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How to not find what you need

January 6, 2021 by Daniel

Buondì.

The January Sale is O.V.E.R., the coupon code is no longer valid, and I’m back to doing something other than customer service, thank goodness. Oh the tales I could tell…

One thing that came up recently, during an email exchange with a club member, was how some people, it seems, don’t look at the website to see what’s there before petitioning me for help. That’s appreciated, grazie mille!

I guess it’s not surprising, though. These days, we only get to look at what the social media platforms’ algorithms decide will interest us, no thinking required, no choosing necessary (choosing requires mental effort.)

Those of us who use apps on our smartphones or tablets will be shown precisely what to do next. Language learning with an app appears to be a linear progression from A to Z, with everything all nicely mapped-out, no matter what needs and preferences we may once have had.

I’m anxiously waiting for the surely not-too-distant moment at which we can basically just plug ourselves in and update with media or languages to be learnt. No wait, how old-fashioned of me. Surely there’ll be a Bluetooth connection between our smart devices and our brains, so no plugging in will actually be required. Just click to connect and begin transfering data!

Visit a website? Do those still exist? Would I need to type a long address, or something?) Look at the ‘menu’? Choose something?

How old-fashioned! How outré! What are they thinking? Do I even HAVE a browser (was that the word?) on my tablet?

Anyone wondering, for example, where they could locate more of my wit and wisdom, all the best articles from each year, going back to the stone age, collected together for reading convenience, SHOULD ABSOLUTELY NOT visit the ‘Best of’ page. After all, if Facebook hasn’t suggested it, there’s clearly nothing worth reading. And there’s a lot of it. Who would have the time?

There are, perhaps, people out there who’ve just signed up for online lessons and might be wondering what to chat about with their online teacher, though I’m pretty sure that the Conversation section of the club website would be of no use. Unlike Instagram, there are no pictures. Unlike Youtube, there are no videos. Just words, how could that possibly help?

Listening comprehension practice? Surely it would be a waste of valuable miliseconds clicking the ‘Listening‘ or ‘Dialogues‘ links in the, what was it called, ‘menu’?

Like reading or history? Maybe Google them then, because clicking ‘Literature‘ or ‘History‘ just to see what’s there would likely be a waste of time.

Oh, and the page with ‘Other Resources‘ for people learning Italian? Just words, too. I expect the easiest thing would be to email me and ask.

I blame myself. No, really! I actually do! Invariably at the end of articles like this one, I link to the club website, like we used to do back in the day. My assumption was that people would follow the links, out of curiosity or burning need, and so find something they could profit from. Then I got old and set in my ways… The world has moved on, Daniel, get with the program!

I’m absolutely aware that I mustn’t distract people with other things that they might want to read and listen to, or they’ll just get confused and go back to Facebook or Insta.

Bene, I’ll try to learn my lesson. We have fourteen thousand or so club members, about a quarter of whom will read this. And a proportion of those who do will be wondering why they bother with long emails about learning Swedish from someone they’ve never met.

Why indeed?

N.b. Actually, the club website does get LOADS of traffic, though it seems that a lot of it is not club members assiduously using the 1576 pages of free material to improve their Italian, but random visitors sent by Google (99% of visits sent by search engines come from them). Thanks boys!

Scroll down to the Appendix to see what Google’s bot found that you might have missed…

A venerdì, allora!

Appendix

The table below shows ‘page views’ so far TODAY (it’s 08.39 CET as I type this), with links so you can see what people have stumbled upon. There are absolutely no videos.

