No time to read this? Why not find something to study instead? A1 – Beginner/Elementary | A2 – Pre-Intermediate | B1 – Intermediate | B2 – Upper-Intermediate | C1 – Advanced | C2 – Proficiency | What’s my level? | Italian level test +++ Buondì. Sigh. Plenty of people commented (as I suggested, thank you for not emailing…) on last week’s article, Why studying grammar is a waste of time. You can read their thoughts here. And it’s not too late to add your own. But before you do, read on. Writing the article took me between two and three hours, which is a big chunk of my day, and my mental en ..read more

No time to read this? Why not find something to study instead? A1 – Beginner/Elementary | A2 – Pre-Intermediate | B1 – Intermediate | B2 – Upper-Intermediate | C1 – Advanced | C2 – Proficiency | What’s my level? | Italian level test +++ Buondì. “Why studying grammar is a waste of time” is the sort of topic that will provoke a reaction from people who think they know better than I do. And people like that irritate me. So react by leaving a comment on this article, rather than emailing. Also, that way, others can read your words and decide for themselves if they make more sense than what I ..read more

There are just a few hours left of the NativeSpeakerTeachers.com Spring Sale, which means today is your last opportunity to save 20% on one-to-one Italian, French, Spanish or German lessons. The coupon code you need to save 20% on online lessons with a native speaker teacher is 2024-Spring-Sale-20%-Off Use it in your shopping cart at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com. The next similar promotion won’t be until the first week of July. For nearly three months, a thirty-minute online lesson with a native speaker teacher will cost £22, unless you purchase ten at a time, in which case you’ll save money ..read more

No time to read this? Why not find something to study instead? A1 – Beginner/Elementary | A2 – Pre-Intermediate | B1 – Intermediate | B2 – Upper-Intermediate | C1 – Advanced | C2 – Proficiency | What’s my level? | Italian level test +++ Buondì. A while back I got an abusive email from a club member who was irate because I’d said that language teachers can, at times, be stupid. Disagree if you like, but I’ve worked with hundreds of them, and as a long-term ‘Director of Studies’ in an actual language school one of my roles was to observe lessons and give feedback, with a view to continuous ..read more

No time to read this? Why not find something to study instead? A1 – Beginner/Elementary | A2 – Pre-Intermediate | B1 – Intermediate | B2 – Upper-Intermediate | C1 – Advanced | C2 – Proficiency | What’s my level? | Italian level test +++ Buondì. With apologies to the seven thousand or so club members who are also on the NativeSpeakerTeachers.com mailing list, below is a copy/paste of an article published on that website this morning. Obviously it’s about taking one-to-one lessons, online, with a native speaker teacher. This is something that we’ve been promoting for a number of years now ..read more

No time to read this? Why not find something to study instead? A1 – Beginner/Elementary | A2 – Pre-Intermediate | B1 – Intermediate | B2 – Upper-Intermediate | C1 – Advanced | C2 – Proficiency | What’s my level? | Italian level test +++ Buondì. Pasqua weekend was exhausting, albeit short. We drove to the coast in time for lunch on Saturday and – Easter blessing from above – Bug slept the whole way there! No noise but the hum of the engine and the whir of the fan from the broken air-conditioning. Lunch was with the in-laws, the first time they’d eaten on their terrace this year, apparently ..read more

Buondì. Students of Italian (but also French, Spanish and German) might like to know that the NativeSpeakerTeachers.com 2024 Spring Sale starts today! Use coupon code 2024-Spring-Sale-20%-Off to save 20% on Italian, French, German and Spanish lessons, so conversation, grammar, help with pronunciation, whatever you need to progress with the language you’re learning! All you have to do to discount the price of lesson credits by 20% is to copy and paste 2024-Spring-Sale-20%-Off into the box in your shopping cart. Once pasted, press the ‘Apply coupon’ button and – this is important – SCROLL DOWN t ..read more

No time to read this? Why not find something to study instead? A1 – Beginner/Elementary | A2 – Pre-Intermediate | B1 – Intermediate | B2 – Upper-Intermediate | C1 – Advanced | C2 – Proficiency | What’s my level? | Italian level test +++ Buondì. Let it be known that from April 1st to April 7th 2024  NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (which offers one-to-one online Italian, French, Spanish and German lessons) will be having its Spring Sale. Which means that I’ll be emailing multiple times to publicise their coupon code, which – if you apply it in your NativeSpeakerTeachers.com shopping cart ..read more

No time to read this? Why not find something to study instead? A1 – Beginner/Elementary | A2 – Pre-Intermediate | B1 – Intermediate | B2 – Upper-Intermediate | C1 – Advanced | C2 – Proficiency | What’s my level? | Italian level test +++ Buondì. I’ll keep this super-short this morning, as we had a crappy night. Apart from Bug’s scheduled feeds at eight, midnight and four a.m., he also woke us – howling in rage, hunger or pain, it’s hard to know which – at about three. We adopted a cat once (Bug is NOT a cat, so don’t write to ask), actually two cats, which my brother-in-law assured us woul ..read more

No time to read this? Why not find something to study instead? A1 – Beginner/Elementary | A2 – Pre-Intermediate | B1 – Intermediate | B2 – Upper-Intermediate | C1 – Advanced | C2 – Proficiency | What’s my level? | Italian level test +++ Buondì. Last week’s emailed article ‘Stating the obvious, for those who haven’t heard it already‘ was written primarily for club members who’ve joined us recently, which can be as many as several hundred a week. This one is too. OK, so like you (hopefully) I’m human. Really! I use the internet for fun, and to explore things that interest me. I have dreams ..read more