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How to Really Learn Italian in Just Minutes a Day and Stick with it

The Myth

What if I told you mastering Italian wasn’t that hard. That actually learning the language itself is not nearly as difficult as you may have heard. And that the problem to progressing is an age old one…failure to execute.

The Real Issue

Said another way, “People don’t progress ’cause they don’t do! If you don’t do the work, you won’t reach your goals.” Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to the ItalianPod101.com blog, Feature Spotlight. Here we would like to periodically introduce some well known features as well as some not so well known features here at ItalianPod101.com. We want to make sure everyone knows about all the great features that you can use to master Italian in just minutes a day.

Today we would like to introduce My Feed. This is a fully customizable RSS feed. What’s that mean? Well, for those that haven’t studied up on the latest Web 2.0 technology, that basically allows Premium members to decide exactly what lesson content they want on their Premium feed.

Here’s 3 simple steps on how you can use My Feed to really master Italian:

1. You decide exactly what you want.
2. You download what you want with a single click of a button.
3. You master Italian in minutes a day - in your own way.

It’s really that simple.

To learn more about My Feed check out the video below or if you’re a Premium member, click here to get started now.

(Sorry, the video’s a little outdated, but it still works perfectly for ItalianPod101.com!)

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from everyone here at ItalianPod101.com! We’re grateful to have listeners just like you, and we’re eagerly waiting for the upcoming year to learn Italian together!

And when the New Year comes around, be sure to make a resolution to study Italian with ItalianPod101.com!

Have a healthy and happy holiday season.

From the ItalianPod101.com team!

We have just added the AddThis button to our blog. Now you can share your favorite blogs posts with your friends and colleagues via social bookmarking sites or by email. You can find the “Share” button at the bottom of each post.

We hope that you enjoy this convenient way to share our content and encourage you to do so.

ItalianPod101.com is proud to announce a great enhancement to the vocabulary flashcards. The enhancement includes greater flexibility with language choice options, as well as a redesign of the premium Learning Center vocabulary flashcard interface.

Enhancement of Learning Center flashcards more intuitive and easier to use.

With a new design in hand, our flashcards have been rebuilt from the ground up to make them easier to use. Users are now given the option to dynamically change their test format without interrupting their current test. Also, once a vocabulary flashcard test is complete, users can reset the test to better help them learn Italian.

Flashcards allow for greater flexibility while learning Italian.

Our vocabulary flashcards are now able to display question cards in many different formats. On ItalianPod101.com, for example, users can choose to have their question cards read in Italian, English or even Audio! The answer cards show all the language options, except the one chosen for the question card.

Conclusion

With another great enhancement to our Learning Center, we feel we are able to help our users learn Italian even quicker. Stay tuned as we continue to roll out new features and enhancements, while we strive to be the fastest way to learn Italian online.

Today is a really great day!
We are starting a series of blogs completely in English about life in Italy! They are written by a very special writer, Erica Rose!
She has tons of stories to tell and they are all so lively and interesting!

Please leave her a comment!

Ciao
Marco

With May we are starting a new series of lessons entitled Idioms and Proverbs!
Cinzia and Marco will take us exploring some of Italy’s most famous proverbs, explaining their meaning in context and also providing their English counterpart.
As always we need your feedback so please let us know if you like these lessons.

Ciao a tutti!

After weeks of development, we’re happy to announce the launch of the much anticipated My Feed. This fully customizable RSS feed lets Premium members decide exactly what lesson content they want on their Premium feed.

Setting up My Feed is a a simple 3 step process.

1. Choose the lesson types you want (e.g. Beginner, Newbie, Audio Blog, etc.)
2. Choose the type of content you want (e.g. Main Audio, Dialog Clip, Review Clip, PDF, Video Vocab, etc.)
3. Add My Feed to iTunes or other iTunes compatible feed readers like Juice, and just watch the content you want come rolling in.

To learn more about My Feed check out the video below or if you’re a Premium member, click here to get started now.

Thank you all for your continued support and feedback! Without it we simply could not do what we do. We hope you like this new feature and as always, if you encounter any issues with this new functionality or wish to see it enhanced in some way, please post a comment here or shoot us an email.