Title Views
A1 – Beginner/Elementary 171
Levels & Level Test 98
Verbs Index 87
Grammar Exercises Index 82
Listening Exercises Index 68
Dialogues 67
Vocabulary Index 63
Home page / Archives 63
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 01 Articles 50
B1 – Intermediate 40
A2 – Pre-Intermediate 33
Italian Grammar Lessons: Definite and Indefinite articles 29
Agenda del giorno 1 26
Thousands of pages of FREE material for learning Italian! 23
Italian Levels: What’s my level in Italian? 20
Italian Grammar Lessons: prepositions, ‘a’ or ‘in’? 20
Italian Grammar Lessons: The Past / Passato Prossimo 17
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 02 Plurals 16
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 08 The Past 14
Italian Grammar Lessons: Plurals 13
Conversation Prompts 13
Italian Grammar Lessons: Like – Piace/Piacciono 13
Agenda del giorno 2 13
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 10 Prepositions 12
Italian Conversation 8 – Al pub 11
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 04 Verbs 11
Italian Grammar Lessons: 13 The Present Progressive 11
Italian Indefinite Articles – Listening Practice Exercise 11
Italian Vocabulary: Colors 11
Italian Vocabulary: Professions 10
Aprender Italiano 9
Numeri 9
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 11 Reflexive verbs 9
Appartamento 9
Learn Italian Online – Free Italian Grammar Lessons! 9
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 03 There is/are 8
Italian Vocabulary: Hotels 8
Italian Grammar Lessons: Possessive Adjectives 8
Italian Grammar Lessons: Reflexive Verbs 8
Italian Verbs: abbaiare 7
Five Free Exercises On Italian Prepositions 7
Italian Vocabulary: School and Studying 7
How to learn Italian (or any language) 7
Italian Definite Articles – Listening Practice Exercise 7
Italian Grammar Lessons: There is/are – C’è / ci sono 7
C1 – Advanced 7
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 09 Direct & Indirect Pronouns 7
Italian Grammar Lessons – Introduction to Italian Verbs 6
Italian vocabulary: Food 6
Italian Vocabulary: Nationalities 6
Agenda della settimana 6
C2 – Proficiency 6
Italian Conversation 1 – Cambiare i soldi 6
I segni zodiacali [Zodiac signs] 5
Italian Grammar Lessons: Two Irregular Adjectives & Adverbs 5
B2 – Upper-Intermediate 5
Italian Grammar Lessons: The Three Groups Of Regular Verbs 5
Free Online Italian Lessons: 13 Present Progressive Tense 5
Italian Verbs: abitare 5
Italian Literature 5
Italian Grammar Lessons: Pronominal Verbs Farcela & Andarsene 5
Italian Grammar Lessons: the impersonal form with ‘Si’ 5
Italian Vocabulary: Daily Routine Verbs 5
Situazioni quotidiane 5
Italian Grammar Lessons: Pronominal Verbs – 2 5
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 06 Adjectives 5
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 22 Combined Pronouns 5
Other adjectives and verbs 5
Italian Vocabulary: Nouns 4
Italian Conversation 12, Scuola d’italiano: home stay 4
Italian Grammar Lessons: Direct Object Pronouns 4
History 4
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 05 Like 4
Italian Grammar Lessons: Adverbs 4
Describing objects 4
Italian Grammar Lessons: Modal Verbs In The Past Tense 4
Free Italian Courses 4
Useful Italian Questions and Answers 4
Italian expressions with the keyword ‘bocca’ (mouth) 4
Italian Grammar Lessons: Conditional Present Tense 4
Italian Conversation 57. In viaggio, Affitare una stanza 4
Imperativo, parte 2 – Imperative form, part 2 4
Italian Conversation 5 – Pizza d’asporto 4
Thanks for joining our club! 4
Italian Vocabulary: Describing Appearance (1) 4
Italian Grammar Lessons: Past Perfect 4
Orologio 4
Italian Demonstrative Adjectives – Listening Practice Exercise 4
Esercizio- Imperativo con i pronomi- B2 4
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 21 Passive 4
Italian Passive Exercises 4
Carattere 3
The 3 Tenses You Need To Know To Really Speak and Understand Italian 3
