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LAST WEEK we published a new easy Italian reader ebook, a historical mystery, Anselmo e l’omicidio di Giovanni Borgia.

It was the first in a trilogy featuring Anselmo the apothecary, a Borgia-era fixer cum solver of mysteries.

THIS WEEK then, we have the second of the three ebooks recounting the adventures our pharmacist/detective: Anselmo e la moglie spagnola.

Meet Anselmo the apothecary, now owner of the most successful pharmacy in Bruges, but formerly of Rome, where he was known as the man to turn to with probems no one else could fix.

A pair of dark-haired horsemen arrive at Anselmo’s home in Belgium having galloped for weeks north through Europe. Their employers, Spanish aristocrats who married into the Borgia family, now find their lives in danger because of a new alliance between the Pope and the French. Will Anselmo help?

Of course, the apothecary can’t refuse a plea for help. Nor the chance to return once more to the court of the Borgias, the setting for his first adventure three years earlier.

There’s a Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) so you can get a better idea of the level and length of the material.

Save the .pdf on your computer, or print it to study in the old-fashioned way. There’s a link to the online audio in the sample chapter – the entire story is available to listen to FREE online, no purchase required.

As usual, this first week only Anselmo e la moglie spagnola is 25% off the usual easy reader price at just £5.99!

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• .ePub and Mobi (Kindle-compatible) versions available at no extra cost (just ask)
• 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 and advanced levels
• LAUNCH OFFER (until 20/10/19) just £5.99!
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Your ebook will be emailed to you within 24 hours of purchase.

(Vol. 1.) Anselmo e l’omicidio di Giovanni Borgia | (Vol. 2.) Anselmo e la moglie spagnola | Find easier material in our catalog

P.S.

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If you like both mysteries and history, you’ll love this week’s new easy Italian reader ebook: Anselmo e l’omicidio di Giovanni Borgia.

Meet Anselmo the apothecary, one of the few educated men of his day. And it’s because of his learning that he’s occasionially called upon by the powerful when they need help resolving their problems.

This time, the apothecary’s task is to discover who was behind the killing of the Pope’s son. Certainly a learned man should be able to figure it out! An important political alliance depends on his answer, not least the unity of the Borgias themselves, a powerful ruling family who are famous for their power struggles and indfidelities.

As Anselmo soon learns, though, it appears to be in nobody’s interest for him to actually find the truth. And in an age in which only power really matters, he’s playing a dangerous game…

The level is C1/C2 (advanced) so it’s suitable for anyone who already has some experience reading in Italian.

There’s a Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) so you can get a better idea of the level and length of the material.

Save the .pdf on your computer, or print it to study in the old-fashioned way. There’s a link to the online audio in the sample chapter – the entire story is available to listen to FREE online, no purchase required.

As usual, this first week only Anselmo e l’omicidio di Giovanni Borgia is 25% off the usual easy reader price at just £5.99!

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• .ePub and Mobi (Kindle-compatible) versions available at no extra cost (just ask)
• 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 and advanced levels
• LAUNCH OFFER (until 13/10/19) just £5.99!
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Your ebook will be emailed to you within 24 hours of purchase.

Buy ‘Anselmo e l’omicidio di Giovanni Borgia‘ | Download the free sample chapter (.pdf) | Browse catalog

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Want to improve your Italian but can’t spend any cash just now?

So listen to today’s bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news.

You can subscribe, and so receive regular simplified news bulletins in Italian via email (text plus audio), also at ZERO COST!

A quick reminder about the EasyReaders.Org 2019 Autumn/Fall Sale, which is ending in a little under thirty-six hours, at midnight on Sunday 29th September.

The cost of EVERYTHING at easyreaders.org – online lessons with native speaker teachers, ebooks for learning languages, ‘easy readers’, ‘parallel texts’ – will be reduced by 20% when you use this coupon code:

Autumn-Sale-2019

For example?

Well, ten thirty-minute online lessons with a native speaker teacher (Italian, French, Spanish, German…) would normally cost you £150 (just £15 a lesson).

But with the above coupon code, that figure is reduced to just £120 (£12 a lesson), which is like getting two free lessons!

Or what about this?

An ebook ‘easy reader’ (simplified text + audio) or ‘parallel text’ (simplified text + translation), both of which are ideal for supplementing a more traditional language course, would normally cost £7.99.

