Buondì. What does being ‘advanced’ or ‘fluent’ in Italian feel like? I taught English to Italians for over twenty years, including kids from the age of three, but mostly adults, at all levels from complete beginner to ‘advanced’, groups and individuals, ‘general’ and ‘business’, conversation and writing. The beginners were always the happiest, despite the […]

Buondì. I have a bandwidth issue. It’s nothing to do with groups of people playing music, nor their expanding waistlines (though I have one of those.) It’s more of a metaphor, actually, (read about real bandwidth issues here) my brain as an increasingly slow and unreliable internet connection. You’ll know that feeling when you try […]

Buondì. I’ve got a lot on today, and am starting later than usual due to traffic, roadworks, red lights, and a surplus of morons on Italian roads. So I’ll just do a couple of quick notes on ‘How to…’ do things, that is to say things that some people seem not to have figured out. […]

Buondì. Driving back home this lovely spring morning, after dropping Bug at his petting zoo on the other side of town, I was half-listening to the news headlines in Swedish, while pondering – as you do – whether I could have made much more progress, in the five years or so I’ve been learning that […]

Buondì. I’m a little late starting today, as I’ve been out for a walk. Nothing exceptional, just a limp down to our local park, once around the lake, and back home again. I’ve been off exercising lately, due to pain in ‘i tendine d’Achille’ (yes, both legs, otherwise it would have been ‘il tendine’), which […]

Buondì. I don’t usually email on Sundays – I’m busy in the kitchen. However, between washing the dishes and cooking lunch, here’s a quick reminder that the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson‘ offer ends tonight. The next chance to try a FREE one-to-one lesson with a native-speaker teacher won’t be until February 2024. Why wait? […]

(Here’s an article from our archive, which we use each time we do a Free Trial Lesson Offer. Things will be back to normal next week, when the promotion is over.) Buondì. Time’s running out to book your free online Italian lesson via Skype or Zoom! This week’s offer ends on Sunday night, so jump to […]

Buondì. Today, just a quick reminder about the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson’ offer over at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com, which began on Monday. Just over forty people have already signed up, in just the first two days, mostly for Italian, but also Spanish, French and German The offer lasts until Sunday night and the plan is to […]

Buondì. As mentioned on Friday, this week we have the Free Trial Online Italian Lesson Offer! In our online shop, there are various online Italian lesson options. Choose between packages of five, ten, twenty or thirty lessons, for example, and so benefit from greater discounts. But it’s also possible to buy just the one lesson, […]