Buondì. It’s been raining here in Bologna. Which is very welcome, as everything had got very dry. And last night’s stormy weather has brought cooler air, which is also welcome. Though it messes up my plans for the weekend. Oh well, I’ll stay home and spend the time writing something useful! +++ So, you’re learning […]

We’ve given away maybe a thousand free Italian easy readers and parallel texts over the last ten days. But a small percentage of you have been having problems. That said, a fraction of a thousand people, is quite a few! So I ended up drafting a standard reply to the people emailing me, which I’ll […]

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…) […]