But with the coupon code, you could buy several, perhaps at different levels (so anticipating the progress you will make this year) and get MORE learning material for your money.

Add five ebooks to your cart and the twenty percent saving means you’ll only be paying for four. Choose ten but pay for eight, and so on.

So how exactly can you save money on your language-learning?

First, make your selection of one-to-one online lesson options and ebooks from our catalog page.

(Or view only the language that interests you with these links: Italian | French | Spanish | German | Other languages.)

Then go to your shopping cart and apply coupon code Autumn-Sale-2019 to reduce the cart total by 20%.

Remember: the coupon code is only good until tomorrow night, Sunday 29th September.

Find some time today to stock up on the online lesson credits, easy readers, parallel texts and grammar workbooks that you will need to make progress with your chosen foreign language!

Once again, the coupon code to use in your cart to reduce the published prices by a full 20% is:

Autumn-Sale-2019

Browse the catalog now!

Or go directly to the language you’re studying: Italian | French | Spanish | German | Other languages.

Don’t forget the EasyReaders.Org 2019 Autumn/Fall Sale!

Make your selections from our online catalog: https://easyreaders.org/catalogue/

And until Sunday night, save 20% on our whole range of ebooks for learning foreign languages, and/or on one-to-one lessons with our team of online teachers using coupon code:

Autumn-Sale-2019

Copy and paste the coupon code (above in bold) into the box in your shopping cart (where it says ‘Apply coupon’).

Then scroll down to check that the cart total has been discounted.

• The code above gets you a 20% discount on anything!
• It’s valid until midnight on Sunday 29th September 2019
• There’s no minimum or maxium spend
• Use the coupon as often as you wish while the offer lasts
• It will even work on items which are already discounted such as ebook multipacks
• But it can’t be used with other coupons…
• Payment options include Amazon, Paypal, or direct payment to our UK bank account

Email us if you need help, either with the coupon code or in choosing what might be most suitable for your level and situation.

Browse our catalog page, which shows everything, all in one place, language by language, and organised by type and in level order.

Or click these links to choose materials and online lessons for the language or languages that you’re learning:

Italian | French | Spanish | German | All languages

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Don’t forget to use the coupon code!

It’s: Autumn-Sale-2019

Just a quick email to let you know that the EasyReaders.Org ‘2019 Autumn/Fall Sale’ starts today!

Which means that you can save 20% on our whole range of ebooks for learning foreign languages, and/or on one-to-one lessons with our team of online teachers.

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Where was I? Ah yes… The coupon code you need to save 20% on ebooks and lessons is:

Autumn-Sale-2019

To reduce the price of everything by 20% compared to the prices shown in the shop, copy and paste the coupon code (above in bold) into the box in your shopping cart (where it says ‘Apply coupon’).

Then scroll down to check that the cart total has been discounted.

Here are full details of this offer:

• The code above gets you a 20% discount on anything!
• It’s valid until midnight on Sunday 29th September 2019
• There’s no minimum or maxium spend
• Use the coupon as often as you wish while the offer lasts
• It will even work on items which are already discounted such as ebook multipacks
• But it can’t be used with other coupons…
• Payment options include Amazon, Paypal, or direct payment to our UK bank account

If you need help, either with the coupon code or in choosing what might be most suitable for your level and situation, feel free to email me.

So, ready to save £££ and turbo charge your study program??

Click these links to choose materials and online lessons for the language or languages that you’re learning:

Italian | French | Spanish | German | All languages

Or browse our catalog page, which shows everything, all in one place, language by language, and organised by type and in level order.

There you’ll find our full range of lessons, easy readers, ‘book of the film’, ‘parallel texts’, grammar workbooks, and so on.

Along with the prices and links to the product information page and to the downloadable free sample chapters.

Visit the catalog page.

Or browse only the language that you’re currently studying:

Italian | French | Spanish | German | other languages

P.S.

Here’s that coupon code again: Autumn-Sale-2019

This week we’re celebrating the first anniversary of our sister website, EasyItalianNews.com, by publishing an ebook containing a selection of news stories and feature articles from their first year.

This ebook is rather longer than usual at 78 pages and so will sell for £9.99. But, as usual, this first week you can save 25% and so get a copy for just £7.99.

