morning we’re off for a weekend at the coast. We’ll be filling up on my Swedish mother-in-law’s pasta, relaxing in the sunshine, and hopefully getting out on the boat, perhaps for the first swim of the year! Why all the fun? Well […]