Buondì. I’m rather late today as we had to drive the lion cubs to their day zoo. The smaller one isn’t used to the car, so howled most of the way. On the way back from the other side of town, I stopped at Lidl for supplies: two flavors of Estathé (popular with children in […]
The Renaissance, Episode 4 / 25% Off New Ebook Easy Reader
Buondì. Hope you had a good weekend, or at least one that was cooler and less chaotic than ours! We have a smaller version of Roomie staying for a few days, as the zoo keepers are on strike, or something. Our Roomie is jealous as hell, which manifests itself as her refusing to eat, but […]
The most fashionable place in the western world in 1492?
N.b. At some point in the next 24 hours we’re expecting all our online audio, which is hosted by Soundcloud.com, to go down, so ebooks and websites including this one. The only exception will be EasyItalianNews.com, which is hosted by Amazon, thank goodness. Why will nearly all of our audio become unavailable? Well, we moved […]
The Renaissance, Episode 2. Wanna come to an orgy?
Buondì. This time two years ago I remember feeling a little disorientated, lost in the mists of pre-history and discussions on the origins of Rome. This time last year, similarly, I was reluctantly coming to term with the fall of the western Roman empire and the seemingly endless succession of confusingly-named Italian kings that succeeded […]
FREE Summer Series (text + audio), part 1 of 30!
Buondì. And so, the Summer Sale is O.V.E.R., no more exhortations to buy stuff, for a while at least. But long live the Summer Series, which starts today, and is FREE! We’ve done Summer Series in two previous years, each time thirty free articles, three a week for ten weeks, from July to September. The […]
2022 Summer Sale: Just a few hours left to save 20%!
There are just a few hours left of the 2022 Summer Sale. Today is the final day, so the last chance to save 20% on everything at our (now two!) online stores, EasyReaders.org (for ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (for one-to-one lessons). The coupon code you need to save 20% on the online lessons and/or ebooks is: 2022-Summer-Sale-20%-Off […]
2022 Summer Sale: it’s not what you spend, it’s what you do
Buondì. I tested positive again yesterday, though my wife was negative, which meant she could put Roomie in her stroller and go buy beer. Roomie’s status is ‘presumed negative’, as she doesn’t have symptoms and, in any case, no one who values their eyes and fingers will contemplate twirling a cotton tipped plastic stick in […]
2022 Summer Sale: the usual ‘ebook best-sellers’ article
Buondì. (Still got COVID, still feel lousy, and still have Roomie getting under our feet 24 hours a day – so here’s another rehashed article from a previous sale. Sorry! The coupon codes and links should be good for this one. The sales data isn’t updated, though it’s still a good guide to what’s typically […]
2022 Summer Sale: Online Italian lesson dos and don’ts
Buondì. I was going to write something new today (to promote this week’s Summer Sale), but the temperatures have been extreme, we have Covid, and so are isolating. Which means being confined to an overheated house with Roomie, who can’t go to daycare, and none of the usual distractions such as parks, and supermarkets. Imagine […]
2022 Summer Sale Starts Today: 20% Off Everything!
Buondì. Today we have the start of the 2022 SUMMER Sale, which means that everything at EasyReaders.org (ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (online lessons) can be had a fifth cheaper than usual. N.b. We’ve separated ebooks/online lessons into two different ecommerce stores so that we’ll be able to focus on one or the other at different times, […]