Everyone’s at the beach this week, as it’s Ferragosto on Wednesday. Italy’s costal and mountain resorts are heaving, while the cities are empty. A good time to look for a free parking space in downtown Bologna. OnlineItalianClub.com, however, carries on as usual: today, I’ve put up Week 3 of our Advanced (C1) Italian Course . So, when […]
Week 2 of the Free Advanced level (C1) Italian Course
The .pdf for Week 2 of our free C1 (advanced) level Italian course is now ready for you to download and study. The contents of this week’s course are: il discorso indiretto “piuttosto che”, “non” and “mica” vocabulary for cooking 5 exercises, with solutions Plus a rather curious section entitled “Le 10 espressioni più odiate […]
An Orgy Of Prepositions
For those of you who enjoy advanced Italian grammar, Week 2 / Level C2 of our free online Italian course is now available. Pages and pages of prepositions! And exercises! An orgy of prepositions to print and take to the beach with you this summer! If you’re a member of OnlineItalianClub.com, you can find […]
How To Get A “Borsa di studio” (Free Course!)
Here’s valuable, inside information on how the “borsa di studio” (study grant) system works at Italian language schools, and what you have to do to get yourself a free Italian Course in Italy! 1. Most Italian schools in Italy offer a certain number of 100% and or 50% grants each year. What do they get in […]
Got plans this weekend?
On a hot summer weekend, some of us like nothing more than staying in the shade and treating ourselves to a cold beer (or two). Others prefer to set off for the beach (but will end up sitting in a traffic jam on the A14 somewhere between Bologna and Imola). Then there are those […]
Advanced Italian course (C1) – Week one is live!
For advanced learners of Italian, Week 1 of our C1 level course is now live for you to download and print (if you choose). If, like me, you’re not sure what “verbi pronominali” are, or have an urge to find out more about gerunds, the infinitve, and various participle forms, this is your lucky […]
Free upper-intermediate (B2) Italian course finally available!
Download your free B2 (upper-intermediate) Italian Course After delays caused not by earthquakes but by over-work, the FREE four-week B2 (upper-intermediate) Italian course is finally available on the OnlineItalianClub.com website! You have to be a member and logged-in, but downloading the notes to an 80-hour Italian course (which would cost around 700 euros if […]
New exercises 4 u, + “Why is your site in English??”
OK, we’ve found the missing piece of our Free B1 (intermediate) Level Online Italian Course, the Exercises to go with Week 3 (they got lost down the back of someone’s email account, didn’t they, Lucia??). Anyway, you can get them here. Plus, “Why is your site in ENGLISH??? I want to learn ITALIAN!!!”, complained […]
Join me for a chat at OnlineItalianClub.com!
Ciao a tutti! Practise your Italian, or just chat in English in our Forums Big news! We’ve opened up our Forums so that anyone can read browse them. There are forums in Italian “Solo in italiano” (so you can practise) and the “English language forums” for those who don’t have enough Italian yet, or who […]
The Great Online Italian Courses Re-Organisation has begun!
Buongiorno a tutti e buona domenica! A quick post to let you know the Great Online Italian Courses Re-Organisation (which I have been promising for ages) has finally begun. All of our interactive exercises, .pdfs, progress tests, e-books and so on are being organised by level and grouped together in what will eventually be […]