Italian Conversation Lessons: Amici e famiglia 3
I pronomi indiretti 3
Italian Vocabulary: Casa / Home (1) 3
Italian Conversation 22. Problemi, Venire arrestato 3
Animali 3
Italian Grammar Lessons: The Direct (Informal) Imperative 3
Viaggi in aereo 3
Italian Conversation 4 – Al Bar 3
Italian Grammar Lessons: Passive 3
Italian Vocabulary: Professions (2) 3
Italian Vocabulary: Days of the Week 3
Agricoltura biologica 3
Italian Vocabulary: More Verbs! 3
Italian Conversation 6 – Prenotare un ristorante 3
Italian Conversation 3 – Noleggio macchine bici 3
Expressions with ‘acqua’ – Free online Italian lesson 3
Pianista e compositore – Giovanni Allevi 3
Italian Grammar Lessons: Subjunctive Imperfect 3
Italian Vocabulary: Verbs and Nouns for Cooking 3
Italian Vocabulary: Clothes 3
Italian Vocabulary: The Weather 3
Italian Vocabulary: Telling the Time 3
Italian Verbs: comprare 3
Italian Vocabulary: Nouns for Holidays 3
Italian Vocabulary: Verbs 3
Gli animali – 2 [Animals – 2] 3
Il trapassato prossimo 3
Indicazioni stradali 3
Other Resources for Learning Italian 3
Italian Grammar Lessons: The Imperfect Tense 3
Cagnolino ritrovato 3
Gli animali – 1 [Animals – 1] 3
Italian Grammar Lessons: Position Of Adjectives 3
Italian Grammar Lessons: Remote Past 3
Italian Verbs: impugnare 3
Italian Vocabulary: Cardinal Numbers 3
Italian Vocabulary: Months 3
Italian Vocabulary: Seasons 3
Che o cui? 2
L’ambiente e il riciclaggio – Environment and recycling – B1 2
Italian Verbs: scegliere 2
Per invitare qualcuno [To invite someone] 2
Le parti del corpo nei modi di dire: le orecchie – C1 2
La particella NE 2
Italian Verbs: irritare 2
Italian Conversation 2 – Riparare la macchina 2
‘There is/are’ – ‘C’è / ci sono’ in Italian – Listening Practice 2
Le vacanze estive 2
La storia di Roma, Episodio 2 2
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 07 Adverbs 2
I plurali irregolari 2
Free Online Italian Lessons: 20 Pronominal Verbs 2
Italian Conversation 23. Problemi, Avere un crollo 2
Hobby 2
Download your A1 E-book here 2
I lavori e i mestieri 2
Italian Conversation 11, Scuola d’italiano: sistemazione 2
Nazionalità 2
Italian Verbs: interrogare 2
Italian Vocabulary: Taste of Italy 2
Some useful expressions with common Italian verbs 2
Italian Grammar Lessons: Use And Omission Of Articles 2
Italian Grammar Lessons: Subjunctive Past 2
Italian Grammar Lessons: Subjunctive Present 2
Italian Verbs: incastrare 2
Italian Vocabulary: Workplaces 2
I pronomi diretti 2
La storia di Roma, Episodio 3 2
Italian Grammar Lessons: Pronominal Particles ‘Ci’ & ‘Ne’ 2
Free Online Italian Lessons: 50 Relative Pronouns ‘Che’ and ‘Cui’ 2
L’ambiente e il riciclaggio – Environment and Recycling 2
Italian Vocabulary: Describing Appearance (2) 2
Free Online Italian Lessons: 15 The Imperative 2
Italian Conversation 40. Shopping, Gelateria 2
Italian Verbs: accorgersi 2
Il superlativo 2
Gita a Roma 2
Italian Conversation 24. Problemi, Restare coinvolto in un incidente 2
Italian Vocabulary: Ordinal Numbers 2
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 25 Subjunctive Past 2
Italian Verbs: incartare 2
Verbi riflessivi 2
Amare la lettura 2
Italian Verbs: indossare 2
Le parti del corpo [Body parts] 2
Italian Verbs: avere 2
Italian Adverbs – Listening Practice Exercise 2
Italian Verbs: abbracciare 2
Una famiglia moderna 2
Italian Verbs: alzare 2
Italian Vocabulary: Describing Food 2
Natale in Italia 2
Italian Verbs: andare 2
Italian Past Tense Irregular Verbs – Audio & Transcript 2
La storia di Roma, Episodio 1 2
Vedere (To see) 2
Caccia in Italia 2
Exercises on Italian Numbers (and new parallel text!) 2
Italian Conversation 21. Problemi, Perdere il bagaglio 2
Soluzione – imperativo con pronomi 2
Italian Adjectives – Listening Practice Exercise 2
Quartiere (mappa) 2
Italian Verbs: installare 2
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 29 Unreal Past 2
La particella CI 2
Italian Verbs: aiutare 2
