Buondì. OK, a quick announcement regarding the club’s online shop, which has now become ‘shops’. EasyReaders.org, which until yesterday sold both ebooks and online lessons, will in future concentrate ONLY on ebooks. Whereas the online lessons (Italian mostly, but also Spanish, French and German) are now being offered through a new website, the aptly-named, NativeSpeakerTeachers.com. […]

Buondì. Ever thought of doing an Italian course in Italy? I mention it because the reason I’m late this morning, and the explanation for this article being more or less the shortest I’ve EVER written, is that I’ve been busy launching our Italian school’s seasonal promotion. Anyone booking a group Italian course (so not individual […]

Buondì. I’m doing lots of new stuff at the moment, trying to reorganise my businesses so that, should I fall paralysed to the floor, as happened in September, my wife and kids won’t have to. Half of yesterday was spent trying to transfer ‘products’ and ‘comments’ from one website to another. I spent hours on […]

On Monday, my normally very reliable, elderly German motorbike refused to start. Probably the cold had got to the battery, I thought, while rushing to catch a passing bus – mask and Green Pass both now obligatory. I got to my hospital appointment on time, but the bus had been heated and I was overdressed […]

Buondì. I write a hundred and fifty-six articles for OnlineItalianClub.com each year, and apart from the quarterly sales and the ‘free trial lesson offers in November and February, when I resuse copy to save time, they’re almost all original – at least a hundred articles a year, anyway. Obviously, there’s repetition – approaches to language […]

Buondì. I don’t know about you, but I’ve realised that I don’t handle stress at all well (I’m having problems with banks…) I wake up at four a.m. worrying, then can’t get to sleep again. During the day, I get physical symptoms – tingling, trembling, ‘fight or flight’ responses, that sort of thing. It’s not […]

Buondì. I’m desperately busy today, as it’s the first of the month (which is always heavy), as well as being an important day in a big reorganisation project (the various things that we do are moving to their own legal entities from today, rather than being all together in one company). Plus I have to […]

Buondì. It rained all day yesterday, so I’m counting myself lucky to have survived. Why is that, you wonder? Because when it rains here in Bologna (it doesn’t happen that often), people take their cars, rather than walking, cycling or standing in line for a bus. Which means there’s more traffic to contest with, as […]

Buondì. Short and sweet today as, like a lot of people in the northern hemisphere in November, I’m fed up with the dark, the weather, the daily grind, and with the fact that it’s still more than four weeks until Christmas! Which might not happen anyway because… well, let’s not think about that. So just […]