More tidying up over at the club’s vocabulary section. And today we’re up to ‘C’ – that’s ‘C for Casa’. So today, why not learn some Italian words to describe your dream home, whether it be a flash downtown apartment, or a peaceful home in the country or on the coast? Below are links to […]

Buondì. A quick one today, as I have a lot to do (things got backed up over the weekend…) This morning I’ve been continuing with the spring-cleaning over at the vocabulary section of the club website. Specifically, I’ve been tidying up this page about personality adjectives. It’s just a short list of words, with English […]

Back in the early days of OnlineItalianClub.com, we had an ever-changing team of interns working on the club website. In the beginning. as I recall, they were ably-lead by Daniele, who had piercings in parts of his face that made me wince. Besides managing his team, Daniele also put together ‘The Tenses You Need To […]

“You made your bed. Now lie in it.” What an unsympathetic, but useful, expression! The Italian equivalent is: “Hai voluto la bicicletta? Adesso pedala!” (You wanted the bike? Now pedal!) OnlineItalianClub.com was a casual idea that popped into my head one day in 2012. Since then it has grown rapidly, into a monster which now […]

Buondì. Today some more Italian vocabulary for you to learn (or revise). The two pages I’ve re-written this morning, and link to below, cover words for describing appearance. For example, I’ve got thinning brown hair, plenty of grey stubble, and a puffy look that suggests I have a cold and didn’t sleep well as a […]

Buondì. If you’re an animal lover, you’ll likely have clicked the link for Animals – 1 that I sent out on Wednesday. In which case, you might now want to take a look at Animals – 2, which I’ve just finished tidying up. This one has additional animal words, some related vocabulary (paws and so […]

Buondì. Mercoledì, and the quest to improve the vocabulary section of the club house continues! Hundreds of people from around the world looked at Monday’s ‘L’ambiente e il riciclaggio‘, which is great! So today, we’re up to line four, ‘Animali 1‘, surely a staple of every low level language course! This one doesn’t, yet, have […]

Buondì. This morning I’m continuing my recent effort to ‘tidy up’ the clubhouse by ‘recycling’ some ‘waste’ pages in our vocabulary section. And yes, you guessed – today’s topic is ‘L’ambiente e il riciclaggio‘. What you get is a list of words and approximate English translations. So far, so banal. But what you DO with […]

As promised on Wednesday, I’ve been working on the next boring list of words in the club’s ‘vocabulary section‘. I’m going through the alphabet from ‘A’. This morning I got to line two (trumpets sound), Alberghi / Hotels. Surprisingly, I’m enjoying the process more than I thought I would. Today’s rewrite, ‘Italian Vocabulary – Hotels‘, […]

Today is Bologna’s ‘patrono’. I guess that would mean ‘patron saint’s day’. October 4th is San Petronio (his cathedral is right opposite our Italian school, by the way.) Which means I get to sleep in. But then, when I finally get up, I feel guilty about the late start… And so am motivated to begin […]