ClubMan said:I bought the (London) Independent the other week on the Saturday and Sunday to get the "Learn Italian" CD and book respectively. The book was not included on the Sunday and no newsagent that I tried had them. I have emailed the Indo to complain several times but they haven't even had the courtesy to reply. I keep sending them the email again each day and add a few more addresses to it. I should have just bought a book in a bookshop or online - which I will probably do anyway. Unless some AAM reader has the Indo book that they don't need and would be willing to donate it to me?!I really should know better than to make an impulse purchase of a newspaper just for the supposed "freebies".
Not much use when, like the London Independent, they don't send the inserts (in this case the book) to all newsagents in the first place. I tried about half a dozen newsagents in the D7 area and none of them had the book that was supposed to be included.CGorman said:For putting these together all newsagents and shops receive an insertion fee of a few cents per copy - i.e. your shop is paid by the Sunday Times to put all the sections together. He/she, under their contract, is obliged to put the pieces together in order to recieve their fee (which they get in the form of a discount).
As usual, 'Auntie' has an impressive array of free online resources, for Italian and many other languages. When I was teaching Italian years ago, the Beeb's materials were the coglioni del cane compared to most of the commercial/school alternatives — but I'm afraid I long since gave away my old Buongiorno Italia! book and audio cassettes (remember them?)...We have 10 all-inclusive language holidays to give away, plus 50 individual Italian tutorials in the UK, courtesy of Cactus Language, a leading provider of language learning at home and abroad.
14. The offer is only available to residents of the UK and Dublin, Ireland.
A quick look at CLT's price list for [broken link removed] suggests that they only cover London, Brighton and Manchester, too...3. [...]The language trainers will travel to the winner's requested location except in the circumstance of the winner living outside mainland UK or Ireland or in a remote area, whereby Cactus Language Training Division reserves the right to ask that the winner travels to meet the teacher in a mutually convenient location.
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