Buondì. Most of what follows will involve money in one way or another, but before I get to that, here’s are some reminders for club members: EVERYTHING ON THE CLUB’S WEBSITE IS FREE Why am I reminding you of this? Because people sign up to the club (which is basically a mailing list), get one […]
Final episode of the FREE Summer Series (& ebook version)
Buondì. Episode 30 of our FREE Summer Series was just published. Find out what happens to nasty, fascist dictators, or should do. As I type this, it’s raining heavily outside my open front door. Cool air is coming in, making me quite glad that this morning I decided to wear long trousers. Insomma, the summer […]
Mi seppellirai, lassù in montagna, sotto l’ombra di un bel fior
Buondì. It’s the final week in our FREE Summer Series of thirty articles (with online audio) covering the period from the Risorgimento to the end of WWII. 1943, and Italy is on its way to being divided in two, with the invading/liberating Americans and Brits making progress in the south, and the Germans easily holding […]
Final week of the Summer Series, final years of WWII
Buondì. I’ll keep this brief today, as we have a half-price ‘eBook of the Week’ offer, and the FREE Summer Series article, which is a really interesting one. The link to that is here below. Scroll down for the promotion. Episodio 28. La crisi del fascismo e il cambio di schieramento dell’Italia (1943) (The previous […]
Brr!
Buondì. Volgograd is a city in south-west Russia, apparently. Pictures on the internet show green parks and an attractive river. I’d probably heard of it before writing this, but have never thought of visiting. Well why would I? Turns out that Volgograd used to be known as Stalingrad (named for a Russian dictator, Stalin) and, due […]
Italy joins WWII / Mussolini speech / Customer of the month
Buondì. I’ll keep this brief, as I’ve wasted time answering ‘customer service’ emails, which is always the first job of a morning. That’s because things come in all through the night while I’m asleep, but the USA is still up, and Australia and New Zealand have already started tomorrow. So below is the link to […]
WWII begins / NEW ‘easy Italian reader’ -25% this week
Buondì. As you’ll have observed from the title of this article, there are two things I have to tell you this Monday morning. First off, we’re into the final two weeks of our ten-week-long, thirty-part Summer Series of articles with online audio. We began in July, way back in the nineteenth century, so proper history! […]
Fascist propaganda and the ‘Italian Hollywood’
Buondì. After Wednesday’s article, promoting Episode 23 in our Summer Series, which featured Fascist Italy’s disgraceful invasion of Ethiopia, I had several people write to me saying they’d watched the film linked to at the end and found it really interesting. Well done to them! Plus there was one stupid person whose point, I think, […]
We’ve got a film today, children.
Buondì. At the end of today’s free Summer Series article (with online audio), there’s a link to a video on Youtube. It’s about the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, is mostly black and white, and reminded me of my school days when – very rarely – the teacher would walk into the classroom and […]
My apology to language teachers everywhere (not really!)
Buondì. It’s ‘Caldo ma non troppo’ here in Bologna today, according to the app on my smartphone, which makes a nice change. It appears the opressively-hot weather has broken, though not with the promised violent storm. Oh well, we have to take what we can get at this time of year. Here’s a quick introduction […]