Take a look at the free sample chapter (.pdf) – actually it’s several chapters. There’s no audio with this one, just text, but there are glossaries of difficult words for each topic area. And of course, it’s excellent reading practice for learners of Italian!

The full version is available for purchase from our online shop: Best of EasyItalianNews.com 2018-2019.

But wait!

Did you, at any point in the last twelve months, donate to EasyItalianNews.com?

That site is funded directly by readers. You can see the names of people who helped us out here. (Some chose to remain anyonymous…)

We kept a list of donor emails with the idea of sending a FREE COPY of the planned ebook to everyone who helped us out during our first year – now done!

If you gifted money at any point, check your inbox, spam folder and so on for an email (sent yesterday – Monday 17th Sept.) about how to get your free ebook.

HOWEVER, our mailing system will have screened out the email addresses of anyone who unsubscribed from one of our mailing lists (there are several) or marked any email we sent as spam, so as to ensure that people aren’t disturbed by emails they’d prefer not to see.

Did you donate but subsequently get tired of receiving ‘easy’ news bulletins or emails from one of our other lists?

Then you may not have received the email with instructions on how to get your free ebook.

If you’d like it anyway, just email and we’ll find a way to get your copy to you!

• FREE sample download (.pdf)
• Best of EasyItalianNews.com 2018-2019, just £7.99 this week
• Subscribe to EasyItalianNews.com – three free ‘easy’ news bulletins each week
• Visit the online shop
• Browse our Catalog

P.S.

Every ‘bulk’ email we send, for example this article, has an unsubscribe link, either at the top, the bottom, or both. If you’d rather not receive emails from us, click it and so specify. As I mentioned above, once someone has unsubscribed, that’s it. No more emails.

BUT, if your email address is on more than one list (for example OnlineItalianClub.com or EasyItalianNews.com as well as this one), you may need to unsubscribe separately for each. This is because we use three different mailing systems. For help with unsubscribing, or anything else, just email us!

Give your Italian study program a boost this week with our exciting, new easy Italian reader ebook: L’imperatore e i giochi.

It’s set in ancient Rome, and there are gladiators!

The level is B1/B2 (intermediate) so it’s suitable for anyone who’s been learning Italian for a while already…

And this week only L’imperatore e i giochi is 25% off the usual easy reader price, so just £5.99!

So what’s it about?

‘The philosopher’, Marco Aurelio (121 – 180 CE), was the last of the ‘Five Good Emperors’ who ruled during the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace and stability.

Join him and his son as they head off to the Colosseum for an afternoon of ‘entertainment’ – watching gladiators fight to the death.

The boy can’t wait! But his father is less than enthusiastic…

Download the Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) to read more and to get an idea of the level and length of the material.

Save the .pdf on your computer, or print it to study in the old-fashioned way. There’s a link to the online audio in the sample chapter – the entire story is available to listen to FREE online, no purchase required.

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• .ePub and Mobi (Kindle-compatible) versions available at no extra cost (just ask)
• 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
• LAUNCH OFFER (until 15/09/19) just £5.99!
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Your ebook will be emailed to you within 24 hours of purchase.

Buy ‘L’imperatore e i giochi‘ | Download the free sample chapter (.pdf) | Browse catalog

P.S.

Don’t forget to listen to today’s FREE bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news, will you? Here’s the link: EasyItalianNews.com.

If you’ve been learning Italian for years now, you may need something fresh to read/listen to, so as to stay motivated.

This week at EasyReaders.Org we have a new, ‘easy’ Italian reader for you: ‘Il mistero della quercia‘.

And besides being hot off the presses?

It’s 25% off the usual easy reader price between now and Sunday, at just £5.99!

Why does a village traffic accident, which resulted in no injuries besides some damage to a roadside oak tree, have everyone so worried?

Luisa, who’s spending a month with her grandparents, will keep asking questions until someone tells her what’s going on!

What is ‘Il mistero della quercia’?

Download the Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) to read more and to get an idea of the level and length of the material.

Save the .pdf on your computer, or print it to study in the old-fashioned way. There’s a link to the online audio in the sample chapter – the entire story is available to listen to FREE online, no purchase required.

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• .ePub and Mobi (Kindle-compatible) versions available at no extra cost (just ask)
• 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 upper-intermediate level or above
• LAUNCH OFFER (until 01/09/19) just £5.99!
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Your ebook will be emailed to you within 24 hours of purchase.

