Today’s Italian Conversation, number forty-seven in our series, is entitled ‘Contesti sociali, Presentarsi‘. Which broadly translates as ‘introducing yourself in social situations’. There’s a woman and a man, chatting at the gym, exchanging personal details. We find out that she’s married with kids, but he’s single (not found the right woman yet.) What’s she doing talking […]
Swimming Lesson dialogue, plus new ‘Book of the Week’ offer!
Learn Italian online with the help of our Italian Conversations series of dialogues. First listen to the audio recording, then check your understanding with the transcript. Today we’re taking a swimming lesson at the ‘piscina‘. Here’s the link you need to listen: 45. Sport, Piscina Or find this latest dialogue, along with all those we’ve […]
New Italian dialogue & transcript: at the shoe shop!
I’m in a rush today as I’m teaching all morning at a company. Then it’ll be back to the school on my motorbike, lunch, lesson planning, then teaching again in the evening… So just quickly, here’s today’s Italian Conversation. We’re at the shoe shop, buying something comfortable for work. The speaker is on her feet […]
New Italian Conversation + Last 72 Hours Of The January Sale
It’s back to work today, for a lot of people. And back to the usual routine here at OnlineItalianClub.com, too. The first order of business is to flag up for you the latest free recording/transcript in our Italian Conversations series. This time we’re getting our washing and dry-cleaning done at the lavanderia. Here’s the link you need […]
How to improve your Italian? Do this one easy thing today!
I had a bad dream last night and so was awake for a while, reading The Guardian on my smartphone. On Saturday, they have a regular piece by Oliver Burkeman called ‘This column will change your life’. As it’s New Year, this week’s article was about the absurdity of hoping to change your life by setting […]
The OnlineItalianClub.com January Sale Has Started!
As I mentioned yesterday, our ‘January Sale’ has started, hence this brief extra message. Use coupon code januarysale2016 to get a reduction of 16% on ANYTHING in our online shop. For example: 10 x 30 minute online Italian lessons, normally €150, with the coupon just €126 Italian easy readers, normally €9.99, reduced to €8.39 Our best-selling […]
Learn Italian? Drip, drip, drip.
Did you know that around a thousand people a day learn Italian with OnlineItalianClub.com? A typical student stays on our site for around five minutes and views about four pages. I like to think that means they get an email like this one, click through to the new exercise and give it a try. Each […]
How to not learn Italian (really, don’t do these things!)
Suppose you decide to train to run a marathon for the first time. Getting to the finish line is going to require a massive physical and mental effort on the day, but more importantly, weeks or months of careful preparation. Surely, advice from an experienced marathon runner would be helpful as you train. You’ll want […]
Do you have the right strategies to learn Italian?
There’s a lot of rubbish on the Internet about how to learn Italian, or any foreign language. I certainly don’t want to add more. But there’s also plenty of good advice, if you know where to look. Most of the best originates from serious, credible sources, such as university departments. For instance, while researching this […]
Why Google won’t show your ideal Italian language school
Looking for a really good Italian language school? The one that’s perfect for what you want? These days, the first thing that any of us does when searching for information is to type what we’re after into Google. There ARE other search engines (bing.com, duckduckgo.com, yahoo.com), but the vast majority of people use Google. However, […]