Here I am again, this time plugging our new Italian easy reader, ‘La cicatrice‘ (The Scar). Download your free sample chapter to see what it’s about. Then, if the level’s good for you, get the full version from our online shop (at the special first-week price of just €7.50!) Visit our online shop | Browse e-books […]
Latest Italian Easy Reader, Plus A New Grammar Lesson!
Buon giorno a tutti! Today we’ve published our newest Italian easy reader, and it’s on offer this week at €7.50 instead of the regular easy-reader price of €9.99. Here’s the blurb from the shop (it would be on the back cover, but e-books don’t have one…) Pier Velotti is the technician in charge of the landing system […]
Italian Lesson On The Past, Some News, An Offer & A Reminder
Lots to tell you this morning, so I’ll use an old teachers’ trick and do it in reverse order. That way I won’t risk losing your attention right at the beginning! Lastly then, don’t forget the ‘Book of the Week’ offer on our easy-reader / e-book version of the classic Italian movie, ‘Ladri di biciclette‘. Get […]
Free Italian Lesson on Adverbs – Book Of The Week Reminder
Today I have some material on Italian adverbs for you. It’s part of our new series of online Italian lessons, which bring together previously published material in a way which will (hopefully, one day) make it easier to use. So on the new ‘adverbs lesson page‘, you’ll find an explanation, some audios and an exercise. […]
New Free Italian Lesson On Adjectives & Book Of The Week!
The topic for today’s free Italian lesson is ‘adjectives’, which is broad to say the least, but then the whole point of this new ‘Italian Lessons Series‘ is to bring together disparate materials from across the site in a way that will hopefully make them easier to use. In doing so though, gaps emerge. So […]
Another free Italian lesson, another ‘Book of the Week’ reminder!
Buongiorno a tutti! It’s Friday, so I have something light for you, or at least lighter than Wednesday’s mammoth Italian lesson on verbs. Lesson 05 in our new Italian Lessons series is on a topic that a lot of people, including me, have issues with: ‘like- piace/piacciono‘. In essence it’s fairly simple, though back-to-front compared […]
Un mucchio di materials on Italian verbs!
Today we’ve lesson number 04 in our new ‘Italian Lessons‘ series. It covers ‘Italian Verbs in the present tense‘. The problem with Italian, as most people work out very rapidly, is that you can’t say or understand much at all until you get to grips with conjugating verbs, something that being a native English-speaker doesn’t really […]
New Free Italian Lesson, New ‘Book of the Week’ Offer!
Learn Italian online with the latest in our series of free online Italian lessons. Today we’ll take a look at ‘there is / are – c’è / ci sono‘. Plus, I have a new ‘Book of the Week’ offer for you. First things first, though. Lesson 03 in our Italian Lessons series deals with how […]
Learn or revise Italian plurals (plus ‘Amarcord’ reminder!)
Buon giorno a tutti! Just a quickie today, as I have to rush off and teach. Wednesday’s Italian Lesson on articles was a big success it seems – we had a record number of page views that day! And many thanks to Roger who wrote to me with this correction: Just had a quick look […]
‘New’ series Of Free Italian Lessons (& Book Of The Week)
Having finished our Italian Conversations series on Monday, it’s time for something ‘new’. Well, when I say ‘new’, what I mean is that I’ll be pulling together material from across our site to create ‘Italian lessons’ with explanations of the grammar, listening practice and exercises. The material itself isn’t actually new, but the way it’s […]