Here’s number 4 in our series of 8 new A1 Italian listening exercises (we’re getting the A2 and B1 levels recorded at the moment and they’ll be available soon…) Click ‘play’ to practice your Italian listening (if you’re reading this in an e-mail, you’ll need to click here to visit the website). As usual, you’ll […]
Third A1 level Italian listening (with transcript)
Here’s the third of our new A1 (elementary) level Italian listening tracks. There are five more ‘easy’ ones to come, then A2, B1 and so on! If you’re reading this in an e-mail, click here to visit the site and do the listening practice. Listening Tips Obviously, don’t immediately head for the transcript (it’s at […]
More listening: mi piace – non mi piace
Here’s the second of our new A1 Italian listening practice articles. While the level, and the grammar (today it’s ‘Mi piace / Non mi piace”), is technically A1, it’s useful practice for students at any level. To get more out of this free material, follow the ‘Listening Tips’ below: Listening tips: Listen first without the […]
New Italian listening material (with transcript)
Just a quick article to present the first of our new series of Italian listening tracks. This comes out of some articles I did in January this year about improving your listening. Plenty of people told me at the time that there isn’t much decent Italian listening material available out there on the Internet, which […]
Calmatevi!
Several people have written to me because they are a little worried about their ability to hold their own in our new online Italian conversation classes, which start next week. Some are concerned because they’ve never done anything similar before: speaking a foreign language, with strangers, over the Internet! Others admit to having a good […]
New conversation class on Tuesdays (just one place left in the Wed. group!)
It’s nine in the evening in Italy… Dinner’s been cleared away and there’s an hour or two to while away before bed. Vegetating in front of the TV is always an easy choice. For the unambitious. Learning Italian is a better one. But opening a grammar book at that time of night takes real force […]
Online Italian conversation class starts next week – places limited!
Over the last month or so we’ve been offering free online Italian conversation groups. Perhaps you were one of the many students from around the world who joined Paolo online for a chat in Italian? In all, we we ran fifteen 30-minute sessions. It was a sort of experiment… Could we successfully offer online GROUP […]
Here’s how to feel more confident speaking Italian
Yesterday’s article covered why you might feel anxious when speaking Italian. So today, let’s take a look at a few techniques which could help you feel more confident. Be realistic Obviously, if you go into any conversation expecting to be as able as you would be when speaking your own language, you’re likely to be […]
Terrified of speaking Italian? Just what exactly are you afraid of?
So you’ve memorized long-lists of Italian words, conquered the main irregular verbs, and more or less got the hang of Italian’s weird sentence structure. But speaking terrifies you. You find yourself paralyzed with fright at the idea of having to join in a conversation. Perhaps your fear goes so deep, you’ll actively avoid situations in which […]
Register now for this week’s Italian conversation groups
If you read these articles in an e-mail, you’ll only see the first few lines in future. To read the whole article (and to register for the Italian conversation groups) you’ll need to click the ‘Read more’ link and visit the website. Why? Statistics show us that, while a minority of people open, read and […]