Buy ‘Il mistero della quercia‘ | Download the free sample chapter (.pdf) | Browse catalog

P.S.

Also today, don’t forget to listen to Tuesday’s bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news: EasyItalianNews.com – it’s FREE!

Are you an upper-intermediate- or advanced-level student of Italian looking for something fresh to read/listen to?

Then you’re in luck!

This week at EasyReaders.Org we have a new, simplified ‘easy’ Italian reader, and it’s 25% off the usual easy reader price, at just £5.99!

As this one’s for higher-level learners, the blurb is in Italian…. (If you’re not a higher-level learner, check our catalog for something that might suit you better!

Il signor Mario gira la chiave nella serratura e solleva la serranda del Bar Ateneo. Il locale si trova davanti all’Università Statale nel centro di Milano. Il proprietario del vecchio bar, puntuale come ogni mattina, apre la porta di legno scricchiolante, indossa il grembiule e si aggiusta gli occhiali da miope sul nasone aquilino. Poi si dirige svelto a infornare i cornetti e a preparare la macchina del caffè.

Quando ha finalmente le mani libere, Mario si avvicina al calendario per eliminare la pagina del mese appena trascorso: febbraio. Ha una breve esitazione e prende tempo massaggiandosi i corti ricci grigiastri che, nonostante i suoi cinquantotto anni, resistono sul capoccione a forma d’uovo. Un respiro profondo per farsi coraggio dicendo a se stesso:

“Anche quest’anno è arrivato il primo marzo. Stiamo a vedere che diavolo succede”.

Download the Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) to read more and to get an idea of the level and length of the material.

Save the .pdf on your computer, or print it to study in the old-fashioned way. There’s a link to the online audio in the sample chapter – the entire story is available to listen to FREE online, no purchase required.

N.b. This new ebook is NOT YET available in .mobi (Kindle-compatible) or .epub (Kobo, iBooks and other ereader) formats. For the moment, we only have it in .pdf. We hope to have the other versions ready in a few weeks, when our specialist ebook formatter is back from her travels…

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online at soundcloud.com)
• 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 upper-intermediate level or above
• LAUNCH OFFER (until 23/07/19) just £5.99!
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Your ebook will be emailed to you within 24 hours of purchase.

Buy ‘Il bar‘ | Download the free sample chapter (.pdf) | Browse catalog

P.S.

Also today, don’t forget to listen (for free) to Tuesday’s bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news: EasyItalianNews.com

A quick reminder about the EasyReaders.Org 2019 Summer Sale, which is ending in a little under thirty-six hours, at midnight on Sunday 7th of July.

The cost of EVERYTHING at easyreaders.org – online lessons with native speaker teachers, ebooks for learning languages, ‘easy readers’, ‘parallel texts’ – will be reduced by 20% when you use this coupon code:

2019-Summer-Sale-20%-Off

For example?

Well, ten thirty-minute online lessons with a native speaker teacher (Italian, French, Spanish, German…) would normally cost you £150 (just £15 a lesson).

But with the above coupon code, that figure is reduced to just £120 (£12 a lesson), which is like getting two free lessons!

Or what about this?

An ebook ‘easy reader’ (simplified text + audio) or ‘parallel text’ (simplified text + translation), both of which are ideal for supplementing a more traditional language course, would normally cost £7.99.

But with the coupon code, you could buy several, perhaps at different levels (so anticipating the progress you will make this year) and get MORE learning material for your money.

Add five ebooks to your cart and the twenty percent saving means you’ll only be paying for four. Choose ten but pay for eight, and so on.

So how exactly can you save money on your language-learning this summer?

First, make your selection of one-to-one online lesson options and ebooks from our catalog page.

(Or view only the language that interests you with these links: Italian | French | Spanish | German | Other languages.)

Then go to your shopping cart and apply coupon code 2019-Summer-Sale-20%-Off to reduce the cart total by 20%.

Remember: the coupon code is only good until tomorrow night, Sunday 7th July.

Find some time today to stock up on the online lesson credits, easy readers, parallel texts and grammar workbooks that you will need to make progress with your chosen foreign language!

Once again, the coupon code to use in your cart to reduce the published prices by a full 20% is:

2019-Summer-Sale-20%-Off

Browse the catalog now!

Or go directly to the language you’re studying: Italian | French | Spanish | German | Other languages.