rdearman wrote:Where are you finding Il commissario Montalbano ??
It's on the RAI site, although region-locked and their player is awful, and other sources but unfortunately nothing free and legal that I know of. The BBC does broadcast them every so often and you can catch them on iPlayer for a couple of weeks afterwards, which is how I watched many of the ones in the last few years.
Italian
Plenty input: more Lezioni di musica, a couple of unspectacular films from Prime and Netflix (L'amore non basta, a romantic comedy that I couldn't make head nor tail of, and Benvenuto Presidente, predictable political comedy), caught some of Sanremo last night, and continued "Sulla strada giusta". So far it's a nice enough book and it's good to see that the whole digital nomad thing worked out for someone; I found it awful when I tried it, but that was partly because I did it badly by moving around too much and working for a relatively inflexible company. Reading it is making me want to travel again, at least for a short time, and apply the lessons learned... Not any time soon though! I'm only halfway through the book though, so I'll be curious to see his own conclusions from the whole experience.
Greek
The potential Greece trip is looking like it'll be in the autumn now. I'm still keeping up the study and slogging through Assimil, but as much as it pains a slight fanboy like me to say it, I'm concluding that Assimil Greek just isn't a great course. Too fast, too many new words per lesson, too much focus on descriptive rather than practical language, too insistent on following a storyline at the expense of good teaching, inadequate grammar explanation, badly-designed tests. It feels like it's made by one of those people you sometimes see on this forum, usually criticising perfectly good beginner courses, who is so experienced at language learning that they're completely out of touch with what it's like to be a genuine beginner and thinks that everyone should learn as quickly as they do. With the mess of the e-method on top of all that (I'm still planning to write a review, I've not forgotten!) I can't say I exactly look forward to my study sessions.
It still seems like the best of the bad lot of beginner-but-not-absolute-beginner Greek courses though, and it's giving much-needed structure to my learning, so I'm trying to stick to it and get my money's worth. I've abandoned the Luca translation method and am now just treating it as guided input, working through the passive wave as prescribed and not worrying too much about making mistakes in the quizzes.