This week our sister website NativeSpeakerTeachers.com is having its 2024 Summer Sale, which means that one-to-one Italian/French/Spanish/German Lessons can be had a fifth cheaper than usual.

Use regular online meetings with a native speaker teacher of the language you’re learning to give structure to your self-study, and for that essential practice speaking and interacting!

Save 20% on one-to-one Italian/French/Spanish/German Lessons with a native speaker teacher of the language you’re learning by using this coupon code:

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Ten thirty-minute online lessons with a native speaker teacher would normally cost you £200 (just £20 a lesson).

But with coupon code 2024-Summer-Sale-20%-Off you’ll pay just £160! (£16.00 a lesson), which is like getting two free lessons!

So how exactly do you save 20% on your online lessons or practice with a native speaker of the language you’re learning??

Start by making your selection at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com. There are one/five/ten/twenty/thirty-lesson options, with increasing discounts. Use the ‘Add to cart’ button.

Next, go to your shopping cart and paste in coupon code 2024-Summer-Sale-20%-Off (where it says ‘Apply coupon’), which will reduce the cart total by 20%.

Press the ‘Apply coupon’ button and scroll down to check that the CART TOTAL (not the individual item price) really is discounted by 20%.

This promotion ends, and coupon code 2024-Summer-Sale-20%-Off expires, at midnight on Sunday 7th July 2024, so stock up today on the online lesson credits that you’ll need to make progress with your chosen foreign language!

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This week’s half-price eBook of the Week offer is the B1/B2-level (intermediate/upper-intermediate) ‘I promessi sposi‘, a title which inelegantly translates as ‘The Engagaged-to-be-Marrieds’.

We have a couple of love birds, a local bad guy, henchmen wielding swords, and – ironically, since we did this one as a mini-book-club in July 2020 – a looming pandemic…

The series of Mini-Book-Clubs that year happened in part because I was promoting our then-new Italian Literature series of ‘easy reader’ ebooks and in equal part because with our Italian school closed, I had little else to do.

Of the five or six full length texts I/we attempted, ‘I promessi sposi’ was the longest by far, and the only one I didn’t finish. I would have liked to, but the world started returning to normal and there were other priorities. Poi, at eight-hundred-plus pages long, well, while all Italians are supposed to read this classic novel at school, I’d bet that very few of them got much further than I did, which is a shame.

So rarely has the need for a SHORT, SIMPLIFIED, EBOOK version been greater (you can easily find the full-length original for free online, if you’re of a masochistic bent…) Better still, this week it’s HALF-PRICE!

N.b. If you’ve nothing better to do, it’s fun to read the commments I and my co-adventurers left in the mini-book-club. Scroll down to the bottom of that page to read them, in date order from oldest to newest.

And as regards our simplified version, the reviews give a good idea of what to expect (as does the free sample chapter linked to below…)

Said to be the most famous and widely-read Italian novel, Alessandro Manzoni’s romantic blockbuster, first published in 1827, is set in the early seventeenth century during the oppressive years of Spanish rule.

Renzo and Lucia are engaged to be wed, but the comely maiden has caught the eye of the local Spanish overlord, who sends a pair of heavies to intimidate the village priest into not performing the marriage. The couple have no choice but to flee their homes in the hope of finding safety…

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• .mobi (Kindle-compatible) and .epub (other ebook readers) available on request at no extra charge – just add a note to the order form or email us
• 8 chapters to read and listen to
• Comprehension questions to check your understanding
• Italian/English glossary of ‘difficult’ terms for the level
• Suitable for students at intermediate level or above
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Remember, this week ‘I promessi sposi‘ is 50% discounted, so just £4.99 rather than the usual ‘easy reader’ ebook price of £9.99!

Buy ‘I promessi sposi‘ just £4.99! | Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) | Italian literature | World Literature | Catalog

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Next week our sister website NativeSpeakerTeachers.com is having its 2024 Summer Sale, which means that one-to-one, online Italian/French/Spanish/German Lessons can be had a fifth cheaper than usual.

