Hi everyone and welcome back to this video, that is not really a video, by Italy Made Easy
What? It's not a video?
No, it's an announcement! It's an announcements of all the things that
I have done and I am doing to help you, but that I don't tell you about!
What am I referring to?
As you know I have this Youtube channel, Italy Made Easy
Then I have my blog, italymadeeasy.com
And then I have my Academy, where I offer structured courses, interaction with Italians,
interactive resources, all very useful things for students of Italian
But I have done a lot more for you, and I apologize for not telling you!
And many of you have been sending me messages, saying:
"I've seen the newsletter, but why haven't you told us about it?"
"Manu, I've seen the Podcast! It's amazing! But I didn't know about it!
OK! So, in this video I am going to summarize all the free resources that I have produced and keep producing
for you, to help you with your Italian.
The first this is this newsletter, called 'Italy Made Easy Stories'
It's basically an article, in Italian, on a variety of topics
accompanied by the translation, in Ital... in English!
and the audio recording of the same article
Therefore, every two weeks, you will receive, via email, this free lesson
that you can use as a comprehension exercise, vocabulary, you can learn new expressions...
but you can also use it to practice 'Shadowing', which is a very important activity to improve your Italian pronunciation.
'Italy Made Easy Stories' is very important also because it is the place where I communicate with you
all the events that I have scheduled. So, when I plan a Live Stream here on Youtube
this newsletter tells you exactly the day and time, so you can participate. OK?
So, in the Description, I am adding the link where you will find the first three issues of 'Italy Made Easy Stories'
and where you can, obviously, register to receive the next issues on the newsletter.
Number 2. The podcast! 'Italy Made Easy Podcast' is now available on iTunes
if you look for 'Italy Made Easy'
and also from the link in the Description
This podcast is unbelievable! These are episodes, 10-15 minutes long
where I speak to you, in Italian, 100%
and, as usual, I speak a very easy to understand Italian.
This is very important to practice your Listening skills, because, if you can listen and understand
it's a lot more useful than when you listen and do not understand!
This podcast comes out every two weeks
and it's accompanied by a course, an entire free course, on Italy Made Easy Academy
where you can find all the episodes of the Podcast (right now just one!)
as well as the PDF with the full Italian transcript and the comprehension exercices
So, I invite you to go to iTunes (link in the description) to subscribe to this podcast
to receive it every fortnight
and then to go to academy.italymadeeasy.com to enrol in the free course
so you find all the resources for the Podcast.
Number 3. This is more of an announcement
This Friday, July 20, at 6pm New York time, that's EDT
So, US East Coast
we are holding a Live Stream here on Youtube
But this one is going to be FUN! Well, they are all fun
but in this Live Show we are doing a Quiz
You know when we do the interactive Quiz
where we play with our phones
OK, this is a Quiz on Italian Grammar, at the Intermediate Level
and there are prizes! So I encourage you to participate
LIVE, because only if you participate during the Live Stream can you win
What can you win?
You can win, lots of things!
And one of the things you can win is another thing I have not told you about
Or that I don't mention too often.
A very important and useful service that we offer at Italy Made Easy Academy
is the interaction with native Italians
'coz, you folks are here, studying Italian, you are watching me, you are watching Alberto, you are watching Lucrezia...
but the real problem is that it is hard to use Italian and to communicate in Italian
in a safe way, with people who know how to communicate with a student of Italian
of your level
and that's exactly what we offer on Italy Made Easy Academy!
There's me, Cristiana and Alessia, whom you will meet very soon
But if you subscribe to Amico Extra, on Italy Made Easy Academy
you can speak with us every day.
When I say 'speak', this is really COOL!
Imagine Facebook Messenger, but for the Italian language!
When you see us online, you can send us a message and say "Hey, can we speak?"
And voila! We are on a video call, having one on one chats
And the good thing is that you can use Italian at YOUR level, and our job is to help you use it
and to improve your level every time, to improve your pronunciation, give you tips on how you can express a concept
in a way or another way
Clearly, this service is not free, but it's unbelievably affordable
when you take in to account that one hour with a professional tutor, that is a competent linguist
will cost you around $50, for one hour!
Or, if you use sites like italki, which I personally do not like very much, but that's a different story!
You will still be paying some $20, $15 per hour
Here, with a lot lesson, you can speak every day!
Any given day!
Another important thing that is about to happen is
Italy Made Easy on Instagram!
Yes, finally, Manu enters the modern times
and Italy Made Easy is on Instagram!
All you have to do is look up 'Italy Made Easy' on Instagram
and you can follow me, and the cool thing about Instagram
is that I can publish videos every day
because, unfortunately, on Youtube, this is a problem, because
posting a video on Youtube every day
means that every day you get a notification, an email... and this is too much!
It's a bit annoying!
But on Instagram, Ican send you a video every day, one minute, two minutes, even more videos a day,
you can follow my life, you can learn useful expressions every day on Instagram.
So, if you want to follow me, do go there!
The last thing for this announcement is something else that is not free
but it's something I want to share with you
because I organized a Masterclass on Italian Pronunciation
It's a 2 / 3 hour workshop where we will openly and frankly talk about how you can improve your Italian pronunciation
This workshop is for English speakers, so if your mother tongue is English
I encourage you to attend this Workshop, because
we are to observe and analyze all the most common problems, and we fix them
and the fun part is that one, two or three, I'm not sure, lucky students
will be able to have a live Accent Reduction session with me
Together with one, two, three students, we'll see, right during the live webinar
we will be able to work together and take steps to improve your Italian pronunciation.
I will ask the student to speak and then we will work on the main issues,
this is something that will help everyone!
You can find this service following the link in the Description, and you can access it as a member of Amico Extra on my online Academy
So, this has been a huge announcement, I might even delete this announcement as it won't be that useful in the future
But remember, I surely want to see you on Italy Made Easy Stories
Our newsletter, please do subscribe!
Two, I'd love to see you on iTunes, following Italy Made Easy Podcast, because you will find it incredibly useful
and interesting!
Three, I will be seeing you on Friday night at 6pm New York Time, here on Youtube
for a Live Quiz with Prizes!
The prizes are cool!
I'm sending you a hug, a big kiss and I will be seeing you soon! Ciao Ciao!
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