A wise old man once said… When you’re learning a language, you start off on a high. There’s all the excitement of a new project. The possibility of achieving great things! But beware! The ‘up’ can quickly change to a ‘down’. The difficulty of the task becomes impossible to ignore. It’s soon evident that success […]

I’ll be fifty in a few weeks. If you’re of a similar age, or older, you might remember the TV show from the ‘seventies, ‘Mission: Impossible’. “Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to improve your Italian reading and listening skills. Should you or any of your team be caught or killed, OnlineItalianClub.com […]

Yesterday evening I studied Swedish for an hour, as the plan dictates. Tuesdays and Thursdays I don’t teach in the evening, so I schedule an hour for each of those two days. Many thanks, by the way, to my wife, who helps out with my learning by washing the dinner dishes. Friday, Saturday and Sunday […]

Over the weekend I was studying Swedish. In particular I was doing the listening exercises, which my Swedish mother-in-law kindly located on a recent visit to Stockholm. For me, the listening comprehension exercises are the best bit! The grammar, I can take or leave. I’m lazy about learning vocabulary. And my pronunciation is zero. But […]

Buondì. Today we have a new ‘Book of the Classic Italian Movie’ out. Honestly, I’d never heard of ‘Accattone‘, but I HAD heard of Pier Paolo Pasolini, a left-wing writer, poet and director who was famously murdered. It was the ‘seventies, a period of violent turmoil in Italy, and Pasolini met his gruesome end at […]

If you haven’t booked your free trial online Italian lesson yet, consider this your final reminder! About 65 people book have already booked a lesson. Lucia, our teaching manager, tells me that she’s written to most of you, and some lessons have already taken place. Hope they went well! For anyone else interested, we’re keeping […]

Yesterday our club website got its highest ever number of page views, a fraction under ten thousand. A typical visitor looks at 5 pages, so that means that around two thousand of you came through the doors yesterday. No wonder things felt busy – we’re still clearing up the trash! The most-viewed pages were those […]

A quick reminder to book your FREE TRIAL online Italian lesson, which I explained in detail yesterday. If you’re definitively not interested, just ignore this (and the other emails I’ll be sending this week.) Next week things will be back to normal. But if you fancy giving it a go, here are the details again: […]

Buondì. As mentioned several times recently, this is the week you can book yourself an online Italian lesson, absolutely free! The usual cost of a 30-minute one-to-one via Skype with one of our kind, professional teachers is €20 (less if you order 5 or 10 lessons at once.) But for the next seven days, and […]

Often I get emails from OnlineItalianClub.com members telling me how they are going about learning Italian, or asking for suggestions or advice (feel free to write, my email is at the bottom of every page on the club website.) And, if you’ve been paying attention over the last few months, you’ll be aware that I’m […]