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 […]
2022 Spring Sale Starts Today: 20% Off Everything!
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 […]
‘Vari ed eventuali’ again
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 […]
2022 Spring Sale Next Week – Time to Unsubscribe?
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 […]
25% Off New Ebook Easy Reader – Colpa della terra, Libro 2
Buondì. Following on from last week’s publication of the first in a five-part series about an Italian family that migrates to the USA, here I am, as promised with the second ebook: Colpa della terra, Libro 2, La traversata (also B2). The title of this one, ‘La traversata’, means ‘The Crossing’, as you might have […]
Errata-corrige
Buondì. Many thanks to Tim, who wrote this week to point out a problem with our newest, ‘easy reader’ ebook, Colpa della terra, Libro 1, Colpa della terra. Anyone who’s already bought it will want to know this, and maybe others too, as it concerns the dreaded ‘pronomi’! Tim wrote (in italiano, bravo Tim!): C’è […]
D.I.Y.
Buondì. Last week, I think it was, I was asking my class of Italian adults learning English what they thought the most popular free time activities were in Britain, where I come from. Their guesses included going to the cinema and the theatre, along with exhibitions, and reading of course – that is to say […]
25% Off New Ebook Easy Reader – Colpa della terra, Libro 1
Buondì. If you’re learning Italian, like reading, and can manage texts at intermediate + level, then you might enjoy our new five-part series of ‘easy reader’ ebooks. ‘Colpa della terra’ is the name of the series, and of the first book in it. ‘Blame it on the land’ might be one translation, the idea being […]
Tòt reasons why you should never clean your home
Buondì. We have guests coming, so I’ve been cleaning out the fireplace in our living room, something I remember watching my gran doing each morning when I was a small child (she used to wrap the ashes in the previous day’s Daily Mirror), but that I haven’t done myself for…. maybe five years? We don’t […]
‘Listening’ or ‘Listening Practice’? (Do at least one.)
Buondì. Kathryn emailed to ask about the difference betweeen ‘listening’ and ‘listening practice’. Is there one? If so, what? ‘Listening practice’ has a goal or goals which are differerent to those associated with listening that isn’t ‘practice’. If your goal is to improve your listening skills, then you’re practising listening, though you may at the […]