Buondì. A lady sent me this email the other day: I thought I would be sent lessons 3x a week appropriate for my level. It looks like I am getting a sales pitch 3x a week. Yes I can sign up for one free lesson, but then have to pay for the rest. Please correct […]
What are your plans for today?
Buondì. This is going to be a short one, as I have a busy day lined up. The first job was to open and process emails. Next, this article. Then, at 10 a.m. I have my online lesson (hurrah!) My teacher sent me some material on dates (the pronunciation of ordinal numbers is HORRIBLE in […]
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Buondì. A steady rain is falling in Bologna this morning. Looking out of my kitchen window, it’s clear that it’s going to be one of those grey November days that just need to be endured and then forgotten. When it rains on the Pianura Padana, it really rains! So, not a good start to the week. […]
Now here’s a scary thought…
A scary thought, for me, at least. I was just tidying up today’s free vocabulary lesson, which is on Computers, since you ask. Click the link if you’d rather be studying Italian than reading my aged witterings. Back in the ‘eighties, when I was at uni (that’s ‘college’ if you live in the U.S.A.) I […]
What colour is ‘blu’?
Did I mention I’ve started taking online Swedish lessons? I think not. For those of you who may be new around here, it was about a year ago that I got the idea that it would help my writing about language learning if I were actually DOING some language learning (my days of studying Italian […]
Would you rather live in the city or the countryside?
Would you rather live in the city or the countryside? Personally I’m hedging my bets. Our home is just inside the boundary of the city of Bologna (in Italy), at the end of a bus route that takes us directly into the historic center in just twenty minutes. But it’s surrounded by ploughed fields and […]
Learn some Italian words for talking about movies!
Venerdì, finally! So there’s time to take up my shovel once more to continue ‘mucking out’ the vocabulary section of the club website. For those of you who are new around here, onlineitalianclub.com is an enormous free online resource put together over a period of several years by a mix of Italian teachers (who got […]
Ognissanti, ‘i morti’ and Buon compleanno, Hannah!
“Il primo novembre è il 305º giorno del calendario gregoriano (il 306º negli anni bisestili). Mancano 60 giorni alla fine dell’anno.” https://it.wikipedia.org/ O mio dio, only sixty more days until the end of the year? But there’s so much to do! Never mind though, today’s a public holiday in Italy – a religious one, common […]
New Italian easy reader today: Leonardo in riva all’Adda
Buondì. No refurbished vocabulary exercises today, as we have a new Italian easy reader out (and the club has bills to pay!) This one’s called Leonardo in riva all’Adda. Here’s the blurb that would be on the back cover, if it had one (it’s an e-book!) “Everyone knows that Leonardo is a genius, and one […]
Italian food words & definite articles. Woof, woof, sizzle!
Buondì. Today we’re at ‘C’ for ‘cibo’ (food). It won’t be a surprise if I tell you that, in Italy, what’s for dinner is definitely everyone’s favourite subject. A standard piece of advice for English teachers here, who might be worrying about whether the material they’ve planned for their class will be sufficient, is “Ask […]