Buondì. Before today’s topic, a message for people who took up the offer – at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com – of a free trial lesson (the promotion ended last night), and think that I’m the person to bug when they have issues. Orders are dealt with promptly by the teaching admin team, which means that they write to […]
February 2023 FREE Trial Online Italian Lesson offer ends soon!
Buondì. I don’t usually email on Sundays – I’m busy in the kitchen. However, between washing the dishes and cooking lunch, here’s a quick reminder that the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson‘ offer ends tonight. The next chance to try a FREE one-to-one lesson with a native-speaker teacher won’t be until November 2023. Why wait? […]
February 2023 FREE Trial Online Italian Lesson Offer: last days!
(Here’s an article from our archive, which we use each time we do a Free Trial Lesson Offer. Things will be back to normal next week, when the promotion is over.) Buondì. Time’s running out to book your free online Italian lesson via Skype or Zoom! This week’s offer ends on Sunday night, so jump to […]
February 2023 FREE Trial Online Italian Lesson Offer reminder!
Buondì. Today, just a quick reminder about the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson’ offer over at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com, which began on Monday. Thirty people have already signed up, in just the first two days, mostly for Italian, but also Spanish and French The offer lasts until Sunday night and the plan is to give away a […]
February 2023 FREE Trial Lesson Offer / 5 Half-Price Ebooks!
Buondì. As mentioned on Friday, this week we have the Free Trial Online Italian Lesson Offer! In our online shop, there are various online Italian lesson options. Choose between packages of five, ten, twenty or thirty lessons, for example, and so benefit from greater discounts. But it’s also possible to buy just the one lesson, […]
Looking for learning opportunities in the wrong place
Buondì. Two things today, so I’ll get the more transactional one done first. Next week NativeSpeakerTeachers.com has it’s twice-yearly Free Trial Lesson Offer, a chance for anyone who hasn’t yet tried a free thirty-minute online lesson with a native speaker teacher to do so. For years, the one thing that was missing from my own […]
Club members’ Italian film/opera suggestions to check out
Buondì. Club members sometimes send links they think I’d be interested in, or hope I will share more widely. Given that my workload is overwhelming right now, and that time spent with Roomie cuts the working day in half, I thought I’d cheat today, and post them here, for you to check out. Following on […]
New ‘easy reader’ ebook, ‘Tutti parlano di Marconi’, £5.99!
Buondì. I’m back in Bologna, after my overnight stay in Torino on Thursday. A lot of the weekend was spent minding Roomie, or washing dishes, meaning that work has really piled up. So I’ll keep this short. No, really! This morning we published a new ‘easy reader’ ebook, part of the ‘A day in the […]
Torino, a lucky/unlucky city with an interesting history
Buondì. I’m writing the first part of this (yesterday) on a high-speed train (Roomie and I agree that the black and red ones are very pretty) on the way to Torino, which is Turin in English and, according to Wikipedia, in the Piedmontese dialect. It’s been years since I’ve been anywhere new, mostly because of […]
How to waste your time ‘learning’ new vocabulary
Buondì. More from my muse, club-member Suzanne, who often emails interesting questions. Here’s her comment on my approach to learning vocablary, which I’ve paraphrased selectively: ‘I use EasyItalianNews.com and short stories in Italian to improve my vocabulary. It’s common pedagogy to use texts to learn at least 50% of the words used in them. Yes, […]