Use regular online meetings with a native speaker teacher of the language you’re learning to give structure to your self-study, and for that essential practice speaking and interacting!

On Tuesday 2nd July we’ll be emailing a coupon code so that students of Italian, Spanish, French and German can save 20% on lesson credits purchased at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com.

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This week’s half-price eBook of the Week offer takes a trip back in time with this ‘easy reader’ version of Boccaccio’s 14th century, plague-era, short stories, Decameron.

The level is B1/B2, so intermediate/upper-intermediate, but being short stories they’re accessible to a wider range of students, compared to a full-length novel, which would require more stamina…

Iniziato nel 1348 all’indomani della peste, il Decameron è una raccolta di cento novelle, scritte con un linguaggio che fa del Boccaccio il vero iniziatore della prosa narrativa italiana. Le novelle sono di diversa lunghezza, narrano avventure straordinarie ma anche fatti quotidiani…

… and some of them made me laugh out loud!

Picture an Italian ‘The Canterbury Tales’ and you’ll have a good idea what to expect. Our Italian-teacher writer has selected just eight of the tales for us, and rewritten them in modern Italian.

The thirty pages of text and approximately forty minutes of online audio together offer an entertaining insight into fourteenth century Florence, and the origins of Italian literature.

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• .mobi (Kindle-compatible) and .epub (other ebook readers) available on request at no extra charge – just add a note to the order form or email us
• 8 chapters to read and listen to
• Comprehension questions to check your understanding
• Italian/English glossary of ‘difficult’ terms for the level
• Suitable for students at intermediate level or above
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Remember, this week ‘Decameron‘ is 50% discounted, so just £4.99 rather than the usual ‘easy reader’ ebook price of £9.99!

Buy ‘Decameron‘ just £4.99! | Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) | Italian literature | World Literature | Catalog

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This week’s half-price eBook of the Week offer is our ‘easy reader’ version of Carlo Collodi’s classic children’s story, ‘Le avventure di Pinocchio‘.

I did a ‘mini book club‘ with this one over at OnlineItalianClub.com during the first pandemic lockdown, in May 2020.

As always, besides proof-reading and listening to our ‘easy reader’ version, I read the original as did some other OnlineItalianClub.com members.

Personally, I thought it was a load of rubbish – full of ideas that went nowhere, undeveloped plot lines, characters that pop in and out – seemingly at random – and so on. Think of a really, really bad TV series that gets cancelled after the first (overlong) season, and you’ll get the idea!. Totally missable. Odd then that it then became a staple for animators, filmakers, and the stagers of pantomimes. Perhaps because it was long out of copyright, who knows?

On the plus side, it was the thinnest Italian classic that we attempted that torrid year, so quick to get through. You can scroll though the comments on the ‘mini book club‘ page to find out how I and other club members got on.

Also on the plus side, the reviews of our ‘easy reader’ version were really great! We sold loads of copies, too. I guess people didn’t have anything much better to do in May 2020 (but how those four years have flown by!)

Carlo Collodi’s classic children’s story of a talking puppet running riot, now rewritten for students of Italian!

Pinocchio is a wooden puppet but alive nonetheless! Just like a real child, he’s prone to disobedience and telling lies. He runs away from his loving father and refuses to go to school. But, thanks to a colorful cast of villains, a fairy, and a talking cricket, after many adventures…

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• .mobi (Kindle-compatible) and .epub (other ebook readers) available on request at no extra charge – just add a note to the order form or email us
• 8 chapters to read and listen to
• Comprehension questions to check your understanding
• Italian/English glossary of ‘difficult’ terms for the level
• Suitable for students at elementary level or above
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Remember, this week ‘Le avventure di Pinocchio‘ is 50% discounted, so just £4.99 rather than the usual ‘easy reader’ ebook price of £9.99!

