Well, ‘easy’ in the way that giving up smoking is easy. It’s easy when the doctor puts it as a choice between stopping now or not seeing your future grandchildren. But rather bothersome to implement. For various reasons, I’ve not had as much time lately as I would have liked, for studying, I mean. Since […]
Essential expressions for ‘taking back control’
Buondì. In the last few years ‘Take back control!’ has been an effective way for unscrupulous politicans to convince voters, sometimes in defiance of common sense, to vote against the status quo and even against their own long-term interests. ‘Throw the bums out!’ I write as a Brit, resident in Europe, married to a European, […]
Heads up! Free Trial Online Italian Lesson offer – final day
This is a rare Sunday message to remind you that the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson‘ offer ends TONIGHT SOMETIME (when exactly will depend on your time zone). The next promotion of this sort will not be until next year, probably in February or March. If you write to me tomorrow (Monday) to ask how […]
I’d like to try the free online Italian lesson but am afraid
This came in overnight: I would like to sign up for the free online Italian lesson but am afraid to for a couple reasons: not sure how well I will be able to speak Italian (I get too nervous) and I don’t know how to skype. I’m assuming I have the capability to skype, I’ve […]
Too busy this week for a Free Trial Italian Lesson? No worries!
Geoff wrote overnight to ask me to bend the rules: I’d really like to take you up on the offer of a free trial online Italian lesson with a view to doing some more afterwards if the trial lesson goes as well as I hope it will. My problem is that I have a very […]
The Free Trial Online Italian Lesson offer starts today!
Buondì. As mentioned last week, the Free Trial Online Italian Lesson offer starts today! In our online shop, we have various online Italian lesson options. You can choose between packages of five or ten lessons, for example, and so benefit from a discount. It’s also possible to buy just the one lesson, to try, or […]
Which is your community? How strong are your relationships?
Every day I see either Anna, Ewa, or Oscar. Or if not them, then one of those other guys whose names don’t spring so easily to mind. For example, the pretty one, with the funny hair and the genuine smile… Then there’s my wife, of course, and her mum. And her cousins, and her aunty. […]
This much I know
Yesterday this arrived: What does the A2 mean? Here’s the accompanying description, along with the one for the next level up, for comparison: Why am I learning Swedish, again? See this article from two years ago: https://onlineitalianclub.com/its-time-to-add-a-new-element-to-your-italian-study-plan/ Basically, I was trying to sell ebooks. The relevant part is at the end: I haven’t forgotten that, […]
“That’s the teacher’s job!”
Over the weekend, I was copied in on an email from an online student complaining to our teaching manager, Lucia, that her teacher was slow to provide homework assignments. “That’s the teacher’s job!” Well, perhaps that’s part of it. I suppose it depends… But surely, there’s more? +++ Fifty percent of any profession is going […]
Things that go bump in the night went bump in the night
Buondì. I warned on Halloween that, having moved the club website to a different server, there might be issues, spooky or otherwise. Shortly afterwards, it became clear that something really had ‘gone bump in the night‘, in the sense that while the main part of the website was fine, the .html exercise pages were (to […]