Buondì. This is a follow-up to Monday’s article ‘Make a new plan, Stan‘. First things first, I am no perfect student, neither am I a language-learning genius, nor (fortunately) an idiot savant. However, experience helps a lot. Suppose you’ve already got your driver’s license for a car/automobile? Then passing your motorcycle test is likely to […]

Buondì. Monday morning, 07.55, and I have a relatively quiet week ahead, so plenty of time for language-learning. But also, an article to write for the Club, and no-predetermined topic. A week of study to plan, an article to write… Ah ha! “Make a new plan, Stan” is a line from the chorus of Paul […]

If you don’t use your automobile often, it can be hard to get it started, especially on a winter morning. You turn the key, but instead of the engine roaring into life, there’s only a sickly straining sound from the starter motor. Or worse, just an electrical click, then nothing. You’re going to be late. […]

Thanks in advance to Anne in Chicago, who will no doubt point out that in the USA you say ‘dreamed’. I know that. But people all over the world read these articles, and I have to spell it one way or the other, don’t I? It’s like Catalogue / Catalog – I vary it. Deliberately. […]

Umm… When he or she has a side job, for cash, which he/she isn’t paying any tax on? Thank you, but no. That’s not what this is about. Go on then, when IS an unemployed Italian not an unemployed Italian? So, Friday morning I was at the CUP (Centro Unico Prenotazione) to book blood tests. […]

Buondì. Someone commented the other day, I forget where otherwise I’d link to it, that they ‘didn’t have a natural ability to learn foreign languages’. To which I gave my standard reply (people say this all the time) that, in my experience, few people do, so not to worry. Usually, say in a class discussion, […]

I read somewhere, don’t remember when or where, and the details are now hazy, that in a certain sport – could’ve been baseball, could’ve been cricket – the batter, batsman, whatever the word is, has to try and hit a small, hard ball that… …IS MOVING SO FAST THEY CAN’T EVEN SEE IT COMING!!!! Who […]