Buy ‘Le avventure di Pinocchio‘ just £4.99! | Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) | Italian literature | World Literature | Catalog

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This week’s half-price eBook of the Week offer is our B1 (intermediate) ‘easy reader’ version of Giovanni Verga’s classic of Italian literature, ‘I Malavoglia‘.

As I confessed last week, I’m not normally the sort of person who spends time on literature, still less in a foreign language, but we did a ‘mini book club‘ with it over at OnlineItalianClub.com during the first pandemic lockdown, in June 2020, so I had to show an interest.

Besides proof-reading and listening to our ‘easy reader’ version, I read the original as did some other OnlineItalianClub.com members. It’s a historical novel set in Sicily, so the writing is hard at first, with dialect and so on. A lot of guesswork was involved, but I’m sure that would be true for Italian native speakers too

Scroll though the comments on the ‘mini book club‘ page to find out how I and other club members got on. The reviews of our ‘easy reader’ version are also worth a look. And here’s the blurb from our online shop:

Giovanni Verga’s classic novel of a struggling family of fishermen is one of the best known works of Italian literature from the nineteenth century.

‘I Malavoglia’, literally ‘the Unwillings’ (an ironic nickname coined, in the Sicilian fashion of the day, by fellow villagers and fisherfolk) are an industrious extended family headed by ‘Ntoni, who fishes from the family’s boat, ‘la Provvidenza’, together with his son, Bastiano, and grandsons.

For generations, hard work and the strength of the family has been enough to ensure survival and respect. But one day, Bastiano’s eldest boy, called ‘Ntoni too, after his grandfather, is drafted to the military. Suddenly the hard-working family is short one set of hands: “nessuno può immaginarne le catastrofiche conseguenze…”

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• 8 chapters to read and listen to
• Comprehension questions to check your understanding
• Italian/English glossary of ‘difficult’ terms for the level
• Suitable for students at pre-intermediate/intermediate level or above
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Remember, this week ‘I Malavoglia‘ is 50% discounted, so just £4.99 rather than the usual ‘easy reader’ ebook price of £9.99!

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This week’s half-price eBook of the Week offer is our B1 (intermediate) ‘easy reader’ version of Italo Svevo’s self-published classic of Italian literature, ‘La coscienza di Zeno‘.

I confess, I’m not normally the sort of person that spends time on literature, still less read in a foreign language, but I have fond memories of this one, as I did a ‘mini book club‘ with it over at OnlineItalianClub.com back in the first pandemic lockdown, which would have been more or less exactly four years ago, in June 2020.

At the time, I read the original, as did some other OnlineItalianClub.com members. It’s rather long, but the writing is accessible. Scroll though the comments on the ‘mini book club‘ page to find out how we got on… Or just go with our ebook easy reader, which will give you the idea (as well as lots of great reading and listening practice) in much less time!

Italo Svevo’s self-published 1923 novel takes the form of memoirs written by his protagonist, Zeno, a sick young man who is undergoing the new therapy of psychoanalysis and writing down his thoughts – on the instructions of his doctor, who later betrays him – as part of that process.

Follow poor Zeno as he explores his addictive personality, acquires a wife and later a lover, grieves for his dead father, fails at business, and eventually, many years later comes to the realisation that…

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• 8 chapters to read and listen to
• Comprehension questions to check your understanding
• Italian/English glossary of ‘difficult’ terms for the level
• Suitable for students at pre-intermediate/intermediate level or above
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Remember, this week ‘La coscienza di Zeno‘ is 50% discounted, so just £4.99 rather than the usual ‘easy reader’ ebook price of £9.99!

Buy La coscienza di Zeno‘ just £4.99! | Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) | Italian literature | World Literature | Catalog (shows ebooks organised by type, then level)

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When your order is ‘completed’ (normally immediately after your payment), a download link will be automatically emailed to you. It’s valid for 7 days and 3 download attempts so please save a copy of the .pdf ebook in a safe place. Other versions of the ebook, where available, cannot be downloaded but will be emailed to people who request them. There’s a space to do that on the order form – where it says Additional information, Order notes (optional). If you forget, or if you have problems downloading the .pdf, don’t worry! Email us at the address on the website and we’ll help. Also, why not check out our FAQ?