Presentazioni 2
Italian Verbs: incollare 2
Harry Potter 2
Italian Vocabulary Lesson: Free Time & Adverbs of Frequency 2
Italian Past Tense Regular Verbs – Listening Practice 2
Italian Verbs: impegnarsi 2
I pronomi combinati 2
Italian Vocabulary: Casa / Home (2) 2
Italian Vocabulary: Basic Directions 2
‘Il nome della rosa’ – Capitolo 5 – L’aiuto bibliotecario 1
Italian Conversation Lessons: Chi sei? 1
Famiglia 1 1
Italian Verbs: abbottonare 1
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 47 Finché 1
Italian Grammar Lessons: Finché, Finché Non, Affinché 1
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 44 Indefinite Pronouns 1
Soluzioni – Espressioni con ‘bocca’ 1
Solution-Environment and recycling-B1 1
Italian Grammar Lessons: Indirect (Formal) Imperative 1
La storia di Roma, Episodio 15 1
Objects in the house 1
Vacanze di Natale 1
La storia di Roma, Episodio 16 1
Free Online Italian Lessons: 14 Past Tense, Other Aspects 1
Italian Verbs: abbassare 1
Italian Conversation 48. Contesti sociali, Esprimere la propria opinione 1
Italian Grammar Lessons: Direct Pronouns In The Past Tense 1
Italian Grammar: “tu” and “Lei” forms 1
Objects in the house – Solution 1
Il presente indicativo dei verbi irregolari 1
Trova gli errori 1
Italian Verbs: rincorrere 1
Italian Verbs: accarezzare 1
Italian Vocabulary: Health 1
Italian Verbs: illuminare 1
Italian Conversation 17. Problemi, Dottore 1
Italian Verbs: fare 1
Italian Verbs: pescare 1
Italian Possessive Adjectives – Listening Practice Exercise 1
Regali per il Natale 1
3 Exercises On Pronominal Verbs 1
‘Il nome della rosa’ – Nota introduttiva 1
Italian Verbs: impazzire 1
La salute [Health] 1
Italian Verbs: acquistare 1
Influenza 1
Italian Conversation 13. Scuola d’italiano: primo giorno in classe 1
Il presente indicativo dei verbi regolari 1
Free Online Italian Lessons: 18 Conditional Present Tense 1
Nouns – La mela (The Apple) 1
Completa i dialoghi 1
Articoli determinativi con nomi propri e di città 1
Italian Verbs: impostare 1
Italian Verbs: tingere 1
Campionato di cucina 1
La Televisione [Television] 1
Italian Verbs: ingrandire 1
Il sistema scolastico italiano 1
Objects in the house 1
La storia di Roma, Episodio 5 1
Preposizioni semplici e articolate 1
Italian Conversation 45. Sport, Piscina 1
Nouns – Il tavolo (The Table) 1
Italian Verbs: insegnare 1
Le parti del corpo nei modi di dire: il naso – B2 1
Fare la spesa 1
‘Il nome della rosa’ – Soluzioni 1
Italian Vocabulary: Prepositions of Place 1
Città e campagna [City vs. Countryside] 1
Le parti del corpo nei modi di dire: i piedi – A2/B1 1
Fruttivendolo 1
New A1 exercise: essere or avere with the passato prossimo? 1
Other Verbs 1
Italian Verbs: vincere 1
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 26 Subjunctive Imperfect 1
Italian Verbs: arrotolare 1
Italian Verbs: interrompere 1
Baronessa 1
Italian Conversation 59. In viaggio, Un giro per la città 1
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 28 Unreal Present 1
Why you should be READING in Italian 1
Italian Verbs: innamorarsi 1
La storia di Roma, Episodio 10 1
Gli oggetti della casa 1
Learn Italian With Free Online Italian Lessons: 30 Remote Past 1
La Famiglia [Family] 1
Giorno delle vacanze estive 1
Verbs – Andare (To Go) 1
Italian Verbs: invecchiare 1
Expressions with ‘la porta’ – Free online Italian lesson 1
Per esprimere un’opinione [Expressing opinions] 1
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Notizie Sportive 1
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Italian Verbs: piangere 1
Italian Verbs: incaricare 1
Viaggi 1
Italian Conversation 60. In viaggio, Cambiare casa 1
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La bicicletta [Bicycle] 1
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Italian Conversation 7 – Street food 1
Italian Conversation Lessons: Mi piace e non mi piace 1
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  1. Laury Burr says

