Buondì. The 2023 Spring Sale ends on Monday next week, so I thought you might be interested in hearing what other club members have been spending their ‘learn Italian’ budgets on. Let’s begin with our top selling product – as usual it’s the ten-pack of online lesson credits and is always, always, always the most […]
2023 Spring Sale: Online Italian lesson dos and don’ts
Buondì. As we’re busy with the 2023 Spring Sale right now, here’s an article from our archive. I’ve been both an online teacher and a language learner, so can see things from both perspectives. Here, then, are a few tips for students who choose to include one-to-one online lessons in their language study programs. The […]
2023 Spring Sale Starts Today: 20% Off Everything!
Buondì. Today we have the start of the 2023 Spring 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 separated ebooks/online lessons into two different ecommerce stores so that we’re able to focus on one or the other at different times, and […]
Jättecool (trolls aren’t)
Buondì. A super-quick one today, as I’m back in Italy, back at work (albeit at the kitchen table), and have a pile of stuff to get through before the weekend. Also a pile of stuff to get through at the weekend… One thing that takes a lot of time is managing multiple websites – we […]
Photo competition winner / Final days in London
Buondì. Thanks to Tony, the only entrant in our photo competition to find the best view from a public lavatory, and therefore the winner! It’s the view from the men’s public conveniences in Assisi, apparently. Beh, they’re a primitive lot in Umbria, so don’t have glass. In Emilia Romagna we have windows in our toilets. Peckham […]
Photo competition!
Buondì. This is for Brenda, who emailed in response to Saturday’s article, writing that when she’d visited the UK (from Canada, I think she said) she hadn’t gotten very far from London. So she enjoyed hearing about me getting soaked to the skin in the picturesque Cornish fishing village of Mevagissey, and checked the place […]
Message for you? / “Rewrite in your own words”
Buondì. It’s been a week, almost to the hour, that Roomie left, and we got our lives back. It seems like longer, actually, as there’s been so much going on. I’m writing this perched on a bed in Cornwall (England), with sun streaming through the window, more about which later. But first, catching up on […]
Shocking how stupid people are, isn’t it?
Buondì. Pardon the provocative title, but I’m writing this yesterday, when I woke (don’t you love that word?) at 4 a.m., to take my daughter to the airport, for her flight back to London, England. Lack of sleep makes me tetchy. Why am I writing this yesterday? Because today, when you read it, we’ll be […]
New ‘easy reader’ ebook, Madama Butterfly, £5.99 this week!
Buondì. Hope you had a nice weekend. Ours was quiet, despite my three adult kids being here, and the in-laws coming for Sunday lunch. Since you ask, I cooked tagliatelle ragù as the primo, cotolette for the secondo, and friggione as the contorno. With an antipasto of hummus on rye bread, and a vegan-alternative primo, […]
The low-hanging fruit, at least
Buondì. I’m super late today, sorry! But I have a good excuse, as we were off releasing Roomie into the wild. We opened the cage door, out she confidently bounded, and with a few powerful leaps she was gone, disappearing into the treeline. Which means my old life is over, finished, done! No more hours […]