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Tuesday’s FREE bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news was published this morning. Did you get your copy?

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This week’s half-price, easy reader ‘eBook of the Week’ is the A2/B1 (pre-intermediate/intermediate) 2 giugno 1946.

Seventy-eight years ago this coming Sunday was a historic moment in Italy, and the ebook celebrates that, as well as providing invaluable and enjoyable skills practice.

Bologna, 2nd of June 1946. Italy is slowly recovering from the devastating effects of World War II. A referendum has been organised to decide whether the reborn state will be a republic or continue as a monarchy. And for the first time in history, Italian women can go to the polls! Newly-wed Marcella is so excited at the prospect she barely slept last night. But her husband, Antonio, is unconvinced…

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• .mobi (Kindle-compatible) and .epub (other ebook readers) available on request at no extra charge – just add a note to the order form or email us
• 8 chapters to read and listen to
• Comprehension questions to check your understanding
• Italian/English glossary of ‘difficult’ terms for the level
• Suitable for students at any level
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Buy 2 giugno 1946, just £4.99! | Free Sample Chapter | History/historical ‘easy readers’ | Catalog

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When your order is ‘completed’ (normally immediately after your payment), a download link will be automatically emailed to you. It’s valid for 7 days and 3 download attempts so please save a copy of the .pdf ebook in a safe place. Other versions of the ebook, where available, cannot be downloaded but will be emailed to people who request them. There’s a space to do that on the order form – where it says Additional information, Order notes (optional). If you forget, or if you have problems downloading the .pdf, don’t worry! Email us at the address on the website and we’ll help. Also, why not check out our FAQ?

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Tuesday’s FREE bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news was published a few hours ago – subscribers will have already received their free copy via email.

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Just enter your email on this page and the EIN team will send you three Easy Italian News bulletins each and every week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

This week’s half-price eBook of the Week offer is the B2/C21-level ‘La metamorfosi‘, by the famous Italian writer Franza Kafka.

Just joking! Of course Kafka wasn’t Italian. But where was he actually from? Check out the Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) to find out.

But anyway, why would you want to read and listen to simplified Italian versions of classics of World Literature?

Well why not? Sometimes a familiar tale is reassuring when faced with the complexities of reading and listening in the language you’re learning. And perhaps you’ve never read the story in your own language, so are curious?

To say the least, ‘La metamorfosi‘ is thought-provoking. Besides, you can also read/listen to ‘easy reader’ versions of some of the classics of Italian literature! Look out for the green covers on our Catalog pages (linked to below), or browse the dedicated literature pages which show them by type: World Literature | Italian literature

Is B2/C1 (upper-intermediate) too hard for you? No worries! We’ve reorganised our ebook catalog by level, from the easiest to the hardest. Find something more appropriate by following these links: A1 | A1/A2 | A2 | A2/B1 | B1 | B1/B2 | B2 | B2/C1 | C1 | C1/C2 | C2 

Improve your Italian reading and listening skills with this B2/C1-level ‘riassunto’ for students of Italian L2 of ‘La metamorfosi’ by Franz Kafka.

Kafka fu un autore allegorico, perché rappresentava una vicenda per “dire altro”; ha voluto forse rappresentare la solitudine e il senso di diversità dell’ebreo nella Mitteleuropa,la propria estraneità alla sua famiglia, il senso di colpa e l’impotenza umana del singolo di fronte al mondo e alla sua burocrazia. La maggior parte delle sue opere, come ‘La metamorfosi’, ‘Il processo’ e ‘Il castello’, sono piene di temi di alienazione, brutalità fisica e psicologica, e conflittualità genitori-figli.

Scritto nel 1912, La metamorfosi è uno dei testi più noti dello scrittore, in cui si descrivono le vicende di un uomo, Gregorio Samsa, che di mestiere fa il commesso viaggiatore, e che una mattina si sveglia e scopre di essersi trasformato in un enorme scarafaggio.

