New exercises live on our Free Interactive Italian Exercises page this afternoon, thanks to Dina (from Latvia) and Adel (from Hungary) who did the coding, various Italian teacher trainees who wrote the exercises, Lucia who sorted the wheat from the chaff, and yours truly who spent a frustrating afternoon trying to make everything work properly. […]
Back to Basics – Revise your A1 Italian with these Free Exercises!
Sometimes when studying a foreign language, you need to go back and review the basics if you want to progress with the more difficult stuff. So, if you’re in the mood to revisit level A1 of your Italian studies (or are doing that level right now and need extra practice), here are some new […]
Finally, Some Interactive Italian Exercises!
Finally, we have some interactive Italian exercises on the Online Italian Club, instead of all those horrible .pdfs… Over 100 of them, organised in levels from A1 (beginner) to C2 (advanced). So you should find something to help you learn Italian, however short or long a time you have been studying. Apologies for some […]
Spanish Speakers’ Typical Mistakes in Italian – part 2!
Hot off the press “Spanish Speaker’s Typical Mistakes – Part 2”, plus a fascinating list of Spanish-Italian/Italian-Spanish false friends, both offered by an Italian teacher doing her teaching practice at our sponsor school. Spanish Students’ Typical Mistakes – Part 2 L’ ho incontrato una settimana fa (non “..fa una settimana”) Lo encontré […]
Spanish Speakers’ Typical Mistakes in Italian – Part 1
Speak Spanish? Italian is a popular foreign language with Spanish speakers, in part because of the similarities between the two languages. Because of these similarities, Spanish speakers pick up Italian very quickly (and vice versa) but there are a number of grammatical and vocabulary differences which cause students from Spanish-speaking countries to make some […]
Italian Students’ Most Popular Mistakes – part 2
If you found Lucia’s list of typical student errors interesting, you’ll be pleased to hear she’s let me have “part 2” of her list… Students of any level can profit from analysing typical errors – they often reveal fascinating differences between your own language (in this case English) and the language you are learning. […]
Italian students’ most popular mistakes! Part 1
Nobody likes to make mistakes when speaking a foreign language – it’s embarassing and can impede communication. But have you ever thought about what causes you to make mistakes? Other than just not knowing the foreign language as well as you know your mother tongue… Language teachers are trained to recognise errors caused by differences between […]
What can we do to help you learn Italian?
The Online Italian Club is here to help you learn Italian. But it’s new, and we are not sure HOW best to help you. What would be most useful for you? Exercises? Downloadable resources? Videos? The forums? We have some resources to invest in making this club better, but we’d like to know what […]
How to learn Italian for free
Not everyone has the money to take a language course, or the time. Arriving in Bologna in 1998 with a pregnant wife, a few thousand pounds in savings and a handful of CVs ready to distribute, signing up for a language course was far from being priority number 1. Getting a job (I’m a teacher […]