Buondì. We’re going out tonight, a rare event, and the first time that we’re taking Roomie anywhere. It’s dinner at some friends’ downtown attic apartment, and polenta e ragù is on the menu apparently, so end-of-winter comfort food, both traditional enough to be chic, and filling to boot. We’ve known this couple since we first […]

Buondì. At this time of the year, people might become more assiduous about gym attendance, more attentive to toning up muscles wasted by winter months, and perhaps even book a couple of sessions under the sun lamp, why not? This with a view to having our ‘beach body’ ready for when summer begins. We’ll be […]

Buondì. We were five around the pizzas yesterday evening, one of my adult daughters having coming back from college briefly. All our kids’ lives, we’ve spoken English at home, or at least I have. They’ll speak Italian to their mother, and to each other, but never to me. Often that means I’m left on the […]

Buondì. Still ill, still suffering from lack of sleep, and still short of time, so I’ll keep this short, and apologies if it’s so banal that it doesn’t help anyone. I write about language-learning three times a week, every week, so over a hundred and fifty times a year. It’s not always easy to think […]

Buondì. My roomie and I have both got horrible coughs, so I was awake more times last night than the total number of hours I was in bed. About double that number, I’d estimate. My wife had taken herself off to the spare bedroom, and so slept well, she reported. I’ve checked with a rapid […]

Buondì. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that on Saturday mornings I use my bread machine to prepare pizza dough for Sunday evening. Several people wrote to say they did the same thing, to complain that this was sacrilege, or just to ask: “Can you share your recipe for bread machine pizza dough?” Well […]

Buondì. I don’t usually email on Sundays – I’m busy in the kitchen, instead. However, between washing the dishes and making dough for tonight’s pizza, 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 […]

(I’m historically late today as I spent most of the morning sitting on the floor in a kindergarten on the other side of the city, watching chaos unfold, rather than safely in front of my computer. Anyway, here I am, finally.  N.b. The below article, or something extremely like it, was first published during a […]

Buondì. Today, just a quick reminder about the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson’ offer over at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com, which began on Monday. Just under sixty people have already signed up, in just the first two days, mostly for Italian, but also Spanish, French and German The offer lasts until Sunday night and the plan is to […]