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• .mobi (Kindle-compatible) and .epub (other ebook readers) available on request at no extra charge – just add a note to the order form or email us
• 8 chapters to read and listen to
• Comprehension questions to check your understanding
• Italian/English glossary of ‘difficult’ terms for the level
• Suitable for students at intermediate level or above
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Remember, this week ‘La metamorfosi‘ is 50% discounted, so just £4.99 rather than the usual ‘easy reader’ ebook price of £9.99!

Buy ‘La metamorfosi‘ just £4.99! | Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) | World Literature series | Italian literature series | Catalog (shows ebooks organised by type, then level)

Or find more ebooks, organised by level, then type: A1 | A1/A2 | A2 | A2/B1 | B1 | B1/B2 | B2 | B2/C1 | C1 | C1/C2 | C2

How do I access my ebook?

When your order is ‘completed’ (normally immediately after your payment), a download link will be automatically emailed to you. It’s valid for 7 days and 3 download attempts so please save a copy of the .pdf ebook in a safe place. Other versions of the ebook, where available, cannot be downloaded but will be emailed to people who request them. There’s a space to do that on the order form – where it says Additional information, Order notes (optional). If you forget, or if you have problems downloading the .pdf, don’t worry! Email us at the address on the website and we’ll help. Also, why not check out our FAQ?

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Reading and listening to Italian is a fantastic way to consolidate grammar and vocabulary study, as well as being motivating and fun!

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This week’s half-price eBook of the Week offer is the B2-level ‘Per colpa di una lettera‘.

Is B2 (upper-intermediate) too hard for you? No worries! We’ve reorganised our ebook catalog by level, from the easiest to the hardest. Find something more appropriate by following these links: A1 | A1/A2 | A2 | A2/B1 | B1 | B1/B2 | B2 | B2/C1 | C1 | C1/C2 | C2 

As with other recent eBook of the Week offers, we only published ‘Per colpa di una lettera‘ last summer, but sales were slow. Don’t let that put you off, though. It was July, and who studies Italian in July?

‘Per colpa di una lettera‘ is an entertaining and readable story for intermediate/upper-intermediate-level students of Italian. If that’s you, do take a look, as reading and listening to Italian at approximately your level is a great way to improve your Italian comprehension skills – which you will of course need in the future – as well as being a huge help in consolidating the grammar and unfamiliar words you’ll encounter elsewhere.

Plus a chapter a day of an ebook ‘easy reader’ is much more fun than memorising grammar conjugations and vocabulary lists! Below you’ll find a link to a free sample chapter. Why not give reading in and listening to Italian a try?

And for lower-level students? There’s no promotion this week, but the audios for the entire story of all of our easy readers are available online, no purchase required. Browse the lower level catalog pages and click on the audio links, until you find something that feels about right for you.

A1 | A1/A2 | A2 | A2/B1 | B1 | B1/B2 | B2 | B2/C1 | C1 | C1/C2 | C2 )

One morning Albina gets an unexpected visitor – because of a letter!

“Arrivo, arrivo! Che diamine! Un po’ di pazienza!” strilla Albina con voce acuta e civettuola, mentre qualcuno bussa insistentemente alla porta della sua piccola ma elegante casetta a due piani. È convinta che sia uno dei suoi ammiratori che le porta un mazzo di fiori.

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• .mobi (Kindle-compatible) and .epub (other ebook readers) available on request at no extra charge – just add a note to the order form or email us
• 8 chapters to read and listen to
• Comprehension questions to check your understanding
• Italian/English glossary of ‘difficult’ terms for the level
• Suitable for students at intermediate level or above
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Remember, this week ‘Per colpa di una lettera‘ is 50% discounted, so just £4.99 rather than the usual ‘easy reader’ ebook price of £9.99!

Buy Per colpa di una lettera, just £4.99 | FREE sample chapter (.pdf)

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