Buondì. Wednesday’s article on noticing usage generated a number of emailed responses, but not much variety, as the tendency was to dismiss the point I was hoping to make (basically, get out there and revel in the way language is USED) and instead to offer me a rule which ‘obviously’, ‘clearly’, explained things to the […]

Buondì. Yesterday evening, my class of Italian adults improving their English were working on the Past Perfect tense. They ‘had studied’ it before but ‘hadn’t learnt’ it, despite there being an equivalent in Italian, the trapassato prossimo (find a lesson and two exercises under ‘T’ on the club’s grammar page). In English the tense is […]

Buondì. Thanks to club-member Stuart, who emailed an article about an American called Vaughn who’s passionate about languages. Stuart knew it would be of interest, and I’m guessing he also knew it would wind me up, which it did. Large parts of it are total nonsense, and total nonsense that risks depressing the 99.9999% of language […]

There are just a few hours left of the 2022 Spring 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: Spring-Sale-2022 […]

Buondì. Tomorrow is the final day of the 2022 Spring Sale at our (now two!) 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 in the coming year: Spring-Sale-2022 And here are the store […]

Buondì. The Spring Sale is on this week, 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. The data is for sale week, up to this morning, April 8th 2022. Let’s begin with our top selling […]

Buondì. Here’s another article from our archive, and a reminder about the 2022 Spring 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 […]

Buondì. This week we have the 2022 Spring Sale! Which means that everything at EasyReaders.org (ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (online lessons) can be had a fifth cheaper than usual with coupon code: Spring-Sale-2022 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 […]

Buondì. Still on the mailing list after Wednesday’s warning that we have our Spring Sale next week, that being accompanied by a splurge of marketing? Sono contento. Today I have nothing major to say, but a few bits and pieces of ‘vari ed eventuali ‘ (the Italian term for ‘Any other business’, as in the […]

Buondì. Let it be known that next week, so from April 4th to April 10th 2022, our two online shops, EasyReaders.org (for ebooks) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (for one-to-one lessons), will be having their Spring Sale. Hurrah! That means that I’ll be publicising a coupon code which, if you apply it in your shopping cart in either/both […]