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 […]

In spare moments over the last week or two I’ve been working my way through Duolingo‘s Swedish course. For anyone new around here, the reason I’m studying Swedish (yes, I know – it’s the online ITALIAN club…) is because I already know Italian fairly well but I thought I should be practising what I preach […]

Excuse me for disturbing you yet again, and on a Sunday, too! But today’s the last day of our Autumn/Fall Sale. Lucia and I wanted to be sure that no one misses out. In previous years there’s always been someone that emailed on Monday to ask if they were too late to get the discount… […]

Today’s the final day of our Autumn/Fall sale. So you might be curious to know what other students of Italian from around the globe have been spending their allowances on… Top of the list is our excellent value pack of online Italian lesson credits. Ten thirty-minute one-to-one Italian lessons with a native speaker teacher would […]

It’s Staturday in Italy (probably where you are too). Not having to go to the office, many Italians will have dressed up in their finery, jumped into shiny automobiles (Audis, BMWs and Alfa Romeos are the favourites) and headed to the mall/’centro commerciale’ to shop for the latest styles and most ostentatious consumer electronics. How […]

Buondì. The clock is ticking on our Autum/Fall Sale, which ends on Sunday night. Lucia (our teaching manger) and I are standing by, today and over the weekend, to send out your ebooks and organise your online Italian lessons. So here’s a summary of the information you need to save 20% on your language-learning this […]

A ‘bundle’, in marketing parlance, is when a seller puts together various products, in this case ebooks for learning Italian, and prices them at a discount. It’s like when you go to the store and buy two tubes of toothpaste rather than the one that you had scrawled on your shopping list, so as to […]

Buondì. One of the dubious pleasures of running OnlineItalianClub.com and the company’s various other websites for language learners is that, when I wake of a morning, my first task is to deal with emails that have come in during the night. Most of these are automated spam, which can just be deleted, though it takes […]