Virtually the whole of the last seven days, from morning to night, was taken up with the new, free ebooks. Most people managed to download them without issues, but some didn’t notice the download links in the automatic email our system sends out, or never received it, or couldn’t make the link work, or… Hours […]

Buondi. How’s the reading/listening going? The reason I ask is because it seems like just about everyone in the club has downloaded one or more of the free ebook easy readers and parallel texts. If you haven’t, there are full instructions about how to do that at the end of this article. Assuming you have, […]

Buondì. Since Monday I’ve been busy watching the free ebook orders rolling in (and answering your emails…) There have been about five hundred automatic downloads, mainly for the two Italian texts, Il ristorante and La sorpresa, but also for the Spanish, French and German versions. If you got yours, great! But now you have to […]

Buondì. Over the weekend, instead of going to the beach, I was sat at the kitchen table sorting out our online shop. Specifically, I was adding a new FREE ebook to the Italian and other language categories (French, Spanish and German). And making sure the instructions on how to get them were absolutely clear. This […]

This morning I’m covering for my wife at the reception desk of our Italian school. She’s gone to the beach with the kids. I like doing reception, as it’s a good chance to meet people. Anyway, I was just chatting (in Italian of course) to Doak, from San Francisco. He’s been a club member for […]

‘I viaggi lowcost‘ is the theme, though not the title, of today’s free Italian listening comprehension task. Cheap flights have made up quite a big part of my summer. Yours too, I suppose. But now ‘Ferragosto’ is done, it’ll soon be back to the old routine. Sigh! The level of today’s free audio is B2, […]

Buondì. I’m still in Rimini, where both the sea and the sky are a deep blue. Sadly, there’s little wind. So sitting on the couch with my laptop is not such a sacrifice. Today, I have yet another free Italian listening comprehension for you. This one’s rather banal (Italians use that word all the time…) […]

Buondì. It’s Friday, so later in the afternoon I’m off to Rimini on Italy’s Adriatic coast. We’ll be spending the weekend by the sea, in the company of Italians and crowds of tourists from all over the Europe! Rimini also has migrants from many countries, including Africa and China. Which brings me to today’s Italian […]

Back at home after the holiday. The fridge is empty, the cat has thrown up on the carpet, and there’s washing to hang out. So I’ll keep this short. Today’s free Italian listening is on causative verbs. What are they? Well, in English that includes things as varied as ‘get a pizza delivered’ and ‘have […]

Buondì. It’s the last day of our UK holiday today and, of course, it’s going to rain. Tomorrow we’ll be piling into our rental car and heading for the airport. Tuesday evening we’ll be back in Italy, where the newspapers promise us sweltering heat and delays at passport control. Oh well, at least the cat […]