Buondì. Today onlineitalianclub.com is moving house, and I’m sure you know what kind of chaos can result from that! While I think of our clubhouse as being a building, with an address and a layout, of course it isn’t. Despite having been laboriously hand-built by our team, brick by brick, beam by beam, tile by […]

I’m in a rush today. A rare morning meeting has me already shaved, showered and shampooed, all ready to jump onto my motorbike and head into the mean city. Just as soon as I’ve completed Monday’s ‘must do’ onlineitalianclub.com post. So, today I have four free Italian vocabulary exercises for you to try. Three of […]

Thanks to Sieglind, Linda, Rosalind and Anthony, who all wrote pointing out an error in Wednesday’s Sentences Gapfill exercise, which I have now fixed. The Swedish has stalled since Tuesday as I’ve been working on other (less interesting) things. But I’m determined to finish the book over the weekend, so catch up with my progress […]

Friday’s post ‘It’s time to add a new element to your Italian study plan‘ was really long. This one will be shorter, promise! One reason is that I’m rather behind with my usual tasks, after having spent most of Sunday afternoon having a go at SWEDISH. The idea was to show that it’s possible to […]

No exercises today, just the hard sell! What I’ll be ‘selling’ is an effective, fun study plan for learning Italian. And then I’m actually going to try it myself, and report back regularly on my progress. But, first things first. This article is a follow up to Wednesday’s post ‘Why I want to get you […]

Thanks to Conny, Patricia, Eva, Maureen, Greet, Jean, Steven, Angela, Elspeth, Maria, Judith, Christopher, Julie & Allison who wrote to me with an answer for Monday’s ‘Which city?’ exercise. The answer, I’m assured by almost everyone, is Padova. OK, so today, what do I have for you?? In a word… Reading. I want to get […]

So I began with a painful bit of alliteration. But hey, it’s not easy coming up with 156 article titles each year. Especially on a gloomy Monday morning, at the end of November… Many thanks to Maria, who pointed out several problems with the exercise on accented characters that I linked to on Friday. Thanks […]

Happy Thanksgiving, for those of you that celebrate it. We went out for a pizza and a beer, for which I gave thanks as my wife doesn’t normally allow junk food and alcohol on Thursdays… But today is Friday and everything is permitted! And not just any Friday… Today is the legendary ‘Black Friday’, supposedly […]

Today, more ‘tidied up’ exercises, stuff we did years ago which needed beautifying and which you, anyway, probably haven’t seen. These are ‘word order’ exercises. To make them work you need to pick out the first word or phrase and CLICK ON IT. If you are correct, the word or phrase will spring into place […]