    January 7, 2021 at 9:00 am

    Ciao Daniel

    I love today’s post! Have you been trained in the art of negative selling or did you deduce it for yourself, I wonder?

    No, seriously, people make money out of teaching people how to sell by, in effect, saying “well, you won’t want xyz…” Apparently it works, so hopefully people will change their behaviour. Well, a few anyway!

    And as for the “you’ll want to see this / buy this” algorithms, I totally share your cynicism! Having seen an exposé (on British TV, Channel 4 iirc) of the big A’s business practices, where their “best buy” isn’t always the cheapest, being biased towards those that give them the best return, I’m glad I’m one of the minority who don’t trade with them. Anyway, any algorithm that claims to know what you “want” or “need” has to be questioned – or, maybe, even totally ignored! Hell, can’t we make up our own minds? – it seems not! The scary thing – well, one scary thing, doubtless there are others! – is that one day, when we’re even more dependent on these machines than we are now,, the machine will stop. (“The Machine Stops” was written by E M Forster in, iirc, about 1905 – yet the machine was essetially a computer that managed everyone’s lives via a terminal in each home.)

    But you don’t want to read that… 😉

    Something else that people probably won’t want to do is subscribe to – and read – Easy Italian News. I’ve been doing the former for months but only today did I actually succumb to temptation and read today’s edition. Rats, what’ve I been missing? (Well actually, technically, I haven’t missed them – they’re all there, in my inbox, so some catching-up may follow!) But no-one else is going to want to that, are they? Or, just maybe….

    All the best!

    • Daniel says

      January 8, 2021 at 9:23 pm

      Ah no, I’ve not had any such training. Draw your own conclusions from that. But I do have an MBA, taken at an Italian business school, in Italian. What a silly idea that was!

      Or maybe I’m not trying to sell stuff at all, but to just help people learn, which is what teachers do. Sometimes, a kick to the rear is an effective motivator.

      A word to the wise, though. Don’t worry about all the editions of EasyItalianNews.com you may have missed previously. Just do this one, and tomorrow’s, and Tuesday’s.

      Buono studio!

      • Laury Burr says

        January 11, 2021 at 12:55 am

        Grazie Daniel!

        Don’t worry, my prime focus will be on the most recent editions!

        Good luck with persuading folks to learn – for my sins (no, don’t ask, not that I’d tell you 😉 ) I found myself running a small Italian conversation group (it’s a U3A group so we’re all over 60) and when I sent out an email listing some youtubes that people might want to watch there was protest, especially from one member – ironically an ex TEFL teacher – saying she didn’t have time. Horses, water, drink…!!

        All the best!

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