Buondì. I’ve been lamenting all the language-learning activities that I used to do (and perhaps am still paying for) but which I abandoned for lack of time or energy. Roomie, our young house guest, is a big cause of so many elements of my former life falling by the wayside. Nowadays I spend up to […]
Are you just TOO OLD to learn Italian?
Buondì. Good grief, it’s mid-week already, time is ticking away, the days, the weeks, the months, the years, all seeming to pass ever more rapidly. It’s quite alarming! On the plus side, this second week of October would normally be when I’d start teaching English for the 30-week academic year, ending in early June. But […]
Presenting… Giuseppe Verdi and his Nabucco!
Buondì. I spent a good chunk of Sunday watching my first ever opera, on Youtube. It was Verdi’s Nabucco, ate up nearly two and a half hours from my precious ‘catch-up with-work Sunday’ (Roomie was briefly at the coast with my wife), and suprisingly, I enjoyed it! Why was I watching opera on a Sunday […]
When will I ever be finished?
Buondì. I was pondering the question of when I would ‘finish’ learning Swedish in the car this morning, as I listened to the news headlines. There was an interview with a former minister, I think it was, about how Turkey is continuing to block Sweden’s application to join Nato. That’s a topic that interests me, […]
Adult learners vs. toddlers
Buondì. Anita emailed with a question: “With two grandkids in the language-learning, language-exploding stage, I’m puzzled by one thing. They pick out nouns and then verbs from the babble of language around them. But when I listen to Italian, what I hear are the conjunctions, prepositions & other connectives (the quindis, perós, perchés, & the […]
Slow (but effective) language-learning
Buondì. Our Autumn/Fall Sale promotion is over, thank goodness. So once I’ve cleared the considerable backlog of work that’s piled up while I’ve been busy doing ‘commercial’ mailings, I’ll be back to writing the usual things about how I learn foreign languages (and how you probably should, too.) In case you’re new around here, that […]
2022 Autumn/Fall Sale: Just a few hours left to save 20%!
There are just a few hours left of the Autumn/Fall 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-Autumn-Sale-20%-Off And […]
2022 Autumn/Fall Sale: it’s not what you spend, it’s what you do
Buondì. Tomorrow is the final day of the 2022 Autumn/Fall Sale (details here) at our online stores, EasyReaders.org (for ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (for one-to-one lessons). Use the coupon code below to save 20% on the online lessons and/or ebooks you’ll need to improve your Italian: 2022-Autumn-Sale-20%-Off And here are the store links: one-to-one lessons | […]
2022 Autumn/Fall Sale: the usual ‘ebook best-sellers’ article
Buondì. The Autumn/Fall Sale is nearly done (as always, it’s been a lot of work) so I thought you might be interested in hearing what other club members have been spending their ‘learn Italian’ budgets on. Hence the usual, end-of-sale ‘ebook best-sellers’ article. N.b. If you’re interested in any of the products below, don’t forget […]
2022 Autumn/Fall Sale: Online Italian lesson dos and don’ts
Buondì. Here’s an article from our archive, and a reminder about the 2022 Autumn/Fall Sale, which ends on Sunday night! The dos and don’ts of taking online Italian lessons Written from personal experience, as I use this method to learn languages (I’m also an online teacher, so see things from both perspectives…) Don’t put off […]