Long day

Am again considering having myself cloned. Then while one of me was at work, the other could be at home doing other stuff. It's one of those busy periods when I find myself up to my ears in work. This is great from a financial point of view in that it may help cover some of those slack periods. The thing about working for yourself is that you don't get holiday or sick pay and the tax man makes no allowances for these either. Sob. Sob.

Stop reading, start speaking

Stop translating in your head and start speaking Italian for real with the only audio course that prompt you to speak.

For some unknown reason the first few months of the year have always been busy for me work wise.

I just hope my voice, poor instrument, holds out. I'm using it for rather too many hours a day and although I do try to keep my TTT to a minimum, it is just not always possible. I suppose I could always just record all of those phrases I find myself repeating over and over again.

Chad

+Alex Roe is from the UK, but has lived and worked in Milan, Italy, for many years. Alex has been interviewed by the BBC on Italy issues. He tweets news and information about Italy to over 37,000 Twitter followers via @newsfromitaly on Twitter.

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So what is the answer to this innocent sounding question? And what has this got to do with Italy?

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